Organizational Ethnography

Zajęcia mają na celu przybliżenie etnografii jako sposobu postrzegania i analizowania rzeczywistości organizacyjnej. W ramach zajęć zostanie przedstawiona perspektywa kultury jako metafory rdzennej, metody badawcze wykorzystywane w etnografii a także sposób wnioskowania.

Ethnography is presented as a way to understand and analyze organizational reality. Culture as a root metaphor for organizations is used in this course. Different methods as well as approach to interpretation of data are presented.

1) Culture – root metaphor of organization.

2) Ethnography and organizational ethnography – research tradition.

3) Basic assumptions of ethnographic research,

4) Methods used in ethnography.

5) Observation

6) Interviews

7) Document Analysis

8) Coding of data.

9) Interpretation of data

10) Building models and theories on the basis of ethnographic research.

11) Trainagulation and other ways to validate research.

12) Presentation of results.

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Barley, Stephen, R. (1996) Technicians in Workplace: Ethnographic Evidence For Bringing Work into Organization Studies, Administrative Science Quarterly, 41: 404-441

Konecki, Krzysztof (2000) Studia z metodologii badań jakościowych. Teoria ugruntowana. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN

Kostera, Monika (2004) Antropologia organizacji. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN

Schultze, Ulrike (2000) A Confessional Account of an Ethnography About Knowledge Work. MIS Quarterly Vol. 24 No. 1 March: 3-41

Developing understanding of organizations thru ethnographic research

Prace zaliczeniowe indywidualne lub zespołowe. (Individual or group research projects. Presentation and individual defense of the project - examination)