Location independent working in academia: Enabling employees or supporting managerial control?
Journal article
| Authors | Lee, Amanda, Di Domenico, Marialaura and Saunders, Mark N. K. |
|---|---|
| Abstract | In this article, we consider the extent to which the practice of location independent working (LIW) enables academic employees to make choices and have agency in their life-work balance, and the extent to which it may support (or potentially be used as a form of resistance to) increased managerial control. Set within the context of an increasingly performanceled, managerialist public sector landscape, the impact and implications of these working practices are examined through the lens of labour process theory. Drawing on findings from an ongoing in-depth ethnographic study set in a post-1992 university business school in central England, we suggest that the practice of LIW is being used both to enable employees and to support managerial control. |
In this article, we consider the extent to which the practice of location | |
| Keywords | Location independent working; Labour process theory; Work-life balance; Public sector |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal | Journal of Workplace Rights |
| Publisher | Baywood Press |
| ISSN | 19384998 |
| 19385005 | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.2190/WR.17.3-4.k |
| Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/621994 |
| hdl:10545/621994 | |
| Publication dates | Oct 2014 |
| Publication process dates | |
| Deposited | 28 Nov 2017, 16:49 |
| Contributors | Coventry University, The Open University and University of Surrey |
| File | File Access Level Open |
| File | File Access Level Open |
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