“Dark Sides” of Organization’s Life: the Opportunities of Drawing Techniques
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Chernyaeva T.I. “Dark Sides” of Organization’s Life: the Opportunities of Drawing Techniques. Interaction. Interview. Interpretation. 2020. Vol. 12. No. 1. P. 39-64. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19181/inter.2020.21.3 (in Russ.).
Abstract
The study of organizations and organizational behavior proceeds from a rational understanding of the tasks and resources of personnel management. At the same time, the phenomena of organizational disruption remain a marginal topic of organizational research. The history of studying the phenomena of the “dark side” has about twenty years, but the question of recursive methodology remains open.The study used the “Metaphor” drawing technique proposed by A.I. Prigozhin. The participants were employees and heads of inspection divisions of the Federal Tax Service of Russia (239 people). An analysis of the drawings of organizations revealed the “dark sides” of organizational life: the conflict between official rhetoric and organizational reality; anxiety and alienation, decisions of the corruption plan, inconsistency of theory and practice, poor meaningfulness of organizational processes, powerful subject-object organizational communications, practices of domination, submission and organizational violence.
Keywords:
organization, the “dark sides” of the organization, visual methods, the Metaphor technique
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Fokina T.P., Korsakov Yu.A., Slonov N.N. (eds) (1997) Teoriya organizatsiy i organizatsionnoye proyektirovaniye (posobiye po ne-klassicheskoy metodologii) [Theory of organizations and organizational design (a guide for non-classical methodology)]. Saratov: Saratovskij universitet. (In Russ.)
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Griffin R.W., O’Leary-Kelly A.M. (2004) The Dark Side of Organizational Behaviour. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Jackson R. (1999) Negotiation of Cultural Identity. NY: Praeger Press.
Kaplan L., Ricco J.P. (2010) Introduction: ‘Regarding Jean-Luc Nancy’. Journal of visual culture. Vol. 9. P. 3–10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1470412909354252
Linstead S., Maréchal G., Griffin R. (2014) Theorizing and Researching the Dark Side of Organization. Organization Studies. Vol. 35 (2). P. 165–188. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840613515402
Merton R.K. (1994) Yavnyye i latentnyye funktsii [The manifest and latent functions]. Amerikanskaya sotsiologicheskaya mysl': teksty [American sociological thought: texts] M.: MGU, 1994. P. 379–448. (In Russ.)
Meshcherkina E. (2007) Vizual'nyy povorot: analiz i interpretatsiya izobrazheniy [Visual turn: analysis and interpretation of images]. Vizual'naya antropologiya: novyye vzglyady na sotsial'nuyu real'nost' [Visual anthropology: new views on social reality] (eds. E.R. Yarskaya-Smirnova, P.V. Romanov, V.D. Krutkin). Saratov: Nauchnaya kniga. P. 28–42 (In Russ.)
Miller A.E., Bogoslavets T.N. (2016) Nalogovoye povedeniye nalogovykh inspektorov [Tax behavior of tax inspectors]. Vestnik Omskogo universiteta. Seriya «Ekonomika» [Herald of Omsk University. Series «Economics»]. No. 2. P. 180–186. (In Russ.)
Mil'ner B.Z. (2019) Teoriya organizatsii. [Organization Theory]. M.: Infra-M. (In Russ.)
Mirovoy finansovyy krizis 2008 goda i posledstviya dlya Rossii [The global financial crisis of 2008 and the consequences for Russia] (2013). RIA Novosti, URL: https://ria.ru/20130816/956672411.html (accessed 15 February 2020). (In Russ.)
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Nancy J-L. (2005) The Ground of the Image / Transl. by J. Fort. NY: Fordham University Press.
Nancy J-L. (2006) Multiple Arts: The Muses II / Ed. by S. Sparks. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Polozheniye o FNS Rossii [Regulation on the Federal Tax Service of Russia]. URL: https://www.nalog.ru/rn64/about_fts/fts/official_data/ (accessed 15 February 2020). (In Russ.)
Prigozhin A.I. (2003) Metody razvitiya organizatsiy [Methods of organization development]. M.: MTSFER. (In Russ.)
Round J., Williams K., Rogers P. (2010) Povsednevnye taktiki i prostranstva vlasti v povsednevnoj zhizni: rol' neformal'nyh ekonomik v postsovetskoj Ukraine i aspekty social'noj politiki [Everyday tactics and spaces of power in everyday life: the role of informal economies in post-Soviet Ukraine and aspects of social policy]. Zhurnal issledovanij social'noj politiki [Journal of Social Policy Studies]. Vol. 8. No. 3. P. 405–424. (In Russ.)
Vaughan D. (1999) The Dark Side of Organizations: Mistake, Misconduct, and Disaster. Annual Review of Sociology. Vol. 25. P. 271–305. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.25.1.271.
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Received: 13.03.2020
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Chernyaeva, T. I. (2020). “Dark Sides” of Organization’s Life: the Opportunities of Drawing Techniques. Interaction. Interview. Interpretation, 12(1), 39-64. https://doi.org/10.19181/inter.2020.21.3
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