Cultural Identity Value Intersectionality Calculous (CIVIC) An inductive study of British Army cultural sensemaking

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dc.contributor.authorKace, Rob
dc.contributor.authorVincent, Dennis
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T16:01:44Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T16:01:44Z
dc.date.freetoread2025-01-20
dc.date.issued2024-11-13
dc.date.pubOnline2025-01-20
dc.description.abstractInductive PhD study, sponsored by the British Army and researched by a serving officer, to develop understandings of cultural value intersections within British Army organisations, from the internal, grounded perspectives of people that live that experience. The project application of an interpretivist social constructionist philosophy enabled the combination of Pike’s (1982) emic theory, that the people inhabiting a culture are best placed to understand it, with Crenshaw’s (1994) idea of interlocking power systems, and rejection of the analytical treatment of cultural axis in isolation, to develop Cultural Identity Value Intersectionality Calculous (CIVIC) as a sensemaking framework. Using the inductive reasoning of grounded theory, the project’s participatory research design enabled the audience-centric development of CIVIC as an intuitively usable framework for the emic sensemaking of audiences’ own Identity Value ‘Theories of Action’ and say/do gaps (Argyris & Schon, 1978). This addresses a gap in contemporary British Army capabilities, enabling volunteer participants to articulate their lived-experiences of organisational cultural dynamics (Schein & Schein, 2017) in terms of risks (Gigerenzer, 2002) and behaviour motivations (Atkins, West & Michie, 2014), within anthro-complexity (Snowden, 2020), to inform leadership initiatives and develop the force. This work highlights the importance of cultural intersectionality within the British Army, from the perspectives of the soldiers with that organisational lived-experience. It consequently delivers: (1.) Approach. An audience-centric risk-based approach to the sensemaking of cultural intersectionality; (2.) Method. A straight-forward, risk calculous method of systemic reasoning, using CIVIC to score participants’ cultural risks and build their agency for positive change; (3.) Knowledge-base. A thematic knowledge-base of qualitative evidence from the workforce grounded perspectives. This will enable the British Army leadership of tomorrow to leverage the best from a better informed, proactive, and contextually integrated future force, tackling cultural misconceptions and enabling competitive advantage within anthro complexity, through empowered organisational agency.
dc.description.conferencenameDefence and Security Doctoral Symposia 2024 (DSDS24)
dc.description.sponsorshipHQ Army, EP(A)
dc.identifier.citationKace R, Vincent D. (2024) Cultural Identity Value Intersectionality Calculous (CIVIC) An inductive study of British Army cultural sensemaking - Poster. DSDS24, Cranfield Defence and Security Doctoral Symposia 2024, 13-14 November 2024, STEAM Museum, Swindon, UK
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/23411
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.57996/cran.ceres-2718
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCranfield University Defence and Security
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectAdaptation
dc.subjectAgency
dc.subjectAnthropology
dc.subjectBritish Army
dc.subjectBehaviour
dc.subjectCalculous
dc.subjectChange
dc.subjectCommunication
dc.subjectAnthro-complexity
dc.subjectContradictions
dc.subjectCultures
dc.subjectDecision making
dc.subjectDefence
dc.subjectDiversity
dc.subjectDynamics
dc.subjectEmic theory
dc.subjectEmpowerment
dc.subjectFramework
dc.subjectIdentities
dc.subjectImpact
dc.subjectInductive
dc.subjectInterface
dc.subjectIntersectionality
dc.subjectInfluences
dc.subjectLanguage
dc.subjectMotivations
dc.subjectNarrative
dc.subjectOrganisations
dc.subjectPerspectives
dc.subjectPower
dc.subjectPraxis
dc.subjectReflection
dc.subjectResilience
dc.subjectSensemaking
dc.subjectSociety
dc.subjectStructures
dc.subjectTeamwork
dc.subjectValues
dc.subjectWorkforce
dc.titleCultural Identity Value Intersectionality Calculous (CIVIC) An inductive study of British Army cultural sensemaking
dc.typePoster
dcterms.abstractInductive PhD study, sponsored by the British Army and researched by a serving officer, to develop understandings of cultural value intersections within British Army organisations, from the internal, grounded perspectives of people that live that experience. The project application of an interpretivist social constructionist philosophy enabled the combination of Pike’s (1982) emic theory, that the people inhabiting a culture are best placed to understand it, with Crenshaw’s (1994) idea of interlocking power systems, and rejection of the analytical treatment of cultural axis in isolation, to develop Cultural Identity Value Intersectionality Calculous (CIVIC) as a sensemaking framework. Using the inductive reasoning of grounded theory, the project’s participatory research design enabled the audience-centric development of CIVIC as an intuitively usable framework for the emic sensemaking of audiences’ own Identity Value ‘Theories of Action’ and say/do gaps (Argyris & Schon, 1978). This addresses a gap in contemporary British Army capabilities, enabling volunteer participants to articulate their lived-experiences of organisational cultural dynamics (Schein & Schein, 2017) in terms of risks (Gigerenzer, 2002) and behaviour motivations (Atkins, West & Michie, 2014), within anthro-complexity (Snowden, 2020), to inform leadership initiatives and develop the force. This work highlights the importance of cultural intersectionality within the British Army, from the perspectives of the soldiers with that organisational lived-experience. It consequently delivers: (1.) Approach. An audience-centric risk-based approach to the sensemaking of cultural intersectionality; (2.) Method. A straight-forward, risk calculous method of systemic reasoning, using CIVIC to score participants’ cultural risks and build their agency for positive change; (3.) Knowledge-base. A thematic knowledge-base of qualitative evidence from the workforce grounded perspectives. This will enable the British Army leadership of tomorrow to leverage the best from a better informed, proactive, and contextually integrated future force, tackling cultural misconceptions and enabling competitive advantage within anthro complexity, through empowered organisational agency.
dcterms.coverageSTEAM Museum, Swindon, UK
dcterms.dateAccepted2024-09-20
dcterms.temporal.endDate14-Nov-2024
dcterms.temporal.startDate13-Nov-2024

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