Tracy and Scott (2006) recognize in their limitations section that for the purposes of comparison, they tended to homogenize firefighters and correctional officers. Thinking back to last week's readings, Ashcraft and Tretheway (2004) argue that organizational research should embrace "organizational irrationalities"—disorganizations and paradoxes that are a part of the organizational experience. It seems that there may be a sense in which the taint management techniques described by Tracy and Scott represent attempts by these workers to cope with organizational irrationalities that stem from the organizations' interrelationship with its social contexts.
If we wanted to explore the organizational irrationalities within one of these groups, what micropractices might we attend to? What paradigms and methods could we use to explore the conflict that organizational members experience in relation to the organization itself?
Allen's (2000) black feminist standpoint analysis of organizational socialization provides us with some great issues related to newcomer treatment and newcomer sensemaking. There are specific stereotypes and powerplays she identifies as particularly salient in socializing the African American female academic. Initially, I am wondering how these expectations are reformed and/or adapted in different organizational contexts. I am primarily interested in how Allen's piece may speak with Martin's (1990) deconstruction of the employer's press announcement:
How do the messages communicated to Allen demonstrate attempts to control her body? More specifically, Martin identifies specific gendered ideological assumptions representing a juncture between the public and the private. In what ways might we see similar junctures (or reframe Martin's starting on p. 348) in Allen's analysis/experiences?
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