Joint OSA and P&P (Practise & Process) seminar

On 22 February at 12:00 in room 2628-303, there will be a joint OSA and P&P (Practise & Process) seminar by Maria Bak Skov and Jesper Rosenberg Hansen entitled:

The challenge of multiple change initiatives: How interfering practices damage trust and undermine change

Abstract
This paper investigates how trust plays out in the context of multiple change initiatives, focusing on trust as an outcome of constructed dynamic interactions between changes. It draws on findings from a case study of realizing multiple change initiatives to develop a conceptual model of the critical role of trust in undermining change. Our study identifies three practices of interfering multiple change initiatives – cumulating changes, prioritizing changes, and emphasizing conflicts between changes – that elicit three interdependent employee perceptions of trust – management trust in them, trust in management-, and trust in change – and in doing so, shape the unfolding responses to the change initiatives. The findings contribute to the literature in two ways. First, it extends knowledge of the dynamics between change initiatives, illustrating the interactions between changes, how employees construct these interactions, and how the interactions shape responses to change. Second, the study contributes to the practice and trust literature by offering a new perceptive on trust as continual constructs.

Everyone is welcome!