caa a22 4500 605484317 CHVBK 20210128100435.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10551-014-2264-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10551-014-2264-y Alienation, Police Stories, and Percival [Elektronische Daten] [John Luhman, Andy Nazario] There are many people in organizations who have feelings of alienation; that is they feel they do not fit in, they get no meaning out of their work, they feel belittled or abused by their superiors or colleagues; they desire to break loose the masks they wear, or to find some sense of meaningfulness. In our paper, we demonstrate our assumption of alienation in the workplace by reviewing a collection of satirical and ironic organizational stories from police officers working at a county sheriff's department. Our argument is that if it seems that alienation might not be resolved through organizational change efforts and interventions, or might not be resolved through radical change of the economic conditions of modern industrial life, then alienation might be changed through the aggregation of individual projects from below. We discuss the possibility of resolving alienation at the workplace by using the legend of Percival as an analogy. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Workplace alienation nationallicence Meaningfulness nationallicence Storytelling nationallicence Legend of Percival nationallicence Luhman John College of Business, Eastern New Mexico University, Station 49, 1500 South Avenue K, 88130, Portales, NM, USA aut Nazario Andy College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Eastern New Mexico University, Station 19, 1500 South Avenue K, 88130, Portales, NM, USA aut Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 130/3(2015-09-01), 665-681 0167-4544 130:3<665 2015 130 10551 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2264-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2264-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Luhman John College of Business, Eastern New Mexico University, Station 49, 1500 South Avenue K, 88130, Portales, NM, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nazario Andy College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Eastern New Mexico University, Station 19, 1500 South Avenue K, 88130, Portales, NM, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 130/3(2015-09-01), 665-681 0167-4544 130:3<665 2015 130 10551