 Changing SelvesElaine Swan
Chapter 1 in Worked Up Selves, 2010, pp 1-31 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract This quote encapsulates the topic of this book: the emergence of new modes of work and workers. Thus Worked Up Selves is an exploration of the growth of personal development, a form of immaterial labour or more precisely, ‘self-work’ (Tipton, 1983; Heelas, 2002; Chappell et al., 2003). In personal development this self-work involves self-exploration, self-expression, self-reflection, self-improvement and experimentation with appearance, capacities, behaviours, emotions and thinking. Worked Up Selves focuses, in particular, on the personal development workers who help people to undertake this type of labour outlined above. These types of workers include management trainers; life- performance- business- and executive-coaches; learning consultants; personal development consultants; facilitators, and management developers. Up to now, this group have been somewhat neglected as an occupational group in organisational theory and wider social theory. Keywords: Personal Development; Workplace Spirituality; Communication Skill Training; Therapeutic Practice; Private Sector Organisation (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-24676-8_1 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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