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Examine how employees and organizations negotiate work-life boundaries through everyday dynamics of managerial control and employee resistance within specific cultural contexts.

May 18, 2011Communication Monographs

Struggling to Manage Work as a Part of Everyday Life: Complicating Control, Rethinking Resistance, and Contextualizing Work/Life Studies

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SWStacey M. B. WielandWestern Michigan University

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Qualitative ethnographic study reveals how cultural moderation norms simultaneously enact and resist managerial control among employees, suggesting new frameworks for work-life navigation.

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Examine how employees and organizations negotiate work-life boundaries through everyday dynamics of managerial control and employee resistance within specific cultural contexts.
Qualitative field research employing ethnographic observation and in-depth interviews.
Conducted within a single Swedish organization to examine the influence of localized cultural norms.
The Swedish cultural norm of lagom (moderation) functions dualistically, both reinforcing organizational control and providing employees a legitimate basis to resist excessive work demands.
Workplace resistance occurs unobtrusively through daily sensemaking and routine actions rather than overt opposition.
Managerial control over work-life balance is fragmented and contextually dependent rather than unified or totalizing.

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Stacey M. B. Wieland (2011) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a71d44526770c2b8de13e2b https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2011.564642

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Qualitative ethnographic study reveals how cultural moderation norms simultaneously enact and resist managerial control among employees, suggesting new frameworks for work-life navigation.

Struggling to Manage Work as a Part of Everyday Life: Complicating Control, Rethinking Resistance, and Contextualizing Work/Life Studies

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Struggling to Manage Work as a Part of Everyday Life: Complicating Control, Rethinking Resistance, and Contextualizing Work/Life Studies

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