Hallie Workman

My current dissertation research examines how organizations balance transparency with the protection of sensitive organizational information. Few (if any) organizations benefit from making all their information available to every audience -- secrets aren't always a bad thing; they're often necessary for an organization to function.  I'm interested in how organizations negotiate this balancing act of making certain information available to some audiences, while protecting other information. Rather than thinking about hiddenness as a characteristic of an organization, I explore how hiddenness is continuously managed and negotiated by those within the organization, and what the ongoing labor of hiddenness looks like in the context of organizations.