Stories of Life in the Workplace: An Open Architecture for Organizational Narratology

ISBN-13: 9780415539999 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 208 str.

Larry Browning; George H. Morris

Opis

Addressing both renowned theories and standard applications, this text explains how stories affect human practices and organizational life. The authors explore how we experience, interpret, and personalize narrative stories in our everyday lives, and how these communicative acts impact our social aims and interactions.

Recenzje

'Recommended. Structuring the discussion around aspects of narrative such as action, motivation, and moral outcome, the authors introduce, chapter by chapter, a variety of workplace narratives and then explore related theory…the relaxed, good-natured tone of the book is refreshing, and readers will encounter many gems of information well worth pondering. Particularly useful are cautions against reading overarching organizational narratives as ultimate truth and overvaluing a polyglot approach to sense making in organizations.' –CHOICE, C.E. O’Neill, New Mexico State University at Alamogordo

O autorze

Larry Browning is a Professor at the College of Communication, University of Texas at Austin and adjunct Professor of Management, Bodø Graduate School of Business at the University of Nordland, Norway. His studies include structures in organizations as evidenced by lists and stories, information-communication technology and narratives, cooperation and competition in organizations, and grounded theory as a research strategy.

 

G. H. Morris is a Professor at California State University San Marcos. He is a conversation analyst and communication theorist interested in how people align with each other in everyday talk, organizational discourse, and psychotherapy.