Control Through Onboarding - A qualitative case study on how the onboarding process can lead to cynical and non-cynical employees
(2021) BUSN49 20211Department of Business Administration
- Abstract
- The purpose of this study is to to investigate how cultural control can be integrated into the onboarding process as well as how the onboarding process can lead to cynical and non-cynical employees. The empirical part of this study was conducted through an interpretive, abductive, and qualitative research method. The empirical data is collected through a case study of the Swedish Bank Notion and involves ten semi-structured interviews. Through the analysis of this study we found that there exist different types of cultural control at Notion during the interviewees first year within the bank,
which we refer to as the onboarding process. We also identified that the employees have conflicting thoughts about Notion as a company. This mainly... (More) - The purpose of this study is to to investigate how cultural control can be integrated into the onboarding process as well as how the onboarding process can lead to cynical and non-cynical employees. The empirical part of this study was conducted through an interpretive, abductive, and qualitative research method. The empirical data is collected through a case study of the Swedish Bank Notion and involves ten semi-structured interviews. Through the analysis of this study we found that there exist different types of cultural control at Notion during the interviewees first year within the bank,
which we refer to as the onboarding process. We also identified that the employees have conflicting thoughts about Notion as a company. This mainly became evident as the employees expressed cynical reactions towards Notions managerial attempt to control them when trying to shape their values. Further, the employees were also cynical towards failed attempts to socially integrate them and also by the lack of development opportunities. Lastly, we found that not all interviewees are cynical towards Notion as an employer. Positive reactions were common amongst those interviewees that now work there full-time as well as those that have been noticed by their managers. (Less)
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- author
- Blomqvist, Julia LU and Borg, Sofie LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- BUSN49 20211
- year
- 2021
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- Onboarding, Cultural Control, Normative control, Cynicism
- language
- English
- id
- 9048129
- date added to LUP
- 2021-06-22 14:25:24
- date last changed
- 2021-06-22 14:25:24
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