Knowledge workers and network - based ambivalence
Journal title STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI
Author/s Emiliana Armano
Publishing Year 2012 Issue 2011/2 Language Italian
Pages 26 P. 77-102 File size 527 KB
DOI 10.3280/SO2011-002004
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The aim of this paper is to summarizes the findings of a qualitative research on subjectivity of knowledge workers with reference to the main organizational studies. The analysis takes as its main methodological references Bourdieu’s "Practical Reason" and the Italian tradition of social enquiry and co-research and is based on interviews with knowledge workers who make of knowledge creation, development and transmission their own strengths, with particular reference to jobs in the field of the new media and information technologies in Turin. The substantive categories of the narratives revolve around the informal nature of relations what has proved crucial for an understanding of the modus operandi and the organizational implications. There is a sort of compulsive, lively and coactive sociality, in which the norm is to be in the network. Knowledge work often informally connects people and objectives in a porosity of fluid roles among various projects. Being in the network, an informal area of temporary roles with temporary rights and duties, seems be the tipical condition. Elevated informality, self-exploitation, but also immedesimation. The jobs are insecure but with substantial motivational and emotional rewards, and lower pay is accepted even when great commitment is demanded. It is a type of working condition which, with its characteristics, would appear nowadays as typical in an upper level of work, that of knowledge working, as were long-term relationships, high salaries, proceduralisation, repetitiveness of tasks and alienation in the type of work prevalent in the large enterprise in the Fordist phase.
Keywords: Knowledge work, network, risk society, postfordism, subjectivity
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Emiliana Armano, I lavoratori della conoscenza tra informalità e ambivalenza dei networks in "STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI " 2/2011, pp 77-102, DOI: 10.3280/SO2011-002004