Organizational Frames and Management of Shame

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Organizational frame from The Organizational Management of Shame reading is, “Constructed and maintained by organizational actors within which experience, interaction, and communication and structured and rendered both personally and organizationally meaningful”
(Martin: 89). In other words, it is the purpose or meaning of the organizations. Organizational frame relate to emotion work by they both deals with feeling or emotions of people. No matter if it is on an individual or group level. Also, organizational frame help groups manage their feelings today. The group will have similar feelings based on the group’s organizational frames.
Shame work is, “Emotional labor aimed at evoking, removing, or managing shame” (Martin: 93). Shame work differs …show more content…

It is all about technique, using a guidebook and given food diaries to reduce a person’s body fat. The dairies are where the members keep a log of their food intake, obstacles, and what to eat in different settings. The meal plans and keeping track of calories was involuntary. The shame work of this organization is how the group see their fat body or body image especially the females. The emotion work in this organization is shame management done by the staff. This is done by the approach to shame which is bodily transformation. It also involves the ritual for the shame removal in this organization is …show more content…

The NAAFA goal is to “Organize against size discrimination” (Martin: 90). According to the reading dealing with Autistic Rights, some of their goals is to “Challenge the ethics and science of interventions such as Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and psychiatric hospitals.” The Autism rights movement also want rights and equality for autistic adults especially in employment and education. The NAAFA approach to shame was “societal transformation” (Martin: 90). According to the reading dealing with Autistic Rights, how they approach criticisms of the autistic rights is by telling how they feel and by giving examples of how Autistic adults are functioning. This is a movement about autistic adults who feel Autism is not a disorder nor disease. It is a part of their lives. Autistic deals with the neurocognitive section of the brain. According to the reading the people of this movement feel that finding a cure to Autism “Would destroy the original personality of the autistic person in a misguided attempt to replace them with a different (neuro-typical) person.” Another movement is for Autism is Aspies For Freedom. The people in these groups feel no shame about their condition and they want other members of society to understand

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