Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen- PhD
- Professor (Associate) at Copenhagen Business School
Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen
- PhD
- Professor (Associate) at Copenhagen Business School
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Self-management has been explored in research for more than half a century and is said to be linked to several positive effects ranging from a more egalitarian and democratic structure to enhanced productivity, improved quality of work and greater adaptability. More recently, the self-managing organization (SMO) has emerged as a novel organizationa...
Drawing on a qualitative case study consisting of interviews with Danish police trainees, patrol officers, and police detectives, this article explores police endorsement of myths surrounding male-perpetrated intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) and its influence on police response to IPVAW incidents. The findings show that police office...
Boredom may take different forms depending on the setting. However, most existing literature portrays it as a negative phenomenon for both individuals and organisations. While boredom is studied primarily via controlled laboratory experiments and questionnaire-based studies, past research has been criticised for neglecting to understand workers’ ex...
Working from home has not only attracted attention during the Covid-19 pandemic but has been researched for a long time in connection with topics such as the flexibilization of work, digitalisation and changing values. Central issues around the organisational and societal phenomenon of working from home are linked to the resources and strains of em...
The negative impacts of grades on students’ approach to learning and well-being have renewed the interest in gradeless learning in higher education, with the current literature focusing on the positive outcomes for students, including the advancement of student learning, reduced stress, increased motivation, and enhanced performance. While the idea...
The literature shows that some police officers develop cynicism early in their careers, i.e., develop a critical or distrusting attitude that is often aimed towards citizens. Despite a recent increase in societal focus on how citizens experience interaction with the police, we have only a limited understanding of how cynicism develops in Scandinavi...
Fear of contamination is central to our thinking about ‘dirty work’, that is, tasks and occupations that carry a stigma due to being perceived as having degrading, disgusting, or immoral qualities. However, most existing literature focuses on the symbolic dimension of taint, particularly, dirty workers’ cognitive, ideological tactics to counter tai...
Conflict in organizations takes many forms. However, most existing literature on organizational conflict focuses on overt forms of conflict expression and handling. While covert conflict exists and shapes the collective organizing of conflict in organizations, the relationship between overt and covert forms of conflict has not yet been well explica...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore whether there is a link between retrospective and prospective sensemaking by analyzing metaphors of past and potential future changes.
Design/methodology/approach
The article draws on interview data from employees, team managers and middle managers at an IT department of a Nordic bank.
Findings
The...
A critical but overlooked issue in Weick’s seminal work, The Social Psychology of Organizing (1969/1979), concerns “the heat” of organizing processes, namely, the underground emotional processes underpinning the organizing of conflictual work relationships. We present a qualitative case study of psychiatric agencies mandated by public policy to col...
An important but understudied issue in the study of organisational sensemaking concerns how power and politics influence sensemaking processes, specifically the political struggles immanent in collective processes of meaning construction and organising. When people are located at different areas and levels in the organisational hierarchy and they d...
In this conceptual essay, we review the field of organizational conflict to unpack how it has been constructed genealogically and with what consequences by investigating three major shifts in theorization that have occurred over the past six decades. First, a move away from viewing conflict as dysfunctional to viewing it as constructive. Second, a...
Diverse and often unacknowledged assumptions underlie organizational conflict research. In this essay, we identify distinct ways of conceptualizing conflict in the theoretical domain of organizational conflict with the aim of setting a new critical agenda for reflexivity in conflict research. In doing so, we first apply a genealogical approach to s...
I denne artikel præsenteres et kritisk perspektiv på de ændrede organisationsformer, der særligt ses inden for den offentlige sektor. Her samarbejdes der i højere grad om kerneopgaven på tværs af faggrupper, organisationer og sektorer, men mange tiltag gennemføres ofte på baggrund af besparelser, hvor mere samarbejde bliver svaret på effektiviserin...
This article examines four contemporary treatments of the problem of organizational conflict: social psychological, anthropological, neo-Darwinian, and neo-Machiavellian. Social psychological treatments of organizational conflict focus on the dyadic relationship between individual disputants. In contrast, anthropological treatments take a more soci...
Konflikter på arbejdet har stor betydning for trivslen på arbejdet og for oplevelsen af arbejdsmiljøet. Mit fokus på konflikter i denne artikel tager en lidt anden drejning, end konfliktforskning vanligt gør. I stedet for feks. at tage udgangspunkt i om konflikterne er opgave-eller relationsrelaterede, en distinktion som har vundet stor indpas i fo...
Some mental health service users need support from both hospital-based and community-based services. Treatment requires well-functioning collaboration practices between different mental health organizations and professions. However, serious cross-sector problems of collaboration have existed in Danish psychiatry since the 1980s when mental health s...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to display and critically reflect upon how field experiences in the research process interacted with the author's subjectivity and shaped her construction of knowledge about organisational conflict.
Design/methodology/approach
Drawing on Weick's theoretical framework of sensemaking and the notion of reflexivity...
This ethnographic study illustrates how staff and management's sensemaking in conflict in a clerical unit in a Scandinavian nonprofit organization is shaped by institutionalized meanings. Staff and management draw on three institutionalized frameworks when making sense of conflict: The defective personality framework, the diversity framework, and t...
While many organisations offer conflict management training to both staff and management, there has been little research investigating the changes resulting from such training. Using an interpretive framework of analysis, a qualitative case study was conducted to understand how 'sensemakings' about conflicts change when enacted from the perspective...
In this paper it is described how the work of the Balay Rehabilitation Centre in the Philippines has changed over time as the political and human rights conditions of the country's affected areas have changed. Balay's psychosocial rehabilitation programmes address the needs of individuals and communities and offer support and healing. Originally Ba...
This article examines psycho-educational programmes for asylum-seekers and tortured refugees at the Danish Red Cross Asylum Department and Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture victims respectively. The psycho-education programme is based on a cognitive theoretical framework. However, it is argued that the processes observed during the pro...
This article presents a community approach to supporting people affected by organised violence and torture in post-conflict Guatemala. Through an observation of a reflection group session and focus group interviews conducted with participants in a community reflection group for women, it is shown how the practical work carried out through the ODHAG...
Denne artikel beskriver torturens formål og egenskaber og ser på, hvordan denne strategi bruges af totalitære regimer til at straffe og/eller ødelægge mennesker for at undertrykke dem. Torturen forvolder ofret dybe traumer og ødelægger dennes basale tillid og evne til at fungere i livet. Tortur er meget udbredt i verden. Det er nødvendigt at behand...
