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Organizational Psychology, Mapping Discursive Dynamics
Type
other project type
Start Date
01 November 2010
End Date
01 August 2011
Status
ongoing
Keywords
Organizational Psychology
Discourse Analysis
Description
The book with the working title Organizational Psychology - Mapping Discursive Dynamics will introduce and illustrate a variation of discursive approaches in the field of organizational studies/psychology. The planned book will be designed as a research guide, addressing both classical and newer organizational themes, thereby creating continuity but also exploring new directions.
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Range
HSG Internal
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HSG Intern
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Eprints ID
70068
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PublicationA Guide to Discursive Organizational PsychologyThis lively guide showcasing original and carefully curated research illustrates the dynamic relationship between discourse and organizational psychology. It maps the origins and development of discursive approaches in the field of organizational psychology and provides a timely review of the challenges that may confront researchers in the years to come, thereby charting the current and future boundaries of the field. A Guide to Discursive Organizational Psychology delineates a potential research agenda for discursive organizational psychology. Contributions include empirically rich discussions of both traditional and widely studied topics such as resistance to change, inclusion and exclusion, participation, multi-stakeholder collaboration and diversity management, as well as newer research topics such as language negotiations, work time arrangements, technology development and discourse analysis as intervention. Discursive devices for addressing these phenomena include interpretative repertoires, modes of ordering, rhetorical strategies and sense-making narratives. This topical book will serve as a guide for students or researchers who are new to discourse analysis in the fields of psychology, organization and management studies, and provide new perspective to anyone seeking to enhance their conceptual and methodological understanding of these fields. It marks a central reference point for anyone interested in the intersection of discursive approaches and organizational psychological phenomena.
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PublicationCareer change: The Role of Transition Narratives in Alternative Identity ConstructionsThis chapter addresses the question of why some people may be more successful than others at creating an alternative identity in the course of a career change. Taking a narrative perspective, the author draws particular attention to a variety of transition narratives which function as legitimizing resources for people to distance themselves from previous self-concepts, while at the same time allowing them to experiment with new sources of meaning and to create alternative identities. The analysis, of how former management consultants narrated the story of their career shift, focuses on four particular transition narratives(re-invention, alteration, re-enactment and stagnation) which help to account for some of the variation observed in career change experiences. The analysis also reveals a good indicator of how successful speakers will be in achieving alternative identity constructions in a new work environment: the radicalness of the career change and the contextual resources those speakers can call on to tell more or less compelling transition narratives. Thus we see that choices around a career change are dynamic and relational, as they are socially constructed in dialogue with others.