Sub-theme 23: Between Social and Digital: The Making of the ‘Ideal Worker’
Convenors:
Michel Ajzen, University of Namur, Belgium
Michal Izak, University of Chester, United Kingdom
Stefanie Reissner, Durham University, United Kingdom
Session Time Corridor 1: Thursday, July 09, 08:30 to 12:00, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Break 1: 10:00 to 10:30
Chair: Stefanie Reissner
Alain Neher, Lucia Wuersch and Marc K Peter
Characterising the ‘ideal worker’: A digital internal communication perspective
Discussant(s): Miłosz Miszczyński
Miłosz Miszczyński
Invisible Infrastructural Labor: How Workers Co-Produce Amazon’s “Ideal Worker” Through Mobility and Care
Discussant(s): Alain Neher, Lucia Wuersch & Marc K Peter
Shanchana S
Generational Differences and the 'Ideal Worker': How Multigenerational Workforces Interpret Digital-Era Work Expectations
Differently
Discussant(s): Moana Monnier, Rea Haldemann & Ingo Stolz
Benjamin Đug and Marko Orel
Virtual Reality and Video Conferencing in Distributed Work: A Systematic Review of Social Presence, Wellbeing, and the Reshaping
of Worker Expectations
Discussant(s): Shanchana S
Moana Monnier, Rea Haldemann and Ingo Stolz
Hybrid Leadership and the Reconfiguration of the Ideal Worker: From Competence Models to Micro-Interventions in Everyday Practice
Discussant(s): Benjamin Đug & Marko Orel
Session Time Corridor 2: Thursday, July 09, 16:00 to 19:30, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Break 1: 17:30 to 18:00
Chair: Stefanie Reissner & Michel Ajzen
Francesca Sanguineti, Valentina Sommovigo, Alessandro Zardini and Pietro Previtali
Leading the always-on workforce: Digital task-oriented leadership, role clarity, and the making of the ideal remote worker
in public organizations.
Discussant(s): Helene Gerber, Susanne Pedersen & Christiane Marie Høvring
Helene Gerber, Susanne Pedersen and Christiane Marie Høvring
Always on: Constructing influencer work between authenticity and commercial demands
Discussant(s): Marie-Colombe Afota, Ariane Ollier-Malaterre, Marcello Russo & Heejung Chung
Marie-Colombe Afota, Ariane Ollier-Malaterre, Marcello Russo, Heejung Chung and Marcello Russo
Why work disconnection fails: A digital detox experiment among academics
Discussant(s): Francesca Sanguineti, Valentina Sommovigo, Alessandro Zardini & Pietro Previtali
Laura Scherer and Daniel Wheatley
Remote workers and mobility: Ethnographic explorations in coworking areas within coliving space
Discussant(s): Alessandra Sossini
Alessandra Sossini
(Non)Performing the ideal worker on LinkedIn: Disengagement as platform-mediated identity work
Discussant(s): Emma Bell & Anna Uhlin
Emma Bell and Anna Uhlin
The sociomaterial production of digital intimacy in online meetings
Discussant(s): Laura Alves Scherer & Daniel Wheatley
Session Time Corridor 3: Friday, July 10, 08:30 to 12:00, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Break 1: 10:00 to 10:30
Chair: Michal Izak & Michel Ajzen
Lauri Mattila and Niina Nurmi
When flexibility intensifies control: Psychological contracts and normative self-obligation in hybrid work
Discussant(s): Paul Richard
Amine Chihi
Hybrid work and the re-regulation of performance management in universities
Discussant(s): Lauri Mattila & Niina Nurmi
Paul Richard
‘Dear network.’ Forging ideal employees through online identity regulation
Discussant(s): Amine Chihi
Michal Izak, Stefanie Reissner, Alan McKinlay and Ewan Mackenzie
Accounting for “not being seen’” – Governmentality, Flexible Working and the Entrepreneurial Self
Discussant(s): Alessandra Migliore, Magdalena Dobrajska, Cristina Rossi-Lamastra, Arnaud Banoun, Lucas Dufour & Massimo Maoret
Alessandra Migliore, Magdalena Dobrajska, Cristina Rossi-Lamastra, Arnaud Banoun, Lucas Dufour and Massimo Maoret
Women (in)visibility: The role of significant alters in a non-territorial office
Discussant(s): Marie Greil
Marie Greil
Making the New Ideal Worker: Social Evaluations, Conduct Diplomacy and the Domestication of Managerial Style
Discussant(s): Michal Izak, Stefanie Constanze Reissner, Alan McKinlay & Ewan Mackenzie
Session Time Corridor 4: Friday, July 10, 16:00 to 18:00, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)
Chair: Michal Izak
Begum Yildirim Rassolov
The ideal inverts: remote work and the reconstitution of organisational success
Discussant(s): Elisabetta Marafioti, Marco Corsino, Lorena D'Agostino, Mattia Martini, Miriam Tomasuolo & Salvatore Torrisi
Gislene Feiten Haubrich, Frida Pemer and Stefan Haefliger
Changing lawyering: emerging insights on the work of business lawyers
Discussant(s): Begum Yildirim Rassolov
Elisabetta Marafioti, Marco Corsino, Lorena D'Agostino, Mattia Martini, Miriam Tomasuolo and Salvatore Torrisi
Navigating digital transformation: Linking hybrid work and data-driven-decision making
Discussant(s): Gislene Feiten Haubrich, Frida Pemer & Stefan Haefliger
Session Time Corridor 5: Saturday, July 11, 08:00 to 12:30, Virtual Colloquium (Digivents)