Disputerer på lederkommunikasjon og bedriftskultur
The managers were found to share certain “favourite” tactics, targets or processes of voice/silence whereas others were used differently for example; used solely by top managers or solely by female managers.
Lisa Marie Whitehead
Universitetslektor / prosjektleder
I noen bedrifter snakker medarbeiderne med hverandre og med lederne om problemstillinger i arbeidet. I andre bedrifter er det tausheten som rår. Lisa Marie Whitehead har forsket på konsekvensene lederholdningene til kommunikasjon har for innovasjon og utvikling i bedriftene.
Lisa Marie Whitehead disputerer for ph.d.-graden med avhandlingen “The Theory of Social Identity-Driven Voice and Silence” onsdag 21. juni 2017. Hun har fulgt doktorgradsprogrammet ved Handelshøyskolen ved UiA, med spesialisering i International Management.
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Slik beskriver kandidaten selv essensen i avhandlingen:
Voice, Silence and Outcomes for International Managers
All managers make decisions with regards to whether to voice or remain silence about given themes, topics or issues. When doing so, managers also think about possible outcomes of voice or silence in management arenas.
In her PhD Dissertation Research Fellow Lisa Whitehead uses a qualitative case study approach to analyse discourses from twenty international-facing managers.
Some managers were top managers, others middle managers. Some of these managers were female, some male. All managers worked in 12 different international companies in Norway.
Self at work
PhD-candidate Lisa Whitehead explores how managers discuss “themselves at work.”
The research then presents six different “subthemes of self”; relating to similarities or differences between “self at work” and people that the managers worked with.
For example, one of these six subthemes was “educational background”, a second was “gender”, and a third was “management type.”
Important silence, yet previously overlooked
The research discusses occasions when and how the managers either chose to voice in work contexts or remain silent.
Each manager was also asked about outcomes of voice or silence at work; for self, as well as for their group or organization.
Lisa Whitehead’s findings show different managers using fixed personal “favourite” types, tactics, targets of voice or silence, such as positively-oriented suggestion-focussed voice and prosocial silence types.
The managers were found to share certain “favourite” tactics, targets or processes of voice/silence whereas others were used differently for example; used solely by top managers or solely by female managers.
Several findings are new contributions to existing research literature; particularly that of silence including the targets of silence and suggested new types of silence.
In one case a top manager discusses the “freeze down” from a positive organizational voice climate towards a negative organizational “climate of silence” and its outcomes at the previous place of work.
Disputasfakta:
Kandidaten: Lisa Marie Whitehead (1974 i Huddersfield, United Kingdom. Hun har BSc fra Bradford, UK, og MSc fra Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH). Hun arbeider som universitetslektor / prosjektleder, og arbeider med oversettelsesarbeid / språkvask i egen bedrift. Hun var stipendiat ved Universitet i Agder fra 2010-2013, og er selv-finansiert siden 2013.
Prøveforelesning og disputas finner sted i Arne Garborgs auditorium – B1-006, Campus Kristiansand
Dekan Kristin Wallevik leder disputasen.
Tid for prøveforelesning: Onsdag 21. juni 2017 kl 12:00
Oppgitt emne for prøveforelesning: “Women´s Business Career in Norway”
Tid for disputas: Onsdag 21. juni 2017 kl 13:30
Tittel på avhandling: “The Theory of Social Identity-Driven Voice and Silence”
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Opponenter:
Førsteopponent: Dr. Siri Terjesen, American University, Washington DC, USA
Annenopponent:Dr. Ruth Sealy, Exeter University Business School, Cranfield University – Cranfield School of Management.
Bedømmelseskomitéen er ledet av professor Harald Knudsen, UiA
Veiledere i doktorgradsarbeidet var pensjonert professor Joyce Falkenberg (hovedveileder) og førsteamanuensis Rotem Shneor (bi-veileder)