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- Gjerde, Susann, et al.
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Sandwiched : Exploring role and identity of middle managers in the genuine middle
- 2020
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Ingår i: Human Relations. - : SAGE Publications. - 0018-7267 .- 1741-282X. ; 73:1, s. 124-151
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores middle managers in the professions from their position in the sandwiched middle. Based upon interviews with senior academics in management roles and their subordinates in UK business schools, we investigate this experienced middle through a metaphor that informs one particular subject position: to be an umbrella carrier. This position entails protecting subordinates from what is seen as unnecessary and/or damaging initiatives and information from top management above, in order to allow for good professional work to take place below. This form of countermanagement, which aims to weaken hierarchical pressure rather than enforce or uphold it, is informed by a stronger identification with the profession and subordinates below than with the leader role or the superiors above, and aids the middle managers in their identity work.
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- Larsson, Magnus, et al.
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Teaching reflexive leadership at the EMBA.
- 2024
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Ingår i: Business Education in the 21st Century: Developing Discipline Competences and Transformation Capabilities by Designing for Knowledge, Values, and Action.. - 978 1 80220 268 7
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- Sveningsson, Stefan, et al.
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Organizational Psychology: When, Why, and How Is Identity Work (Less) Important in Organizational Life?
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Ingår i: The Cambridge Handbook of Identity. - : Cambridge University Press. - 9781108755146 ; , s. 586-603
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter examines if identity is as important as is often claimed, and as a consequence, when and why concerns of identity are triggered in working life, and we do so through a constructionist identity perspective. In the chapter, we argue that many people do not necessarily engage with their identities most of the time and explore why they do in certain kinds of jobs and in particular situations while in others identity is neither present nor salient, at least not as a major issue. The chapter aims to cut down the identity concept in size and suggests that a more focused view on identity may help us come to better grips with what on one level is of great societal concern: identity-related struggle, tension, and confusion in people’s working lives; without adding too much to another concern: a (re)production of unwanted narcissism in our already narcissistic time of age.
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