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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Sensegiving"”.
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Reflexive Sensemaking and Sensegiving: An Exploratory Study of Human Resources Analytics Practitioners
… through the theoretical lens of sensemaking and sensegiving. The study adopts a qualitative research design to collect data from 30 human resources analytics practitioners in the United Arab Emirates through the extended semi-structured narrative of practice interviews and document analysis. The …
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Sensemaking y sensegiving en un contexto intercultural : el encuentro entre Japón y Colombia
… de construcción (sensemaking) y transmisión (sensegiving) de sentido se genera en un contexto administrativo intercultural, particularmente, al interior de una multinacional nipona que opera en Colombia. Para hacerlo, se llevó a cabo un estudio de caso, desde una perspectiva cualitativa e …
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Sensemaking and sensegiving apabilities and resilience: a study of a manufacturing MSME in Kenya
… theory to explore the sensemaking and sensegiving capabilities of MSMEs in Kenya. A single case study of a manufacturing MSME in Kenya was used. The overall proposition of the study was that good sensemaking and sensegiving capabilities would assist MSMEs build resilience. Pattern- …
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Alleviating Negative Spillover of a Brand-Harm Crisis: Sensegiving vs. Sensehiding in a Competitor’s Denial Response Strategy
… strategies used to convey a sense of denial: sensegiving and sensehiding. It also investigates how the effects of response strategies are contingent upon brand relatedness and individual thinking styles. The results from three experimental studies show that using a sensegiving strategy reduces …
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How do leaders, in a multiple leader context, give sense to the same strategic change?
… Theoretically, the investigation is grounded in sensegiving (Gioia & Chittipeddi, 1991) which is recognised as an effective lens for the investigation of leadership behaviour during change. The sensegiving literature is rich in describing what leaders do when they attempt to give sense, but this …
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Sensemaking in Dynamic Business Environments: Managerial Practices in the Oil and Gas Sector in Bahrain
… literature illustrates the influence of sensegiving and sensebreaking on sensemaking, there is limited empirical research in existing literature on how middle management teams apply sensegiving and sensebreaking to influence the process. Finally, this research fills a gap in sensemaking …
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Contested Sensemaking and Everyday Leadership Practices in the Context of UK Parliamentary Select Committees
… highlights the significance of sensemaking and sensegiving to leadership while proposing that the politicised context accentuates how challenge and conflict are integral to the daily enactment of leadership, which is often more volatile and much harder work than the literature suggests. It …
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Digital Organisational Storytellers: Online Marketing as Identity Work
… the DOS does, as a process of sensemaking and sensegiving through storytelling. Taking an interpretive, qualitative approach, I engage with storytelling through the methodology by asking the DOS to tell stories during the interviews. The first contribution of the thesis includes the …
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The implementation of a new teacher evaluation model: a qualitative case study of how teachers make sense of the Marzano Evaluation Model
… The theoretical framework of sensemaking and sensegiving guided the analysis of how teachers processed the changes to their evaluation system and the role the context played in the implementation of the MTEM (Weick, 1995, Gioia & Chittipeddi, 1991). Data was collected in the form of archival …
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ORIENTATION: Sensemaking and Wayfinding in Complex Distributed Online Information Enivronments
… social interactions, and sensegiving activities. The social networks that form as individuals make sense of topics indicate the importance of participation, active engagement, language-based activities and artefact creation (such as naming concepts, creating word images, or …
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Volatile congregations : crisis sensemaking in a Southern Baptist Church
… emotion, selection, retention, identity and sensegiving were all formulated, mediated and confirmed through communication. Throughout the crisis-cycle, communication within the UBC membership exhibited a clear procession through the pre-crisis, crisis and post-crisis stages. Therefore, …
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A dual constitutive communication-based model for managerial practice diffusion
… existing knowledgeabilities as a sensemaking-sensegiving (SM-SG) process.Consequently, an incorporated practice diffusion model based on a social-constructionist perspective is built which aims to suggest how a diffusion change can be enacted as well as how it can be analysed in practical …
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Making sense of incentive experiences: a discourse analysis of middle managers’ accounts
… Third, incentive awards and practices provide sensegiving and sensebreaking cues which contribute to identity related sensemaking, not only in relation to ‘who one is’, but more often ‘who one is becoming’ or ‘who one will/can be’. Fourth, identity sensemaking by middle managers features …
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Strengthening district management as a key lever in health system strengthening: bottom up innovation in two district health systems in South Africa
… The managers used their positional authority and sensegiving skills (using carrots, sticks and sermons), to motivate staff and to develop individual, team and structural capacity. At the same time, prioritising management strengthening as part of nationally-led reforms stimulated systemic capacity …