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61	Ancestral Narratives in History and Fiction: Transforming Identities Habel, Chad Sean, chad.habel@gmail.com January 2006 (has links) This thesis is an exploration of ancestral narratives in the fiction of Thomas Keneally and Christopher Koch. Initially, ancestry in literature creates an historical relationship which articulates the link between the past and the present. In this sense ancestry functions as a type of cultural memory where various issues of inheritance can be negotiated. However, the real value of ancestral narratives lies in their power to aid in the construction of both personal and communal identities. They have the potential to transform these identities, to transgress natural boundaries and to reshape conventional identities in the light of historical experience. For Keneally, ancestral narratives depict national forbears who narrate the nation into being. His earlier fictions present ancestors of the nation within a mythic and symbolic framework to outline Australian national identity. This identity is static, oppositional, and characterized by the delineation of boundaries which set nations apart from one another. However, Keneallys more recent work transforms this conventional construction of national identity. It depicts an Irish-Australian diasporic identity which is hyphenated and transgressive: it transcends the conventional notion of nations as separate entities pitted against one another. In this way Keneallys ancestral narratives enact the potential for transforming identity through ancestral narrative. On the other hand, Kochs work is primarily concerned with the intergenerational trauma causes by losing or forgetting ones ancestral narrative. His novels are concerned with male gender identity and the fragmentation which characterizes a self-destructive idea of maleness. While Keneallys characters recover their lost ancestries in an effort to reshape their idea of what it is to be Australian, Kochs main protagonist lives in ignorance of his ancestors life. He is thus unable to take the opportunity to transform his masculinity due to the pervasive cultural amnesia surrounding his family history and its role in Tasmanias past. While Keneally and Koch depict different outcomes in their fictional ancestral narratives they are both deeply concerned with the potential to transform national and gender identities through ancestry. Chad Sean Habel Flinders University Robert Phiddian Richard Hosking John McLaren Peter Pierce ancestry ancestral ancestors genealogy genealogical literature cultural memory amnesia history social history family history historical fiction adventure fiction Australian Studies Cultural Studies fiction novels historical novels Australia Ireland Irish-Australian migration diaspora roots rhizomes Thomas Keneally Bring Larks and Heroes The Playmaker Bettany's Book Schindler's Ark Our Republic Homebush Boy Christopher Koch Out of Ireland Highways to a War Boys in the Island Crossing the Gap The Doubleman Across the Sea Wall convicts Tasmania the Stain identity identification nation nationalism national identity gender gender identity masculinity male male-ness transformation reconciliation post-colonial post-colonialism anti-colonial literary criticism
62	Who are we and what do we measure? : A case study of the dynamic relationship between performance measurement and organizational identity Källgren, Marcus, Vejbrink Kildal, Adrian January 2022 (has links) Performance measurements have been described as a tool by which management can communicate expected standards of behavior as well as a shared meaning among members regarding the intended direction of the firm. In parallel, the organizational identity field relies on the premise that members can answer the question “who are we as an organization?” through a sense of shared understanding. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the implications a performance measurement system has on the employees’ perception of “who we are“, related to the theoretical framework of organizational identity. This paper utilizes a qualitative research method, a case-based approach of a Swedish life science company which is conducted in an exploratory manner. The case company is chosen due to its contextual setting regarding the newly implemented performance measurement system, along with the inherent characteristics of the industry in general, which is typically considered to be incongruent with such quantitative measurements. The empirical data is collected through eight interviews with members from the chosen case company, as well as through internal documents describing its performance measurement system. The authors propose a revised theoretical framework in which performance measurements and organizational identity are investigated through a conceptual model which explores their dynamic relationship. The findings reinforce well-known ideas of performance measurements and organizational identity, along with providing new insights on the dynamics between them. Keywords: Organizational Identity, Performance Measurement System, Performance Management, Identity-Dynamics organizational identity performance measurement system performance management identity-dynamics PMS HR human resources acquisition change management HR-metrics employee reward system evaluation appraisal organizational performance employee performance perception tracking monitoring organizational culture organizational control medium who we are who we are as an organization qualitative measurement quantitative measurement case study life science organizational members shared understanding we-ness dynamic relationship relationship interrelationship central enduring distinctive CED implications identity-related adjustments top-down initiative strategic initiative strategic sensemaking sensemaking ideational definitional component attributes loose couplings innovation enhancing reinforcing guiding stretching enabling challenging threatening constraining R&D research development idealized identity desired identity Business Administration Företagsekonomi

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Ancestral Narratives in History and Fiction: Transforming Identities

Who are we and what do we measure? : A case study of the dynamic relationship between performance measurement and organizational identity