Table 5

Co-workership conceptual pair engagement and meaningfulness with sub-themes and excerpts

Engagement and meaningfulness
Analytical pattern and sub-themesIDCited excerpts
Holistic understanding
Transparent visions
I14“It is all about getting the employees to understand the big picture. You have to visualize the production flow to understand your role.”
Inclusive organizational change
Handle disruptive re-structuring
F4.4“I am thinking about how much [impact] such re-organizations have, what they affect, so then you must start all over again and again.”
Inclusive organizational change
Handle disruptive re-structuring
F4.4“It works out. But in any case, it has been a damn bad way to do a re-organization!”
Inclusive organizational change
Capture the desire for digitalization
F4.1“I come from [another company] and I have worked in paperless production for many years. When you work in an enterprise resource planning system here [at CB], it becomes like that [not paperless] - but WHY does it not work?!”
Inclusive organizational change
Capture the desire for digitalization
F3F3.1 “We have probably tried to digitalize the production orders three times without any major successes really.”
F3.2 “It feels like we have tried to initiate it quite a few times … but it just died, so I do not know if there is any driving force in our site.”
Inclusive organizational change
Avoid ad hoc digital initiatives
F1F1.2 “Tablets, yes, we had them and then it came to an end.”
F1.3 “Yes, we got some tablets. We have had them in say three- four years.”
Researcher: “Are they still in use today?”
F1.3 “I still have my [tablets]. Some have broken and they are not replaced.”
Leadership practices
Recognize desired leadership
I10“It was also very much about communication, i.e. how do we communicate in a good way with each other and with employees to have a continuous dialogue, which is actually the basis of systematic work [for improved work] environment. It is planned to ripple through the entire organization in this way.”
Leadership practices
Recognize desired leadership
I16“You need to be flexible in your leadership and understand the new generations [of employees] that are coming … Things usually fail because you do not understand … I must be able to communicate in a good way so that they understand which rules apply.”

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