Gratitude in workplace research: a Rossian approach

Abstract

Workplace learning is complex in form. It is explorative, social and creative enquiry, and because it is carried out in the socio‐political domain of the workplace, it is potentially exploitative of all who contribute. This paper suggests that the workplace researcher might conceptualise the contributions of participants as benefits and/or gifts, to which the appropriate response is gratitude. The paper discusses the notion of gratitude and how it might be expressed in workplace research.

Keywords:

• participant
• duty
• obligation
• gift
• given
• exploit