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Managed Fun among Lawyers - How lawyers make sense of social events

Salo, Anni LU and Riipi, Jessica Magdalena LU (2019) BUSN49 20191
Department of Business Administration
Abstract
Having fun at work has become a popular topic among practitioners and academic writers. Managed fun is the form of workplace fun that “stems from managers” (Plester, Cooper-Thomas & Winquist, 2015, p.381). However, researchers suggest that the ‘dark side’ of fun is to be further investigated as most of the empirical data is focusing on the positive effects of having fun at work (Fleming, 2005; Petelczyc, Capezio, Wang, Restubog & Aquino, 2018). Thus, our study aims to gain an understanding of how lawyers make sense of managed fun in the form of social events. In order to gain a deeper understanding, we conducted a qualitative study based on eleven semi-structured interviews with lawyers. We followed an interpretive approach when working... (More)
Having fun at work has become a popular topic among practitioners and academic writers. Managed fun is the form of workplace fun that “stems from managers” (Plester, Cooper-Thomas & Winquist, 2015, p.381). However, researchers suggest that the ‘dark side’ of fun is to be further investigated as most of the empirical data is focusing on the positive effects of having fun at work (Fleming, 2005; Petelczyc, Capezio, Wang, Restubog & Aquino, 2018). Thus, our study aims to gain an understanding of how lawyers make sense of managed fun in the form of social events. In order to gain a deeper understanding, we conducted a qualitative study based on eleven semi-structured interviews with lawyers. We followed an interpretive approach when working with our empirical data. We discovered that the lawyers find the events as somewhat beneficial for them, however, we discovered that there are aspects in the events that are, in fact, not fun at all, and that the lawyers need to work during the events. (Less)
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author
Salo, Anni LU and Riipi, Jessica Magdalena LU
supervisor
organization
course
BUSN49 20191
year
type
H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
subject
keywords
Managed fun, normative control, professional service firms, lawyers, social events
language
English
id
8979392
date added to LUP
2019-07-04 16:37:32
date last changed
2019-07-04 16:37:32
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  abstract     = {{Having fun at work has become a popular topic among practitioners and academic writers. Managed fun is the form of workplace fun that “stems from managers” (Plester, Cooper-Thomas & Winquist, 2015, p.381). However, researchers suggest that the ‘dark side’ of fun is to be further investigated as most of the empirical data is focusing on the positive effects of having fun at work (Fleming, 2005; Petelczyc, Capezio, Wang, Restubog & Aquino, 2018). Thus, our study aims to gain an understanding of how lawyers make sense of managed fun in the form of social events. In order to gain a deeper understanding, we conducted a qualitative study based on eleven semi-structured interviews with lawyers. We followed an interpretive approach when working with our empirical data. We discovered that the lawyers find the events as somewhat beneficial for them, however, we discovered that there are aspects in the events that are, in fact, not fun at all, and that the lawyers need to work during the events.}},
  author       = {{Salo, Anni and Riipi, Jessica Magdalena}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Managed Fun among Lawyers - How lawyers make sense of social events}},
  year         = {{2019}},
}