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Making out and making do: how employees resist and make organisational change work through consent in a UK bank
Author(s) -
McCabe Darren
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
new technology, work and employment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.889
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1468-005X
pISSN - 0268-1072
DOI - 10.1111/ntwe.12023
Subject(s) - normative , resistance (ecology) , context (archaeology) , work (physics) , public relations , business , sociology , marketing , political science , law , engineering , history , mechanical engineering , ecology , biology , archaeology
This article draws on fieldwork conducted in the back‐office of a major retail UK bank and explores how, when introducing change, management drew on contradictory normative and rational discourses. Its primary concern is to explore how, in this context, employees engaged in contradictory acts that combined elements of both resistance (‘making out’) and consent (‘making do’) that are difficult to disentangle. It is argued that although both are moves within the game, they can be distinguished from each other because the former works against the grain of corporate intentions, whereas the latter works with them.