Call for Papers and Deadlines
Exploring the Dynamics of Organizational Working Time Regimes
Managerial, Occupational, and Institutional Perspectives on Extreme Work
Organizational working time regimes that are characterized by extra-long working hours, constant availability expected by clients and superiors, and a poorly predictable, high-paced workflow, have become a salient phenomenon. Whilst they are particularly prevalent in professional service and other knowledge-intensive firms, they may spread over other sectors, too. For a long time accepted as a symbol for loyalty, excellence and commitment to work, more recently, such working time regimes have been called into question in the context of work-life/family balance and health issues. As a result, the question of how to change such extreme working time regimes has come to the fore. Pressed by environmental shifts such as changing workforce demographics (i.e. raising share of dual-career couples and single parents) and critique in the public, many firms have launched interventions to redesign work and alleviate regimes of extreme work. Yet, regimes of extreme work have proved particularly difficult to be changed: managerial efforts to attenuate the long hours patterns often do not bring about the intended results, whilst the established working time regimes largely persist despite their drawbacks for individuals and organizations.
This international research workshop brings together research that examines organizational regimes of excessive working hours, their emergence, evolution, persistence, consequences for employee well-being and work-life balance, and, in particular, approaches to changing them.
You can find the full Call for Papers here.
Deadline for abstracts (1,000 words): October 30th, 2016
Feedback from the organizers: November 30th, 2016
Deadline for short papers (approx. 3,000 words) or full papers (8-10,000 words): February 28th, 2017