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Organizational Ethnography
Learning Objectives
Key concepts
Type of classes
How to pass the course
Course schedule
Readings
Additional recommended readings
Other resources
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Plagiarism is not acceptable and will be reported to the Ethical Committee. As an immediate consequence the perpetrator fails the course without a possibility of resubmission.
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Wednesdays 10:00, please send me an email if you want to come!
Learning objectives
Knowledge
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To understand the basic patterns of culture creation
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To understand how communication patterns develop and how they can be researched
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To be acquainted with contemporary ideas and models and theories of organization and understand how they can be studied as social processes
Skills
Social competencies:
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To develop sociological and organizational imagination
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To develop competence in proactive problem solving with regard to social subsystems of organizations
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To develop competence in systems thinking
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Key concepts
Organizations, culture, symbols. Sociological and organizational imagination. Organizational symbolism. Qualitative methods. Ethnographic perspective.
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Type of classes
Lectures and seminars.
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How to pass the course
- Class participation is obligatory for the seminars
- Group project presented in class. Presentation of small group research project carried out by means of a specific method. Possible media: traditional ppt presentation, theatrical performance (with interpretation and comments), film created by the students (with interpretation and comments), own visual arts presentation, dance in own choreography (with interpretation and comments), own music (with interpretation and comments), etc. Participants: 3-4 students per group.
- Written report - research summary (3 pages max).
- All lectures are in English. The students decide themselves if they want to present their projects in English or in Polish, as well as about the language of the final exam (possible choices: Polish, English, Swedish, French). Please provide a presentation in English summarizing your main points so that all students can follow and understand what you are saying (if in another language than English)
Selected written reports published here.
Reviews of presentations are now up! here
Final exam resit (poprawka) - 2.09.2019, 14:00, room
3.103
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Course schedule
Lectures
Tuesdays, 13:15-14:45
room 1.111
- 26 February
Studying culture.
- 12 March
Narratives.
- 26 March
Research methods: Non-participant and direct observation
Participant observation.
Kostera, Monika (2007) "Observation"
in: Monika Kostera,
Organizational ethnography: Methods and inspirations. (Translation from Polish by Dominika Latusek). Lund: Studentlitteratur (pdf).
Recommended literature (covert observation): Anna Rogowska
(2011) "Rekturacja jako proces komunikacji" w: Monika Kostera (red.) Etnografia organizacji: Badania polskich firm i instytucji. Gdańsk, GWP, s.
- 9 April
Research methods: Interview.
Kostera, Monika (2007) "Interview",
in: Monika Kostera,
Organizational ethnography: Methods and inspirations. (Translation from Polish by Dominika Latusek). Lund: Studentlitteratur (pdf).
Guest presentation by Piotr Ołdak,
Kamila Brodzińska and Katarzyna Wilczek
- 30 April
Research methods: Text analysis.
Kostera, Monika (2007) "Text analysis" and "Notes",
in: Monika Kostera, Organizational ethnography: Methods and inspirations. (Translation from Polish by Dominika Latusek). Lund: Studentlitteratur (pdf).
- 14 May
Research methods: Visual ethnography
Interpretation and Quality Assurance
Samantha Warren, (2012) "Having an eye for it: aesthetics, ethnography and the senses", Journal of
Organizational Ethnography, Vol. 1 Issue: 1, pp.107-118
- 28 May
Research methods: Studying imagination through archetypes.
Narrative collage
- 11 June
Summary and final assessment
Seminars
Tuesdays, 13:15-14:45
room 1.111
- 5 March
How do prepare and present an ethnographic project (for this course as well as for other purposes)
- 19 March
Seminar: Symbolization
- 2 April
Seminar: Foretelling the future... (institutionalization)
14:15-14:45 Guest presentation of students' project by
Magdalena Iwaniuk:
"How to live together being different?"
- 16 April
Presentations: Non-participant observation
- 7 May
13:15-14:00 Guest lecture: prof. Tuomo Peltonen, "The Origins of Organizing"
Presentations: Direct observation
Pdf z wykładu prof. Peltonena
- 21 May
Presentations: Interview
- 4 June
Presentation: Visual ethnography.
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Readings
Kostera, Monika (2003) Antropologia organizacji. Warszawa: PWN.
alternatively: Kostera, Monika (2007) Organizational ethnography. Lund: Studentlitteratur.
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Additional recommended readings
- Czarniawska, Barbara (2010) Trochę inna teoria organizacji. Warszawa: Polext.
- Kostera, Monika i Martyna Śliwa (2012) Zarządzanie w XXI wieku. Warszawa: Wolters Kluwer.
- Glinka, Beata i Monika Kostera (2016) (red.) Nowe kierunki w organizacji i zarządzaniu. Warszawa: Wolters Kluwer.
- Kostera, Monika (2011) (red.) Etnografia organizacji. Gdańsk: GWP.
- Mencwel, Andrzej (2007) Wyobraźnia antropologiczna. Warszawa: UW.
- Willis, Paul (2005) Wyobraźnia antropologiczna. Kraków: UJ.
alternatively, in English:
- Agar, Michael (1986) Speaking of ethnography. Newbury Park - London - New Delhi: Sage.
- Czarniawska, Barbara (2014) Form field to desk. London: SAGE.
- Denzin, Norman K. (1992) Symbolic interactionism and cultural studies: The politics of interpretation. Oxford - Cambridge USA: Blackwell.
- Pachirat, Timothy (2018) Among wolves: Ethnography and the immersive study of power. London: Routledge.
- Silverman, David (1993/1994) Interpreting qualitative data: Methods for analysing talk, text, and interaction. London - Thousand Oaks - New Delhi: Sage.
- Silverman, David (2000) Doing qualitative research: A practical handbook. London-Thousand Oaks-New Delhi: Sage.
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Other resources
Further readings
How to write academically
Transcription programme (freeware)
Programme helping with work with ethnographic material (freeware)
Master's and doctoral theses
Bibliography and references?
How to avoid plagiarism?
Academia.edu
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Contact
Email
Consultations
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