Kompetenzzentrum für Public Management (KPM)

Forschungsprojekte

How 'new work' settings shape organizational identity beliefs

Organizational identity - the shared sense of 'who we are as an organization' – figures prominently in organizational scholarship. As a battery of ‘new work’ practices has entered the workplace – such as flexible working hours, desk sharing, teleworking, as well as agility and holacracy approaches – the context for organizational identity construction has changed substantively. Despite their prevalence in the workplace, however, the interrelation between ‘new work’ settings and processes of organizational identity construction remain theoretically underconceptualized and empirically underexplored. Thus, the study asks: how do organizational members in ‘new work’ settings construct shared organizational identity beliefs?
Funded by: Swiss NSF
Co-PI and project coordinator: Emamdeen Fohim
Project partners: Renate Meyer, Oliver Neumann, Christopher Steele, Eero Vaara