I discuss in this article how ethnographers understand, see and represent time by presenting a research study of a newly established cardiac day unit. Previous discussions of time in relation to ethnography mainly revolved around choosing an appropriate tense for writing up the text, and few studies attempted to develop a framework for conducting time-oriented ethnography in organizations, i.e., tempography. I argue that doing tempography requires considerations in several phases of the research process: how we understand time through theory; how we see time in different qualitative methods; and how we represent time in writing. I present empirical findings that illustrate different ways that time emerges in the ethnographic research process, for example, in observational accounts, through depictions and narratives that support different temporal conceptualizations, patients' stories about their trajectories and as ethnographic accounts of professional work. I contend that ethnographers need to consider: 1. methodological temporal awareness as recognition of coexisting temporal modes in qualitative data; 2. temporal analytical practices as understanding time and temporality through different theoretical concepts; and 3. multi-temporal merging as a matter of representing diverse perspectives in ethnographic writing.

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Waiting time in hospitals is often studied from one of two perspectives: a distributed resource in hospitals or a potential steering and measuring factor. In this article, waiting time in an emergency department is examined from a practice and a narrative perspective, placing time at the core of our analysis. Our article explores patient waiting time as a local practice that builds on the temporal structuring that affects how waiting time is regulated by both normal clock time and event time—as interpretative time. We also consider how individual narratives in situated spaces allow for negotiations, but we also present isolated time experiences. The empirical data derive from an organisational ethnographic study of a newly introduced triage system for incoming patients at an emergency department in Denmark. The analysis shows how waiting time is organised in the formal visitation system as ‘colour time’ based on the negotiations of the health‐care professional as at the ‘right time’ and as the patient's individual illness experiences with ‘wasting time’. The findings indicate the importance of the unequal relationship between clock time and event time and the different contextual situations affecting the possibilities of organising.

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Artiklen undersøger, hvorledes agil projektstyring og -ledelse påvirker det psykiske arbejdsmiljø i IT-sektoren. Scrum, en type agil projektstyring, er en procedurel standard, hvor tilrettelæggelsen af arbejdet foregår løbende med en høj grad af medarbejderinvolvering. Det er derfor nærliggende at antage, at der her er tale om en standard, som skaber løsninger på nogle af de psykosociale belastninger, der findes i IT-sektoren. Dette studeres i to sammenlignelige casevirksomheder. I den ene virksomhed bidrager den agile standard positivt til det psykiske arbejdsmiljø, i den anden virksomhed bidrager den agile standard til en udvikling, der forringer det psykiske arbejdsmiljø. Det konkluderes, at agile standarder har potentiale til at forbedre det psykiske arbejdsmiljø. Hvorvidt disse potentialer realiseres afhænger af samspillet med andre standarder i organisationen og implementeringens