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- Liff, Roy, 1951, et al.
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Experts' contribution to strategy when strategy is absent. A case study of quality experts in hospitals
- 2021
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Ingår i: Public Management Review. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1471-9037 .- 1471-9045. ; 23:9
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study investigates how new categories of experts can contribute to strategy development in public organizations. Interplay between managers and experts was analysed using principal-agent theory, stewardship theory, and partnership theory, each assigning the experts different kinds of strategic contribution. Results show that experts may contribute to an iterative and emergent strategy process as stewards through a consultative process method that lets the means guide the goals. Experts' knowledge of what other actors in the organization perceive as important guides the experts' application of the technical methods and processing.
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- Liff, Roy, 1951, et al.
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Lower-status experts' influence on health-care managers' decision-making
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Health Organization and Management. - 1477-7266. ; 35:9, s. 245-264
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate and theoretically explain how line managers and lowerstatus experts work together in public health-care organizations. Hence, this study explores how lower-status experts influence line managers’ decision-making and task prioritizing in order to guide staff experts’ cooperation and performance improvements. Design/methodology/approach – The authors used a qualitative method for data collection and analysis of the experts’ and line managers’ explanations about their cooperation. A theoretical approach of experts’ identity positioning, in terms of differences and similarities, was used in analyzing the interaction between managers and experts. Findings – This study shows that similarities and differences in positioning acts exist simultaneously. Similarity is constructed by way of strategic and professional alignment with the line managers’ core tasks. Differences stem from the distinction between knowledge-grounded skills and professional attributes such as language, analytical tools, and jargon. Lower-status experts need to leave their entrenched positions and match the professional status of line managers in both knowledge aspirations and appearance to reach a respected approach of experts’ identity positioning. Originality/value – Unlike many previous studies, this study demonstrates that similarities and differences in positioning acts exist simultaneously.
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- Liff, Roy, 1951, et al.
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Prolonged or preserved working life? Intra-organisational institutions embedded in human resource routines
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Ingår i: Ageing and Society. - 0144-686X .- 1469-1779. ; 42:8, s. 1781-1799
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this paper is to provide an understanding of why people are still retiring earlier than would have been expected, despite policies that increase the retirement age. This is a qualitative study in a large public-service organisation in Sweden focusing particularly on how human resource routines aimed at middle management tend to inhibit the promotion of a prolonged working life, despite government efforts aimed at changing these actions. The results highlight three key routines (development talks, salary talks and internal recruitment) that inhibit prolonged working life. These routines seem rational and appropriate to the organisation's managers, because the demands of the job must have priority over employees’ capabilities in recruitment routines. Furthermore, it could be considered economically rational to prioritise salary demands of younger employees over those of older employees, and it may appear economically rational to stop further training efforts for older employees. In general, then, it seems reasonable to managers to make decisions based on objective criteria like age. Nevertheless, our results suggest that these routines may need to be redesigned in order to support a prolonged working life and to avoid a discrepancy between accepted prolonged working-life policies and the actions of organisational actors. The study further reveals how intra-organisational institutions (e.g. taken-for-granted mind-sets and norms) embedded in human resource routines may promote or inhibit prolonged working life, suggesting a need for change in those institutions.
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- Liff, Roy, 1951, et al.
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Rumours and gossip demand continuous action by managers in daily working life
- 2021
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Ingår i: Culture and Organization. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 27:6, s. 456-475
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this qualitative study was to investigate why and how informal information such as rumours gains relevance for managers in relation to their workplace situations. The results demonstrated rumours not only played a role as a supplement to formal information in this study; the relationship between rumours and formal information was shown to be a relatively dynamic, complex interaction in which the various sources of information were feeding each other. Without using this informal information, it was difficult for the managers in this study to gain insight into how they should act, and to act timely. Confidence in their leadership can be harmed if managers do not listen to informal information, and that negative effects on leadership can occur when rumours switch to gossip. We concluded, from a process view on rumours, that the ability of managers to include informal information in their daily work can create trust.
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- Rovio-Johansson, Airi, 1939, et al.
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Exploring Students’ Choice of Theories as Tools in Problem-Solving: A Pilot Study
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Ingår i: International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. - 1812-9129. ; 33:2, s. 225-234
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this article is to explore why work-experienced students with up to 20 years of experience may not change their perception of professional practice when subsequently participating in practice-based learning programmes in higher education. We investigated the role of the degree of codification as operationalisation in how students choose theories to solve a practical management problem. When selecting a theory, work-experienced students may overlook the degree of codification in the theory that enables its use as an analytical tool. Previous research on novices or work-experienced students has not investigated their learning outcomes considering the features of theories students need to apply. Research findings indicate that students’ understanding of theories affects their selection of theories and their problem-solving practice. This study extends previous research on work-experienced students’ learning and contributes to the international discussion on why work-experienced students encounter difficulties in professional and practice-based learning in higher education.
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- Söderberg, Erik, et al.
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Interorganisational projects as policy implementors?
- 2021
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Ingår i: Paper presented at: Sub-theme 46: Multi-level Approaches to Temporary Inter-organizing. EGOS Colloquium; Amsterdam, 8th – 10th July 2021.
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- Söderberg, Erik, et al.
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Reframing practice through policy implementation projects in different knowledge contexts
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Ingår i: International Journal of Project Management. - : Elsevier BV. - 0263-7863. ; 41:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Policy-implementing projects in public-sector organisations have gained increasing importance over the last two decades, but policymakers have difficulty influencing practices in the host organisation. We studied how the intentions behind a public-health policy influence two differing school contexts of teachers and kitchen staff. The actors interpreted the policymakers' intentions in relation to their different knowledge contexts in different ways and with different outcomes for policy-implementation projects. We analysed the reason for this finding using the concept of frame alignment. The policymaker tried to use both ideological and instrumental efforts in reframing practice (in both contexts). We discovered the negative consequences of an inability to use instrumental efforts. We further discovered difficulty in upholding the conditions of a project, especially given the sensitive face-to-face interactions in a bottom-up policy process. The results also led us to question the idea that a project is successful merely because the demarcation is successful.
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- Wikström, Ewa, 1967, et al.
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Organisational Capability for Delayed Retirement
- 2022
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Ingår i: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Capability in Age and Ageing. Red: Hanna Falk Erhag, Ulrika Lagerlöf Nilsson, Therese Rydberg Sterner, Ingmar Skoog. - : Springer. - 9783030780654 ; , s. 221-232
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