Gay Male Academics in
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            Business and Management Schools: Negotiating Heteronormativities in Everyday Work Life

AbstractWhile facing cuts, downsizing and revenue losses, media organizations experience paradoxical demands in being organized for print or linear production with daily deadlines and simultaneously striving to be ‘digital first’ and produce and publish stories online on a continuous basis throughout the day. In this paper, we describe efforts applied when introducing the metaphor flowline in a medium-sized newspaper organization in Norway with the aim of aligning their production and publishing processes to readers’ consumption of online news. Both the production volume of journalistic content, reader consumption and the newsroom workers’ experience of mastering their everyday work life increased dramatically in a very short time. The involvement of a temporary autonomous team in the planning and designing of a test pilot aiming to make flowline “as practice”, was integral to the digital transformation success, allowing for participative action across newsroom boundaries. Based on the empirical findings from the local newspaper organization and drawing on theories on liminality (Turner 1982, 1986) and metaphorical work (Schön 1993), this article presents a set of six interrelated steps incorporating a structure for autonomous teams and their role in enabling lasting change in organizations facing digital transformation.

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‘Port of call’: Towards a criminology of port security

Criminology & Criminal Justice ◽

10.1177/1748895811414593 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 11 (5) ◽

pp. 415-431 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Yarin Eski

Keyword(s):

Crime Control ◽

Work Life ◽

Port Security ◽

Starting Point ◽

Everyday Work ◽

Control Port ◽

Security Organizations ◽

Late Modern ◽

Criminological Analysis ◽

Modern Condition

While public and criminological interest in ports is remarkably scarce, they form an intersection of (images of) crime and crime control. Port security organizations and personnel are confronted with that intersection in their everyday work life. In this article I will highlight the possibilities for researching port security from a criminological starting point. By describing port insecurities and their regulation, I will conceptualize the late modern condition of security. After this, the theoretical promises of a criminological analysis of port security shall be discussed, for example, how recent developed thoughts on security consumption filter through at the specific geographical sites of the port. In moving towards a criminology of port security, I aim to set the focus on security in transnational spaces and transport, and to contribute to a critical engagement within the prioritized criminological theorization of the globalized security society.

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Office Plant as a mediating technology of organization

The Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology, and Organization Studies ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198809913.013.21 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 274-285

Author(s):

Stefan Rieger

Keyword(s):

Social Relations ◽

Work Life ◽

Natural Habitats ◽

History Of Knowledge ◽

Indoor Plants ◽

Environmental Medium ◽

Everyday Work ◽

History Of

This chapter is dedicated to the office plant. The office plant takes on different roles: as environmental medium, it transforms offices into natural habitats. As medium of organization, it shapes everyday work life and its social relations. Based on artistic documentations (of office plants) and a history of knowledge of indoor plants and their cultivation, the office plant’s career is retraced and reconstructed—from a seemingly inconsequential prop of office organization to an agential medium that retains its efficacy even (or especially) under conditions of digitalization and virtualization.

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Antecedents and Consequences of Perceived Inclusion in Academia

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph19010431 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 431

Author(s):

Siw Tone Innstrand ◽

Karoline Grødal

Keyword(s):

Work Environment ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Current Trend ◽

Work Life ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Everyday Work ◽

Contemporary Work ◽

Antecedents And Consequences ◽

Insight Into ◽

A Current

A diversified workforce is a current trend in organizations today. The present paper illuminates the antecedents, consequences, and potential gender differences of a rather new concept salient to contemporary work life, namely, perceived inclusion. The hypothesized relationships were tested in a sample of academics and faculty staff at different higher education institutions in Norway (n = 12,170). Structural equation modeling analyses supported hypotheses that empowering leadership and social support from the leader (but not the fairness) are positively related to perceived inclusion. Further, perceived inclusion is positively related to organizational commitment, work engagement, and work–home facilitation and negatively related to work–home conflict. By utilizing multigroup analyses, we found support for the hypothesis that compared to women, men perceive their organization as more inclusive. However, in contrast to what was hypothesized, the proposed relationships in the model were stronger for men than women, suggesting that not only do men perceive their work environment as more inclusive, but their perception of inclusion is also more strongly related to beneficial outcomes for the organization. These results provide insight into the antecedents of and strategies for fostering an inclusive work environment, as a response to leveraging and integrating diversity in everyday work life.

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Introduction

The Fight For Time ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190459338.003.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-36

Author(s):

Paul Apostolidis

Keyword(s):

Popular Education ◽

Local Communities ◽

Work Life ◽

Day Laborers ◽

Critical Approach ◽

Intellectual Culture ◽

Geographical Mobility ◽

Physical Suffering ◽

Everyday Work ◽

Political Commitments

In today’s precaritized world, working people’s experiences strangely are becoming more alike even as their disparities increase. This puzzling situation characterizes workers’ intensified psycho-physical suffering, increasing atomization, growing geographical mobility, and mounting struggles with temporal compressions and discontinuities. Yet precarious workers are fighting back, as worldwide upsurges on the left demonstrate. Migrant day laborers’ experiences and reflections offer promising grounds for crafting a critical approach to precarity that addresses both its exceptional and its widely encompassing aspects. Day labor centers are expanding in numbers, tethering dislocated migrants to local communities, building multiscalar networks, innovating organizationally as unions decline, and repurposing temporal gaps in everyday work-life. In addition, day laborers’ lively intellectual culture of popular education suggests new ways to activate theoretically and politically sharpening contact between popular ideas and scholars’ critiques of precarity. This introduction sets the stage for such inquiry by describing the project’s fieldwork, analytical process, and political commitments.

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23. Journal Writing as Taking Ownership of Internship Experiences

Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching ◽

10.22329/celt.v1i0.3192 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 127

Author(s):

Tracey Bowen

Keyword(s):

Experiential Education ◽

Journal Writing ◽

Work Life ◽

University Of Toronto ◽

Theory To Practice ◽

Everyday Work ◽

Real Work ◽

Work World ◽

The University ◽

Industry Professionals

Many disciplines employ journal writing as a tool for students to record and reflect on their learning experiences. In the internship program in Communications Culture and Information Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga students experience the transfer of classroom theory to practice in the “real” work world during a once a week placement. Students use journals to account for these experiences reflecting on the knowledge they gain from their observations and how this knowledge incorporates into everyday work life. However, journal writing has pedagogical affordances that extend beyond recording and reflecting on experience. Language mediates the learning as students choose what to say about what they experience. They take ownership of these connections and make meaning by appropriating these ideas as part of who they are and who they are becoming as industry professionals. Identifying the ways in which students use journal writing to construct their professional selves will contribute to the evolving scholarship of experiential education.

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