The Discursive Dimension of Employee Engagement and Disengagement

The book analyses organizational disengagement and its unwanted consequences at an organizational and at individual level. The author argues for the existence of an additional dimension of employee disengagement. The author analyses how people frame their decisions of staying or leaving organizations by defining their employment situation.

The book analyses organizational disengagement and its consequences at an organizational and at an individual level. The author argues for the existence of an additional dimension of employee disengagement, namely discursive disengagement. It is a distinctive dimension with respect to its dependence on a specific work of the employee. The author engages with discourse analysis to classify employee disengagement trajectories, vocabularies of motive and rhetorical resources. She analyses how people frame their decisions of staying or leaving organizations by defining their employment situation and how they justify their choices through their professional experiences.

Autorentext

Alina Petra Marinescu studied Sociology at the University of Bucharest, Romania. Her research interests include organizational burnout and its consequences.

Inhalt

Employee disengagement The discursive disengagement Cognitive, behavioral and emotional disengagement Well-being Organizations' productivity Fighting the process of disengagement