Kirstie McAllum
- Professeure agrégée
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Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département de communication
Marie-Victorin office B-406
Web : LinkedIn
Affiliations
- Membre – Groupe LOG — Groupe de recherche sur le langage, l’organisation et la gouvernance
Areas of Expertise
- Organizational communication
- Nonprofit organizations
- Vocational identity
- Organisational collaboration
- Organizational conflict
My research interests focus on deepening our understanding of how organisational members who do not interact regularly construct the meaning of their work, often in different ways. I am particularly interested in the experiences and organisational and occupational identities of persons who occupy hybrid public-private spaces, such as volunteers or workers who are employed and managed by an organisation yet work with aged persons in home-based care environments. I aim to show how the multiple meanings given to work and organisational experiences more generally can be mobilised as a resource for individuals who occupy a peripheral organisational position.
I also investigate how communicative processes, which create particular types of collective behaviour, can facilitate and constrain organisational participation. In particular, my research examines how discourses about professionalism combine with organisational control and coordination mechanisms to structure relationality in particular ways, often with the aim of increasing collaboration, and frequently minimising or suppressing dissent. To do so, I analyse how organisational members construct communities of practice by negotiating what ways of knowing and doing should be used to resolve organisational problems and what constitutes appropriate forms of interaction.
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Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Research projects Expand all Collapse all
Cadrer des solutions collaboratives culturellement sécuritaires entre les personnes proches aidantes issues de groupes ethnoculturels, les personnes âgées aidées et les personnes intervenantes en soin de santé : la négociation d’expertises diversifiées Projet de recherche au Canada / 2023 - 2028
Compassion and Collective Care in Long-Term Care Settings: A Communicative Perspective Projet de recherche au Canada / 2020 - 2025
Non-profit marketization and the transformation of volunteering practices: A communicational approach Projet de recherche au Canada / 2016 - 2022
BOURSE IVADO DONNÉES RACONTER 2020 Projet de recherche au Canada / 2020 - 2020
Les héros des services de soins ou les zéros du milieu de travail? Les négociations interactionnelles du rôle des aides-soignantes à domicile payées qui participent aux équipes de soins de santé Projet de recherche au Canada / 2016 - 2020
FGR-UdeM-CRSH 2014-2015 Projet de recherche au Canada / 2015 - 2016
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