Oldal 119 [119]
Do ACCELERATION AND BOUNDLESS WORK LEAD TO
ACCELERATED AND BOUNDLESS COACHING?
ACCELERATION
In Hartmut Rosa‘s, the renowned sociologist’s view, modern times are
characterized, above all, by social acceleration. The awareness of time in our
modern era is characterized by experience of acceleration that can be illustrated
by examples such as measurement of a thousand of a second in sport, the In¬
ternet or the ICE train. *
The predominance of acceleration fundamentally changes the entire social
life, including its speed. The increasing speed leads to a densification of our
activities."
However, the time gained does not lead to free space for us to come to rest,
butis used to improve productivity, creativity and communication, and is thus
experienced as hectic daily routine and stress." H. Rosa postulates that three
dimensions come under the phenomenon of acceleration: technical change,
the increase of social change and acceleration of the pace of life". Ihe result is
a "shrinking of the present", as Rosa calls it."
Along these lines, there is a mismatch between action itself and action
reflected. For more and more activities increasingly leave less time to reflect
these activities and “process” the feelings associated with them. This lack of
reflecting time again changes the very character of activities and action. They
become more instrumental, they focus on functionality and, as a result, they
lose their social and ethical substance. In subjective terms, time pressure
and the experience of breakneck speed lead to a reduction of time, although
technical acceleration of transport, communication and production processes
have generated considerable time resources. Empirical studies show that the
felt leisure-time decreases, although the “real” leisure-time actually increases.
Why is that so? “Leisure time” is “experienced by the actors not as a reservoir
of free time reservoirs but as an amount of time passing by rapidly and
determined by action and experiences.” (Rosa 218) H. Rosa sees two causes for
the time pressure felt, firstly the fear of missing out on something and secondly
the pressure to adapt.
It is obvious how strongly changes in action also influence professional
interaction, especially through acceleration. Acceleration in the work
of executives leads to harmful stress and to a much stronger burden on
Ibid., 161.
Ibid., 199.
Ibid., 213.
Ibid., 124-138.
Ibid., 185.
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