Hemarbete och organisationsidentitet: En kvalitativ studie om hur Uppsala kommuns organisationsidentitet bevaras och återskapas

Sammanfattning: The purpose with this essay is to understand what happens with the organizational identity at a Swedish municipality when employees work partly from home. The municipality we are focusing on is Uppsala kommun. Our research question concerns how Uppsala kommuns organizational identity maintains and recreates when employees partly work from home. The theoretical framework we apply to this essay is the CCO-perspective based on the Montreal School. We also use the theory of organizational identity and a theory that describes the concept of place. The method to gather data is qualitative semi-structured interviews with six employees at Uppsala kommun.  The results show that the employees at Uppsala kommun maintain the organizational identity through the valuebase, sense of belonging to the organization, how they compare Uppsala kommun with other organizations and how they communicate. Furthermore, non-human actors such as place maintain the organizational identity. These places were Teams, the home office and city hall that maintain the organizational identity. Finally, the results show that human and non-human actors recreate the organizational identity through booking meetings, trust, effective work and hybrid solutions. They create different ways of communicating, working and using the digital channels due to distance work. This contributes to society by gaining a greater understanding of how distance work impacts organizational identity. Partly by the importance of an office, but also its effects on coordinating organizations.