Pessoa’s “disquietness” at work: a liminal approach to instrumental organisational engagement

Nuno Guimaraes da Costa () and Miguel Pina E Cunha
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Nuno Guimaraes da Costa: ICN Business School, CEREFIGE - Centre Européen de Recherche en Economie Financière et Gestion des Entreprises - UL - Université de Lorraine
Miguel Pina E Cunha: NOVA SBE - NOVA - School of Business and Economics - NOVA - Universidade Nova de Lisboa = NOVA University Lisbon

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Abstract: Inspired by the "Book of Disquiet" from the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, we use the apparently disengaged figure of Bernardo Soares to explore the liminal cases in which individuals are intrinsically detached from the organisations while at the same time they behave as if they were deeply involved with them. We argue that awareness of this liminal condition leads to the instrumental convergence between the individual and the organisation by means of extrinsic engagement coupled with focused disengagement. As a result, disengaged organisational members are able to benefit from the new wave of contractual arrangements based on commitment and identification between the organisation and the individual while organisations protect themselves from negative forms of engagement and disengagement.

Keywords: organisational engagement; Pessoa organizations commitment opening (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Published in Revue internationale de psychosociologie et de gestion des comportements organisationnels, 2013, XVIII (48), pp.313-325. ⟨10.3917/rips1.048.0313⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/rips1.048.0313

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