Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry

Dialogical aspects of the technologies of the self in organizational analysis

LeCoure, Jason S. Mills, Albert J.

Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

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Abstract

Organizational evolution is presented in lieu of the concept of change, revolution, revitalization, etc. in that one can assert that organizations can only evolve, they cannot develop a new structure and paradigm from nonexistent precursors, elements, structures, etc. One year is action science based with the executives diving off of logs into the arms of their vice presidents, the next is playing games and doing puzzles to determine the company's cognitive centre, more recently its not been about expressing feelings and defenses, or understanding perception, but about being appreciated. In short, all of these evangelically based approaches which view an organization through a single lens fail.

Metadata

Journal Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry 
Volume 7 
Issue 1 
Issue date 2008 
Type Article 
Language en
Pagination 7-20
ISSN 1532-5555