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Induction – organizational renewal and the maintenance of status quo
Jonas Sprogøe,Bente Elkjaer +1 more
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In this article, a qualitative study of induction practices in two branches of a Danish retail bank and a Danish management consulting company is presented, based on 30 semi-structured interviews and on some observations in the case companies.Abstract:
Purpose – Induction is the process of newcomers entering and becoming part of an organization. In one sense newcomers represent an opportunity for organizations to learn and change, but in another sense newcomers are instigated into an existing institutional order. The purpose of this paper is to explore how induction of newcomers can be understood as both organizational renewal and the maintenance of status quo, and to develop ways of describing this in terms of learning.Design/methodology/approach – The paper is designed as a qualitative study of induction practices in two branches of a Danish retail bank and a Danish management consulting company. The data are based on 30 semi‐structured interviews and on some observations in the case companies. The data have subsequently been analyzed phenomenologically and thematically in light of a pragmatist understanding of learning.Findings – The paper provides two main findings. The duality of induction, in terms of organizational renewal and the maintenance of ...read more
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