Hi everyone For your information. Please accept my apologies for cross postings. Reconnecting Critical Management The Fifth Critical Management Studies Conference, Manchester Business School Stream title: Work/Life Intensity: practices, patterns and possibilities Stream description
The effect of work/life intensity is experienced in the context of individual struggle to achieve balance between work and non-work responsibilities, the impact of changes in organisational forms and ongoing practices, the impact of government policies, and the influence of extreme consumerism. We wish to broaden the current global debate beyond an exclusive focus on work/life balance, to one that explores the experience of intensification, whether that is within a work or leisure context. This stream invites papers that contribute to a dialogue about how current understandings of work identities and practices challenge existing conceptualisations and ideas about work/life intensity. We invite papers from a wide spectrum of methodological and theoretical positions, and particularly welcome papers that challenge conventional notions of work/life balance as dualist concept. We welcome papers on the following topics: - Past and present patterns of work intensification ? is there is difference?
- Non-work and the experience of leisure as ?work?
- Organisational practices that contribute to the construction of the ?intensive? worker
- Global accounts of the interplay between work and leisure intensification
- Discourses of flexibility, choice and lifestyle
- Community work (eg voluntary work), paid work and leisure interfaces
- Gendered patterns of work/life interface
- Managers as ?intensity? producers and brokers
This list is not an exhaustive one and we welcome papers that fit within the broad topic of work/life issues. Details of the Convenors: Glenda Strachan
Griffith Business School Griffith University Brisbane, Australia
g.strachan@griffith.edu.au Maree Boyle
Griffith Business School Griffith University Brisbane, Australia
m.boyle@griffith.edu.au Amanda Roan
School of Business, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
a.roan@business.uq.edu.au Timeline for paper submission: Abstracts to Convenors (e-mail) - 6 November 2006 Decisions on acceptance/rejection communicated to authors - 14 February 2007 Full papers to Convenors (e-mail) - 28 April 2007 Abstracts must contain the following information: - Authors (including affiliation and contact details, with lead author clearly indicated)
- Stream to which the abstract is submitted
- Title
- Body text
- Maximum 500 words
All abstracts must be single-spaced, prepared using at least an 11-point Ariel font, with a left margin at least 1 inch for binding and be formatted for A4 paper (21cm * 29.7 cm). |