Work intensification and Ambidexterity - the Notions of Extreme and ‘Everyday’ Experiences in Emergency Contexts: Surfacing Dynamics in the Ambulance Service

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2019-05-23Abstract
Many organizational contexts have experienced radical changes resulting in work
intensification. Whilst emergency services face evident ‘macro-extreme’ challenges
(emergencies, major traumas) employees also experience parallel, everyday ‘routine’ in microsettings.
How such micro-episodes interact with macro-extreme dynamics remains underexplored
providing an opportunity to extend literature on micro-foundational organizational
ambidexterity. This paper empirically examines these dynamics in the UK Ambulance Service
by developing a conceptual model to explore the exploitative and explorative shifts and
manifestations of work intensification. The findings demonstrate a recognition of macro-type
intense-extremes impacts but less appreciation of their interaction with micro-situational
mundane-extremes.
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Citation : Wankhade, P. Stokes, P, Tarba, S and Rogers, P. (2019) Work intensification and Ambidexterity - the Notions of Extreme and ‘Everyday’ Experiences in Emergency Contexts: Surfacing Dynamics in the Ambulance Service. Public Management Review,
ISSN : 1471-9037
Research Institute : Centre for Enterprise and Innovation (CEI)
Peer Reviewed : Yes