What lies beneath resilience: Analyzing the affective-relational basis of shared leadership in the Chilean miners’ catastrophe

Leadership ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 174271502098606
Author(s):  
Matías Sanfuentes ◽  
Francisco Valenzuela ◽  
Alejandro Castillo
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Shared Leadership ◽  
Work Capacity ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Catastrophic Events ◽  
Below Ground ◽  
Collective Sensemaking ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Modes Of Interaction

This article addresses how shared forms of leadership can activate resilient organizing to cope with catastrophic events by examining the case of the 33 Chilean miners’ rescue who survived confinement at 600 m below ground for 69 days. Qualitative analysis of interview and document data reveals how the miners as a group engaged in the sharing of agency vis-a-vis the task of absorbing strain and anxiety, thus enabling a sophisticated work capacity and a constructive relational dynamic. The miners’ resilient capabilities emerged from the activation of collective resources in three distinct yet complementary modes of interaction: self-organization, collaboration, and mutual caring. Our empirical findings indicate that the distribution of agency becomes essential for the promotion of both collective sensemaking and emotional containment in contexts of crisis. By accounting for such affective-relational underpinning of the sharing of leadership, this article contributes a more nuanced understanding of crisis management and the organization of positive, constructive responses to adversity, breakdown, and conflict.

scholarly journals "Heightened Mindfulness" in Government Decision Makers: Antecedents and Consequents During Crisis Management in the Emerging Interactive Information Environment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ravindra Singh Bangari
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
National Level ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Societal Implications ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Public Leadership ◽  
The Media ◽  
Nuanced Understanding

Mindfulness in decision makers has important implications for public leadership. A more nuanced understanding of mindfulness emerges from our grounded research into three national-level crises in the emerging interactive information environment, faced by the Indian government, wherein, the media, stakeholders and the interactive information environment combined to bring the visibility factor to fore, influencing significant aspects of individual, group, organisational and societal sensemaking, framing, cognition, and behavioural responses, amidst ongoing interactions. The research led to identification of a micro-level framework, comprising the antecedents and consequents of the occurrence of “heightened mindfulness” in decision makers in the emerging interactive information environment; leading to a better understanding of the process of influence of the ongoing interactions in the emerging information environment on decision making and crisis management. This “heightened mindfulness” in decision makers and its influence on crisis decision making, in turn, are particularly significant because of their wider organisational and societal implications. The research findings and the proposed framework of crisis decision making have important implications for governments and public leadership in their decision making effectiveness during similar crises.<br>

scholarly journals "Heightened Mindfulness" in Government Decision Makers: Antecedents and Consequents During Crisis Management in the Emerging Interactive Information Environment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ravindra Singh Bangari
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
National Level ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Societal Implications ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Public Leadership ◽  
The Media ◽  
Nuanced Understanding

Mindfulness in decision makers has important implications for public leadership. A more nuanced understanding of mindfulness emerges from our grounded research into three national-level crises in the emerging interactive information environment, faced by the Indian government, wherein, the media, stakeholders and the interactive information environment combined to bring the visibility factor to fore, influencing significant aspects of individual, group, organisational and societal sensemaking, framing, cognition, and behavioural responses, amidst ongoing interactions. The research led to identification of a micro-level framework, comprising the antecedents and consequents of the occurrence of “heightened mindfulness” in decision makers in the emerging interactive information environment; leading to a better understanding of the process of influence of the ongoing interactions in the emerging information environment on decision making and crisis management. This “heightened mindfulness” in decision makers and its influence on crisis decision making, in turn, are particularly significant because of their wider organisational and societal implications. The research findings and the proposed framework of crisis decision making have important implications for governments and public leadership in their decision making effectiveness during similar crises.<br>

Husserl’s epoche and the way of the sword: exploring pathways into phenomenological inquiry

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 391-402
Author(s):  
Bradley Edward Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Critical Incident ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Continental Philosophy ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Phenomenological Inquiry ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Nuanced Understanding

Purpose Phenomenology is widely recognised for its power to generate nuanced understanding of lived experience and human existence. However, phenomenology is often made inaccessible to prospective researchers due to its specialised nomenclature and dense philosophical underpinnings. This paper explores the value of the researcher’s lived experience as a pathway into phenomenological inquiry. The purpose of this paper is to improve the accessibility of phenomenology as a method for qualitative analysis. It achieves this by aligning Husserl’s concept of phenomenological epoche, or bracketing of preconceptions, and the author’s lived experience as a practitioner of kendo, or Japanese fencing. Design/methodology/approach The paper employs the narrative vignette as a means of illuminating the intersections between kendo practice and the application of phenomenological epoche as it applies to the understanding of embodied sensemaking. Reflections on the narrative vignette identified a suite of techniques from kendo practice that were applied to a phenomenological approach for critical incident interviews. These techniques were then applied to 30 critical incident, semi-structured interviews as part of a PhD research project into embodied sensemaking. Findings The results from these interviews suggest that the kendo-derived techniques were effective in generating thick narratives from participants during semi-structured interviews. Examination of the results provided insights into the linkage between phenomenology as a continental philosophy and eastern perspectives such as those found within the Zen traditions and other aesthetic practices. Originality/value This research suggests that lived experience such as kendo practice can provide a ready-to-hand pathway to phenomenological inquiry.

Legitimizing a practice across fields: microprocesses of theorization of Design Thinking

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-187
Author(s):  
Harsh Kumar Jha ◽  
Dimitry Jacob
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Archival Data ◽  
Field Level ◽  
Management Knowledge ◽  
Nuanced Understanding

Abstract Legitimizing a practice is a challenging task because it has to be constantly made understandable and meaningful to prospective users. Garnering such legitimacy is critical for successful practice diffusion and potential institutionalization. The process of theorization—rendering of ideas into understandable and compelling formats—is considered central to legitimacy construction. However, we still have a limited understanding of the specific mechanisms through which theorization happens. In this article, we address this issue by examining the microprocesses through which the practice of Design Thinking (DT) was theorized by its proponents in the field of business management. We undertook qualitative analysis, using grounded theory, of archival data. Our analysis revealed three key microprocesses: appropriation (presenting DT as a solution to abstract field-level problems), assimilation (integrating DT with current vocabularies and legacy practices within user organizations), and adaptation (redefining DT in order to resolve contradictions with legacy practices within organizations). This study makes two contributions. First, to the literature on theorization by explicating key microprocesses underlying theorization and providing a nuanced understanding of how legitimacy and theorization may be linked. Second, to the literature on management knowledge production, by showing how management practices and concepts may be contextualized and interlinked.

scholarly journals Crisis Management for Small Business during the COVID-19 Outbreak:Survival, Resilience and Renewal Strategies of Firms in Macau

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose C ALVES ◽  
Tan Cheng LOK ◽  
YuBo LUO ◽  
Wei HAO
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Product Diversification ◽  
Survival Strategies ◽  
Response Strategies ◽  
High Flexibility ◽  
Crisis Plan

Abstract We know that small businesses are vulnerable to crisis, however little is still known about how they cope during long crisis as the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper provides a qualitative analysis of small businesses in Macau, China, in the months following the outbreak. We collected interview data from six local small firms. We found that the sudden decline in demand has the strongest impact on small firms. As compared with large firms, new startups and small firms show high flexibility in their reactions to the crisis, partly due to the low level of bureaucracy and limited social responsibility compliance. Among the various types of response strategies, all participant firms adopted flexible HR strategies. Other common survival strategies include the increase of product diversification, exploration of new markets, and increase of learning. We also found that some small businesses had a formal crisis plan and strategy before the outbreak, and these firms tend to have longer history, experience in dealing with crisis, and operate in more regulated sectors. Based on these results, we define five types of renewal and survival strategies for small businesses and propose a SME crisis resilience model.

scholarly journals Shared leadership: Struggles over meaning in daily instances of uncertainty

Leadership ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 522-545
Author(s):  
Gyuzel Gadelshina
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Shared Leadership ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Fine Grain ◽  
Organizational Sensemaking ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Organizational Roles ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Empirical Demonstration

Research presented in this article advances existing work on shared leadership and organizational sensemaking by an empirical demonstration of the organizing properties of leadership in daily instances of uncertainty. Drawing on conversation analysis combined with ethnographic data collected during 12-month fieldwork, this article spells out the conversational mechanisms and discursive practices used by leadership actors in the process of sensemaking directed towards organizationally relevant goals. Through a fine-grain analysis of an extended troubles-telling sequence in a particular meeting encounter, this study shows how conversation analysis–inspired research can be used to add a more nuanced understanding of a substantive area of social life, such as shared leadership which is achieved in interaction and which involves various leadership actors, regardless of their hierarchical positions and organizational roles.

scholarly journals Experiences of Burnout Syndrome and the Process of Recovery : A Qualitative Analysis of Narratives Published in Autobiographies

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-37
Author(s):  
Jaana Krantz ◽  
Madelen Eriksson ◽  
Martin Salzmann-Erikson
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Work Capacity ◽  
Burnout Syndrome ◽  
Family And Work ◽  
Analysis Of Narratives

Burnout syndrome limits work capacity and the ability to manage a social and family life. Such limitations may lead to alienation from oneself and can result in frustration and anger. The recovery process may include a search for quick fixes from professionals but responsibility is in the hands of the ill with support from professionals, family, and work. Learning about limitations, the need to rest and accepting illness, are vital in the recovery process, but they are also associated with feelings of shame and blaming oneself for causing one’s own burnout by neglecting bodily signals.

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