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Where do I belong? - An interpretative study of how consultants experience belongingness at work

Karlsson, Fanny LU and Persson, Malin LU (2014) BUSN49 20141
Department of Business Administration
Abstract
Our purpose of the thesis is to provide insights into how consultants, who are employed by a consulting company but perform their work at the client organization, experience belongingness at work. We do not aim to find a rational explanation or one truth of how consultants experience belongingness at work. Instead, we are interested in how multiple understandings of experiencing belongingness may emerge.
The organization seems not to be the primary source to experience belongingness at work. Instead, consultants’ belongingness appears to be experienced through multiple sources at both the employing company and the client organization. This implies difficulties for the consultants, thereof we wish to bring upon a reinterpretation of... (More)
Our purpose of the thesis is to provide insights into how consultants, who are employed by a consulting company but perform their work at the client organization, experience belongingness at work. We do not aim to find a rational explanation or one truth of how consultants experience belongingness at work. Instead, we are interested in how multiple understandings of experiencing belongingness may emerge.
The organization seems not to be the primary source to experience belongingness at work. Instead, consultants’ belongingness appears to be experienced through multiple sources at both the employing company and the client organization. This implies difficulties for the consultants, thereof we wish to bring upon a reinterpretation of belongingness within the consulting industry. (Less)
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author
Karlsson, Fanny LU and Persson, Malin LU
supervisor
organization
course
BUSN49 20141
year
type
H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
subject
keywords
Consulting industry, belongingness, temporary workers, consultant, identity, identification
language
English
id
4523170
date added to LUP
2014-07-01 15:38:37
date last changed
2014-07-01 15:38:37
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  abstract     = {{Our purpose of the thesis is to provide insights into how consultants, who are employed by a consulting company but perform their work at the client organization, experience belongingness at work. We do not aim to find a rational explanation or one truth of how consultants experience belongingness at work. Instead, we are interested in how multiple understandings of experiencing belongingness may emerge.
The organization seems not to be the primary source to experience belongingness at work. Instead, consultants’ belongingness appears to be experienced through multiple sources at both the employing company and the client organization. This implies difficulties for the consultants, thereof we wish to bring upon a reinterpretation of belongingness within the consulting industry.}},
  author       = {{Karlsson, Fanny and Persson, Malin}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Where do I belong? - An interpretative study of how consultants experience belongingness at work}},
  year         = {{2014}},
}