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- Title
Character-enabled improvisation and the new normal: A paradox perspective.
- Authors
Vera, Dusya; Crossan, Mary M
- Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified and exacerbated organizational paradoxes felt by individuals largely because of the nostalgia individuals feel for the "old" normal while facing the need to let go in order to create a "new" normal. We position improvisation as a synthesis-type approach to working through the paradoxes of the pandemic. Furthermore, we look at individual differences that underpin the ability to improvise, and identify that it is the strength of character and character-based judgment of the individual that enables the enactment of a focal context, the choice to improvise, and the act of effectively improvising to work through paradoxes. Linking character to improvisation, and, vice versa, improvisation to the development of character, reveals the importance of dimensions such as courage, humility, temperance, transcendence, humanity, and collaboration in the practice of improvisation.
- Subjects
COVID-19 pandemic; HIGHER education; MANAGEMENT education; ORGANIZATIONAL learning; SEMESTER system in education; SOCIAL distancing
- Publication
Management Learning, 2023, Vol 54, Issue 1, p77
- ISSN
1350-5076
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/13505076221118840