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Record W2129634548 · doi:10.1177/0021886309357539

Organizational Change Within Morally Ambiguous Contexts: A Case Study of Conflicting Postmerger Discourses

2010· article· en· W2129634548 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Journal of Applied Behavioral Science · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicManagement and Organizational Studies
Canadian institutionsWilfrid Laurier University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFacilitationPublic relationsHarmOrganizational studiesOrganizational changeOrganizational commitmentSociologyOrganizational learningOrganization developmentOrganizational culturePolitical scienceSocial psychologyPsychologyKnowledge managementLaw

Abstract

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Based on a case study of a merger between organizations working with youth in trouble, this article analyzes the parallel success and failure discourses representing management and staff’s conflicting views about the organizational change. The symbolic core of these conflicting discourses was the transformation of a group home’s kitchen to food services for the merged organizations. For management, this transformation signified one of the best and most visible outcomes of the merger in terms of efficiency; for staff, it provided the clearest evidence of the harm caused by the merger in terms of providing a caring environment for youth. These discourses are analyzed in relation to two conflicting organizational identities championed by management and staff. It is argued that such contested organizational changes provide opportunities for open discussions of the dilemmas faced by human service organizations within their morally ambiguous contexts. Ethical organizational leadership entails the facilitation of such dialogue rather than ignoring the connectivity between internal and external ambiguities and enforcing the managerial rationale for organizational change.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.240
Threshold uncertainty score0.489

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.036
GPT teacher head0.298
Teacher spread0.262 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it