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Øyvind Kvalnes

Professor

Institutt for ledelse og organisasjon

Romnummer A3Y-023
Telefon +4795204496
E-post oyvind.kvalnes@bi.no

Biografi

The philosopher Øyvind Kvalnes is a professor at the Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour, BI Norwegian Business School. He is an experienced facilitator, lecturer and researcher. In 1998 he defended his PHD-thesis entitled “Living with Moral Luck”. For ten years he was the CEO of Humanistisk Akademi in Oslo, a small unit of philosophical consultants. He has written a range of books in applied philosophy, both in English and in Norwegian. His main interests outside academia are family, football and music. Research areas
Ethics, moral psychology, communication climate, collaboration, fallibility.

Ekspertområder

Fotballøkonomi
Lederskap
Samfunnsansvar
Sosiale medier

Publikasjoner

Viser 5 av 46 publikasjon(er)

Antologi Øyvind Kvalnes (2023)

Communication climate at work: Fostering friendly friction in organisations

Palgrave Pivot

This book explores how members of an organization or group speak to and with each other. An expansion of the author’s previous research on fallibility in organizations, the concept of communication climate is related to those of voice climate and psychological safety, both of which focus on the risk of speaking up and raising concerns at work. In this book the author addresses the scope for criticism, dissent and disagreement, but also for praise and encouragement. He places friendly friction at the core of what characterizes a healthy communication climate. Beginning with a clear explanation of how and why communication climate is important in organizations, the author introduces the concept of critical quality moments, i.e. situations where a verbal intervention can crucially change the course of events for the better. The book then goes on to describe seven elements that characterize well-functioning communication climates before exploring the concept of communication ethics, and the balance between freedom of speech on the one hand, and speech responsibility on the other. Concluding with suggestions for further research, this book addresses issues that are at the core of establishing collaboration and excellence at work, making it highly relevant to executive students at business schools, researchers in organizational behavior and decision-makers in organizations. This is an open access book.

Artikkel Arne Carlsen, Øyvind Kvalnes (2023)

Home Alone and All Together: Lightness of agency in social inquiry

Organization Studies 44(8) s. 1333-1352 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406231166806

Research has provided limited knowledge of how people in organizations experience growth of agency during circumstances that seem hopeless and stuck, and how such growth emerges. Drawing from the study of the turnaround processes at a nursing home and the Pragmatism of Dewey and Mead, we contribute with a theory of how agency is produced in social inquiry. We suggest that the puzzling accounts of lightness in the experiences of people at this nursing home help explain how a field of social inquiry may be charged with creative and agentic force. We show how agency emerged through a series of action sequences related to inviting people into inquiry through the opening of a troublesome situation, the resulting voicing of needs and ideas for improvement, as well as the subsequent experimenting and surfacing of tales of meaningful progress from such actions. Furthermore, our empirical observations suggest that the emergence of collective desire to meet the needs of the Generalized Other is a central, yet understated, part of agency produced through social inquiry. Lightness of agency may be accentuated, paradoxically, by the weight of a more generalized situation – in this case that of institutionalized care for elderly – that the local inquiry exemplifies and in which it resonates.

Kapittel Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter, Øyvind Kvalnes (2022)

Mod i børns leg - at skabe rammer for at tage risici

Mod i pædagogikken s. 97-122

Artikkel Øyvind Kvalnes (2021)

Stå opp mot drittsekken tidlig

Dagens næringsliv

Artikkel Øyvind Kvalnes (2021)

Flørting på jobb

Dagens næringsliv

Artikkel Øyvind Kvalnes (2021)

Musikalsk lederskap

Dagens næringsliv

Artikkel Øyvind Kvalnes (2021)

En byggmester fra himmelen

Dagens næringsliv

Artikkel Øyvind Kvalnes (2021)

Hvordan skape en atmosfære av vennlighet

Dagens næringsliv

Artikkel Øyvind Kvalnes (2021)

Se etter det gode

Dagens næringsliv

Artikkel Øyvind Kvalnes (2021)