Work Intensification and ambidexterity - the notions of extreme and 'everyday' experiences in emergency contexts: surfacing dynamics in the ambulance service
Work Intensification and ambidexterity - the notions of extreme and 'everyday' experiences in emergency contexts: surfacing dynamics in the ambulance service
Many organizational contexts have experienced radical changes resulting in work intensification. Whilst emergency services face evident ‘macro-extreme’ challenges (emergencies, major traumas) employees also experience parallel, everyday ‘routine’ in micro-settings. How such micro-episodes interact with macro-extreme dynamics remains under-explored providing an opportunity to extend literature on micro-foundational organizational ambidexterity. This paper empirically examines these dynamics in the UK Ambulance Service by developing a conceptual model to explore the exploitative and explorative shifts and manifestations of work intensification. The findings demonstrate a recognition of macro-type intense-extremes impacts but less appreciation of their interaction with micro-situational mundane-extremes.
Work intensification, ambulance services, everyday, extreme, organizational ambidexterity
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Wankhade, Paresh
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Stokes, Peter
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Tarba, Shlomo
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Rodgers, Peter
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2 January 2020
Wankhade, Paresh
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Stokes, Peter
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Tarba, Shlomo
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Rodgers, Peter
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Wankhade, Paresh, Stokes, Peter, Tarba, Shlomo and Rodgers, Peter
(2020)
Work Intensification and ambidexterity - the notions of extreme and 'everyday' experiences in emergency contexts: surfacing dynamics in the ambulance service.
Public Management Review, 22 (1), .
(doi:10.1080/14719037.2019.1642377).
Abstract
Many organizational contexts have experienced radical changes resulting in work intensification. Whilst emergency services face evident ‘macro-extreme’ challenges (emergencies, major traumas) employees also experience parallel, everyday ‘routine’ in micro-settings. How such micro-episodes interact with macro-extreme dynamics remains under-explored providing an opportunity to extend literature on micro-foundational organizational ambidexterity. This paper empirically examines these dynamics in the UK Ambulance Service by developing a conceptual model to explore the exploitative and explorative shifts and manifestations of work intensification. The findings demonstrate a recognition of macro-type intense-extremes impacts but less appreciation of their interaction with micro-situational mundane-extremes.
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Accepted/In Press date: 23 May 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 23 August 2019
Published date: 2 January 2020
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Work intensification, ambulance services, everyday, extreme, organizational ambidexterity
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/442301
ISSN: 1471-9037
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