Dear CMS community,
we would like to warmly invite your submissions to our
sub-theme 55 "Re-organizing Imperfections at Work: Negotiating Power and Control in Employment Relations" at the annual
EGOS conference to be held in Vienna (Austria) July 7-9, 2022.
T
he present-day landscape of work is riddled with serious imperfections, ranging from insecure and low-paid jobs to intrusive and oppressive employee surveillance, abusive supervision, discrimination, wage theft, and even modern slavery. At the same time, our contemporary working world is also shot through with aspirational yet elusive discourses of "perfection". These broader discourses embrace individual actors at both employer and employee levels, as exemplified by notions of self-optimization and the ideal worker through to agile, flexible and responsive 'employers of choice'. Too often, rhetoric and reality diverge widely, highlighting inherent contradictions and paradoxical tensions in how work is governed and experienced by those at the "coalface" of production. These tensions can fuel conflict and generate momentum for change. In light of these pressures, the question emerges of how organizations and individuals can respond to imperfections at work.
More information can be found
here. The deadline for short papers is January 11th, 2022, at 23:59 CET.If you have any inquiry, just drop (any of) us an email!
Andreas Pekarek
andreas.pekarek@unimelb.edu.auMarkus Helfen
markus.helfen@fu-berlin.dePatrizia Zanoni
patrizia.zanoni@uhasselt.beTake care,
Patrizia Zanoni, on behalf of the convenor team
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Patrizia Zanoni
Utrecht University
Hasselt
+32-11-268672
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