780: Behind the Scenes of Highly Cited Organizational Ethnographies: The Supervisory Relationship (13798)

This PDW is aimed at facilitating conversations, knowledge sharing, and connections among scholars who are interested in investigating social phenomena in organizational settings using immersive techniques. Our personal experiences and scholarly text produced on immersive techniques inform us that immersive methods, including organizational ethnographies can be daunting and illusive. Therefore, through our ‘Behind the Scenes’ PDW we aim to highlight processes and practices that lead to successful completion of ethnographic and immersive research endeavors that result in interesting publications. This year, we bring a novel twist to this ongoing and overarching theme: supervision in the context of organizational ethnographies. While the give and take between mentors and mentees in their ethnographic journeys is highly significant, it is less spoken and written about. Thus, through this PDW we address the broad question: what goes into supporting and supervising emerging organizational ethnographers? Structured into three interactive segments, the PDW provides participants with the opportunity to hear from and engage in conversations with our panelists and fellow participants. These segments include individual presentations where panelists briefly reflect on their experiences in developing and supervising impactful work, a moderated panel discussion addressing questions posed by workshop participants, and themed roundtable discussions allowing small groups of participants to discuss their own work with an expert panelist. The PDW covers both traditional and new methods (such as team and digital ethnography) and addresses issues related to training and supporting young scholars in applying various ethnographic methods in their research. Given the increasing interest in qualitative and mixed-method approaches, the PDW will be of great interest to PhD students, junior scholars, and senior members of the field interested in immersive research methods or whose team members or supervisees require support for their ethnographic research.