Sub-theme 38: New ways to work: Organizing work and working practices

Convenors:
Julia Richardson, York University, Canada
Clare Kelliher, Cranfield School of Management, UK
Session I: Thursday, July 02, 09:00 to 10:30, E2-3-317
New Ways to Work: Boundary Crossing and/or blurring?
Chair: Julia Richardson
Jessica Bagger and Fabiola Bertolotti
Work and family: Do multi-tasking and social networks help or hurt?
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Bagger, Bertolotti & Mattarelli
The role of space in the construction of home/work boundaries: an auto-ethnographic analysis
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Cohen, Duberly & Musson
Consistency and adaptability of managers working flexibly: An approach to boundary management
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Anderson
Discussant: Darl Kolb (15 mins)
Presenters will each have 15 mins to present their papers. This will be followed by a 15 minute presentation from the discussant and then 25 minutes for group discussion/ Q & A of all presented papers.
Session II: Thursday, July 02, 11:00 to 12:30, E2-3-317
New Ways to Work: Telework
Chair: Clare Kelliher
Control and new working practices in home-teleworking
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Valsecchi
Glenda Scholefield
New ways to work and old reasons not to: Teleworking and managerial ambivalence
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Peel & Schofield
Understanding processes of individual resistance to new working practices: The case of deciding not to embrace telework
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Wade-Clarke
Discussant: Juliet Summers (15 mins)
Presenters will each have 15 mins to present their papers. This will be followed by a 15 minute presentation from the discussant and then 25 minutes for group discussion/ Q & A of all presented papers.
Session III: Thursday, July 02, 14:00 to 15:30, E2-3-317
New Ways to Work: A Team Effort?
Chair: Julia Richardson
Marte Buvik
New ways of working in self-managed teams: dilemmas of shared leadership practice
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Skarholt, Petersen & Buvik
Creative Connectivity: Finding Flow for Regeneration and Innovation
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Kolb & Collins
Bridging relational dissimilarities and team faultlines through flexible i-deals
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Firfay
Discussant: Steve Frenkel (15 mins)
Presenters will each have 15 mins to present their papers. This will be followed by a 15 minute presentation from the discussant and then 25 minutes for group discussion/ Q & A of all presented papers.
Session IV: Friday, July 03, 09:00 to 10:30, E2-3-317
New Ways to Work: Remote, Flexible, Temporary & Call Centres
Chair: Clare Kelliher
Petra M. Bosch-Sijtsema, Renate Fruchter, Matti Vartiainen and Virpi Ruohomaki
Challenging new ways of working for remote managers
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Bosch-Sijtsema, Fruchter, Ruohomaki & Vartiainen
ANA VILLAR-LOPEZ
Using flexible practices in manufacturing and in organizational design: effects on firm performance
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Zornoza & Lopez
Jeroen de Jong and Bart Cambré
What do project leaders actually do? Understanding the performative dimension of leadership through leader activities
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Bakker, Cambre & de Jong
Sarah Jenkins
THEORIZING DISCRETION IN SERVICE WORK: VALUE DISCRETION IN A HIGH PERFORMANCE CALL CENTRE
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Delbridge & Jenkins
No Discussant for This Session - 4 papers to be presented.Presenters will each have 15 mins to present their papers. After presentation of all four papers there will be 30 minutes for group discussion/ Q & A.
Session V: Friday, July 03, 11:00 to 12:30, E2-3-317
New Ways to Work: Image, Identity, Commitment & Engagement
Chair: Juila Richardson
Flexible work..flexible selves?: The impact of changing work practices on identity
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Linehan
Women doing their own thing: Moden women's new ways to work?
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Summers & Eikhof
New working Practices: Identity, Agency and the Emotional Experience of Remote Working
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Wilkinson & Jarvis
Ursula Christine Loisch
The Role of Flexibility in the Context of Changing Employment Relations and Organizational Engagement
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Loisch & Schmidt
No Discussant for This Session - 4 papers to be presented.Presenters will then each have 15 mins to present their papers. After presentation of all four papers there will be 30 minutes for group discussion/ Q & A.
Session VI: Saturday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, E2-3-317
Exploring the Darker Side of New Ways to Work (1)
Chair: Clare Kelliher
Min Li and Simon Lloyd D. Restubog
Analysing Emotional Exhaustion among Chinese Migrant Workers
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Frenkel, Restubog & Li
Conflict or cooperation? The impact of cultural diversity on creative process within globally distributed teams responsible for development of new products - A case study of Volvo 3P in Sweden, France, Brazil, and India
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Reis & Chevalier
Bart Cambré, Jos Benders and Kasia Koziol
Why don't they buy it? Employee reluctance with flexible benefit systems
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Benders, Cambre & Koziol
Discussant: Rick Delbridge (15 mins)
Presenters will each have 15 mins to present their papers. This will be followed by a 15 minute presentation from the discussant and then 25 minutes for group discussion/ Q & A of all presented papers.
Session VII: Saturday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, E2-3-317
Chair: Exploring the Darker Side of New Ways to Work (2)
Concetta Metallo, Filomena Buonocore, Domenico Salvatore and Maria Ferrara
Behavioural consequences of job insecurity and perceived insider status for contingent workers
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Metallo, Buonocore & Salvatore
Telecommuters: Creative or Exhausted Workers? A Study into Conditions under which Telecommuters Experience Flow and Exhaustion
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Peters
Kristine Dery and Judith MacCormick
PARADOXICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE USE OF BLACKBERRYS? AN APPLICATION OF THE JOB DEMAND-CONTROL-SUPPORT MODEL
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Besseyre des Horts, Dery & MacCormick
Discussant: Gill Musson (15 mins)
Presenters will each have 15 mins to present their papers. This will be followed by a 15 minute presentation from the discussant and then 25 minutes for group discussion/ Q & A of all presented papers.