(Inter)subjectivity in the research pair: Countertransference and radical reflexivity in organizational research

Organization ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 135050842092852
Author(s):  
Carrie M. Duncan ◽  
Sara R. S. T. A. Elias
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Organizational Dynamics ◽  
Shared Understanding ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Central Tenet ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Organizational Study ◽  
Formally Trained

Destabilizing what we know, a central tenet of critical reflexive research, is difficult without making unconscious assumptions, beliefs, and emotions available for thought, articulation, and questioning. Articulating countertransference, a technique borrowed from psychoanalysis, informs our efforts to raise awareness of the unconscious dimensions of field experiences and thus foster radical reflexivity. Bridging the literatures on reflexivity and relational psychoanalysis, we develop a new four-dimension method of writing and analyzing fieldnotes— observing, capturing the story, articulating countertransference, and developing interpretations—that foregrounds unconscious dimensions of experience. We make visible the fieldnotes we generated during an organizational study. In doing so, we demonstrate how a research pair working together in real time can become aware of their intersubjective processes, fold together multiple dimensions of experience (conscious and unconscious), and co-construct a shared understanding of organizational dynamics. This article is valuable because it demonstrates how psychoanalytic concepts can be mobilized by psychoanalytically informed, but not formally trained, organizational researchers.

scholarly journals Participant-led video diaries

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Whiting ◽  
Helen Roby ◽  
Gillian Symon ◽  
Petros Chamakiotis
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Narrative Interviews ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Modal Data ◽  
Naturally Occurring

Rebecca Whiting, Helen Roby, Gillian Symon, and Petros Chamakiotis develop an unconventional research design using video methods, asking participants to produce their own video diaries, a process which is then followed by narrative interviews. This approach generates multi-modal data: audio, visual, and textual, and involves adopting a qualitative perspective, and a social constructionist epistemology. This participant-led research design allows researchers to investigate a range of issues that are not often recalled in interviews or surveys, by capturing naturally occurring, real-time events and activities, and micro-interactions including non-verbal behaviours. Although video methods are used in other disciplines, they are rare in organizational research. The approach is illustrated by a study which explored how digital technologies affect our ability to manage switches across work-life boundaries. Analysis of participants’ video diaries illustrates the theoretical and reflexive insights that can be gained from this method. The problems and pitfalls encountered in this study are also considered.

Time, Temporality, and History in Process Organization Studies

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Juliane Reinecke ◽  
Roy Suddaby ◽  
Ann Langley ◽  
Haridimos Tsoukas
Keyword(s):  
Central Element ◽  
Processes Of Change ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Prior Literature ◽  
Precise Relationship ◽  
Organizational Study ◽  
Organizational Scholarship ◽  
Relationship Of

Time and history have emerged as prominent subjects of interest in organization studies. This volume stands testament to the recent foregrounding of time and history as focal objects of organizational study and scholarship. The precise relationship of temporality and history to processes of change remains under-theorized, and we lack a coherent set of conceptual tools that can be applied to ongoing research directed to addressing the puzzle. The chapters in this volume, devoted to understanding temporality and history as a central element of process, offer a glimpse of both a defining puzzle and a set of emergent conceptual tools that might be useful for scholars engaged in historical and temporally sensitive organizational research. Before elaborating their contribution to the emergent theoretical scaffolding of historical and temporal organizational scholarship, this chapter presents the puzzle and its evolution in prior literature.

scholarly journals Involving patients and carers in developing the radiotherapy curriculum: enhancing compassion

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-100
Author(s):  
Denyse Hodgson ◽  
Amy Taylor ◽  
Vicki Knowles ◽  
Martin Colley
Keyword(s):  
Student Assessment ◽  
Course Evaluation ◽  
Service Improvement ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Central Tenet ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Undergraduate Programme ◽  
The Impact

AbstractBackground:This article describes a collaborative project that aimed to develop a patient-centred curriculum in radiotherapy. In the wake of the Francis report in 2013 and a call for compassion to be a central tenet of health programmes, the project was a timely opportunity to enhance the radiotherapy curriculum.Methods:Collaboration between university staff and patients and carers using the service improvement model Plan-Do-Study-Act was the method employed for the curriculum project. Two key discussion forums helped shape the curriculum plan, with module and course evaluation continuing to inform developments.Results:The key outcome of the project is that it has shaped the 'care' theme evident in the current undergraduate programme. Co-production methods resulted in the development of a range of shared classroom activities that focus on experiences, care values and communication strategies. The new curriculum has evaluated positively and the impact of learning is demonstrated both in the classroom and clinical setting. The project team have also influenced recruitment processes and patient and carer involvement in programme approval is embedded.Conclusion:Working together, with patients and carers is an ideal method to enhance the curriculum and reflect the requirements in practice of current health and social care professions. Further developments in student assessment are planned.

scholarly journals An Arithmetic-Trigonometric Optimization Algorithm with Application for Control of Real-Time Pressure Process Plant

Sensors ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 617
Author(s):  
P. Arun Mozhi Devan ◽  
Fawnizu Azmadi Hussin ◽  
Rosdiazli B. Ibrahim ◽  
Kishore Bingi ◽  
M. Nagarajapandian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Optimization Algorithm ◽  
Time Pressure ◽  
Optimization Technique ◽  
Test Problems ◽  
Trigonometric Functions ◽  
Exploration And Exploitation ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Process Plant ◽  
Sine Cosine Algorithm

This paper proposes a novel hybrid arithmetic–trigonometric optimization algorithm (ATOA) using different trigonometric functions for complex and continuously evolving real-time problems. The proposed algorithm adopts different trigonometric functions, namely sin, cos, and tan, with the conventional sine cosine algorithm (SCA) and arithmetic optimization algorithm (AOA) to improve the convergence rate and optimal search area in the exploration and exploitation phases. The proposed algorithm is simulated with 33 distinct optimization test problems consisting of multiple dimensions to showcase the effectiveness of ATOA. Furthermore, the different variants of the ATOA optimization technique are used to obtain the controller parameters for the real-time pressure process plant to investigate its performance. The obtained results have shown a remarkable performance improvement compared with the existing algorithms.

Event Detection, Query, and Retrieval for Video Surveillance

2011 ◽  
pp. 342-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying-li Tian ◽  
Arun Hampapur ◽  
Lisa Brown ◽  
Rogerio Feris ◽  
Max Lu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Software Architecture ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Video Surveillance ◽  
Event Detection ◽  
Airport Security ◽  
Surveillance Video ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Video Parsing ◽  
Geographically Distributed ◽  
Typically Real

Video surveillance automation is used in two key modes: watching for known threats in real-time and searching for events of interest after the fact. Typically, real-time alerting is a localized function, for example, an airport security center receives and reacts to a “perimeter breach alert,” while investigations often tend to encompass a large number of geographically distributed cameras like the London bombing, or Washington sniper incidents. Enabling effective event detection, query and retrieval of surveillance video for preemption, and investigation, involves indexing the video along multiple dimensions. This chapter presents a framework for event detection and surveillance search that includes: video parsing, indexing, query and retrieval mechanisms. It explores video parsing techniques that automatically extract index data from video indexing, which stores data in relational tables; retrieval which uses SQL queries to retrieve events of interest and the software architecture that integrates these technologies.

Real-Time Studies in Organizational Research

1977 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 298 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Ettlie
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Organizational Research

scholarly journals Open Source Web Platform for the Analysis of Academic Spin-offs

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Fernando Almeida ◽  
Eugénio Cunha
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Financial Data ◽  
Academic Environment ◽  
Science Parks ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Corporate Actions ◽  
Web Platform ◽  
New Jobs

Universities have assumed an increasingly important role in transferring technology to society with a strong economic impact. The companies originated from the academic environment, called academic spin-offs, have fostered the appearance of new projects based on emerging technologies and knowledge, created by young students and researchers who seek to launch their own business and generate new jobs in society. However, the number of existing studies on academic spin-offs is limited and restricted to the specific national realities, and the results of these studies are typically incorporated only in scientific manuscripts. In this sense, this study proposes a web platform that allows the analysis of academic spin-offs according to multiple dimensions, such as firm, institutions, individual, localization, science parks, financial data and corporate actions. The application is built exclusively in open source technologies and allows data to be explored in real-time and interactively. The results obtained allow us to evaluate the behavior of the application regarding fundamental elements in the success of the adoption of a Web application, such as usability, security, interoperability and portability.

Jacques-Marie-Èmile Lacan (1901–1981)

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Harding
Keyword(s):  
Organization Theory ◽  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Organizational Dynamics ◽  
Organizational Life ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Structuralist Theory ◽  
Power And Resistance ◽  
Embodied Subjectivity ◽  
Lacanian Theory

Jacques Lacan is a French psychoanalyst and philosopher who was both admired and loathed and regarded by some as a guru and by others as a charlatan. His work helps illuminate how the unconscious and the concept of organization are intertwined. By subjecting Sigmund Freud’s theories to an inspirational rereading, Lacan contributed in a major way to post-structuralist theory. Lacanian theory has emerged as a basis for interpreting various aspects of organizational life, from entrepreneurship and identity to power and resistance, embodied subjectivity, organizational burnout, and organizational dynamics. This chapter first provides a brief overview of Lacan’s life before discussing some of the major aspects of his work and their relevance to organization studies. It also examines Lacanian organization theory and how it is influenced by his notions of lack/desire/jouissance, focusing on the three registers of the Symbolic, Imaginary, and the Real.

Understanding the Future of HRM Through the VUCA Lens

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-86
Author(s):  
Ankur Jain
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Shared Understanding ◽  
Human Resource Professionals ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
The Future ◽  
Current Context

The article presents a shared understanding of what volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) means in the current context. It then discusses the implications of VUCA for human resource management professionals by demonstrating how technology development at an unprecedented scale leads to volatility; unpredictability of business models leads to uncertainty; exposure to multiple dimensions leads to complexity; and constant need for innovation leads to ambiguity. The article ends with a set of questions that would aid human resource professionals to reflect and prepare for the future, in their specific contexts.

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