Minna Leinonen

• Researcher at Tampere University

In the performing arts, discrimination is a widely recognized issue occurring in relation to multiple social divisions. Through a qualitative analysis of personal stories of discrimination, we investigate the relationship between intersectional categories emerging in the telling and orientation of performing artists. Discrimination is tied to gatek...

Thus far, few studies have investigated the evaluative points narrators may convey through the sequential features of reported exchanges in their stories. In this article, we conduct a micro-oriented narrative analysis on how epistemic and deontic status-stance relations are depicted by narrators in sequences of reported turns. We thus uncover how...

The article studies the impacts of the pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus on cultural festival organizations in Finland. Festivals have been institutionalized as network organizations, which presumes boundary work with partner organizations from different institutional fields. The organizational pattern of cultural festivals is studied qualitati...

Monilla arjen ja työelämän ongelmallisilla vuorovaikutustilanteilla on taipumusta toistua. Tässä artikkelissa tutkitaan keskustelunanalyysin menetelmin vuorovaikutustilanteita, joissa henkilö kertoo kokemistaan toistuvista vuorovaikutuksen ongelmatilanteista jollekin muulle osapuolelle. Tarkastelemme puhujan keinoja kuvata vuorovaikutuksen yksityis...

Raportissa tarkastelemme erilaisissa asemissa olevien opetus- ja tutkimustyön tekijöiden tehtäviä, työn tekemisen ehtoja ja mahdollisuuksia ja niiden muutoksia. Erittelemme haastatteluaineistoihin pohjautuen tutkija-opettajien työnkuvaa ja urakehitystä. In the report, the tasks of university researchers and teachers in various positions are studie...

Narratives about clients’ service experiences in healthcare organizations constitute a crucial way for clients to make sense of their illness, its treatment, and their role in the service process. This is important because the client’s role has recently changed from that of a passive object of care into an active responsible agent. Utilizing Bamber...

The organization of working times and workplaces has typically been diverse and hybrid for people working in culture. Work is characterized by precarious conditions such as short-term contracts and seasonal employment. The impact of COVID-19 has shown the vulnerability and uniqueness of the employment conditions in this sector. We collected persona...

Tutkimme Duunarit-tutkimushankkeessa suorittavan työn tekijöiden kokemuksia työstään. Selvitimme, mistä asioista duunarit ovat työssään ylpeitä ja mikä tekee työstä merkityksellistä. Kysyimme, mikä motivoi ja auttaa jaksamaan työssä. Vastauksemme on, että ammattiylpeys ja kokemus työn merkityksellisyydestä ovat keskeisiä työn voimavaroja ja ne kant...

Research on the meaningfulness of work has increased in recent years, yet there is a limited body of qualitative studies on the topic. This article analyzes how the four basic psychological needs, namely autonomy, competence, relatedness, and beneficence, are articulated as sources of meaningful work by blue-collar workers. The research data consis...

Tässä artikkelissa kiinnostuksen kohteena ovat tietointensiiviset yritykset, joissa tiedon hankkimisen, luomisen ja jakamisen kysymykset ovat korostuneesti esillä jokapäiväisessä organisaatioelämässä. Artikkelissa kysytään, mikä on työprosessin ja sosiaalisen vuorovaikutuksen merkitys tiedon jakamisen mahdollisuusrakenteissa. Tutkimuksen aineisto o...

Työprosessien ja sosiaalisen vuorovaikutuksen merkitys tiedon jakami-sen mahdollisuusrakenteissa Abstrakti Tässä artikkelissa kiinnostuksen kohteena ovat tietointensiiviset yritykset, joissa tiedon hankkimisen, luomisen ja jakamisen kysymykset ovat korostuneesti esillä jokapäiväisessä organisaatioelämässä. Artikkelissa kysytään, mikä on työprosessi...

The Finnish Defence Forces (FDF) have, in accordance with other public sector organizations in the Nordic countries, undergone many change processes in this millennium. Changes in the FDF have been related to government savings and more recently the fluctuating security environment. The purpose of the study is to show how these change processes hav...

Tämä raportti on osa Organisaatioon sitoutuminen ja tiedon jakaminen tietointensiivisissä organisaatioissa -tutkimushanketta. Hankkeen on toteuttanut kolmen tutkijan tutkijaryhmä: Tuula Heiskanen, Minna Leinonen ja Katri Otonkorpi-Lehtoranta. Hankkeen tavoitteena oli selvittää organisaatioon sitoutumisen ja tiedon jakamisen välisiä yhteyksiä työelä...

Studies of commitment in a changing working life The topic of commitment in work has been on research agenda for decades. The main part of the studies deal with commitment in organizations but also other foci have received some attention. Along the changes of working life not only organizations change but also the way how workers understand organiz...

Purpose – Addressing the challenges expressed by organization researchers and Leslie McCall with her conceptual framework of intercategorical analysis, this paper contributes to the methodological debate on intersectionality. The purpose of this paper is to explore intersectionality on the organizational level in the Finnish defence forces (FDF). I...

This article investigates how intersectionalities are handled in the orientations and positions of organization members when conducting feminist action research in workplaces. The Finnish Defence Forces are used as an empirical example of a hierarchical and gendered organization. The article employs the work conference method based on democratic di...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse management and employee experiences of gender divisions at work and to reflect on gender boundaries using the method of democratic dialogue. It also considers the use of experiences in efforts supporting workplace democracy. Design/methodology/approach Finnish action research project sought to promot...

Conversation analytical (CA) methodology was used to specify the new opening practices in Finnish mobile call openings, which differ systematically from Finnish landline call openings. Since the responses to a mobile call orient to the summons identifying the caller, answers have changed and diversified. A known caller is greeted. The self-identifi...

10.1177/1461445606061791 ABSTRACT Conversation analytical (CA) methodology was used to specify the new opening practices in Finnish mobile call openings, which differ systematically from Finnish landline call openings. Since the responses to a mobile call orient to the summons identifying the caller, answers have changed and diversified. A known ca...

In this presentation, we introduce a new pattern for opening a phone conversation that takes place in mobile phone conversations. We single out a set of systematic practices on how Finnish mobile conversations are opened, and compare them with the landline telephone conversation openings. (Mobile) phone talk is an ideal object for conversation anal...

The understanding and reasoning of workplace agents are important both to the practice of promoting gender equality in working life and to the approach of Gustavsen's communicative action research. Therefore ethnomethodology is an approach easily applicable to the analysis of gendered interaction. Ethnomethodology is an approach that seeks to inves...