1st Edition

Organizational Autoethnographies Power and Identity in Our Working Lives

By Andrew Herrmann Copyright 2017
    184 Pages
    by Routledge

    184 Pages
    by Routledge

    This text takes a new approach to autoethnography by using personal narratives to analyze our work across multiple disciplines and subdisciplines. These stories feature authors working at the intersections of autoethnography and critical theory within a given organizational context. Organizations are not simply entities, but systems of meaning. As such they are sites of cultural practices and performances, and of domination, resistance and struggle.  Working at the intersection of organizational studies and autoethnography, this book explores the ability of autoethnographic and personal narrative approaches to generate important, innovative, and empowering understandings of difference, discourses, and identities, while attending to the various powerful dynamics that are at play in organizations. These are stories of work, at work, and help to finally bring theory and direct exemplars together.

    Foreward

    Tony E. Adams

    Acknowledgements

    List of Contributors

    Introduction: An Autoethnography of an Organizational Autoethnography Book

    Andrew F. Herrmann

    Power, Emotional Labor, and Intersectional Identity at Work: I Would not Kiss my Boss but I Did not Speak Up

    Katherine J. Denker

    Stroking my Rifle like the Body of a Woman: A Woman’s Socialization into the U.S. Army

    Jeni Hunniecutt

    Working on It: Family Narratives of Masculinity, Disability, and Work-Life Balance

    Kurt Lindemann

    Dolly, Ellie May, and Me: My Southern Appalachian Working Identity

    Annalee Tull

    Sensemaking in the Dialysis Clinic

    Bernard J. Brommel

    How Rainbow Gatherings Work: (Dis)organization in Small Acts

    Kristen C. Blinne and Tenali Hrenak

    Good Ol’ Boys and Their Analog Networks

    Alix R. Watson

    Broken Promises: Psychological Contract Breach, Organizational Exit, and Occupational Change

    Andrew F. Herrmann

    Biography

    Andrew Herrmann

    "This text paints literary representations of work, the worker and the organisation using a varied palette of autoethnographic inquiry. It is personal, creative, diverse, emotional and powerful. It an essential works for all autoethnographers from the student to the more experienced researcher. An insightful read."

    ---Dr Clair Doloriert, Bangor Business School, UK

    This highly original book provides readers with an intimate understanding of organizational communication. It demonstrates the wonderful possibilities inherent to using autoethnography as a unique way to explore the stories people tell from within diverse contexts of organizational life. 

    - Dr. Keith Berry, University of South Florida, USA