Andersson, Christoffer, Crevani, Lucia, Hallin, Anette, Ingvarsson, Caroline, Ivory, Chris, Lammi, Inti, Lindell, Eva, Popova, Irina and Uhlin, Anna (2021) Hyper-Taylorism and third-order technologies: making sense of the transformation of work and management in a post-digital era. In: Management and Information Technology after Digital Transformation. Routledge, New York. ISBN 9780367612764
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Abstract
In this chapter we propose that the search for productivity and efficiency through the implementation and use of third-order digital technologies is leading to a shift in how both work and management are understood. This shift, we argue, draws on and reinforces a Taylorist logic in the design of work, where the norms of rationality and division of labour are key. Furthermore, this shift has consequences in that it allows for a different construction of work. Building on a sociomaterial framework that foregrounds both the social and material dimensions of work, we treat ideas – such as Taylorism – and materials – such as third-order technologies and other technologies – as constitutively entangled (Orlikowski, 2007). Through such a lens, we suggest that classical Taylorist ideas about how work ought to be organized and managed transform as new technologies have emerged.
Item Type: | Book Chapter |
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Keywords: | Work, Digital, Automation, Taylorism |
Faculty: | Faculty of Business & Law |
SWORD Depositor: | Symplectic User |
Depositing User: | Symplectic User |
Date Deposited: | 09 Mar 2021 13:49 |
Last Modified: | 05 May 2022 12:54 |
URI: | https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/706396 |
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