%0 Journal Article
%T ¡®You Can¡¯t Win¡¯: The Non
%A Denise Currie
%A Katharine Venter
%A Martin McCracken
%J Work, Employment and Society
%@ 1469-8722
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0950017017713949
%X There is growing evidence that in the UK demands for non-profit and voluntary sector organisations to comply with funders¡¯ target driven priorities are often in tension with organisations¡¯ social goals. The implications of this for employees are not yet sufficiently understood. The present article builds on Bateson et al.¡¯s theory of double-bind to develop a socially contextualised model to understand employees¡¯ experiences of workplace contradictions in the sector. Drawing from data provided by 49 individuals working in three case study organisations, our conceptualisation of a ¡®non-profit double-bind¡¯ provides a new and novel way of understanding how social meta-communicative processes serve to embed or reframe contradictions within intense employment relationships
%K contradictions
%K double-bind
%K non-profit organisations
%K voluntary sector
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0950017017713949