Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry

Conceptualizing and Engaging in Organizational Change as an Embodied Experience within a Practical Reflexivity Community of Practice: Gender Performance at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy

Eriksen, Matthew Van Echo, Kyra Harmel, Amy Kane, Jessica Curran, Kristen Gustafson, Ginny Shults, Rebecca

U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Abstract

In this article, we outline our organizational change initiative, our “small experiment,” and our attempt to understand how organizational change is actually accomplished. It is our desire to first change our selves and how we perform gender and through this local initiative, to eventually change how our organization as a whole performs gender. In our effort to accomplish this goal, we began by attempting to understand the issue, our experience, and the performance of gender within our organization. Based upon these understandings and because of this understanding, we will identify initiatives that change our organization's performance of gender. Finally, in an attempt to understand the microprocesses of change, of how organizational change is accomplished - “its dynamic, unfolding, emergent qualities (in short its potential) (Tsoukas & Chia, 2002, 568),” we will document and attempt to understand our experience of change from within.

Metadata

Journal Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry 
Volume 4 
Issue 1 
Issue date 2005 
Type Article 
Language en
Pagination 75-80
ISSN 1532-5555