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Abstract
“You can either finish doing your job and make a difference in the world or you can choose to go home”. A manager in a non-profit purpose driven organization founded on democratic and humanist values uses this phrase to demonstrate the work intensification dilemma faced by knowledge workers. The analysis is based on a case study consisting of in-depth interviews and focus group interviews with management and employees. A governmentality studies approach is used to investigate how employees’ narratives of doing greater good in the world also becomes a productive self-disciplining strategy that potentially increases work intensification and simultanously result in an instrumentalization of working for greater sustainability. The intersection between doing greater good in the world and the self-disciplining that comes along with it, in some situations creates dilemmas that may decrease well-being of employees, as it demands a continuous negotiation of boundaries between paid work and free time, meaningfulness and work devotion, self management and work intensification. The paper raises a discussion on how purpose driven organizations with a sustainability focus should be concerned about internal (social) sustainability in order to maintain consistency between external purpose and internal well-being of staff.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Publikationsdato | 20 maj 2020 |
Antal sider | 17 |
Status | Udgivet - 20 maj 2020 |
Begivenhed | 15th Organization Studies Summer Workshop 2020: Organizing for Sustainability - Online Varighed: 20 maj 2020 → 23 maj 2020 Konferencens nummer: 15 https://www.facebook.com/OrgStudies https://www.facebook.com/OrgStudies/posts/3285193351499682 |
Workshop
Workshop | 15th Organization Studies Summer Workshop 2020 |
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Nummer | 15 |
Lokation | Online |
Periode | 20/05/2020 → 23/05/2020 |
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Emneord
- Arbejdsintensivering
- vidensarbejde
- fremtidens arbejde
- Selvteknologi
- kreative industrier
- grænseløshed
- Følelsesarbejde
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