... Illusory autonomy Control Conservation of resources The gig economy has expanded rapidly, reshaping how work is structured, managed and experienced across sectors (Kenney and Zysman, 2016). This shift has attracted scholarly attention about its implications for employment, autonomy and control...

...Caroline Ruiner; Matthias Klumpp Purpose Digitalization is changing organizations with positive and negative impacts such as increased autonomy on the one hand and increased surveillance and control on the other hand. In this context, new modes of control occur: in addition to managerial control...

...Asaf Darr This study focuses on control and autonomy among an emerging class of knowledge workers in sales, from the employees’ perspective. The sales engineers studied were not only technical experts, they also worked on their own in client's plants over extended periods of time, where...

... for trade unions. This paper puts forward the following proposition: the similar imposition of extensive legal controls on trade union organization and activities in Hong Kong and the UK suggests that an analysis of the factors responsible for UK trade unions’ resilience and adaptability, when faced...

... organizations, and on the future of management and management control, should be refocused. Instead of attempting to define and analyse knowledge work which, in spite of the muddle and confusion which surrounds it, tends to emerge as the privilege of a minority élite, the paper will conclude by arguing...

.... © MCB UP Limited 1992 Management development Construction industry Control Managers Single market Stress Stress and Construction Site Managers: Issues for Europe 1992 Marilyn J. Davidson and Valerie J. Sutherland The Centre for Business Psychology at the Manchester School...

... electronics plant at Dundee are explored. Major obstacles to the successful introduction of practices such as just‐in‐time production are identified; however,once implemented these practices carry significant implications for unions and workers. © MCB UP Limited 1990 Employees Control Industrial...