Persuasive speech in multi-professional change facilitation meetings.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe persuasive speech and discourses in multi-professional organizational change facilitation meetings at a hospital through rhetorical discourse analysis. Previous research has often considered organizational change to be a managerial issue, with other employees given the rather passive role of implementators. This study takes an alternative approach in assuming that organizational change could benefit by involving those who are most familiar with the tasks to be changed.

Permanent tensions in organization.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between permanent tensions and organizational change.

Design/methodology/approach: This study used paradox theory and a case study. The case organization is a public university hospital in Finland involving several stakeholders.