A time to act and a time for restraint: Everyday sensegiving in the context of paradox

Summary Using a mixed‐methods approach, this study examines how leaders' everyday sensegiving strategies shape followers' compliance with a paradoxical use‐of‐force policy. Building on performance data derived from 41 teams and interviews with their respective team leaders, our findings point to two sensegiving strategies: practical (connecting the policy to larger organizational goals) and internalization (connecting the policy to team members'...