Beyond dis-identification: A discursive approach to self-alienation in contemporary organizations
研究员工在组织中不仅会通过构建“真实”身份来抵抗管理控制，还可能经历自我异化——即感到自己“真正的自我”是陌生和虚假的。基于对一家全球管理咨询公司的实证研究，提出三种自我异化的成因，并讨论其对当代组织身份与真实性的意义。
Dis-identification is now an important research area in organization studies investigating how employees subjectively distance themselves from managerial domination by constructing identities considered more `authentic'. But how should we understand situations where actors become aware that their putative`real' selves are paradoxically unreal and foreign? We draw inspiration from the concept of self-alienation to explain experiences beyond dis-identification, where actors perceive the truth of themselves (`who I really am') as alien. An empirical study of a global management consultancy firm demonstrates how a discursive and non-essentialist understanding of self-alienation might usefully capture this experience of identity. Three causes of self-alienation are proposed and we discuss their significance in relation to identity and authenticity in contemporary organizations.