Story and Narrative Noticing: Workaholism Autoethnographies

Bøje, David M.; Tyler, Jo A.

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“…Even if it is not so developed in management sciences, Boje and Tyler (2009) and Haynes (2006Haynes ( , 2011 use auto-ethnographies, and introspection is emerging in consumer research (Gould 2012). Various kinds of similar approaches exist under different names: autobiography, auto-ethnography, introspection, personal narratives, selfstudies, personal experience narratives, self-stories, first-person accounts, personal essays, auto-observations, personal ethnography, reflexive ethnography, and testimonio, among others.…”

Section: Self-studiesmentioning

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The Dialogue: an Essential Component to Consider “Organization as a Community of Persons”

Albert

Pérouma

2017

Humanist Manag J

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Even if the concept of Bcommunity of persons^is more and more present, only a few studies with practical cases actually use it. This paper is based on the pragmatic constructivism epistemological paradigm and uses an autopraxeography method from a previous action research study. The case presented concerns part of a large business. At the beginning of our study, this organization experienced many conflicts. The intervention we implemented developed dialogues and built a community of persons. At the end of this story, a new HR manager arrived and decided to stop what was previously implemented (to increase productivity), putting an end to the dialogues and all of the collaboration that went along with them. This way of doing leads to fake productivity because it generates a lot of hidden costs. Thus, this case shows that a dialogue is necessary to build a community of persons, and vice versa. Otherwise, there are just associations of individuals.

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Section: Self-studiesmentioning

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The Dialogue: an Essential Component to Consider “Organization as a Community of Persons”

Albert

Pérouma

2017

Humanist Manag J

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“…Berlin appeared to become increasingly obsessive about working, devoting his time and attention to trading while losing interest in his colleagues and regarding his clients in a purely instrumental manner. This over‐identification with work is perhaps not so unusual for, as Boje & Tyler () stress, work is socially constructed as the centre of life in late modern capitalism. They describe the irrational assumptions held by the workaholic such as ‘you are worthless without your work’ and ‘you will die without your work’ (Boje & Tyler : 183).…”

Section: Dysfunctional Work Identification: Reluctance and Workaholismmentioning

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“…This over‐identification with work is perhaps not so unusual for, as Boje & Tyler () stress, work is socially constructed as the centre of life in late modern capitalism. They describe the irrational assumptions held by the workaholic such as ‘you are worthless without your work’ and ‘you will die without your work’ (Boje & Tyler : 183). Indeed, the philosopher Arendt (: 10) suggested that ‘work [can] bestow a measure of permanence and durability upon the futility of mortal life and the fleeting character of human time’.…”

Section: Dysfunctional Work Identification: Reluctance and Workaholismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Work identification and responsibility in moral breakdown

O'Leary

2014

Bus Ethics Eur Rev

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This paper provides a detailed study of fraud in practice through an empirical investigation of B.P.Sayers, a family-owned stockbroking firm that had been in existence for over 100 years and that collapsed due to the fraudulent activities of the firm's junior partner. An interpretive narrative methodology has been employed which has resulted in the development of a detailed understanding of fraud and moral breakdown in organizations, resulting from a failure of responsibility that arises from a dysfunctional work identification and its moral implications. In developing this account of fraud, the conceptual framework utilized is drawn from the moral philosophical work of Emmanuel Levinas who explicated how the breakdown of social relations of responsibility results, in turn, in moral breakdown.

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“…Historically, these methods can be traced back all the way to the ancient Greeks (Gould, 2006), but they are not currently used in management studies. For example, Boje and Tyler (2008) and Haynes (2006Haynes ( , 2011 used auto-ethnographies while introspection is emerging in consumer research (Gould, 2012). Different kinds of similar approaches exist under different names: autobiography, auto-ethnography, introspection, personal narratives, narratives of the self, personal experience narratives, self-stories, first-person accounts, personal essays, auto-observations, personal ethnography, and reflexive ethnography, among others.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Support to an Entrepreneur

Albert

Couture

2013

Sage Open

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Entrepreneurs are often associated with autonomy, but one of the coauthors, the sole owner of a microbusiness, had a different experience. Based on this, we used an autobiographical narrative method in a constructivist paradigm to explore this phenomenon that is autonomy. The coauthor’s different experience developed the idea that difficulties lived by an entrepreneur can transform autonomy into dependence. This negative complex process is grounded on a request for help by the entrepreneur and the dissymmetric relation between the person who needs help and the support. This kind of relationship promotes a loss of the entrepreneur’s capacities. A non-co-construction of solution (by the entrepreneur and the support) is not only less productive, but could also develop a very negative process. This finding is important to better understand support to entrepreneurs.

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Story and Narrative Noticing: Workaholism Autoethnographies

Abstract: story, narrative, ethics, workaholic, autoethnography,

Cited by 50 publications

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The Dialogue: an Essential Component to Consider “Organization as a Community of Persons”

The Dialogue: an Essential Component to Consider “Organization as a Community of Persons”

Work identification and responsibility in moral breakdown

The Support to an Entrepreneur

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