ICOS Presents:

"Meaning-Making at Work: Insights from Independent Workers"

Professor Susan Ashford and Ruth Blatt

Ross School of Business

December 2, 2005

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Introduction (00:00:00)

Title Slide (00:03:58)

Status (00:05:15)

Meaning (00:05:31)

Structure (00:05:59)

Without an Organization (00:06:25)

Types of Workers (00:07:17)

continued (00:07:24)

Independent Workers: Growing as a Group (00:08:03)

More and More Work is Beginning to Resemble Independent Work (00:08:46)

Weick Quote (00:10:13)

High Ambiguity/High Agency (00:10:40)

What do We Know about Independent Workers? (00:11:22)

Implications (00:12:51)

Sustaining Effective Action (00:14:09)

Theoretical Gap (00:15:40)

Picture (00:17:19)

Picture 2 (00:17:39)

Picture 3 (00:17:54)

Meaning Questions and Issues (00:18:16)

Meaning Making (00:19:15)

Gap (00:20:43)

Methods (00:21:49)

Sample (00:23:21)

Sample Continued (00:24:01)

Interview (00:25:33)

Analysis Strategy (00:26:20)

Findings (00:27:10)

Meaning Making Process Handout (00:28:30)

Table 1: Self-Related Interrupts in independent Work (00:29:53)

Expectations Interrupt (00:30:55)

Expectations Interrupt (2) (00:31:07)

Performance Interrupt (00:31:55)

Performance Interrupt (2) (00:32:37)

Diversion Interrupt (00:33:18)

Diversion Interrupt (2) (00:34:08)

Table 1: Self-Related Interrupts in independent Work (00:34:22)

Micro-Meaning Making (00:35:57)

Inputs to Micro-Meaning Making (00:36:36)

Self knowledge (00:38:32)

Micro-Meaning Themes (00:39:07)

How Micro-Meanings Resolve Interrupts (00:39:45)

Relishing Freedom Micro-meaning to Resolve Ego Interrupt (00:40:35)

Self-development Micro-meaning to Resolve Authenticity Interrupt (00:41:42)

Macro-Meaning Making (00:42:56)

Properties of Macro-Narratives (00:43:34)

Example of Coherence in Macro Narrative (00:44:20)

Properties of Macro-Narratives (00:45:56)

Example of Flexibility in Macro-Narrative (00:47:13)

Meaning-Making and Sustaining Effective Action (00:48:01)

Low Effectiveness at Meaning Making: Nonprofit Program Developer (00:50:56)

Low Effectiveness at Meaning Making: Nonprofit Program Developer (00:52:03)

Low Effectiveness at Meaning Making: Nonprofit Program Developer (00:53:05)

Low Effectiveness at Meaning Making: Nonprofit Program Developer (00:53:35)

High Effectiveness at Meaning Making: Rug Maker (00:54:20)

High Effectiveness at Meaning Making: Rug Maker (00:55:49)

High Effectiveness at Meaning Making: Rug Maker (00:56:21)

High Effectiveness at Meaning Making: Rug Maker (00:56:48)

High Effectiveness at Meaning Making: Rug Maker (00:57:28)

High Effectiveness at Meaning Making: Rug Maker (00:57:48)

Meaning Making Process Handout (00:58:28)

Contributions (01:00:10)

Questions (01:01:58)

Presentation of Tile (01:23:25)

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