The Telling of Violence: Organizational Change and Atrocity Tales
Bryant, Melanie
Cox, Julie Wolfram
10.4225/03/5936011bdca4b
https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/journal_contribution/The_Telling_of_Violence_Organizational_Change_and_Atrocity_Tales/5080654
This paper explores the retrospective construction of atrocity narratives of organizational change in primary industries of the Latrobe Valley, located in southeast Australia. Within their narratives, participants discuss various forms of workplace violence aimed at employees by management and, in some cases, other employees. In addition, shifting narratives from violence to resignation are explored. As all participants are no longer employed in the organizations described in the narratives, causal associations between workplace violence and resignation choices are of particular interest. In this context, atrocity narratives are presented in a deliberate effort to extend the theorizing of organizational change into domains that are neither attractive nor progressive.
2017-06-06 01:10:50
Latrobe Valley
monash:2393
narratives
workplace violence
2002
organizational change
1959.1/2393
atrocity tales