The re-regulation of working communities and relationships in the context of flexwork: A spacing identity approach

IF 5.7 2区 管理学 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE Information and Organization Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI:10.1016/j.infoandorg.2021.100364
Michel Ajzen, Laurent Taskin
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Abstract

Existing studies on flexwork stress its individualizing inclination by showing how it gives autonomy to employees, boosts individual productivity, or supports personal well-being at the expense of group cohesiveness, social ties and other characteristics of the “collective” in organizations. Obviously, flexwork both continues and contributes to an individualization process of working activities and relationships. But, how exactly does flexwork re-regulate working relationships and communities? Is the “collective” irremediably damaged and doomed to disappear? Building on a case study conducted in an insurance company having implemented flexwork, we observe invisibilized employees working from diverse premises (e.g., home, office, etc.) initiating alternative ways of staying united and close. This article shows the re-regulation of these working relationships and communities' through a collective identity process involving de/re-spacing identity; i.e., the spatial and material aspects of flexible work in relation to identity.

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弹性工作制背景下工作社区和关系的再调节:间隔身份方法
现有的关于弹性工作制的研究强调了它的个性化倾向,展示了弹性工作制如何赋予员工自主权,提高个人生产力,或者以牺牲团体凝聚力、社会关系和组织中“集体”的其他特征为代价来支持个人福祉。显然,弹性工作制既延续了工作活动和人际关系的个性化过程,也有助于实现这一过程。但是,弹性工作制究竟是如何重新规范工作关系和社区的呢?“集体”是否受到不可挽回的破坏,注定要消失?基于在一家实施弹性工作制的保险公司进行的案例研究,我们观察到隐形员工在不同的场所(例如,家庭,办公室等)工作,采取不同的方式保持团结和亲密。本文通过涉及de/re-spacing身份的集体认同过程,展示了这些工作关系和社区的再调节;即弹性工作的空间和物质方面与身份的关系。
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期刊介绍: Advances in information and communication technologies are associated with a wide and increasing range of social consequences, which are experienced by individuals, work groups, organizations, interorganizational networks, and societies at large. Information technologies are implicated in all industries and in public as well as private enterprises. Understanding the relationships between information technologies and social organization is an increasingly important and urgent social and scholarly concern in many disciplinary fields.Information and Organization seeks to publish original scholarly articles on the relationships between information technologies and social organization. It seeks a scholarly understanding that is based on empirical research and relevant theory.
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