Identity Work in a Prestigious Occupation: Academic Physicians’ Local Social Constructions of Distributive Justice

Bisel, Ryan S.; Zanin, Alaina C.; Rozzell, Bobby L.; Risley-Baird, Erin C.; Rygaard, Julia A.

doi:10.1080/10570314.2016.1159326

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“…By sharing their experiences, officials essentially make sense of their occupational stressors and (inter)personal relationships both on and off the field. Research has also focused on identity work within an organization as well as the contributions of self-identification during stressful experiences (Bisel et al, 2016). Past research regarding sensemaking has focused on organizational practices, ethics, and interactional maintenance between individuals in a relational dialectic.…”

Section: Theoretical Framework Of Sensemaking In Organizationsmentioning

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“Friday Night is their Super Bowl”: A Relational Investigation Regarding Occupational Stress Among American High School Football Officials

Avalos

2020

Communication & Sport

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This interpretive research explores American high school football officials’ perceptions of occupational stress experienced both on and off the field. Within the United States, there is a current shortage of high school football officials. Overall individualistic identification within the association and how members make sense of their position on and off the field contribute to occupational stress. The research focused on one Southern Californian high school football organization officiating for youth, high school, and some college football. Data was collected through both semi-structured face-to-face interviews as well as analysis of field notes from football games and similar settings. This research utilized the theoretical framework of sensemaking as well as thematic analysis as a method in order to better understand and make sense of how members within the organization identify and manage stressful and hostile football-related situations. (Inter)personal relational stress-impacted themes emerged from the data: (1) with coaches, (2) with parents, and (3) with other officials.

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Section: Theoretical Framework Of Sensemaking In Organizationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Friday Night is their Super Bowl”: A Relational Investigation Regarding Occupational Stress Among American High School Football Officials

Avalos

2020

Communication & Sport

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“…From a communication perspective, humans create and share their social worlds through their communication with others, responding, strengthening, and sometimes changing how they communicate based on those interactions (Bartesaghi & Castor, 2009). Identities, language, everyday action, and even senses of self are socially constructed through communication (e.g., Allen & Waks, 1990; Arrington, 2008; Bisel, Zanin, Rozzell, Risely-Baird, & Rygaard, 2016; Carmack & Galanes, 2013; Docan-Morgan, 2017; Jung & Lee, 2004; Leeds-Hurwitz, 2009; Richardson, 2013), meaning they can be challenged and reshaped in the face of a disruption, what Burke (1954) called trouble with a capital T. Individuals grieving a loss, especially the loss of someone close to them, must not only deal with the loss but also the trauma the loss plays in the disruption of their lives (Neimeyer, 2001). Schmale (1958) argued that losses can be either concrete or symbolic, and feelings of bereavement can follow any type of loss (Kastenbaum, 1977).…”

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Loss, Meaning-Making, and Coping After the 2016 Presidential Election

DeGroot

Carmack

2018

Illness, Crisis & Loss

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Hillary Rodham Clinton was heralded by news outlets and political pundits as the clear frontrunner and expected winner of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. Her election loss to Republican Donald Trump was not only surprising, for many voters, it was devastating. Guided by the death studies literature about meaning-making after a loss, the purpose of this study was to explore how voters who were disappointed by the results of the election made sense of the experience. Two hundred participants completed an online open-ended questionnaire about their feelings and coping methods for the loss. Participants framed Clinton's loss as similar to the death of a loved one or the ending of a relationship. Participants utilized various coping strategies to deal with their grief, ranging from engaging in political activism to completely shutting themselves off from others. These findings have a number of implications for communication scholars and grief practitioners.

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“…Recommending the avoidance of dysfunction is no doubt helpful, but falls short of achieving transformation needed to support communication excellence in the workplace. To be clear, value-neutral or problem-oriented case studies of communication processes in organizations are essential (Bisel et al, 2016; S. J. Tracy, 2002; S.…”

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Positive Deviance Case Selection as a Method for Organizational Communication: A Rationale, How-to, and Illustration

Bisel

Kavya

Tracy³

2019

Management Communication Quarterly

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Case study remains a foundation of past and present organizational communication scholarship. In this article, we show the value of supplementing traditional case-selection methods with positive deviance case selection (PDCS). PDCS is about identifying and investigating individuals, teams, and organizations whose communication is intentional, nonnormative, and honorable. PDCS supports the creation of analytic generalizations and transferable concepts that can be recommended or imitated to bolster communicative excellence and thriving in the workplace. The article explores the benefits of and techniques for PDCS and illustrates the unique strengths of PDCS with two recent examples in the organizational communication literature. Implications for method, theory building, and practice are discussed throughout the article.

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Identity Work in a Prestigious Occupation: Academic Physicians’ Local Social Constructions of Distributive Justice

Cited by 6 publications

References 46 publications

“Friday Night is their Super Bowl”: A Relational Investigation Regarding Occupational Stress Among American High School Football Officials

“Friday Night is their Super Bowl”: A Relational Investigation Regarding Occupational Stress Among American High School Football Officials

Loss, Meaning-Making, and Coping After the 2016 Presidential Election

Positive Deviance Case Selection as a Method for Organizational Communication: A Rationale, How-to, and Illustration

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