Development tendencies of modern plant organisation - tasks of the middle management and conceptual approaches for vocational further education

Abstract

Characterisations of the modern world as a “knowledge and information society” marked by the effects of the globalisation of the mass media presuppose that on the one hand it is true that “all information occur within a certain context” but that it “on the other hand provides a perspective on other options. Nothing is definite in itself any more. Everything seems to be exposed to comparison with other options” ². This tendency means for the individual that each and everyone increasingly needs to become aware in a self-responsible way “how to find ways under these conditions to become self-oriented” (ibid) Empirically this sociological tendency can be pinpointed to e.g. the analysis of “curricula vitae” which other than in times of rigid class distinctions can take a rather unpredictable and discontinuous course. So the assumption already is that the students and trainees of today will have to change careers several times in their future lives.

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¹ The section 4 refers partly to the research design “Qualifizierung für mittlere Führungsfunktionen in Industriebetrieben unter besonderer Berücksichtigung beruflicher Erfahrungen”, developed together with Dieter Scholz at the Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (Federal Institut of Vocational Training).

² N. Luhmann, Erziehung als Formung des Lebenslaufs, in: D. Lenzen und N. Luhmann (ed.), Bildung und Weiterbildung im Erziehungssystem, Frankfurt 1997, p. 17