Productive resistance: A study of change, emotions, and identity in the context of the Apostolic Visitation of U.S. women religious, 2008–2012

Giorgi, Simona; Guider, Margaret Eletta; Bartunek, Jean M.

doi:10.1108/s0733-558x_2014_0000041016

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“…Over time, however, women religious crafted a new identity as 'Gospel Women' that asserted their centrality within the Church and prompted a favorable change in leadership (Giorgi, Guider, & Bartunek, 2014). Similarly, before introducing any sort of change, LGBT Protestant ministers engaged in identity work to first accept their sexual orientation and then reconcile it with their religious commitments (Creed et al, 2010).…”

Section: Identity Work and The Management Of Institutional Contradictmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Scholars have recently argued that identity work hinges on the skillful use of cultural resources to increase individuals' collective awareness as the first step to laying the foundations for institutional change (Creed et al, 2010;Giorgi et al, 2014). In this article we complement this work by bringing attention to the importance of symbolic boundaries -'conceptual distinctions made by social actors to categorize objects, people, practices, and even time and space' (Lamont & Molnár, 2002, p. 168) -as an instrument for effective identity work.…”

Section: Identity Work As Symbolic Boundariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Sober Intoxication: Institutional Contradictions and Identity Work in the Everyday Life of Four Religious Communities in Italy

Giorgi

Palmisano

2017

Organization Studies

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This study explores how organization members manage institutional contradictions in their everyday life without aiming at change-oriented agency. Drawing on interviews, observations, and archival data from four religious communities in Italy, we find that when organization members experience institutional contradictions between two logics that provide conflicting identity prescriptions but to which they are emotionally attached, they engage in identity work that helps them ameliorate-but not eliminate-tensions that surface when identity elements do not align. More specifically, identity work proved integral to reaching a temporary identity truce, or reconciliation of experienced contradictions, through distancing from illegitimate others and embedding of one's identity within an established tradition. These findings draw attention to the role of contradictions in institutional maintenance, extending theory that has tended to focus on the experience of contradictions as a source of institutional change. We discuss implications for managing institutional contradictions in everyday organizational life.

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Section: Identity Work and The Management Of Institutional Contradictmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Identity Work As Symbolic Boundariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sober Intoxication: Institutional Contradictions and Identity Work in the Everyday Life of Four Religious Communities in Italy

Giorgi

Palmisano

2017

Organization Studies

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“…An organization's ethical identity is often believed to be the result of an ethicalization process (Gray and Balmer 2001;Romani and Szkudlarek 2014). In this process, it is surmised that ethical beliefs/viewpoints prevailing in an organization can contradict with existing organizational prescriptions, which either requires a transformation or resolution (Voronov and Vince 2012) to create a new consciousness of organizational identity (Giorgi et al 2014;Giorgi and Palmisano 2017). A mismatch might appear between the personal understandings of organizational members and the ethical ideals being promoted by an organization, or it may arise from members' encounters with stakeholders that challenge the understandings of the organization's ethical beliefs (Alvesson and Willmott 2002;Klein 2001).…”

Section: Ethical Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Identity Drift: The Multivocality of Ethical Identity in Islamic Financial Institution

2020

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In today's neo-liberalist world, Islamic financial institutions (IFIs) face many difficulties combining contemporary financial thinking with Islamic, faith-based principles, on which their day-today operations ought to be based. Hence, IFI are likely to experience shifts/changes in organizational and ethical identity due to tensions that the combination of these principles invokes. We present an in-depth case study that focuses on these shifts in a major European based IFI across a 14-year period. We conceptualize identity change as drift, highlighting the multivocal nature of identity construction. The ethico-faith principles that were meant to serve as living codes of ethics guiding the IFI's organizational culture, operational processes, and strategy formation turned out to mainly have been discursively rationalized to respond to regulatory, market and institutional imperatives. The company is aware that it needs to engage in a continuous dialogue with those who set these requirements. Its ethico-faith principles may consequently be adapted quite radically, especially in periods of turmoil and takeover, as we show across the analysed time period. The paper provides valuable insights for faith-inspired organizations to reflect on the extent to which they wish to engage in the discursive justification and legitimization of current market hegemonies, whilst they actively encourage their managers to behave ethically as well.

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“…Those who enter EOs have a divine motivation (Carrell, 2009), a calling from God, and they embark on "a career in the service of the Church" (Fichter, 1961, p. xiii). According to the 1917 Code of Canon Law, priests and sisters take the fundamental vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience (Giorgi, Guider, & Bartunek, 2014). Obedience traditionally involved unquestioning compliance with Church authority, which is considered to be of divine origin (Fichter, 1961;Garner, 2016).…”

Section: Eosmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Obedience traditionally involved unquestioning compliance with Church authority, which is considered to be of divine origin (Fichter, 1961;Garner, 2016). Today, it is marked by somewhat more consultation and shared decision-making (Gervais & Watson, 2014;Giorgi et al, 2014;USCCB, 2001). Despite this increased consultative role, the hierarchy is clearly defined, and EOs are socialized to accept the superiors' authority regardless of their personal qualities (Fichter, 1961).…”

Section: Eosmentioning

confidence: 99%

Superior–Subordinate Aggressive Communication Among Catholic Priests and Sisters in the United States

Chory

Horan

Raposo³

2019

Management Communication Quarterly

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The Roman Catholic Church is one of the world’s largest and oldest organizations, yet communication among its members serving in ecclesiastical occupations (e.g., priests) remains relatively unexplored. The present study addresses this paucity of research by examining the relationship between 145 U.S. priests’ and sisters’ perceptions of their religious superiors’ aggressive communication and perceptions of the superiors’ credibility, as well as their own experiences of job and vocational satisfaction, motivation, and organizational commitment. Results indicated that superior verbal aggressiveness was associated with priests’ and sisters’ job motivation, organizational commitment, and perceptions of superior credibility, whereas superior argumentativeness only predicted perceptions of superior competence. The pattern of findings also suggests that superior aggressive communication functions differently across the ecclesiastical occupations studied, with diocesan priests appearing to be most influenced by their superiors’ aggressive communication and sisters seemingly the least influenced. Implications for management and organizational communication research and the Catholic Church are discussed.

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Productive resistance: A study of change, emotions, and identity in the context of the Apostolic Visitation of U.S. women religious, 2008–2012

Cited by 6 publications

References 45 publications

Sober Intoxication: Institutional Contradictions and Identity Work in the Everyday Life of Four Religious Communities in Italy

Sober Intoxication: Institutional Contradictions and Identity Work in the Everyday Life of Four Religious Communities in Italy

Identity Drift: The Multivocality of Ethical Identity in Islamic Financial Institution

Superior–Subordinate Aggressive Communication Among Catholic Priests and Sisters in the United States

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