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IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT AND THE NEW COMPETENCE: Conjectures for Seekers.

Discusses the impact of the factory movement on the competence of man. Alienation of the successful man due to the impression management of the factory system, making them prone to scripted existence; Integration of a person's identity into his work, as a product of the factory-centered cosmology;...

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Published in:ETC: A Review of General Semantics Vol. 43; no. 3; pp. 247 - 259
Main Author: Wexler, Mark N.
Format: Article
Published: Institute of General Semantics, Inc. Fall1986
Subjects:
Industrialization
Performance
Alienation (Philosophy)
Impression management
Industrial revolution
Identity (Psychology)
Work
Service industries
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Summary:Discusses the impact of the factory movement on the competence of man. Alienation of the successful man due to the impression management of the factory system, making them prone to scripted existence; Integration of a person's identity into his work, as a product of the factory-centered cosmology; Notion of competence in the factory system; Transition from an industrial society to a service society.