Translating macro-ideas into micro-level practices: The role of social interactions

Vossen, Emma; Gestel, Nicolette van

doi:10.1016/j.scaman.2018.12.001

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“…Therefore, we propose to add interpersonal dynamics as an additional level besides factors on the individual and organizational level ( Rugulies and Aust, 2019 ). Consequently, supervisors and OHPs should address and evaluate the employee’s experience of mechanisms on the interpersonal level, such as perceived support, value and respect, trust, and safety ( D’Amato and Zijlstra, 2010 ; Harvey et al, 2017 ; Vossen and Van Gestel, 2019 ; van Hees et al, 2021b ).…”

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“…These statements could contribute to practical guidelines for supervisors on increasing awareness, skills on matching work toward employees’ needs and abilities, offered through training by OHPs. On a proximal layer, more interventions, initiated and implemented by organizations and senior managers, are needed to increase mental health literacy ( Moll, 2014 ; Vossen and Van Gestel, 2019 ), e.g., through positive psychology in organizations ( Van Woerkom et al, 2021 ). A multilayered strategy may cultivate a culture of support and influence successful implementation ( Rycroft-Malone et al, 2004 ).…”

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Promoting Factors to Stay at Work Among Employees With Common Mental Health Problems: A Multiple-Stakeholder Concept Mapping Study

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Most individuals affected by common mental health problems are employed and actually working. To promote stay at work by workplace interventions, it is crucial to understand the factors perceived by various workplace stakeholders, and its relative importance. This concept mapping study therefore explores perspectives of employees with common mental health problems (n = 18), supervisors (n = 17), and occupational health professionals (n = 14). Per stakeholder group, participants were interviewed to generate statements. Next, each participant sorted these statements on relatedness and importance. For each group, a concept map was created, using cluster analysis. Finally, focus group discussions were held to refine the maps. The three concept maps resulted in several clustered ideas that stakeholders had in common, grouped by thematic analysis into the following meta-clusters: (A) Employee’s experience of autonomy in work (employee’s responsibility, freedom to exert control, meaningful work), (B) Supervisor support (being proactive, connected, and involved), (C) Ways to match employee’s capacities to work (job accommodations), (D) Safe social climate in workplace (transparent organizational culture, collective responsibility in teams, collegial support), and (E) professional and organizational support, including collaboration with occupational health professionals. Promoting stay at work is a dynamic process that requires joined efforts by workplace stakeholders, in which more attention is needed to the interpersonal dynamics between employer and employee. Above all, a safe and trustful work environment, in which employee’s autonomy, capacities, and needs are addressed by the supervisor, forms a fundamental base to stay at work.

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Promoting Factors to Stay at Work Among Employees With Common Mental Health Problems: A Multiple-Stakeholder Concept Mapping Study

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“…The ANT emphasizes the interactions between organizational actors [31,43]. As per the ANT, the implementation of innovation can be regarded as a process of translation in which human beings are not passive actors but actively participate in its adoption and implementation [11,44]. For instance, during the translation of an innovation, organizational actors engage in actions to change the interests of other actors to achieve the stated objectives of the innovation, thereby mobilizing organizational actors to join a network of interests group [45].…”

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Exploring the Configuration of Institutional Practices—A Case Study of Innovation Implementation in Healthcare

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In this study we provide a fine-grained description of the micro-processes of innovation through a qualitative study of the implementation of telemedicine innovation in a healthcare organization. Our qualitative analysis uses a mix of participant interviews, observation techniques and archival data sources. We use the concept of translation to describe the movement of ideas and practices through social interrelationships. Our results suggest that the implementation of innovation involving changes in extant institutional practices is a result of a translation during which actors assess not only their specific role within a given institutional practice but also how their actions influence the broad outcome. Our results bring to the fore the role that interactions between organizational actors and institutional practices play in the implementation of innovation. Consistent with the translation perspective, our results suggest that the implementation of innovation is mainly an organizational change process facilitated by a concurrence of meaning or the lack of it lack among organizational actors. Our study provides new evidence on the institutional practices that are created, maintained, modified as well as disrupted during the implementation of externally developed innovation.

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“…While institutional theory (i.e. translation) has identified a micro-level, bottom-up approach to institutions, it mainly focuses on the performative role of language, symbols and editing in translation, leaving the ‘micro-interaction’ among different actors largely unnoticed (Vossen and van Gestel, 2019). As boundary spanners facilitating social interaction, PR can fill this gap by unpacking the co-creational, interactive meaning-making between translators (coders) and recipients (decoders).…”

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The articulation of ‘agency’: How can public relations scholarship and institutional theory enrich each other?

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2020

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A recent critical turn to both public relations and institutional studies has highlighted ‘agency’ as a shared important theme. While public relations scholars call to bring back ‘agency’ into analysis of practice and process of public relations, neo-institutionalists use ‘agency’ to explain heterogeneity and innovation in institutional outcomes. In this context, this article proposes to use ‘agency’ as a meeting ground to explore how the two disciplines could engage in a dialogue that improves mutual understanding and theoretical enrichment of each other. It argues that institutional thoughts such as ‘embedded agency’, ‘institutional entrepreneurship’ and ‘institutional work’ advance understandings of the downplayed issues of power, diversity and activism in the public relations literature. In turn, the multi-paradigmatic public relations scholarship provides useful tools for analysing institutional agency. Also, this article discusses future research agenda to advance fruitful collaboration between the two domains.

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Translating macro-ideas into micro-level practices: The role of social interactions

Cited by 18 publications

References 44 publications

Promoting Factors to Stay at Work Among Employees With Common Mental Health Problems: A Multiple-Stakeholder Concept Mapping Study

Promoting Factors to Stay at Work Among Employees With Common Mental Health Problems: A Multiple-Stakeholder Concept Mapping Study

Exploring the Configuration of Institutional Practices—A Case Study of Innovation Implementation in Healthcare

The articulation of ‘agency’: How can public relations scholarship and institutional theory enrich each other?

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