Abstracts
Abstract
In organizational contexts characterized by multiple logics spanning from conformity to innovation, many employees experience tensions between a business-like identity and an artistic identity. The contribution uses data generated from Web-based surveys of employees, managers, and artists in 86 Spanish companies to explore how identity tensions can be addressed with paradoxical thinking. It shows that engaging in artistic interventions can help people accept and deal with identity tensions between self-and-other and between conformity-creativity in the workplace, enabling the removal of real or subjective barriers to generating new ways of collaborating, new ideas and new ways of doing things.
Keywords:
- Artistic interventions,
- identity development,
- identity tensions,
- paradoxical thinking,
- conformity,
- creativity
Résumé
Dans le monde professionnel caractérisé par des logiques multiples allant de la conformité à l’innovation, beaucoup d’employés éprouvent des tensions entre identité professionnelle et identité artistique. L’article mobilise des données issues d’un questionnaire en ligne auprès d’employés, managers, et artistes dans 86 entreprises espagnoles, et revisite les tensions identitaires à l’aune de la pensée paradoxale. Les résultats montrent que la participation à une intervention artistique permet de mieux appréhender au quotidien les tensions identitaires entre soi et les autres, entre conformité et créativité, et de les dépasser pour renouveler les modes de collaboration, idées et méthodes de travail.
Mots-clés :
- Interventions artistiques,
- développement identitaire,
- tensions identitaires,
- pensée paradoxale,
- conformité,
- créativité
Resumen
En organizaciones caracterizadas por lógicas que van desde la conformidad hasta la innovación, muchos empleados experimentan tensiones entre una identidad empresarial y una artística. La contribución utiliza los datos de encuestas Web realizadas a los empleados, directivos y artistas de 86 empresas españolas, y explora cómo las tensiones de identidad pueden dirigirse con el pensamiento paradójico. El análisis muestra que la participación en intervenciones artísticas ayuda a que las personas se ocupen de esas tensiones identitarias, y entre conformidad vs creatividad en el lugar de trabajo, permitiendo de superarlas para la generación de nuevas ideas y formas de colaborar.
Palabras clave:
- Intervenciones artísticas,
- desarrollo de la identidad,
- tensiones de identidad,
- pensamiento paradójico,
- conformidad,
- creatividad
Appendices
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