Developing Sustainable post-Pandemic Agile Working Model: Managing paradoxes through Collaborative Intervention and Reflection

Agile working arrangements developed under the pressure of pandemic suffer lack of thoughtful planning and capacity to handle organizational bundling and path dependencies effects. We show that it is necessary to deploy collaborative and reflective experimentation that leads each organization to establish its own sustainable arrangements of post-pandemic agile working built on idiosyncratic traits. This entails a complex and aware organizational change initiative that we view in the light of organizational becoming lens. Taking this path we interpret agile working arrangements as a multi-authored pattern developed through social construction dynamics sustained by generative and productive dialogues aimed at negotiating meanings and managing paradoxes. Finally, we observe an experimental development of post-pandemic agile working arrangements in an Italian PA bringing some contribution from the field.