The telling of violence: Organizational change and atrocity tales
Journal of Organizational Change Management
ISSN: 0953-4814
Article publication date: 1 October 2003
Abstract
This paper explores the retrospective construction of atrocity narratives of organizational change in primary industries of the Latrobe Valley, located in southeast Australia. Within their narratives, participants discuss various forms of workplace violence aimed at employees by management and, in some cases, other employees. In addition, shifting narratives from violence to resignation are explored. As all participants are no longer employed in the organizations described in the narratives, causal associations between workplace violence and resignation choices are of particular interest. In this context, atrocity narratives are presented in a deliberate effort to extend the theorizing of organizational change into domains that are neither attractive nor progressive.
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Citation
Bryant, M. and Wolfram Cox, J. (2003), "The telling of violence: Organizational change and atrocity tales", Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 16 No. 5, pp. 567-583. https://doi.org/10.1108/09534810310494946
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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