TY - JOUR
T1 - Clean your desk! Dressage and activity-based working in a French banking organization
AU - Hasbi, Marie
AU - Kingma, S.F.
N1 - Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
PY - 2020/8
Y1 - 2020/8
N2 - As part of popular new kinds of activity-based working, many companies seek to implement so-called clean-desk policies, in which users have to empty their desk after completing a task, so that other workers can feel free to use this desk. Following Henri Lefebvre's discussion of 'Dressage' in the context of Rhytm-analysis (Lefebvre 2004 [1992]), we argue that clean desk policies are part of a wider organizational strategy in flexibilizing working practices, focusing on the performative management of bodily and material aspects of work demonstrating control over these aspects. In drawing on a case study of a French Bank, which introduced a flexible working environment in 2016-2018, and following Lefebvre's ideas, we argue that and how dressage can be understood as a separate but key component in the domination and embodiment of flexiblized work practices.
AB - As part of popular new kinds of activity-based working, many companies seek to implement so-called clean-desk policies, in which users have to empty their desk after completing a task, so that other workers can feel free to use this desk. Following Henri Lefebvre's discussion of 'Dressage' in the context of Rhytm-analysis (Lefebvre 2004 [1992]), we argue that clean desk policies are part of a wider organizational strategy in flexibilizing working practices, focusing on the performative management of bodily and material aspects of work demonstrating control over these aspects. In drawing on a case study of a French Bank, which introduced a flexible working environment in 2016-2018, and following Lefebvre's ideas, we argue that and how dressage can be understood as a separate but key component in the domination and embodiment of flexiblized work practices.
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/107a3cf1-cea3-3504-9374-4dffae3d652c/
U2 - 10.5465/ambpp.2020.20889abstract
DO - 10.5465/ambpp.2020.20889abstract
M3 - Meeting Abstract
SN - 0065-0668
VL - 2020
JO - Academy of Management Proceedings
JF - Academy of Management Proceedings
IS - 1
M1 - 2020.20889
ER -