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This session will be facilitated and moderated by Associate Professor Dirk Primus from UNSW Business School.
Please join Dirk at the Teaching Commons for a conversation with Inge Brokerhof
In this session, Inge will reflect on stories at work: how are stories and management studies intertwined? Narratives can have a vast influence on our working lives, even the stories we experience for please and leisure.
She will present her research findings which implicate that especially morally ambiguous characters like Harvey Specter (Suits) and Jordan Belfort (The Wolf of Wall Street) are appealing to business students and young professionals. What does this mean for their future work self and career identity? Furthermore, she will also reflect on narrative-based research methods and on how stories in literature and film can enrich management education, especially for teaching business ethics and critical thinking.
For example, while at Harvard, she studied a course which used world literature to teach business ethics. Literature stimulated moral imagination and stimulated the development of “moral muscle” in the MBA’s taking part in this program.
Presenter details
Inge Brokerhof
Inge Brokerhof is a researcher, lecturer and writer with a focus on narrative identity, organizational psychology, storytelling, organizational change, business ethics, and rhetoric. She obtained her PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2021, titled "Fictional narratives at work: How stories can shape career identity, future work selves and moral development". During her PhD she worked as a researcher at Harvard Business School and the University of Bath. She completed an MPhil in Social and developmental psychology at the University of Cambridge (distinction) and has a bachelor in Social Sciences and Rhetoric from University College Roosevelt (Summa cum laude). Currently, she works as a freelance researcher, lecturer, consultant, and writer for her company stories-@-work.