Working time, knowledge work and post-industrial society [electronic resource] : Unpredictable Work /
O'Carroll, A.author.
We are living in the age of imagination and communication. This book, about the new ways time is experienced and organised in post-industrial workplaces, argues that the key feature of working time within knowledge, and other workplaces, is unpredictability, creating a culture that seeks to insert acceptance of unpredictability as a new 'standard'.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Unpredictability: The Effects of a New Working Time Culture; 2 The Long Hours Myth: Working Hours in the Software Sector; 3 The Unpredictable Clock: The Time of Knowledge Work; 4 Spaghetti Time: Organisational Culture, Multi-tasking and Boundaries; 5 Constrained Autonomy and Disrupted Bargains; 6 Nomads: Unpredictable Career Paths; 7 Time, Work-Discipline and Unpredictability; Appendix on Methods; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
We are living in the age of imagination and communication. This book, about the new ways time is experienced and organised in post-industrial workplaces, argues that the key feature of working time within knowledge, and other workplaces, is unpredictability, creating a culture that seeks to insert acceptance of unpredictability as a new 'standard'.
Economic sociology.
Business.
Management science.
Industrial sociology.
Sociology.
Social policy.
Office management.
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.
Business and Management, general.
Sociology of Work.
Sociology, general.
Social Policy.
Office Management.