Addressing both renowned theories and standard applications, Stories of Life in the Workplace explains how stories affect human practices and organizational life. Authors Larry Browning and George H. Morris explore how we experience, interpret, and personalize narrative stories in our everyday lives, and how these communicative acts impact our social aims and interactions. In pushing the boundaries of how we perceive narrative and organization, the authors include stories that are broadly applicable across all concepts and experiences.

Chapter One: Narrative Appreciation

Chapter Two: An Open Architecture For Organizational Narratology

Chapter Three: Action, Motivation and Moral Outcome

Chapter Four: Sequence and Locale

Chapter Five: Character and Identity

Chapter Six: Interest And Memory

Chapter Seven: The Beauty of Narratives in the Workplace

Chapter Eight: Complexity and Control

Chapter Nine: Representing Narrative Realities

Larry Browning is a Professor at the College of Communication, University of Texas at Austin and adjunct Professor of Management, Bodø Graduate School of Business at the University of Nordland, Norway. His studies include structures in organizations as evidenced by lists and stories, information-communication technology and narratives, cooperation and competition in organizations, and grounded theory as a research strategy.

G. H. Morris is a Professor at California State University San Marcos. He is a conversation analyst and communication theorist interested in how people align with each other in everyday talk, organizational discourse, and psychotherapy.