posted on 2023-08-30, 18:17authored byChristoffer Andersson, Lucia Crevani, Anette Hallin, Caroline Ingvarsson, Chris Ivory, Inti Lammi, Eva Lindell, Irina Popova, Anna Uhlin
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.
History
Refereed
Yes
Number of pages
272
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
New York
Title of book
Management and Information Technology after Digital Transformation