Leading and Following (Un)ethically in Limen

Cunha, Miguel Piña e; Guimarães‐Costa, Nuno; Rego, Arménio; Clegg, Stewart

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“…Identity work has been used in organisation studies as a useful lens through which to explore positions of change or ambiguity for both individuals and enterprises. For instance, Cunha et al (2010) note the challenges that arise in organisations as struggles occur between internal communities over ethical norms. Tensions, particularly in terms of structure and resistance to that structure, are also found by Meira (2014) in an organisation following its take-over by employees.…”

Section: Identity Work In Relation To Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“It’s Us, You Know, There’s a Feeling of Community”: Exploring Notions of Community in a Consumer Co-operative

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The notion of community infers unity and a source of moral obligations in an organisational ethic between individuals or groups. As such, a community, having a strong sense of collective identity, may foster collective action to promote social change for the betterment of society. This research critically explores notions of community through analysing discursive identity construction practices within a member owned urban consumer cooperative (CC) public house in the UK. A strong sense of community is an often-claimed CC characteristic. The paper's main contributions stem from using the lens of identity work to critically unpack the notion of community through highlighting paradoxical tensions of community residing within CCs. The findings reveal that the notion of community may be illusionary with counter-veiling forces, one that reflects a more traditional sense of connection, attachment and communion, and the other of boundaries, disconnection or division. As these repertoires collide, tensions are evident between the hegemonic discourse of neoliberal managerialism and that of democratic collective ownership. Despite these individual level tensions, communities may operate within boundaries enabling an organisational and societal ethic, beyond the individual.

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Section: Identity Work In Relation To Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“It’s Us, You Know, There’s a Feeling of Community”: Exploring Notions of Community in a Consumer Co-operative

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“…Other studies have denoted that entire organizations can go through liminal phases during periods of change (Cunha et al, 2010;Czarniawska & Mazza, 2003;HowardGrenville et al, 2011;Powley, 2009;Powley & Piderit, 2008;Wagner et al, 2012). These liminal phases can be triggered by external events.…”

Section: Liminality As a Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Wagner et al (2012) argued that an organizational liminal phase can be triggered through the creation of an internal project team assigned to develop and implement a specific change initiative (Wagner et al, 2012). Moreover, behavior that threatens the prevailing ethical norms in an organization can also challenge and decompose organizational structures and cause a temporary liminal phase (Cunha et al, 2010). Furthermore, Howard-Grenville et al (2011) found that an organization's employees can intentionally craft "experiences that bring forward new approaches and invite different interpretations that hold potential for altering the cultural order" in an organization (Howard-Grenville et al, 2011: 2).…”

Section: Liminality As a Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Liminality at Work : Mobile Project Workers In-Between

Borg¹

2014

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Project-based work constitutes an increasing part of contemporary working life. For the individual worker, project-based work does not only entail performing specific tasks -it also entails equally important aspects of dealing with uncertainty and ambiguity, to create swift trust with new team members, recurrently enter new project, and leave old projects behind. Project-based work can arguably be described as a form of boundary work. This thesis adopts the conceptual lens of liminality in order to illustrate the challenges experienced by the individual project worker, the practices used to deal with these challenges, and the competence developed by the individual to handle projectbased work. In particular, the studies reported here addresses how mobile project workers -more specifically, technical consultants performing their work in client projects -experience and deal with project-based work.The thesis consists of a compilation of five papers and an extended summary. It draws upon on three qualitative studies based on interviews, diaries, and observations. In addition, the thesis offers a systematic review of literature on liminality at work.The thesis identifies four different "liminality practices" that mobile project workers use to deal with ambiguities in their work situation. Moreover, the thesis develops the concept and framework of "liminality competence" to describe the different levels of competence mobile project workers show in relation to dealing with liminality at work. The thesis also provides insight into how high liminality competence is developed and, furthermore, how formal training programs affect mobile project workers' liminal positions and liminality competence.Keywords: mobile project workers, liminality, project-based work, contingent workers, liminality practices, liminality competence SAMMANFATTNING Dagens arbetsliv består i allt större utsträckning av projektbaserat arbete. Arbete i ett sådant sammanhang handlar inte bara om att utföra sina arbetsuppgifter, utan minst lika mycket om att hantera den osäkerhet som arbetslivet i sig medför, att knyta nya kontakter med nya kollegor och att återkommande träda in i nya grupper, samt att avsluta tidigare grupptillhörigheter. Man skulle kunna säga att detta arbete i hög grad är ett gränslandsarbete. För att fånga de krav som ställs på individen, de praktiker denne använder och den kompetens som individen utvecklar i förhållande till den projektbaserade arbetssituationen används i föreliggande avhandling begreppet liminalitet. I denna avhandling studeras hur mobila projektarbetare, mer specifikt teknikkonsulter som utför arbete i kundprojekt, upplever och hanterar projektbaserat arbete.Avhandlingen består av fem artiklar och en kappa. Den grundar sig i tre kvalitativa studier som bygger på intervjuer, dagboksanteckningar och deltagande observationer. Därutöver presenteras en systematisk genomgång av tidigare litteratur som behandlar arbetsrelaterad liminalitet.Studiernas visar att det finns fyra typer av "liminalitetspraktiker" som m...

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“…In practice, there are many factors influence the revolution of school administrative, the important issue in this is "the practices of the principal leadership". The success of the school reconstruction relies on not only the organizational structure change but the principal's behavior of ethical leadership (Avey, Palanski, and Walumbwa, 2011;Cunha, Guimaraes-Costa, Rego, Clegg, 2010;Davies and Ellison, 1997;Lee and Cheng, 2011). In this paper, we not only fill the gap of the behavior side of the practices of the ethics which is the consequences variables in the paper.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 94%

Antecedents and Consequences of the Ethical Operation Model

Fu¹,

Lo²

2011

IJBM

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The ethical operation model demonstrated four different types of the ethics by ethical leadership and catalytic
mechanics. The objective of this paper was examined the different types ethical operation model but also further
explore the model’s antecedents and consequences. The research gap focused on the behavior side of the
practices of the ethics was included in the consequences variables in the paper. We also move further to explore
the antecedents of the ethical operation model. As to the research methods, in the first study, we adopted case
method of carrying out in-depth case studies. To explore the theoretical relationship more deeply, this research
was done by conducted survey in the second study. The author collected data from various sources, but not
wanting to be limited by the data provided in case study, this paper also collected data via a survey. Efforts were
made to collect the data from multiple sources to avoid the possibility of common method biases. The empirical
results demonstrated that the organization characteristics and leader’s characteristics influence the ethical
leadership and catalytic mechanism further influence the adoptive of the different type of the ethical operation
model. And conclude that different types of ethical operation affect the degree of school administrative ethics.

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Leading and Following (Un)ethically in Limen

Abstract: liminality, ethical leadership, ethical followership, ethical processes, gray areas,

Cited by 30 publications

References 78 publications

“It’s Us, You Know, There’s a Feeling of Community”: Exploring Notions of Community in a Consumer Co-operative

“It’s Us, You Know, There’s a Feeling of Community”: Exploring Notions of Community in a Consumer Co-operative

Liminality at Work : Mobile Project Workers In-Between

Antecedents and Consequences of the Ethical Operation Model

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