An overview of flexible working practices

Un panorama des pratiques de flexibilité des modes de travail

Claire Estagnasié () and Anthony Hussenot ()
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Claire Estagnasié: UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal = University of Québec in Montréal, UniCA - Université Côte d'Azur, GREDEG - Groupe de Recherche en Droit, Economie et Gestion - UNS - Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UniCA - Université Côte d'Azur, LabCMO - Laboratoire de communication médiatisée par ordinateur - UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal = University of Québec in Montréal, CIRST - Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie - UdeM - Université de Montréal - UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal = University of Québec in Montréal, RECOR - Groupe de recherche sur la Communication Organisante
Anthony Hussenot: GREDEG - Groupe de Recherche en Droit, Economie et Gestion - UNS - Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UniCA - Université Côte d'Azur

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Abstract: Flexibility in working practices is often presented as a response to contemporary economic and social challenges (Taskin, 2003). Yet this appeal is not self-evident. In fact, flexible work practices stand in stark contrast to the classic way of organizing work, i.e. the one that emerged during the industrial era. The seminal writings on management by authors such as Henri Fayol, Henri Ford and Frederick Winslow Taylor (to name only the best-known and most widely taught) aimed to conceive of an organization of work free of all forms of improvisation, informality and subjectivity. Flexibility (in the sense of the Latin etymology flexibilitas) and indeterminacy in work practices were systematically eliminated in favor of a rational, instrumental organization of work in which tasks, roles and individual performance were defined, ordered, hierarchized and measured.

Keywords: New ways of working; Work practices; Organizational change; Flexibilité; Pratiques de travail; Cadre spatiotemporel; Organisations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-01-23
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Published in Explorer la flexibilité des nouveaux modes d'organisation du travail, Éditions EMS, 2025, 9782386300936

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