{"title":"The moral work of becoming a professional","authors":"Riikka Nissi, A. Pässilä","doi":"10.1075/NI.20056.NIS","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n In contemporary working life, art-based initiatives are increasingly used in organizational training and\n development. For artists, this has created new employment opportunities as creative entrepreneurs who provide specialist services\n for workplaces. In this article, we study the dynamics of such encounters through the narrated accounts of training professionals.\n Our data come from a professional mentoring program where the working pairs of artists and consultants shared stories about their\n customer projects. By using conversation analysis as a method, we analyze the way stories are interactionally accomplished in peer\n group sessions of the program. In particular, we analyze how participants produce different versions of the narrated events, and\n by so doing, negotiate the questions of blame and accountability with regard to professional action. In conclusion, we discuss\n stories and storytelling as organizational practice through which the moral order and legitimacy of the program is sustained and\n the boundaries of the profession constructed.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2021-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Narrative Inquiry","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1075/NI.20056.NIS","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In contemporary working life, art-based initiatives are increasingly used in organizational training and
development. For artists, this has created new employment opportunities as creative entrepreneurs who provide specialist services
for workplaces. In this article, we study the dynamics of such encounters through the narrated accounts of training professionals.
Our data come from a professional mentoring program where the working pairs of artists and consultants shared stories about their
customer projects. By using conversation analysis as a method, we analyze the way stories are interactionally accomplished in peer
group sessions of the program. In particular, we analyze how participants produce different versions of the narrated events, and
by so doing, negotiate the questions of blame and accountability with regard to professional action. In conclusion, we discuss
stories and storytelling as organizational practice through which the moral order and legitimacy of the program is sustained and
the boundaries of the profession constructed.
期刊介绍:
Narrative Inquiry is devoted to providing a forum for theoretical, empirical, and methodological work on narrative. Articles appearing in Narrative Inquiry draw upon a variety of approaches and methodologies in the study of narrative as a way to give contour to experience, tradition, and values to next generations. Particular emphasis is placed on theoretical approaches to narrative and the analysis of narratives in human interaction, including those practiced by researchers in psychology, linguistics and related disciplines.