Maktens påverkan i en coachingrelation
En kritisk diskursanalys
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The use of coaching is fairly up to date in the business world although it?s relatively new.Despite this, there?s a lack of clarity about what coaching is and what it signifies. Our point ishowever not to define coaching. Based on the normative coaching literature, the purpose is,from a critical discourse analysis to explore the power relations that affect the coach andcoached in their relation to each other, so as to be able to criticize managerial coachingrelationship as presented in the literature. This will contribute to enabling for a more opendiscourse.The theoretical image of managerial coaching described by the literature as a democraticexercised leadership by a certain type of behavior and attitudes, will lead to improvedorganizational performance. For this to be possible, the relationship between coach/manager andcoached/co-workers need to be characterized by safety, trust and equality. This is considered tobe complex, given the power and dependency relationship prevailed between manager andemployee. The empirical data on which the analysis is partly based on, have been collectedthrough semi-structured interviews with a group within the National Insurance Office inKarlskoga, consisting of managers and employees where a coaching leadership is applied.Coaching relationship has been explored with the aid of Faircloughs analytical model andtherefore conclusions could be obtained, which is that the coaching relationship is characterizedby a variety of power conditions affecting coach and coached in their relation to each other.Among other things, it has emerged that the coach is governing the coached thoughts and thusindirectly also the coached acting. Managerial coaching is therefore considered according to usnot to be a democratic exercised leadership but may instead implying to be more controlling incomparison with the ?traditional? leadership.