Mirjami Ikonen

University of Eastern Finland, Business School, Faculty Member

University of Eastern Finland, Learning, Everyday life, and Work in Digitalized Society Research Community, Faculty Member

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Dr. Mirjami Ikonen is a Senior Lecturer at UEF Business School. Passionate about the processes of trusting in relationships and networks, her current research interests cover various aspects of leadership, organizational processes and entrepreneurial ecosystems with a particular interest in process ontological perspective. Before entering the academia, she used to work as a quality manager in a plastic industry company. Mirjami’s teaching expertise includes human resource management, trust, leadership and managerial work and qualitative research methods. She is interested in applying novel learning practices in her courses based on the pedagogy of inquiry learning. Mirjami also supervises Bachelor’s, Master’s Theses, and Ph.D. Theses in the Trust research group.

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Enhancing the Learning of Metacognitive Skills in Higher Education: Experiences and Suggestions for Pedagogical Choices

INTED proceedings, Mar 1, 2024

Learning Diary: A Tool to Contribute to Metacognition Development

INTED proceedings, Mar 1, 2024

The shaking nest of trust: A case study of funding reform in a higher education organization

Journal of Trust Research

Trust‑Communication Dyad in Inter‑Personal Workplace Relationships Dynamics of Trust Deterioration and Breach

Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management, Dec 1, 2014

Trust has become an important intangible asset in organizations as a foundation for cooperation i... more Trust has become an important intangible asset in organizations as a foundation for cooperation in workplace relationships. The paper discusses and examines development of trust in relation to communication within work relationships. More specifically, the dynamics of trust deterioration and trust breach is studied empirically. The paper examines the interplay between communication and trust and how building, violation, breaches and restoration of trust develop in inter-personal workplace relationships. The aim of the paper is to provide new knowledge and insights of the dynamics between communication and trust and make practical implications to leadership and HRM for human capital development. By presenting the empirical findings from a qualitative case study with other complementing data the paper also aims to shed more light on how poor communication, in particular, affects trust development between actors involved. The paper advocates the importance of developing trust and communication for intangible intellectual asset in workplaces and their management. Originality of the paper is based on the idea of exploring the relation between trust and communication, specifically in the situation of trust violation and breach. The paper provides a still under researched issue of intangible assets, since relational resources such as trust and communication have not been widely examined in the context of trust breach, in specific. In the theoretical discussion, trust and communication are seen interwoven in interpersonal work relationships. Trust is looked as intangible asset and skill and communication a means and antecedent for trust. The findings show that poor communication plays an important role in deterioration and breaches of trust. Distrust may permeate widely within the organization and beyond the original parties involved. If space is left to the low trust climate to develop the consequences may be unfavorable, harmful and even damaging to the organization. Trust violation and breaches seem to be connected with workplace bullying with harmful consequences.

Studying trust in the leader by co-produced autoethnography: an organizational esthetics approach

Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 2022

PurposeThis paper aims at examining the prospects and possibilities of autoethnography in trust r... more PurposeThis paper aims at examining the prospects and possibilities of autoethnography in trust research. The focus of this study is on trust-building in a management team from an esthetic leadership perspective. The empirical context of the study is the organization of higher education during a funding reform.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopted a qualitative research strategy with co-produced autoethnographic methods. The data comprised the researcher's diary, field notes and written texts from informants. Autoethnographic methods were applied in data gathering; more precisely, the data were collected by the moving observing method of shadowing and complemented with the management team's written texts reporting their feelings. The data were analyzed by constructing autoethnographic vignettes and a critical frame story.FindingsThe findings of the study contribute to the methodological discussion of autoethnographic research when studying a complex phenomenon such a...

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