Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 9 Issue 5

Organizational story and storytelling: a critical review

Mary E. Boyce

The stories told in organizations offer researchers and organizational development practitioners a natural entry point to understanding and intervening in the culture(s) of an…

Critical incident story creation and culture formation in a self‐directed work team

Ann T. Jordan

Storytelling has been identified as an important vehicle for culture transmission. Explores the role of story creation and storytelling in culture change and culture formation…

“The 250lb man in an alley”: Police storytelling

Connie Fletcher

Argues that storytelling in police organizations functions on two well‐known levels: the educational and therapeutic; and also on a hidden level, the social. On this level…

Stories for executive development: An isotonic solution

Janet Greco

Presents the results of research conducted with five groups of nurse executives from the Johnson & Johnson/Wharton Fellows Program in Nurse Management. Groups at the 1994 and 1995…

Flowering feminism: consciousness raising at work

Amy Segal

The author uses a novel narrative style to detail the stories of two women coming to feminism and the impact organizational experiences have had on their gender awareness. Frames…

From integration to racial justice: Organizational learning in the YWCA

Mary E. Boyce, Carol Ann Franklin

Retired, national YWCA leaders engaged in shared storytelling in order to explore organizational learning that occurred during 1946‐1970, a critical period of organizational…