Gregg Counterproductive

Time Management in the Knowledge Economy
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0239-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten

Melissa Gregg explores the obsession with using productivity as the primary measure of most workers' sense of value and success in the workplace, showing how it isolates workers from each other while erasing their collective efforts to define work limits.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gregg, Melissa

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix
I. Theory
Introduction: The Productivity Imperative 3
1. A Brief History of Time Management 22
II. Practice
2. Executive Athleticism: Time Management and the Quest for Organization 53
3. The Aesthetics of Activity: Productivity and the Order of Things 78
III. Anthropotechnics
4. Mindful Labor 103
Conclusion: From Careers to Atmospheres 127
Postscript: A Belated Processing 141
Acknowledgments 143
Notes 147
Bibliography 179
Index 191

Über Autor(innen)

Melissa Gregg is Principal Engineer and Research Director, Client Computing Group, Intel; coeditor of The Affect Theory Reader, also published by Duke University Press; and author of Work's Intimacy.