Realising Calling through Identity Work. Comparing Themes of Calling in Faith-Based and Religious Organisations

IF 0.4 4区 哲学 0 RELIGION
Stephen Sirris, Haldor Byrkjeflot
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Abstract

This study explores notions of calling in management careers in faith-based and religious organisations. What are the similarities and differences between managers’ understanding of their work as a calling in these two types of organisation? How do they negotiate calling in their work? We use interview data from nine middle managers in a faithbased hospital and nine deans in the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Norway. The article builds on cross-disciplinary literature on calling in working life. We theorise, by using comparisons, how notions of calling are resources for managers when they negotiate identity. Our findings show that the hospital managers respond to the modern meaningmaking calling as emanating from within and outside, while the deans also experience the traditional religious calling from above. Such notions blend in our conceptualisation of calling as pluralistic, biographical and present-oriented. Both categories of managers report that their transition into management is guided by an orientation to serve and to promote organisational mission and values.
通过身份工作实现使命。比较信仰组织和宗教组织呼召的主题
这项研究探讨了在信仰和宗教组织中从事管理职业的概念。在这两种类型的组织中,经理们对自己的工作作为一种使命的理解有什么异同?他们在工作中如何协商电话?我们使用了来自一家信仰医院的九名中层管理人员和挪威福音路德教会的九名院长的采访数据。这篇文章建立在跨学科文献的基础上,论述了工作生活中的呼唤。我们通过比较,推断出当管理者协商身份时,呼叫的概念是如何成为他们的资源的。我们的研究结果表明,医院管理者对来自内部和外部的现代意义召唤的反应,而院长也经历了来自上方的传统宗教召唤。这些概念融入了我们对召唤的概念化,即多元的、传记的和面向当下的。这两类管理者都报告说,他们向管理层的转变是以服务和促进组织使命和价值观为导向的。
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