dc.contributor.advisor | Fitzgerald, Ruth | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Wardell, Susan | |
dc.contributor.author | Lewis, Marshall Steven | |
dc.date.available | 2020-10-01T22:13:36Z | |
dc.date.copyright | 2020 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Lewis, M. S. (2020). Approaching a ritual design strategy: Thinking ritually to support an organisational collaboration strategy (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy). University of Otago. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/10421 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10523/10421 | |
dc.description.abstract | This thesis traces the design of a method – a ritual design method – for thinking through the design of activities and things. My research goal was to evolve and apply a design method informed by ritual scholarship and based on the analysis of empirical ethnographic data. This resulted in a new way of approaching the analysis and design of interventions and of seeing, thinking and writing which I call a ritual design strategy. I developed this method during my tenure at Air New Zealand, the national airline of New Zealand, where I was a member of the Workplace Relations team. Our team’s mission included sustaining an organisational strategy that intended to build a more collaborative culture, to embed collaborative problem solving across the organisation and to strengthen the working relationship between company management and the labour unions that represented two-thirds of the approximately twelve thousand employees. This organisational strategy was called High Performance Engagement, or HPE. The mission required the design of interventions: 'activities' such as governance meetings, training sessions, collaborative problem solving workshops and informal conversations, and 'things' such as texts, graphics, digital and audio-visual materials. I evolved my ritual design strategy through my engagement with each intervention opportunity and this yielded a method that is generalisable for application across a wide range of circumstances and design-related problems. Ritual design is not specifically for designing rituals; it is a novel method that can be ritual-like itself, through which meaning is created and operationalised. | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | University of Otago | |
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dc.subject | ritual | |
dc.subject | ritual design | |
dc.subject | design strategy | |
dc.subject | collaboration | |
dc.subject | high performance engagement | |
dc.subject | air new zealand | |
dc.title | Approaching a ritual design strategy: Thinking ritually to support an organisational collaboration strategy | |
dc.type | Thesis | |
dc.date.updated | 2020-10-01T20:00:33Z | |
dc.language.rfc3066 | en | |
thesis.degree.discipline | Social Anthropology | |
thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy | |
thesis.degree.grantor | University of Otago | |
thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | |
otago.openaccess | Open | |
otago.evidence.present | Yes | |