Identity dynamics as a barrier to organizational change
Beech, P.N.H. and MacIntosh, R. and McInnes, P.A. (2006) Identity dynamics as a barrier to organizational change. International Journal of Public Administration, 29 (12). pp. 1109-1124. ISSN 0190-0692 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01900690600854779)
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This article seeks to explore the construction of group and professional identities in situations of organizational change. It considers empirical material drawn from a health demonstration project funded by the Scottish Executive Health Department, and uses insights from this project to discuss issues that arise from identity construction(s) and organizational change. In the course of the project studied here, a new organizational form was developed which involved a network arrangement with a voluntary sector organization and the employment of 'lay-workers' in what had traditionally been a professional setting. Our analysis of the way actors made sense of their identities reveals that characterizations of both self and other became barriers to the change process. These identity dynamics were significant in determining the way people interpreted and responded to change within this project and which may relate to other change-oriented situations.
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Item type: Article ID code: 9470 Dates: DateEvent2006PublishedSubjects: Social Sciences > Industries. Land use. Labor > Management. Industrial Management Department: Strathclyde Business School > Strategy and Organisation
Strathclyde Business School > Graduate School of BusinessDepositing user: Strathprints Administrator Date deposited: 23 Mar 2010 13:59 Last modified: 08 Apr 2024 16:40 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/9470