Chapter 4. Dependency and Worker Flirting

Narratives of irony and failure in ethnographic work

“…Irony is present in all levels of organizations. Ethnographers have mapped uses of humour by manual workers (Konecki, 1990), middle‐level managers and engineers (Kunda, 1992), and top‐level executives (Hatch, 1997).…”

Review

“…Konecki is one of the Polish authors better known to an international audience, particularly for his participant observation study of shop-oor worker in a Polish textile plant (see, for example, Konecki, 1990). He has carried out several eld projects using grounded theory method (Glaser and Strauss 1974), of which this study of US headhunting rms is his most recent.…”

Flirtatious sequences in Indonesian : a conversation analytic and membership categorization analytic approach

“…In contradiction, some other studies and literature (Konecki, 1990;Givens, 1978;Scheflen, 1965) argue on the very point of whether flirting contains romance, love or sexual interest or attraction. Those studies and literature mainly assume that flirting have a high resemblance to courtship, however does not necessarily involve communication of genuine romance, love or sexual interest or attraction.…”

“…Study such as by Scheflen (1965) refers to flirting as quasi-courtship. Other studies (Givens, 1978;McCormick & Jones, 1989;Konecki, 1990;Egland et al, 1996;Anolli & Ciceri, 2002;O'Farrell et al, 2003;Whitty, 2003;Henningsen, 2004) take the assumption that flirting is different than courtship. On the other hand, some studies (Rowland, Crisler, & Cox, 1982;Abrahams, 1994;Henningsen, Braz, & Davies, 2008;Perper, 2009;Frisby, Dillow, Gaughan, & Nordlund, 2010;Levesque, 2011;VanderMolen, 2014) take flirting as synonymous to courtship.…”

“…On the other hand, some other studies take that flirting does not have to include attention-getting effort. Those studies (Downey & Vitulli, 1987;Coffelt & Hess, 2015; Konecki, 1990) explicates flirting interaction between familiar individual, hence taking the assumption that flirting does happen between familiar individuals.…”