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1	How could knowledge of sensemaking during organizational change contribute to the investigation of how sense is made of organizational perfomance Allen, Richard 08 1900 (has links) Managers and organizational stakeholders are confronted by a range of stimuli, emotions, events, data, paradoxes and ambiguities in endeavouring to understand and make sense of change and the performance of their organizations. However, there is virtually no literature available on sensemaking within organizational performance. Historically sensemaking literature has focused on unusual events, disasters and high reliability settings but there is now a sizeable body addressing sensemaking in strategic organizational change. This literature has been systematically reviewed because of its proximity to organizational performance and in order to assess how sensemaking in organizational performance could be in investigated. Sensemaking in individuals is triggered by the unusual and confounding and is concerned with how people construct meaning from this. While sensegiving is about the role played by leaders, or stakeholders, in generating, articulating and “selling” a construction or interpretation of events emerging from their own sensemaking process. “Mindfulness” can be thought of as how sensemaking is realised and is about responding rather than reacting while using information, attentiveness and clues to make sense of what is happening. The sensemaking studies reviewed are dominated by work with middle managers who are seen by the authors as key organizational change agents. Organizational actors come to sensemaking through mental maps, or schemata that can be re-configured through the sensemaking process often as a way of addressing paradox or equivocation. The view of sensemaking as inter-subjective, discursive and narrative dominates giving scope to managers to facilitate the process. Sensegiving and sensemaking intertwine dialectically in a process which sees sensemaking informing sensegiving and vice versa. There is insufficient information on mindfulness and change to be able to assess it. In conclusion there are sufficient similarities between the processes of organizational change and organizational performance management to warrant its investigation from an inter-subjective, discursive and narrative sensemaking perspective. Discursive Interpretative Inter-subjective Mindfulness Schema Sensegiving
2	Investigating the subject's identity : the critical treatment of the Lacanian-Althusserian dialectic and subjectivity formation in James Joyce's 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' Sadjadi, Seyed Bakhtiar January 2010 (has links) Critically examining the Lacanian and Althusserian theories of the subject, this thesis explored the theoretical problems and methodological premises of a converged version of both theories. The central argument the present thesis seeks to demonstrate is that the Lacanian-Althusserian dialectic provides a more comprehensive and effective account of the process of the subject formation than a purely psychoanalytical or structuralist Marxist analysis of the term. After a critical study of the way the subject is positioned between language and ideology in contemporary critical theory the thesis proceeds to investigate the subject-object relation in the Cartesian and Hegelian subjects. Conceived of as the convergence of lack and material, the Lacanian-Althusserian dialectic focuses on the close affinity between the Lacanian notion of linguistic alienation and the Althusserian concept of ideological interpellation. The subject’s alienation with what is called in the thesis ‘ideological signifier’ is considered as the result of direct and dramatic modes of interpellation in both language acquisition process and the mature phase. The major theoretical premises of this model include the following: first, identity functions through, and because of, the ‘inter-subjective dialectic’ and an ‘intra-subjective lack.’ Identity is never fully constituted because of this antagonism, and thus remains ‘incomplete.’ Secondly, the subject is ideologically constituted through language. The mechanism through which both language and ideology construct a subject never permits the subject enjoying a state of full identity with ideological signifiers. Thirdly, the subject’s identity is represented in the language exposed to and, later, reproduced by him/her. In order to demonstrate a practical reading of subjectivity formation in terms of this critical approach the present research applies it to James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). The process of the subject formation has been analysed through the subject’s alienation/interpellation by the ISAs. Also, the inter-subjective dialectic between different subjectivities of the subject’s identity has been investigated. The thesis demonstrates that identity reconstruction represented in the novel is a complicated and ongoing process, which begins with disillusionment, goes through materialization of epiphany, and ends with inventiveness in language. This process has been represented as a move from ideological to non-ideological subjectivity through artistic creativity. The exploration of the aesthetics of language is crucial to the analysis of the reconstruction of Stephen Dedalus’ identity in that it happens in and through language. 820.90091
3	The inner theatre in learning Andersson Gustafsson, Gunilla January 2002 (has links) No description available. Judgment responsibility knowledge gained through experience storytelling individual skill inter-subjective knowledge expertise and vocational education.
4	As lideranças na organização empresarial contemporânea: uma abordagem da relação intersubjetiva entre o homem e a organização de trabalho Boin, Marcia Oki [UNESP] 29 July 2002 (has links) (PDF) Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2002-07-29Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:37:54Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 boin_mo_me_assis.pdf: 513201 bytes, checksum: 00c317badc20c9d3d5032c0a560814da (MD5) / A pesquisa foi realizada em uma organização empresarial em transição, de pequeno para médio porte, que enfrenta com o seu crescimento, a necessidade de reorganizar a estrutura, os processos e principalmente as suas relações. Teve por objetivo o desvelamento da relação intersubjetiva estabelecida no confronto entre um grupo de lideranças e a organização de trabalho da referida empresa, buscando o acesso à realidade através da investigação da vivência subjetiva desses sujeitos, como eles pensam a sua relação com o trabalho, produzem interpretações de sua situação, reagem organizam-se e atuam sobre a dinâmica organizacional. A investigação e a análise dos dados tiveram dois eixos norteadores: o contexto sociocultural, visando caracterizar as relações entre líderes e liderados e a história pregressa dos sujeitos, para verificar a ressonância simbólica entre as experiências passadas e a situação de trabalho atual. A pesquisa teve como referencial teórico e metodológico: estudos sobre traços da cultura brasileira e suas raízes históricas e seus impactos na gestão empresarial, baseados em Barros e Prates (1996),Caldas e Wood Jr (1999) e DaMatta (1997,1998) e estudos da Psicodinâmica do Trabalho proposta por Dejours (1992,1993,1994).Os resultados da pesquisa demonstraram uma estreita correlação entre a história pregressa dos sujeitos, especificamente as relações estabelecidas com as figuras parentais durante a infância e o exercício da sua gestão enquanto lideranças na condução de suas equipes. Apontaram também em que medida alguns traços da cultura brasileira... / This research has been carried out in a business organization in transition from small to medium size facing - because of its growth - the need of re-ordering its structure, processes and mainly its relations. It aimed at unveiling the inter-subjective relation established in the comparison between a group of leaderships and the working organization in the company. We sought access to reality through the investigation of these subjects' experiences, how they think their relation with work, produce interpretations of their situation, react, organize and act towards the organizational dynamics. The investigation and analysis of data started from two guiding lines: the socio-cultural context - aiming at characterizing the relations between leaders and their teams - and the subjects' preceding history to verify the symbolic resonance between past experiences and the current situation at work. The research had as theoretical and methodological references studies on features of the Brazilian culture and their historical roots and their impacts on business management based on Barros and Prates (1996), Caldas and Wood Jr. (1999) and DaMatta (1997, 1998) and studies of Work Psychodynamics proposed by Dejours (1992, 1993, 1994). The results showed a close correlation between the subjects' preceding history, specifically the relations established with parental figures during childhood, and the exercise of their management while leading their teams. They have also indicated to what extension some features of Brazilian culture hindered the evolution of... (Complete abstract, click electronic access below). Trabalho - Aspectos psicologicos Liderança Cultura organizacional Inter-subjective relation Working organization Organizational culture Symbolic resonance Subjectivity
5	The inner theatre in learning : en studie om kunskapsväxandet inom hantverk / The inner theatre in learning : A study about vocational educationand the growth of knowledge within craft Andersson Gustafsson, Gunilla January 2002 (has links) <p>QC 20120129</p> Judgment responsibility knowledge gained through experience storytelling individual skill inter-subjective knowledge expertise and vocational education.
6	As lideranças na organização empresarial contemporânea : uma abordagem da relação intersubjetiva entre o homem e a organização de trabalho / Boin, Marcia Oki. January 2002 (has links) Orientador: Francisco Hashimoto / Banca: Elizabeth Piemonte Constantino / Banca: Wilka Coronado Antunes Dias / Resumo: A pesquisa foi realizada em uma organização empresarial em transição, de pequeno para médio porte, que enfrenta com o seu crescimento, a necessidade de reorganizar a estrutura, os processos e principalmente as suas relações. Teve por objetivo o desvelamento da relação intersubjetiva estabelecida no confronto entre um grupo de lideranças e a organização de trabalho da referida empresa, buscando o acesso à realidade através da investigação da vivência subjetiva desses sujeitos, como eles pensam a sua relação com o trabalho, produzem interpretações de sua situação, reagem organizam-se e atuam sobre a dinâmica organizacional. A investigação e a análise dos dados tiveram dois eixos norteadores: o contexto sociocultural, visando caracterizar as relações entre líderes e liderados e a história pregressa dos sujeitos, para verificar a ressonância simbólica entre as experiências passadas e a situação de trabalho atual. A pesquisa teve como referencial teórico e metodológico: estudos sobre traços da cultura brasileira e suas raízes históricas e seus impactos na gestão empresarial, baseados em Barros e Prates (1996),Caldas e Wood Jr (1999) e DaMatta (1997,1998) e estudos da Psicodinâmica do Trabalho proposta por Dejours (1992,1993,1994).Os resultados da pesquisa demonstraram uma estreita correlação entre a história pregressa dos sujeitos, especificamente as relações estabelecidas com as figuras parentais durante a infância e o exercício da sua gestão enquanto lideranças na condução de suas equipes. Apontaram também em que medida alguns traços da cultura brasileira... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This research has been carried out in a business organization in transition from small to medium size facing - because of its growth - the need of re-ordering its structure, processes and mainly its relations. It aimed at unveiling the inter-subjective relation established in the comparison between a group of leaderships and the working organization in the company. We sought access to reality through the investigation of these subjects' experiences, how they think their relation with work, produce interpretations of their situation, react, organize and act towards the organizational dynamics. The investigation and analysis of data started from two guiding lines: the socio-cultural context - aiming at characterizing the relations between leaders and their teams - and the subjects' preceding history to verify the symbolic resonance between past experiences and the current situation at work. The research had as theoretical and methodological references studies on features of the Brazilian culture and their historical roots and their impacts on business management based on Barros and Prates (1996), Caldas and Wood Jr. (1999) and DaMatta (1997, 1998) and studies of Work Psychodynamics proposed by Dejours (1992, 1993, 1994). The results showed a close correlation between the subjects' preceding history, specifically the relations established with parental figures during childhood, and the exercise of their management while leading their teams. They have also indicated to what extension some features of Brazilian culture hindered the evolution of... (Complete abstract, click electronic access below). / Mestre Trabalho - Aspectos psicologicos. Liderança. Cultura organizacional. Inter-subjective relation. eng Working organization. eng Organizational culture. eng Symbolic resonance. eng Subjectivity. eng
7	A visual interpretation of consciousness as a continuous process of self-organisation and embodiment De Lange, Beverley 11 1900 (has links) That consciousness is ubiquitous, and relevant to autopoietic self-organisation and embodiment within every living being and/or organism, is a prevalent idea in contemporary consciousness research. However, because ‘consciousness’ as a word is derived from con or cum, meaning ‘with’ or ‘together’ and scire, ‘to know’ or ‘to see’ it infers the experience of knowing with an ‘other’ and/or ‘others’. The narrative that follows, while expressing a life of its own, documents the interdisciplinary research conducted and questions who and/or to what ‘other’ might infer. My visual diary, Dust from dust: Microorganisms and other tales: An Artist’s diary, created as the visual component of a creative practice-as-research undertaking, was silently performed amidst ‘others’ in the Unisa gallery, in an attempt to render visible, the autopoietic, self-organising embodiment essential to the conscious self-developmental component of the project. Once upon a time, I grew bacterial yeast cells in a glass vitrine to observe how they self-organised their own embodiment and photographed the process. At the same time, I conducted interdisciplinary research into consciousness as a self-developmental process, and utilising the cellular symbiosis unfolding in the vitrine as a self-reflexive mirror, came to visualise how indispensable bodily feelings are to conscious self-development, and being-in-the-world-with-others processes. As a creative-practice-as-research undertaking, I grew, manipulated and photographed the cellular imagery in the vitrine over many years in an attempt to unfold personal bodily feeling associations the imagery held captive, while gathering photographic footage I considered capable of expressing the primordial nature of certain emotive feeling experiences. Once obtained, I choreographed and performed a stop-frame video, entitled Dust from Dust: Microorganisms and other tales. An artist’s diary. The stop-frame video, along with a catalogue that focuses on the processes engaged with, accompanies the written narrative. Once edited, I macroscopically projected different phases of the video into a three-walled enclosure in the UNISA Art gallery. The three videos, representing a facet of my praxis, ran concurrently over a two week period. The fourth facet, presented with the video projections to emphasise conscious self-development as an in-the-world-with-others process, was the glass vitrine. It was positioned in a darkened enclosure in the gallery space, opposite the video projections. This narrative documents how I projected myself into the cellular imagery developing in the glass vitrine, in a way akin to how the ancient alchemists ‘projected’ themselves into the prima materia with which they worked. While the alchemists seemingly worked unconsciously, and my praxis initially started somewhat unconsciously, the process developed into a conscious attempt to embody the research findings. So, while the video choreographed, champions a microbial cell story, by referring to it as an artist’s diary, I emphasise the subjective nature of my praxis as a whole. In this creative-practice-as-research undertaking, I address the significance of bodily feelings and their relevance to being-in-the-world-with-others processes. In doing so, I aim to offer insight into how and why feelings are essential to inter-subjectivity and/or sociality, self-organisation and conscious self-development, as well as how and why conscious self-development can lead to immersive experiences, which I interpret as embodied adaptation to the rich diversity and/or fullness of life itself. / Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology / D. Litt. et Phil. (Art History) Consciousness Unconscious Being Psyche Self Subjectivity Self-reflexivity Bacterial yeast cells Symbiosis Biological Autopoeisis Primordial-ness Primordial-like Prima materia Alchemy Self/other Subjective/inter-subjective Being-in-the-world-with-others Self-organisation Embodiment Conscious self-development Bodilt feeling-intoned experience Immersion Performance 701.15 Art -- Psychology Art -- Philosophy Visual perception Consciousness
8	Uncovering the well-springs of migrant womens' agency: connecting with Australian public infrastructure Bursian, Olga, olga.bursian@arts.monash.edu.au January 2007 (has links) The study sought to uncover the constitution of migrant women's agency as they rebuild their lives in Australia, and to explore how contact with any publicly funded services might influence the capacity to be self determining subjects. The thesis used a framework of lifeworld theories (Bourdieu, Schutz, Giddens), materialist, trans-national feminist and post colonial writings, and a methodological approach based on critical hermeneutics (Ricoeur), feminist standpoint and decolonising theories. Thirty in depth interviews were carried out with 6 women migrating from each of 5 regions: Vietnam, Lebanon, the Horn of Africa, the former Soviet Union and the Philippines. Australian based immigration literature constituted the third corner of triangulation. The interviews were carried out through an exploration of themes format, eliciting data about the different ontological and epistemological assumptions of the cultures of origin. The findings revealed not only the women's remarkable tenacity and resilience as creative agents, but also the indispensability of Australia's publicly funded infrastructure or welfare state. The women were mostly privileged in terms of class, education and affirming relationships with males. Nevertheless, their self determination depended on contact with universal public policies, programs and with local community services. The welfare state seems to be modernity's means for re-establishing human connectedness that is the crux of the human condition. Connecting with fellow Australians in friendships and neighbourliness was also important in resettlement. Conclusions include a policy discussion in agreement with Australian and international scholars proposing that there is no alternative but for governments to invest in a welfare state for the civil societies and knowledge based economies of the 21st Century. Subjugated knowledges feminist epistemology cross cultural ontology women's agency migrant women cross cultural feminism trans-national feminism feminist standpoint theory community services women's self determination resettlement hybridity epistemic violence women and diaspora multicultural policy multicultural citizenship post colonial theory Australian multiculturalism Australian welfare state regimes globalised welfare states comparative welfare states diversity and civil society cultural theory lifeworld theory non-Western lifeworlds non-Western societies gender relations of domination women and colonialism public infrastructure public services Australian immigration policy feminist methodology de-colonising research methodologies inter-subjective ethics.
9	La structure de la réalité sociale abstraite inhérente aux sociétés prescrites : La quiddité des liens et des structures de coopérations intra-organisationnels issus de l’activité réelle, dans le cas du processus de co-construction de sens découlant des décisions stratégiques / The structure of abstract social reality inherent to prescribed societies : the quiddity of intraorganizational cooperation links and structures resulting from the actual activity, in the case of the sensemaking process deriving from strategic decisions Dandelot, Damien 15 May 2012 (has links) Partant de l’idée que des filiales d’une entreprise sont en mesure de remettre en cause les décisions de la direction générale (maison-mère), l’approche holistique développée dans ce travail part du principe qu’une organisation peut être un « être », laissant entendre ainsi que les informations dont elle dispose seraient extérieures aux individus qui la composent. Ce qui conduit à s'interroger s’il est concevable d’ignorer l’individu dans une telle relation de domination. Cette thèse propose justement un modèle autour de résultats qui montrent la difficile exclusion de l’individu dans un contexte méta-organisationnel (dans lequel les membres seraient des organisations et non des individus). Dans cette veine, ce sont les dynamiques humaines de l’organisation qui sont au cœur de ce travail : il existe par et au travers de l’individu une dynamique issue de l’activité réelle qui permet de faire vivre l’organisation par elle-même, mais également qui permet au prescrit de cette dernière d’évoluer. Bien que les résultats obtenus montrent que l’organisation n’est pas un objet mort et sans force et qu’elle a bien la possibilité de vivre par elle-même, ce sont les individus qui — par leurs engagements conditionnels — permettent cette existence propre de l’organisation comme structure intra-consciente qui impose des droits et des obligations. Dans cette perspective, le modèle proposé vise à dessiner les structures de la réalité sociale abstraite (dénommé dans la recherche menée, l’Entité X) en montrant les forces et les contraintes organisationnelles qui pèsent sur les individus-membres, tout en relevant les capacités humaines à sortir des structures prescrites par la co-construction de liens et de structures transversales de coopérations issus de l’activité réelle. / Based on the idea that the subsidiaries of a company are able to call into question the decisions of senior management (the parent company), the holistic approach developed in this study assumes that an organization can be a “being”, implying thereby that the information in its possession is external to the individuals who compose it. This raises the question of whether it is conceivable to ignore the individual in such a relationship of domination. This thesis proposes a model based on the results which show the difficult exclusion of the individual in a meta-organizational context (in which members would be organizations and not individuals). Along these same lines, the organization’s human dynamics are at the heart of this research: there exists by and through the individual a dynamic resulting from actual activity that allows the organization to live by itself, while also allowing prescribe to evolve. Although the results show that the organization is not a dead and strengthless object, and it has the opportunity to live by itself, it is the individuals who —through their conditional commitments— allow the separate existence of an organizational structure’s intra-consciousness, which imposes rights and obligations. In this perspective, the proposed model aims to draw the structures of abstract social reality (referred as Entity X in this study) by showing the strengths and organizational constraints that weigh on individual members, while raising the human capacity to emerge from the structures prescribed by the sensemaking of links and transversal structures for cooperation that originate from the actual activity. Co-construction de sens Décision stratégique Échanges transversaux méta Enaction « Entité X » Formes de régulation méta Gouvernance Holisme Individualbased organizations Intentionnalisme Intentionnalité collective Intra-conscience Inter-subjectif Individu vs organisation Individualisme L’invariance et le système Jeux de pouvoir / Stucture de jeux Légitimation inter-groupe / entité Management International Méta-organisation Ordre global Ordre social Organizing / Changing Plus structurel qu’organisationnel Phénomènes sociaux / Faits sociaux Réalité sociale humaine Résistance / Révolte Socio-pouvoir Sujet pluriel Violence symbolique Sensemaking Strategic decision Transversal Meta exchanges Enaction “Entity X” Forms of Meta regulations Governance Holism Individualbased organizations Individualism Collective intentionality Intra- conscience Inter-subjective Individual vs organization Individualism The invariance and the system Power games/Game structures Inter-group/entity legitimation International Management Meta-organization Global order Social order Organizing/Changing More structural than organizational More structural than organizational Human social reality Resistance/Revolt Social power Plural subject Symbolic violence 650

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