ISBN:
9780762312689
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (561 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Workplace Temporalities
DDC:
306.36
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The global, 24/7 economy and the organizational changes it has generated have enormous implications for the organization, experience and use of time in (and out of) the workplace. In addition to eroding the boundary between home and work, creating time pressures both within and outside of the workplace, the need for businesses to compete in a 24/7 global economy has re-problematized time in the workplace. Drawing on sociology, labor economics, organizational behavior and social history, the papers in this volume examine either empirically or theoretically, a variety of aspects of time in the w
Description / Table of Contents:
Front cover; Workplace Temporalities; Copyright page; Contents; List of Contributors; Chapter 1. Time-Work Discipline in the 21st Century; Problematizing Time in the Workplace; Entrainment, Temporal Structure, and Temporal Personality; Part I: New Times for the New Economy; Part II: Organizational Temporalities; Part III: Hours, Schedules, and Families; Part IV: The Possible Worlds of Workplace Temporalities; Summary; Acknowledgments; References; Part I: New Times for the New Economy
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Chapter 2. Chronemics at Work: Using Socio-Historical Accounts to Illuminate Contemporary Workplace TemporalityTime as Symbolic and Rooted in Interaction; Temporal Commodification, Construction, and Compression at Work: The role of Economics, Religion, and Technology; Industrial Capitalism, the Protestant Ethic, Mechanized Timepieces, and Greenwich Mean Time: Exploring the Communicative Origins and Outcomes of Workplace Temporality; Summary; References; Chapter 3. Saying 'Good Morning' in the Night: The Reversal of Work Time in Global ICT Service Work; Introduction; Literature Review
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MethodologyWhy Night becomes Day for Indian Call Center Workers; Managerial Authority under Reversed Work Time; Working in Virtual Time; Cut off from my Life: Implications for Workers and their Families; Nighttime Cities; Discussion; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Part II: Organizational Temporalities; Chapter 4. The Dance of Entrainment: Temporally Navigating Across Multiple Pacers; Literature Review; Method; Results of Qualitative Case Analyses; Summary of Results; Acknowledgments; References
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Chapter 5. Individual Temporality in the Workplace: How Individuals Perceive and Value Time at WorkHow People Perceive and Value Time; How People Create their own Temporal Experience; The Temporal Structure of the Work Organization; Conclusion; References; Chapter 6. Polychronicity, Individuals, and Organizations; Study 1; Study 2; Study 3; General Discussion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Appendix; Chapter 7. Timing Expertise in Software Development Environments; Introduction; The Structuration of Expertise in Software Development; Conclusions; Notes; Acknowledgments; References
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Part III: Hours, Schedules and FamiliesChapter 8. The 'Over-Paced' American: Recent Trends in the Intensification of Work; Background; Methods; Results; Summary; Discussion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 9. For Love or Money? Extrinsic Rewards, Intrinsic Rewards, Work-Life Issues, and hour Mismatches; Theoretical Background and Hypotheses; Methodological Background; Data; Analytic Strategy; Results; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 10. The Economics of Flexible Work Scheduling: Theoretical Advances and Contemporary Paradoxes; Introduction and Overview
Description / Table of Contents:
An Enriched Conventional Model: The Supply of and Demand for Flextime
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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