ABSTRACT
For nearly 40 years researchers have been using narratives and stories to understand larger cultural issues through the lenses of their personal experiences. There is an increasing recognition that autoethnographic approaches to work and organizations add to our knowledge of both personal identity and organizational scholarship. By using personal narrative and autoethnographic approaches, this research focuses on the working lives of individual people within the organizations for which they work.
This international handbook includes chapters that provide multiple overarching perspectives to organizational autoethnography including views from fields such as critical, postcolonial and queer studies. It also tackles specific organizational processes, including organizational exits, grief, fandom, and workplace bullying, as well as highlighting the ethical implications of writing organizational research from a personal narrative approach. Contributors also provide autoethnographies about the military, health care and academia, in addition to approaches from various subdisciplines such as marketing, economics, and documentary film work.
Contributions from the US, the UK, Europe, and the Global South span disciplines such as organizational studies and ethnography, communication studies, business studies, and theatre and performance to provide a comprehensive map of this wide-reaching area of qualitative research. This handbook will therefore be of interest to both graduate and postgraduate students as well as practicing researchers.
Winner of the 2021 National Communication Association Ethnography Division Best Book Award
Winner of the 2021 Distinguished Book on Business Communication Award, Association for Business Communication
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section I|104 pages
Situating organizational autoethnography
chapter 2|12 pages
Life between interlocking oppressions
chapter 5|15 pages
Postcolonial organizational autoethnography
chapter 6|16 pages
Aggression, bullying, and mobbing in the workplace
part Section II|73 pages
Autoethnography across organizational disciplines
chapter 8|12 pages
Navigating the narrow spaces
chapter 10|16 pages
Organizational autoethnographies of economy, finance, business and management
part Section III|80 pages
Organizations and organizing
chapter 12|18 pages
Billable (h)ours
chapter 13|16 pages
Birthing autoethnographic philanthropy, healing, and organizational change
part Section IV|82 pages
Organizing organizational identities
chapter 17|16 pages
Grieving Kathy
chapter 20|14 pages
“Switch off the headwork!”
chapter 21|12 pages
An autoethnographic account of (pre)retirement socialization
chapter 22|12 pages
Walking home
part Section V|83 pages
Writing and evaluating organizational autoethnography
chapter 23|13 pages
Learning through the process
chapter 25|16 pages
Anchoring “the Big Tent”
chapter 26|16 pages
Towards a model of collaborative organizational autoethnography
part Section VI|63 pages
Organizing the future of organizational autoethnography