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Making change happen: How HRM professionals experience and deal with tensions in times of organizational change

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The ethnographic study shows tensions and conflicts that HRM professionals are exposed to during organizational change processes. They result from the fact that those responsible for HRM devote themselves to several projects at the same time, both short-term and long-term and of strategic nature. The study shows how HRM practitioners make change possible under these conditions and explains different ‘resourcing’ practices of HRM practitioners to deal with short-term-long-term tensions when resources are scarce. In conflict-laden situations, HRM practitioners use three resourcing practices to manage these tensions: situational reframing, organizational preframing and institutional deframing. The contribution builds a bridge between HRM practices, the HRM practitioners and HRM praxis and thus, extends our knowledge of HRM-as-practice.

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  • Kohlberger, Martina, 2022. "Making change happen: How HRM professionals experience and deal with tensions in times of organizational change," Die Unternehmung - Swiss Journal of Business Research and Practice, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, vol. 76(4), pages 446-468.
    • Handle: RePEc:nms:untern:10.5771/0042-059x-2022-4-446
    DOI: 10.5771/0042-059X-2022-4-446
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