Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 217 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9781107588905
Content:
While most people work ever-longer hours, international statistics suggest that the average time spent on non-work activities per employee is around two hours a day. How is this possible, and what are the reasons behind employees withdrawing from work? In this thought-provoking book, Roland Paulsen examines organizational misbehavior, specifically the phenomenon of 'empty labor', defined as the time during which employees engage in private activities during the working day. This study explores a variety of explanations, from under-employment to workplace resistance. Building on a rich selection of interview material and extensive empirical research, it uses both qualitative and quantitative data to present a concrete analysis of the different ways empty labor unfolds in the modern workplace. This book offers new perspectives on subjectivity, rationality and work simulation and will be of particular interest to academic researchers and graduate students in organizational sociology, organization studies, and human resource management
Content:
List of figures -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Power at work -- Subjectivity at work -- Mapping out empty labor -- How to succeed at work without really trying -- The time-appropriating subject -- The organization of idleness -- Resistance incorporated? -- Conclusion -- Appendix: methodological notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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1. Introduction -- The theoretical problem -- -- The empirical problem -- -- The (ir)rational institution -- -- Aims and scope -- -- Disposition. -- -- 2 -- Power at work -- The denial of the subject -- -- The appendage of the machine -- -- The imprint of false consciousness -- -- The subject as object. -- -- 3 -- Subjectivity at work -- Subjectivity as resistance -- -- Barrier reefs of resistance -- -- Workplace resistance : from Romanticism to functionalism. -- -- 4 -- Mapping out empty labor -- Potential output -- -- Work obligations -- -- Slacking -- -- Enduring -- -- Coping -- -- Soldiering. -- -- 5 -- How to succeed at work without really trying -- Pick the right job -- -- Exploit the uncertainties -- -- Manage the risks -- -- Collaborate -- -- Redefine your work. -- -- 6 -- Time-appropriating subject -- Adjustment -- -- Withdrawal -- -- Direct dissent -- -- Framed dissent. -- -- 7 -- Organization of idleness -- -- Cultures of fun -- -- Collective soldiering, management misbehavior, or hidden rewards? -- -- Boreout -- -- Explaining enduring. -- -- 8. Resistance incorporated? -- Profitable incorporation -- -- Mental incorporation -- -- Simulative incorporation. -- -- 9. Conclusion. -- -- Appendix: The interviewees -- Interview study versus ethnography -- Interviewing beyond radical skepticism -- Procedure -- Analysis
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107066410
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107663930
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9781107066410
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781107588905
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