Taking the time: remembering values-based legacy to serve organizational purposes

IF 0.8 4区管理学 Q1 HISTORY

Management & Organizational History Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI:10.1080/17449359.2023.2238678

Gry Espedal

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Abstract

ABSTRACT How is a values-based legacy worked on in organizations to influence organizational members’ practices to bring forward the organizational purpose? Earlier studies have highlighted the process of remembering the organization’s motto as a way of recontextualizing the past, as well as the leaders’ role in recalling values. In analyzing both pioneers and contemporary leaders of a 150-year-old values-based nonprofit healthcare organization, this study find that the pioneers’ ideals, values, purposes, and intentions are remembered in contemporary leaders’ work of maintaining and bringing forward the values-based legacy. The work is based on the four micro-processes of openness, anchoring the practice in history, realization of values, and relational practices. The micro-processes are enhanced by mechanisms such as religious and historical inspiration, processes of expectation and interpretation, as well as enacting compassion and quality through relational work. The work of remembering institutional values has established a moral awareness and ethical sensitivity in the organization toward the maintenance of the mission of reaching out to marginalized groups of patients.

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慢慢来：记住基于价值观的遗产，为组织目的服务

摘要：基于价值观的遗产是如何在组织中发挥作用，以影响组织成员的实践，从而实现组织目标的？早期的研究强调了记住组织座右铭的过程，这是一种将过去重新文本化的方式，以及领导者在回忆价值观方面的作用。在分析一个有150年历史的基于价值观的非营利医疗保健组织的先驱和当代领导人时，本研究发现，在当代领导人维护和发扬基于价值观遗产的工作中，先驱的理想、价值观、目的和意图被铭记。这部作品基于开放、锚定历史实践、价值实现和关系实践四个微观过程。微观过程通过宗教和历史灵感、期望和解释过程以及通过关系工作产生同情心和品质等机制得到加强。记住制度价值观的工作在组织中建立了道德意识和伦理敏感性，以维护接触边缘化患者群体的使命。

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1.10

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16.70%

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期刊介绍： Management & Organizational History (M&OH) is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal that aims to publish high quality, original, academic research concerning historical approaches to the study of management, organizations and organizing. The journal addresses issues from all areas of management, organization studies, and related fields. The unifying theme of M&OH is its historical orientation. The journal is both empirical and theoretical. It seeks to advance innovative historical methods. It facilitates interdisciplinary dialogue, especially between business and management history and organization theory. The ethos of M&OH is reflective, ethical, imaginative, critical, inter-disciplinary, and international, as well as historical in orientation.