Organizational Ethnography: Studying the Complexity of Everyday Life

About this book

Much of the mystery of organizational life is hidden in plain sight in individuals everyday communications and everyday practices. Ethnographic approaches provide in-depth and up-close understandings of how the everyday-ness of work is organized and how work organizes people in everyday organizational life. Organizational Ethnography brings contributions from leading scholars in organizational studies that help to develop an ethnographic perspective on organizations and organizational research. The authors explore the special problems faced by organizational ethnographers from questions of gaining access to research sites to various styles of writing ethnography the role of friendship relations in the field ethical issues and standards for evaluating ethnographic work. This book will be a useful resource for organizational scholars doing or writing ethnography in the fields of business and management public administration education health care social work or any related field in which organizations play a role.