Theorizing on the connection between employee involvement and mindful organizing

JANEČKOVÁ, Martina, Peter KELEMEN and Eva BORN. Theorizing on the connection between employee involvement and mindful organizing. In the 2nd Organization Theory Workshop. 2021.

Basic information

• Original name: Theorizing on the connection between employee involvement and mindful organizing
• Authors: JANEČKOVÁ, Martina, Peter KELEMEN and Eva BORN.
• Edition: the 2nd Organization Theory Workshop, 2021.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Presentations at conferences
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: 2nd Organization Theory Workshop
• Organization unit: Faculty of Economics and Administration
• Keywords in English: employee involvement; mindful organizing; knowledge; language - information - reality scheme of analysis
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

Mindfulness has been conceptualized both on the individual level (Langer, 1989) and on the organizational level (Weick & Sutcliffe, 2015). While the link between these two levels has been proposed to rest on bottom-up processes with a special role for middle-managers (Vogus & Sutcliffe, 2012), a theoretical foundation of the concrete mechanisms is lacking. This paper aims to deliver such a foundation based on, first, relating the proposed aspects of mindful organizing to types of knowledge and, second, by describing employee involvement as establishing mappings between these different types of knowledge.