Alienation, Police Stories, and Percival

There are many people in organizations who have feelings of alienation; that is they feel they do not fit in, they get no meaning out of their work, they feel belittled or abused by their superiors or colleagues; they desire to break loose the masks they wear, or to find some sense of meaningfulness...

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Autor principal: Luhman, John T. (Author)
Outros Autores: Nazario, Andy F.
Tipo de documento: Recurso Electrónico Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
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Publicado em: 2015
Em: Journal of business ethics
Ano: 2015, Volume: 130, Número: 3, Páginas: 665-681
Outras palavras-chave:B Meaningfulness
B Storytelling
B Workplace alienation
B Legend of Percival
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Resumo:There are many people in organizations who have feelings of alienation; that is they feel they do not fit in, they get no meaning out of their work, they feel belittled or abused by their superiors or colleagues; they desire to break loose the masks they wear, or to find some sense of meaningfulness. In our paper, we demonstrate our assumption of alienation in the workplace by reviewing a collection of satirical and ironic organizational stories from police officers working at a county sheriff’s department. Our argument is that if it seems that alienation might not be resolved through organizational change efforts and interventions, or might not be resolved through radical change of the economic conditions of modern industrial life, then alienation might be changed through the aggregation of individual projects from below. We discuss the possibility of resolving alienation at the workplace by using the legend of Percival as an analogy.
ISSN:1573-0697
Obras secundárias:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10551-014-2264-y