Inter-professional knowing as collective authorship practice

Abstract

Purpose This paper aims to understand how members of an organization with different backgrounds form an inter-professional knowing (IPK) from a collective authorship practice (CAP). Design/methodology/approach This is a qualitative research drawn on an ethnomethodological approach on the committee responsible for the public policies of the waterfront for the city of João Pessoa, Brazil. The researchers spent one year observing the committee’s meetings. Findings The main result points out that IPK is a singular practice that emerges from the organization members’ different backgrounds in a collective authorship process. Practical implications It may be possible to adopt the notion of CAP as a methodology to address complex organizational problems. Originality/value This paper presents the notion of IPK from a CAP based on an ethnomethodological approach.

Flesh-and-blood knowing

“…One possibility to engage with people and perform the phenomenon is to resort to the ethnomethodology sensibility (Garfinkel, 1967). Ethno methodologists have tackled the need to grasp the logic of a social group to make sense of the phenomena under investigation produced by them (Bispo & Cavalcante, 2019;Bispo & Godoy, 2012;Mondada, 2017;Rawls, 2008).…”

Aprender a reciclar: um olhar sobre as práticas de trabalho

“…Para propiciar compreensões mais dinâmicas, Gherardi (2000) propõe um quadro de análise interpretativo, os EBPs no qual o "learning" e o "knowing" (o aprender e o conhecer) recebem destaque. Assim, ao voltar-se para a prática coletiva da reciclagem, o lócus de análise é deslocado para a textura de práticas como produtora de um conhecimento in situ, permitindo capturar a complexidade da aprendizagem (Bispo & Cavalcante, 2019;Rozas, Resch, & Díaz-Molina, 2020;Silva & Figueiredo, 2020).…”

“…Em determinadas formas organizacionais, nas quais o conhecimento não pode ser armazenado em livros e manuais, devido seu caráter coletivo, prático e sociomaterial (Gherardi, 2008;Fenwick, Jensen & Nerland, 2012), o saber relativo ao desempenho de uma tarefa é encenado por atores dentro de um grupo de trabalho, e se desenvolve a partir da linguagem, das ações e dos materiais utilizados por pessoas em um grupo social (Bispo & Cavalcante, 2019). A exemplo disso, entende-se que a aprendizagem em trabalhos como o da reciclagem, foco deste estudo, pode ser entendida como um acontecendo na prática, superando a ideia de soma dos conhecimentos dos indivíduos.…”

Organizational learning in stakeholder relations

“…As it results in knowledge of some sort, the result of their interactions could be referred to as professional knowing in practice, interprofessional knowing in practice or simply "knowing" (Fenwick et al, 2012). Following this line of thought and considering the fact that inter-professional learning results in interprofessional knowing, the result of this process is also some form of professional knowledge which hasthe collective authorship (Bispo, 2019). Such an outcome represents an integration of multiple and often conflicting viewpoints and expertise considered from various aspects of responsibility and organizational and inter-organizational dynamics.…”

“…To gain further insight into how inter-professional learning results in inter-professional knowledge and collective authorship, practitioners could refer to Bispo (2019), who explained the process on the example of Waterfront Administration Committee of João Pessoa, Brazil. In that case, different aspects of waterfronts have been considered, including environment and sustainability, entrepreneurship, tourism and social issues regarding local communities.…”