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| Author: | Patriotta, G. Brown, A.D. |
| Title: | Sensemaking, metaphors and performance evaluation |
| Journal: | Scandinavian Journal of Management
2011 : MAR, VOL. 27:1 p. 34-43 |
| Index terms: | power students universities organizations social research |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This article presents an analysis of linkages between sensemaking, metaphors and performance evaluation in an organizational setting. Drawing on a study of how university students prepared for examinations, it argues that one way people make sense of being evaluated is through metaphors which conventionalize reality and therefore contribute to the maintenance of continuity in everyday social action. This is because metaphorical understandings assist people's effort to assign events and situations to familiar categories and thereby turn the "unusual" into "business as usual". |
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