组织希望:重申社会与组织探究的建设性任务

Organizational Hope: Reaffirming the Constructive Task of Social and Organizational Inquiry

HUMAN RELATIONS · 1997
被引 116
人大 AFT50ABS 4

中文导读

提出“组织希望”这一概念,呼吁学者和实践者超越批判性思维,通过构建“充满质感的希望词汇”来肯定组织生活中最美好、最有希望的维度,并为集体行动提供道德愿景。

Abstract

This paper develops the construct of organizational hope as a methodological imperative for studying and strengthening organizations. It calls on organizational scholars and practitioners to move beyond the critical impulse by advancing "textured vocabularies of hope" that affirm the best and most promising dimensions of social and organizational life and provide a moral image of the future to guide collective action. This can be accomplished by defining hopeful research agendas and choosing methods of inquiry that explore and illuminate the hopes and aspirations of a broad range of organizational members. After clarifying the concept of textured vocabularies of hope, this paper undertakes a thorough analysis of hope by tracing the construct throughout the Western intellectual tradition, highlighting four of hope's enduring qualities, and offering a set of propositions that extends the implications of organizational hope to our task as scholars and practitioners.

组织行为组织发展社会心理学管理学