Evolving and Adapting
The University of Auckland
Micro Change: When Organizational Change Is an Everyday Phenomenon
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Signe Bruskin
Grounded in a process philosophical approach, this paper concerns change as an everyday phenomenon. When employees and leaders are asked what organizational changes are the most distinctive and stressful, this empirical study shows that they point at micro changes. Thus, changes that are part of everyday activities in the organization are the ones they point out. Examples are physical moves such as getting a new desk or office. Or social changes such as getting new colleagues or a new leader. The argument is that to support and ensure that employees and leaders thrive in organizations, we need a new change vocabulary, moving away from more classic change terms such as change management and change resistance to, for example, change facilitation. By this, the paper argues that micro changes matter more to employees than recent organizational transformation.
Recrafting the Resilient Organization: Lessons from the Russia-Ukraine War View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Andrew Barney, Ralph Bathurst
The Russian-Ukrainian war has given us pause to consider resilience as a central factor in securing a positive outcome for our organizations. The missteps and miscalculations by the Russian military and political leaders, and the resistance and resilience shown by Ukrainian military and political leaders offer intriguing insights that find analogic comparisons in contemporary organizations. What can we learn from the conflict? While there are many lessons we identify one for this conference paper based on perceptions and values. We argue that how the Russians and Ukrainians see themselves determines how they act. The struggle to manage these perceptions has seen media outlets control information flows and create alternative, if not false narratives. For example, what is the effect of invoking the nomenclature “Nazi” to describe a foe, and what permissions does the term offer as a rhetorical ploy to encourage sacrificial behaviour? We are also intrigued about the autocephalous arguments made by Ukrainian religious figures to counter totalitarian Russian Orthodoxy. The bigger issue at stake here is the tendency for leaders and managers to promote unity of vision and purpose at the expense of difference and diversity. In this paper we explore the necessary embrace of difference, dialogue and heterodoxy that provide the resources for recrafting resilient organizations.
Developing a Forensic Model of Care for Victims of Police Violence View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Liz Louden
Law Enforcement (LE) Violence is not a new phenomenon, rather it is being brought to global public attention as a result of advances in technology which allow for recording and broadcasting incidents. While the true impact of such acts is difficult to quantify it is understood that the data available establishes a correlation between LE violence and numerous adverse health outcomes. The data available supports the need for a model of care specifically designed to address the needs of victims of law enforcement violence. This paper outlines the constructs utilized to develop the foundation for the model of care, presents an algorithm with general guidelines for implementation in healthcare settings where victims present for care, and presents recommendations for future research and expansion of the model of care. The views expressed in this study are those of the author(s) and do not reflect the official policy of the Department of Defense or the U.S. Government
Knowledge Sharing for Value Resilience: Lessons Learned from Activities to Rescue Endangered Resources
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Akihiro Kameda
I've developed online platforms for rescuing various endangered resources such as endangered species or cultural heritage in Japan, peatlands in Indonesia, and ephemeral online databases in the Asian region. During the projects, building cross-organizational communities was also an essential part of the activities. In this paper, first, discuss the values behind these resources and their relationship with organizations. Second, I apply or transfer some theories in organization studies to describe our activities. For example, the integration of complementary and shared knowledge in Hecker 2012 can model the importance of sharing the data model before collecting metadata in the RsDA project. A proposal for industrial disaster prevention in Maslen 2017 suggests that storytelling can be an effective social practice for sharing knowledge in the context of disaster prevention, which can be the future work of our projects. By focusing on value resilience, inter-organizational relationships or relationships with citizens become even more critical than in the context of organization resilience because, from the viewpoint of a social value, risks that an organization should foresee for its resilience are part of risks of the social value, and each risk is closely related to citizens.
