Commitment or Compliance? Institutional Logics of Work Environment Management

Madsen, Christian Uhrenholdt; Hasle, Peter

doi:10.18291/njwls.v7is2.96688

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“…According to Madsen and Hasle (2017), the expanded scope may also have been the result of ideas and concepts from Human Resource Management (HRM), such as well-being and psychosocial WE, infiltrating WE work. Such a development has provided a new approach to WE activities, which up until now has been dominated by risk management.…”

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“…According to Madsen and Hasle (2017), organizations tend to change their approach to WE activities, from treating it as an issue they deal with in order to satisfy external regulatory bodies or satisfy employee demands, to considering the WE as an issue in its own right that has to be managed in order to secure sustainable business practice and organizational outcomes. They argue that this shift marks a trend towards the 'mainstreaming' of WE activities, which are increasingly managed by organizations like any other organizational issue.…”

Section: Decentralization Of Responsibility and Local We Activitiesmentioning

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Working Environment Activities in Hospitals: Expansion of Scope and Decentralization of Responsibility

Borgen

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2021

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This article analyzes how two development traits in the regulatory requirements for Working Environment (WE) activities – an expansion of scope and a decentralization of responsibility – are understood and handled over time by actors responsible for WE activities in Norwegian hospitals. The expanded scope of WE activities is studied based on the requirements outlined in The Working Environment Act, public health science theory, and the WE challenges in hospitals. The decentralized responsibility for WE activities is studied based on Internal Control (IC) reform and other hospital reforms inspired by New Public Management (NPM). The final section of the article discusses the effects of the two development traits, and how these enlarge the line manager’s area of responsibility. The article is based on a qualitative, longitudinal study conducted in three Norwegian hospitals in 1998-1999 and 2013.

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Working Environment Activities in Hospitals: Expansion of Scope and Decentralization of Responsibility

Borgen

Lunde

2021

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“…As such, occupational safety should not be viewed as a distinct logic, although logics on different levels (e.g., institutional, field and organisational) can be used to explore and explain occupational safety (related) issues [cf. [20][21][22][23][24]. As different logics presume different ideas about safety, and uncovering those different ideas provide insights into what makes safety so difficult to address, their identification and interpretation can help create safer workplaces.…”

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How logical is safety? An institutional logics perspective on safety at work

Cornelissen

Vuuren

Hoof

2020

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BACKGROUND: Occupational incidents and accidents are still commonplace in the contemporary workplace, despite increased understandings of safety. OBJECTIVE: This article aims to yield new insights into safety-related thinking, decisions and behaviours through the application of an institutional logics perspective. METHOD: Semi-structured interviews with twenty-two managers in a railroad construction and maintenance organisation were conducted, in which a variety of topics related to occupational safety and management were discussed. RESULTS: The results illustrate that an institutional logics perspective provides useful insights into the different logics of the market, profession, and corporation in the occupational safety context. Furthermore, the results demonstrate contradictory viewpoints, so-called complexity, between these three logics and subsequent management approaches. CONCLUSIONS: We demonstrate that viewing occupational safety through the lens of institutional logics leads to a better understanding of safety and reveals various rationales for safety attitudes and behaviours that otherwise may have been dismissed as irrational. Understanding and possessing the discourse of logics can help managers and safety professionals with analysis and prevention of accidents.

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“…The institutional logics perspective deals with belief systems and associated practices, thereby linking agency to socially constructed institutional practices (Friedland & Alford 1991;Thornton & Ocasio 2008). Previous studies have used the institutional logics perspective to investigate issues such as work environment management (e.g., Madsen & Hasle 2017), and professionals' responses to the introduction of bureaucracy and market logics (e.g., Alvehus & Andersson 2018). Until now, the perspective has not been applied to explore the characteristics of unions with different professional histories and aspirations.…”

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Unions’ Conceptualizations of Members’ Professional Interests and Influence in the Workplace

Bie-Drivdal

2020

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The role of unions as agents of professional knowledge is seldom addressed in studies on working life relations.This article investigates how unions with different degrees of professionalization con- ceptualize members’ interests and influence in the workplace. Two unions of professionals and one general union in the Norwegian public sector are compared. The data consist of union documents, speeches, and interviews with 12 workplace representatives. A ‘union logic’ and ‘professional association logic’ are developed and applied as analytical ideal types, and the unions’ conceptualizations and combinations of these institutional logics are analyzed. The article finds similarities and differences between the unions and interesting differences between the unions’ micro and macro levels. Further, a distinct hybrid logic is identified as a ‘union of professionals logic’, with professional influence and the agency of elected representatives as key aspects. Introducing perspectives from the study of professions, the article contributes to a reconceptualization of the study of unions within the Nordic model – and beyond.

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Commitment or Compliance? Institutional Logics of Work Environment Management

Abstract: Scholars of the work environment have pointed out how management ideas and practices inspired

Cited by 6 publications

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Working Environment Activities in Hospitals: Expansion of Scope and Decentralization of Responsibility

Working Environment Activities in Hospitals: Expansion of Scope and Decentralization of Responsibility

How logical is safety? An institutional logics perspective on safety at work

Unions’ Conceptualizations of Members’ Professional Interests and Influence in the Workplace

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