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| Author: | Garrety, K. |
| Title: | The use of personality typing in organizational change: Discourse, emotions and the reflexive subject |
| Journal: | Human Relations
2003 : FEB, VOL. 56:2, p. 211-236 |
| Index terms: | DISPUTES ORGANIZATIONAL CONTROL ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This article is based on a study of an organizational change program that sought to alter employees' self- perceptions, emotions and behavior through the use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, a popular personality- typing tool. The program affords an opportunity to explore the various ways in which discourses advocating personal and organizational change work through employees' subjectivity. The authors argue that theoretical approaches that view the targets of such programs as passive - as either 'colonized' or constructed by discourses - fail to capture the complex and contradictory nature of organizational control, and subjects' changing positions within it. |
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