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Emotions During Times of Disruption Troth, Ashlea C; Ashkanasy, Neal M; Humphrey, Ronald H
Research on emotion in organizations,
2023, Volume:
18
eBook
Open access
Volume 18 of Research on Emotion in Organizationsfollows the theme of Emotions during Times of Disruption, contending that emotions and other affect related concepts represent keys to understanding ...the phenomena of disruption in organizations more fully.
The aim of this book is to show how a cultural approach can contribute to the assessment, description and improvement of safety conditions in organizations. The relationship between organizational ...culture and safety, epitomized through the concept of 'safety culture', has undoubtedly become one of the hottest topics of both safety research and practical efforts to improve safety. By combining a general framework and five research projects, the author explores and further develops the theoretical, methodological and practical basis of the study of safety culture.
In the last ten years, ethnography has consolidated itself as a central service in the portfolio of many market research companies in Colombia that offer their clients consumer ethnographies. The ...objective of this article is to describe and analyze how market research professionals understand and use ethnography. Methodology: The research that led to this article involved several phases. Initially, we identified the institutions that offer consumer ethnographies in Colombia. This was followed by an analysis of the service portfolios of these institutions, as well as an analysis of the discourse with which they offer their services, particularly in terms of ethnographic studies. Finally, more than twenty interviews were conducted with market research professionals in Bogotá, Cali and Medellín, all with experience in carrying out consumer ethnographies. Conclusions: Despite the fact that professionals in this field have recently opened up spaces for debate in academia, in Colombia, the process of integrating the ethnographic method into market research companies has not been analyzed in depth. An example of this is that at the XVII Congress of Anthropology in Colombia in 2019, for the first time, there were four tables devoted to anthropology applied to consumption, markets, industry, and business. Originality: These spaces are ideal for discussing the postulates and findings of this article, especially our conclusion that, in the field of market research, the discourse of anthropology is used and instrumentalised to endow consumer ethnographies with academic and scientific legitimacy, even though its methodological practices and assumptions tend to be underestimated.
Chinese Labor in a Korean Factorydraws on fieldwork in a multinational corporation (MNC) in Qingdao, China, and delves deep into the power dynamics at play between Korean management, Chinese migrant ...workers, local-level Chinese government officials, and Chinese local gangs. Anthropologist Jaesok Kim examines how governments, to attract MNCs, relinquish parts of their legal rights over these entities, while MNCs also give up portions of their rights as proxies of global capitalism by complying with local government guidelines to ensure infrastructure and cheap labor. This ethnography demonstrates how a particular MNC struggled with the pressure to be increasingly profitable while negotiating the clash of Korean and Chinese cultures, traditions, and classes on the factory floor of a garment corporation.
Chinese Labor in a Korean Factory pays particular attention to common features of post-socialist countries. By analyzing the contentious collaboration between foreign management, factory workers, government officials, and gangs, this study contributes not only to the research on the politics of resistance but also to how global and local forces interact in concrete and surprising ways.
Our view of organizations, labour and the competencies of managers will soon need to change. In the postmodern and post-Fordist world, economy and organizations function differently than they did in ...the 20th century. Workers and managers will have to face new expectations. Not only has reflectivity become one of the key organisational factors; it is also taught, learnt and shaped. Drawing on an authoethnographic model and action-research, authors of this paper provide an education and development tool that managers and workers can use to develop and trigger reflectivity. Picture ethnography, coaching philosophy and hermeneutics are theoretical bases for the construction of a new model of self-development.
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