Despite considerable progress, qualitative research methods, including those in organizational research, continue to receive criticism, often surrounding a general misunderstanding or lack of clarity of research purpose, rigor, validity, and transparency in study design, and this scrutiny is particularly present with regard to interpretive analyses used in qualitative inquiry. The organizational
... [Show full abstract] dynamics, as explored with qualitative methods, may be more effectively executed through the effectual deployment of, and transparency around, use-of-self methods and tools. This paper presents and describes methods of use-of-self that can be used in qualitative inquiry during scholarly and action research in order to increase transparency, rigor, credibility, and trustworthiness of research processes and data.