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Employees’ Responses to Teamwork: A Taxonomy in Relation to the Change Process
Título Evento
14th EURAM 2014
Ano (publicação definitiva)
2014
Língua
Inglês
País
Espanha
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Abstract/Resumo
This paper examines how employees make sense and shape management-initiated workplace
changes. Taking as the starting point the inconsistent findings of existing research into teamwork
and arguing for a perspective that starts with an understanding of the microscopic struggles with
management in the context of established hierarchical relationships, a new typology of
employees’ responses to teamwork is developed. It is argued that greater coherence and
integration of the social and interactive aspects of the organization of work is achieved by
defining, sorting, and searching employees’ perceptions and responses according to four
categories: prudent conformism, conservative resistance, political mobilization, and
entrepreneurial alliance. This paper concludes with a brief discussion of implications for theory
and practice.
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Palavras-chave
Workplace reforms, employees’ perspectives