• 27 days of managerial work in the police service 

      Karp, Tom; Filstad, Cathrine; Glomseth, Rune (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-10-09)
      The purpose of this study was to uncover the realities of managerial work in the Norwegian police service. Observation and interview of 27 police managers showed that managerial work emerged and unfolded through specific practices, which occurred within a shared organisational practice shaped by police culture, context and mission. Managers practiced in a variety of ways rather than according to a ...
    • Constructing managerial manoeuvring space in contradictory contexts 

      Filstad, Cathrine; Olsen, Trude Høgvold; Karp, Tom (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-10-17)
      This paper discusses manoeuvring space and demonstrates how autonomy, power and discretion need to be understood as constructed and integrated behaviours where managers manoeuvre between dilemmas in their own management practices. Twenty-seven Norwegian police managers were shadowed and interviewed. We found that constructions of manoeuvring space presupposed that managers balanced dilemmas. We ...
    • Diverging assessments of learning organizations during reform implementation 

      Borge, Baard Herman; Filstad, Cathrine; Olsen, Trude Høgvold; Skogmo, Per Øyvind (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      <p><i>Purpose</i>: This study aims to explore whether hierarchical position and organizational size affect perceptions of a learning organization (LO) during reform implementation.</p> <p><i>Design/methodology/approach</i>: An electronic survey was distributed in four Norwegian police districts at an early stage of reform implementation. One of the objectives of the reform was to develop the ...
    • How police leaders learn to lead 

      Filstad, Cathrine; Karp, Tom; Glomseth, Rune (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-07-06)
      This article examines how Norwegian police leaders learn to lead and what constitutes police practices. Twenty-seven police leaders were shadowed during and interviewed about their daily practices of policing. We found that police leaders learn foremost through their experiences by practising leadership within the context of police culture. We therefore argue for a shift from teaching to acknowledging ...
    • Learning to learn differently 

      Olsen, Trude Høgvold; Glad, Tone; Filstad, Cathrine (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      <p><i>Purpose</i>: This paper aims to investigate whether the formal and informal learning patterns of community health-care nurses changed in the wake of a reform that altered their work by introducing new patient groups, and to explore whether conditions in the new workplaces facilitated or impeded shifts in learning patterns.</p> <p><i>Design/methodology/approach</i>: Data were collected ...
    • When sensemaking remains local: implications for distributed sensemaking in reform implementation 

      Filstad, Cathrine; Olsen, Trude Høgvold; Thomassen, Anja Overgaard (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-19)
      Purpose - This paper aims to contribute to the literature on distributed sensemaking by studying how the police establish and develop their new position as police contacts during the police reform.<p> <p>Design/methodology/approach - The authors studied how the position of police contact, a cornerstone of the recent Norwegian police reform, was interpreted and practised. The authors interviewed ...