Location independent working in academia
Lee, A, Di Domenico, M and Saunders, MNK (2014) Location independent working in academia Journal of Workplace Rights, 17 (4). pp. 425-442.
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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 performance-led, 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.
Item Type: | Article |
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Divisions : | Surrey research (other units) |
Authors : | Lee, A, Di Domenico, M and Saunders, MNK |
Date : | 1 October 2014 |
DOI : | 10.2190/WR.17.3-4.k |
Depositing User : | Symplectic Elements |
Date Deposited : | 28 Mar 2017 13:14 |
Last Modified : | 24 Jan 2020 12:30 |
URI: | http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/806598 |
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