Flexible Work Arrangements - Embracing the Noise to Understand the Silence

In this in-depth account of one organization's struggle with flexible work arrangements, Fisher identifies the internal logic of the work environment, specifies underlying structural and cultural mechanisms impeding flexibility, and defines a path toward using these learnings to make flexibility work in more American companies.

List of contents

1. Ideologies and Institutional Logics
2. Tools for Looking Broader and Digging Deeper in Workplaces
3. Findings on the Structure of Work
4. Findings on the Culture of Work
5. Visibility, Connectivity, Reactivity and the System of Silence
6. Interpersonal Cultural Tensions
7. Discursive/Processual Tensions
8. Working within Internal Logic of Workplace Structure and Culture to Support Flexibility

About the author

By Lisa Fisher

Summary

In this in-depth account of one organization’s struggle with flexible work arrangements, Fisher identifies the internal logic of the work environment, specifies underlying structural and cultural mechanisms impeding flexibility, and defines a path toward using these learnings to make flexibility work in more American companies.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Fisher, Fisher Lisa
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781498537674
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-3767-4
• No. of pages: 212
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Sociology & anthropology