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ENACTING NEW PERSPECTIVES THROUGH WORK ACTIVITIES DURING ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION
Author(s) -
Bartunek Jean M.,
Ringuest Jeffrey L.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of management studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.398
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1467-6486
pISSN - 0022-2380
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6486.1989.tb00744.x
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , order (exchange) , work (physics) , public relations , transformation (genetics) , organizational change , sociology , organizational studies , organization development , management , political science , business , computer science , engineering , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , chemistry , finance , artificial intelligence , economics , gene
This article explores a behavioural counterpart to the changes in interpretive schemes that characterize organizational transformation. It investigates the experiences of organizational members (especially lower level members) who introduce new perspectives through the work they carry out during transformation. Results of a multi‐year study in a religious order undergoing transformation indicated that members engaged in work that enacted a new perspective were less likely than other members to be appointed to organizational committees and more likely to leave the order. Members involved in work enacting a new perspective who remained in the order came to perceive themselves as less important to leaders but more influential in the order than other members did.