Chronemics at Work: Using Socio-Historical Accounts to Illuminate Contemporary Workplace Temporality

Ballard, Dawna I.

doi:10.1016/s0277-2833(07)17002-3

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“…The broader literature supplies the important concept of “time work,” but, with few exceptions, fails to examine situations in which those in positions of influence over others attempt to control the experience of time. Time, however, is co‐constructed and emergent through interactions (Ballard ). The sociology of work can contribute to this literature because it is naturally situated to study the manipulation of others in controlled environments, such as the workplace.…”

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“…While the focus on work-life balance emerged from work in the 1960s (Goffman 1961;Gurvitch 1964;Melbin 1969;Moore 1963aMoore , 1963b, in the 1990s, researchers turned their attention more actively to this balance (Daly 1996;Hochschild 1997;May 1999;Nowotny 1994) and to institutional time (Fine 1990). Momentum has been building around the sociology of work, time and balance since the turn of the century (Ballard 2007;Bluedorn 2002;D'Abate 2005;Hochschild 2012;Moen 2003;Presser 2003;Southerton 2003). The field can now turn to the wider work on time to enrich itself.…”

Section: Experiencing Timementioning

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Beyond the Time Crunch: New Directions in the Sociology of Time and Work

Scott¹

2014

Sociology Compass

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The sociology of work is particularly poised to study the meaning of time within institutions and organizations at its most sociological manifestation – the point where groups of people come together to accomplish joint goals. Previous work has offered useful concepts to help us understand temporality and tempography, home and work balance, temporal practices and mindsets towards time. Most of this work, however, which directly or peripherally treats time in the workplace, has focussed on the work–life balance. The actual temporal experiences of workers, however, are relatively absent in this literature. In this review article, I outline previous contributions from sociologists of work and offer ways in which work from the broader literature on the sociology of time can enhance this field. I address how future research should focus on how “time work” is accomplished in workplaces and on issues of class and gender.

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Section: Experiencing Timementioning

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Beyond the Time Crunch: New Directions in the Sociology of Time and Work

Scott¹

2014

Sociology Compass

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“…Many technological inventions have been associated with changes in time consciousness, including “mechanized clocks, wristwatches, stopwatches, standardized time zones, railways, and computers” (Ballard, 2007, p. 37). Although research suggests that cultural temporal orientations influence how individuals view work and time (Bluedorn, 2002), how they experience time in the workplace also intersects with communication technologies.…”

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Immigrant Workers’ Organizational Temporality: Association With Cultural Time Orientation, Acculturation, and Mobile Technology Use

Lee

Flores

2019

Management Communication Quarterly

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Based on a meso-level model of organizational temporality, this study examined U.S. immigrant workers’ workplace temporal enactment and construal regarding cultural time orientation (monochronic vs. polychronic), acculturation type (assimilation, integration, segregation), and mobile technology use. Analyses revealed that cultural time orientation and acculturation type interacted to influence separated enactment of organizational temporality, and immigrant workers’ acculturation type and mobile use for work had significant interaction effects on their future- and present-time perspective. Participants with integrated and assimilated acculturation were more likely to experience time in ways consistent with the Western, industrialized organizations’ temporality, whereas those with the segregated acculturation reported a distinct pattern of temporal enactment and construal in relation to mobile phone use for work.

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“…The process of temporal construction, particularly by various occupational groups, helps to explain the time use patterns and approaches taken outside of a strictly linear valuation of time. In particular, despite the formal autonomy of many organizational members to construct time as they wish, cultural values and norms act to construct a variety of times unanticipated by a commodification thesis (Ballard, 2007).…”

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Time and Time Again: The Search for Meaning/fulness Through Popular Discourse on the Time and Timing of Work

Ballard

Webster

2009

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Many working individuals struggle with the time and timing of work, and often turn to books, web sites, magazines, seminars, and workshops to assist in their struggle to find meaning/fulness in work. In the present article, we first adopt Hassard's (2002) pluri-paradigmatic perspective on organizational temporality to consider the limitations of popular discourse that organizational members draw on in their day-to-day interaction. We consider themes in this discourse along three tropes-commodification, construction, and compression-intended to help members address widely held concerns associated with the time and timing of work. Our analysis highlights problematic issues arising from the focus of one trope over the others. We conclude by considering Adam's (2004) macro-level framework of temporal control to suggest broad implications of popular discourse on the time and timing of work.

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Chronemics at Work: Using Socio-Historical Accounts to Illuminate Contemporary Workplace Temporality

Cited by 12 publications

References 51 publications

Beyond the Time Crunch: New Directions in the Sociology of Time and Work

Beyond the Time Crunch: New Directions in the Sociology of Time and Work

Immigrant Workers’ Organizational Temporality: Association With Cultural Time Orientation, Acculturation, and Mobile Technology Use

Time and Time Again: The Search for Meaning/fulness Through Popular Discourse on the Time and Timing of Work

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