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The Pain Of (Organisational) Change, Philomena Hanlon
The Pain Of (Organisational) Change, Philomena Hanlon
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Abstract
Ireland is the third most globalised nation in the world - Ernest and Young 2013 report
This reflective paper addresses key drivers of organisational change (including globalisation as referred to in the quote above) and what this means at the level of the organisation and at the level of the Lacanian subject[1] (individual employee). It looks at strategies organisations are adopting to survive in a hyper competitive environment and how these strategies are interpreted / responded to by the subject. The paper utilises a Freudian / Lacanian lens to interrogate subjective responses to organisational change. For some subjects …