Conducting Organizational Culture/al Autoethnographies
Location
DeSantis Room 1052
Format Type
Plenary
Format Type
Workshop
Start Date
16-1-2020 1:45 PM
End Date
16-1-2020 2:35 PM
Abstract
In this workshop, we will guide participants to draft an organizational cultural autoethnography where events, artifacts, and relationships are interconnected. We will briefly explain that as a narrative approach, this methodology merges organizational and aesthetic theory to produce a compelling story about phenomena within and across organizations. Then we will introduce the participants to the Critical Incident Technique (CIT), which is widely used in organizational development as a research technique for identifying organizational problems. The participants will work individually to respond to CIT guiding questions provided by the workshop facilitators. The next step will involve constructing a counter-story to the narrative the organization tries to tell through its artifacts, rituals, ceremonies, heroes, and heroines. Three workshop organizers will share excerpts from their organizational culture/al autoethnographies with the group they will each co-facilitate. We expect that by the end of the workshop, the participants will have completed a rough draft of their organizational culture/al autoethnographies.
Keywords
Organizational Culture/al Autoethnography, Culture, Counterstories
Conducting Organizational Culture/al Autoethnographies
DeSantis Room 1052
In this workshop, we will guide participants to draft an organizational cultural autoethnography where events, artifacts, and relationships are interconnected. We will briefly explain that as a narrative approach, this methodology merges organizational and aesthetic theory to produce a compelling story about phenomena within and across organizations. Then we will introduce the participants to the Critical Incident Technique (CIT), which is widely used in organizational development as a research technique for identifying organizational problems. The participants will work individually to respond to CIT guiding questions provided by the workshop facilitators. The next step will involve constructing a counter-story to the narrative the organization tries to tell through its artifacts, rituals, ceremonies, heroes, and heroines. Three workshop organizers will share excerpts from their organizational culture/al autoethnographies with the group they will each co-facilitate. We expect that by the end of the workshop, the participants will have completed a rough draft of their organizational culture/al autoethnographies.