The Lost Good Self: Why the whistleblower is hated and stigmatized

Stein, Mark A.

doi:10.1177/0170840619880565

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“…Overall, dilution can enable actors to avoid shame and/or social sanctions, and become accepted by their audiences (Stein, 2019;Vergne, 2012). It is a strategy frequently adopted by those facing associational stigma in order to avoid potential contamination from those who are stigmatized (Gomulya & Boeker, 2016;Xia, Dawley, Jiang, Ma, & Boal, 2016;Zhang, George, & Tan, 2006).…”

Section: Stigma Management Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stigma Beyond Levels: Advancing Research on Stigmatization

Zhang

Wang

Toubiana

et al. 2021

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126

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Stigma has become an increasingly significant challenge for society. Recognition of this problem is indicated by the growing attention to it within the management literature which has provided illuminating insights. However, stigma has primarily been examined at a single level of analysis: individual, occupational, organizational, or industry. Yet, cultural understandings of what is discreditable or taboo do not come from the individual, occupation, organization, or industry that is stigmatized; on the contrary, they come from particular sources that transcend levels. As such, we propose that current silos within the literature may not only be preventing engagement with insights from different levels of analysis, but, importantly, may be preventing us from truly understanding stigmatization as a social process. To address this issue, we review the stigma literature and then present an across level integrative framework of the sources, characteristics, and management strategies. Our framework provides a common language that integrates insights across these levels and enables a shift in attention from how actors respond to stigma to broader processes of stigmatization.

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Section: Stigma Management Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stigma Beyond Levels: Advancing Research on Stigmatization

Zhang

Wang

Toubiana

et al. 2021

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126

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“…Numerous works using this approach, many of them empirical, have appeared in top American and European journals and cast light on novel or problematic features of organizations, organizing, and the organized (e.g. Anicich, forthcoming; Ashforth and Reingen, 2014; Fotaki, 2013; Fotaki and Hyde, 2015; Handy and Rowlands, 2017; Kahn, forthcoming; Kenny, 2010; Kenny et al, 2020; Maitlis, forthcoming; Padavic et al, 2020; Petriglieri and Peshkam, forthcoming; Petriglieri et al, 2018, 2019; Prasad, 2014; Stein, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2021; Vince, 2019). After its mid-life crisis, the work is alive anew.…”

Section: A Mid-life Crisis (Are You Not Entertained?)mentioning

confidence: 99%

The work is alive! Systems psychodynamics and the pursuit of pluralism without polarization in human relations

Petriglieri

2022

Human Relations

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This article celebrates the vitality of the systems psychodynamic approach and its potential to humanize organization studies, management practice, and working lives. An approach is a deliberate movement: a way to move closer to, inquire about, and deal with something. The systems psychodynamic approach involves moving closer to organizations and workers through research and educational efforts to study and manage the unconscious dynamics of organizing. It aims to reveal the fears, needs, and wishes that underpin rigid structures and dysfunctions in groups, organizations, and institutions—and to foster more adaptive and functional ways of dealing with those impulses. Advocates refer to this approach as ‘the work’. This article tells the story of the work as we understand it. We tell it as a life, to highlight the work’s intent and evolution, its struggles and contributions, but mostly to make the point that the work is alive. It is alive as an academic enterprise and it is a way of life. An approach devoted to dismantling defenses, countering authoritarianism, and nurturing development and democracy, we argue, is more relevant than ever. And so is what we see as the purpose of the work: fostering pluralism without polarization in human relations.

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“…Table 2 Beyond retaliation, which is inflicted by the wrongdoer and/or authorities in the organization, whistleblowers can also suffer stigmatic repercussions [75], which are inflicted by the organization's broader community. Such stigmatization can be extremely harmful and can lead to devastating social, economic, and mental health outcomes for whistleblowers [76]. One news article argues that many in Australia view whistleblowing as "un-Australian", which results in instances of bullying and stigmatization by coworkers.…”

Section: Protecting the Whistleblowermentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards the Design of Effective Whistleblowing Systems

Jobinpicard¹,

Doha²

2022

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Whistleblowing systems serve as a vehicle for change, empowerment, and ethical/social responsibility. Organizational whistleblowing is a socially complex phenomenon that impacts people and organizations across various disciplines and sectors. Whistleblowing is a high-stakes act involving the dissemination of highly sensitive information about multiple actors with tangling stakes/interests. These features inherently make the task of designing effective whistleblowing systems (WS) a challenging one. To address this, our paper develops key design objectives (DO's) for effective WS. We do this by conducting a qualitative literature review of whistleblowing research and by availing elements from design science methods and stakeholder theory. We present four key DO's for effective WS, which we support with a whistleblowing news dataset. This paper serves as a first step in developing design principles (DP's) for effective WS. This research contributes to a growing discourse on organizational whistleblowing in the IS community.

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The Lost Good Self: Why the whistleblower is hated and stigmatized

Cited by 20 publications

References 56 publications

Stigma Beyond Levels: Advancing Research on Stigmatization

Stigma Beyond Levels: Advancing Research on Stigmatization

The work is alive! Systems psychodynamics and the pursuit of pluralism without polarization in human relations

Towards the Design of Effective Whistleblowing Systems

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