Reflexivity in practice: Tools and conditions for developing organizational authorship

Gorli, Mara; Nicolini, Davide; Scaratti, Giuseppe

doi:10.1177/0018726714556156

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“…As Gorli et al (2015) put it, there is a switch from ongoing authorship (the construction of the context through one's practices) to a reflexive focus on authoring (understanding oneself as a constructor of the organization and changing how one practices in response to that). As such, it may not be about transforming oneself to resemble a positive role model, but instead be about avoiding becoming a negative one.…”

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(Engaging or Avoiding) Change Through Reflexive Practices

Hibbert

Callagher

Siedlok

et al. 2017

Journal of Management Inquiry

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In this paper, we explore the ways in which individuals deploy reflexive practices in order to avoid or engage with a call to change either oneself or the social context. We begin by developing a categorization of the modes of reflexive practice associated with avoidance or engagement. We go on to develop -through a relationally reflexive research process -three contributions that build on this. First, we build an understanding of what a repertoire of reflexive practices may include, and 'what is going on' in such reflexive practices. Second, we explain how reflexive practices can be mobilizing, thereby enabling shifts between avoidance and engagement modes, or fix action within a single mode. Third, we develop an understanding of the ways in which emotions and relationships influence how reflexive practices of either kind are deployed.

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Section: Reconfiguringmentioning

confidence: 99%

(Engaging or Avoiding) Change Through Reflexive Practices

Hibbert

Callagher

Siedlok

et al. 2017

Journal of Management Inquiry

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“…Synthesising Beech's notion with Schatzki's underlines the significance and importance of contestation and conflict during episodes of design evaluation practice. The study has shown that analysing such 'arresting moments' invokes practical reflexivity (Gorli et al, 2015), not only at a personal level, but also between the stakeholders. Design evaluation practices are thus not only based on shared understandings, rather a more nuanced view, which appreciates the reality of such practices that include the unpredictable presence of such conflicts.…”

Section: Invoking Practical Reflexivity and The Role Of "Arresting Momentioning

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Evaluating the design of hospitals within a practice order network

O'Keeffe

Thomson

Dainty

2015

Construction Management and Economics

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Design evaluation is a complex and rich social practice that is organised and distinguished by its practical understandings, rules, general understandings and teleoaffective structures. This praxiographic study of a major National Health Service (NHS) hospital project uses practice theory to investigate the concept of design evaluation as 'a practice'. By applying Theodore Schatzki's site ontology, design evaluation practices are revealed to respond to dynamic teleoaffective structures that highlight the role of both practical intelligibility and the intertwined impact of external policy stipulations. Through this theoretical lens, fresh insight into the actuality of NHS hospital design evaluation praxis is provided that questions some of the axioms upon which such processes are assumed to operate. In particular, the appropriateness of the decontextualised and deterministic processes currently found in UK Government design policy is questioned. It is posited that an approach to design evaluation grounded in Schatzki's practice theory has greater potential to improve the design quality of NHS healthcare buildings that could, in turn, improve patient healthcare outcomes.

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“…The necessary condition for this is the collaboration with practitioners working within the organization and "the challenge is thus to devise new ways of making (and considering) people as the authors of their work. The expectation is that this will enable people to shoulder and contribute to the goals of the organizations they belong to" (Gorli et al 2015). In fact, the collective engagement of researchers and participants in reflexivity (Cunliffe 2003) can help to bring to the surface the knowledge embedded in practicing and transform it into actionable knowledge (Argyris and Schon 1978).…”

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A Practice-Based Approach to Safety as an Emergent Competence

Gherardi

2017

Beyond Safety Training

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This chapter proposes to look at safety as a collective knowledgeable doing, i.e. a competency embedded in working practices. Therefore, by adopting a practice-based approach to inquire into how work is actually accomplished, we can study how knowing safe and safer working practices is kept and maintained within situated ways of working and talking about safety. The knowledge object 'safety' is constructed-materially and discursively-by a plurality of professional communities, according to specific scientific disciplines, controlling specific leverages within an organization, and talking different discourses. In a workplace, there are competing discourses: technological, normative, educational, economic, and managerial. Therefore, learning safer working practices is mediated by comparison among the perspectives of the world embraced by the co-participants in the production of safety as an organizational practice. Training and learning based on situated working practices presumes the collective engagement of researchers and participants in reflexivity, which can help to bring to the surface the experience knowledge embedded in practicing and transform it into actionable knowledge to produce practice changes. In fact, the engagement of practitioners, their experience knowledge and their care for what they do may enhance workplace resilience.

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Reflexivity in practice: Tools and conditions for developing organizational authorship

Cited by 57 publications

References 58 publications

(Engaging or Avoiding) Change Through Reflexive Practices

(Engaging or Avoiding) Change Through Reflexive Practices

Evaluating the design of hospitals within a practice order network

A Practice-Based Approach to Safety as an Emergent Competence

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