Caring for Suicide Loss Survivors: How Fiction May Help to Research, Teach, and Cope with Suicide-Related Bereavement
This paper addresses the hard-to-manage, work-related phenomenon of suicide. A qualitative, postventive, and protective approach explores how business researchers and teachers may care, inquire, and talk about suicide. The use of fiction and personal experience illustrates a potential affective appr...
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| description | This paper addresses the hard-to-manage, work-related phenomenon of suicide. A qualitative, postventive, and protective approach explores how business researchers and teachers may care, inquire, and talk about suicide. The use of fiction and personal experience illustrates a potential affective approach to cope with suicide-related bereavement. Suicide raises ontological, epistemological, and existential questions that defy management as control (typical of prevention strategies), so this paper focuses on postvention, broadening the scope of organizational suicidology to include suicide loss survivors, while suggesting future paths for management-related teaching and research. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-178e7d99cf8c4e9c8d228fee6aff39ea2025-10-07T13:44:17ZengAssociation International de Management Stratégique (AIMS)M@n@gement1286-46922025-09-012811910.37725/mgmt.2025.90389038Caring for Suicide Loss Survivors: How Fiction May Help to Research, Teach, and Cope with Suicide-Related BereavementFabio James PetaniThis paper addresses the hard-to-manage, work-related phenomenon of suicide. A qualitative, postventive, and protective approach explores how business researchers and teachers may care, inquire, and talk about suicide. The use of fiction and personal experience illustrates a potential affective approach to cope with suicide-related bereavement. Suicide raises ontological, epistemological, and existential questions that defy management as control (typical of prevention strategies), so this paper focuses on postvention, broadening the scope of organizational suicidology to include suicide loss survivors, while suggesting future paths for management-related teaching and research.https://management-aims.com/index.php/mgmt/article/view/9038/19921organizational suicidologypostventionfictionsuicide loss survivorsbereavement |
| spellingShingle | Fabio James Petani Caring for Suicide Loss Survivors: How Fiction May Help to Research, Teach, and Cope with Suicide-Related Bereavement organizational suicidology postvention fiction suicide loss survivors bereavement |
| title | Caring for Suicide Loss Survivors: How Fiction May Help to Research, Teach, and Cope with Suicide-Related Bereavement |
| title_full | Caring for Suicide Loss Survivors: How Fiction May Help to Research, Teach, and Cope with Suicide-Related Bereavement |
| title_fullStr | Caring for Suicide Loss Survivors: How Fiction May Help to Research, Teach, and Cope with Suicide-Related Bereavement |
| title_full_unstemmed | Caring for Suicide Loss Survivors: How Fiction May Help to Research, Teach, and Cope with Suicide-Related Bereavement |
| title_short | Caring for Suicide Loss Survivors: How Fiction May Help to Research, Teach, and Cope with Suicide-Related Bereavement |
| title_sort | caring for suicide loss survivors how fiction may help to research teach and cope with suicide related bereavement |
| topic | organizational suicidology postvention fiction suicide loss survivors bereavement |
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