Sensemaking, Reflexivity and Sensibility - Navigating Work at Power Ltd - An Interpretive Study

Abstract

This interpretive investigation, utilizing extensive interaction and participant observation, explores the situational, temporal, and long-term sensemaking processes of married working women in the Finance and Accounts (F&A) department of Power Ltd [a pseudonym], a notable manufacturing company in Vadodara in Western India. Avoiding behavioral reductionism, we begin with Weick’s sensemaking principles, recognize their limitations, and investigate workplace subjectivity through Archer’s theory of reflexivity. This methodology holistically and temporally integrates affect, cognition, and action within the evolving Indian socio-cultural context, drawing from everyday individual experiences and narratives. This novel, creative, bottom-up situational, and long-term personalized comprehension of work experiences examine the iterative interaction between individual cognition and the asynchronous multidimensional generative mechanisms. It prioritises a process-based analysis of gendered performativity.

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