Parry Jonathan
Southport & Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust, Ormskirk, Lancashire, UK.
J Health Organ Manag. 2003;17(4):240-63. doi: 10.1108/14777260310494771.
This paper attempts to answer the research question, "how do senior executives in my organisation make sense of their professional life?" Having reviewed the sensemaking literature, in particular that of the pre-eminent author in this field, Karl E. Weick, I adopt a phenomenological, interpretist orientation which relies on an ideographic, inductive generation of theory. I situate myself, both as researcher and chief executive of the organisation studied, in the narrative of sensemaking. Using semi-structured interviews and a combination of grounded theory and template analysis to generate categories, seven themes of sensemaking are tentatively produced which are then compared with Weick's characteristics. The methodological approach is then reflected on, criticised and alternative methodologies are briefly considered. The conclusion reached is that the themes generated by the research may have relevance for sensemaking processes, but that the production of formal theory through social research is problematic.
“我所在组织的高级管理人员如何理解他们的职业生涯？” 在回顾了意义建构文献，特别是该领域杰出作者卡尔·E·韦克的文献后，我采用了一种现象学的、解释主义的取向，该取向依赖于理论的独特的、归纳式生成。作为研究者和所研究组织的首席执行官，我置身于意义建构的叙述之中。通过半结构化访谈以及扎根理论与模板分析相结合的方式来生成类别，初步得出了七个意义建构主题，然后将其与韦克的特征进行比较。接着对方法论进行反思、批判，并简要考虑了替代方法论。得出的结论是，该研究所产生的主题可能与意义建构过程相关，但通过社会研究产生形式理论存在问题。
