Empowerment and beyond: Paradoxes of self-organised work.
In recent years, empowerment has increasingly become the watchword for work in knowledge-intensive industries. In particular, The Agile Manifesto (2001) and new management approaches such as agile frameworks promise to cut down documentation duties and increase autonomy for knowledge workers. It non...
| Publicado en: | Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation Vol. 15; no. 2; pp. 73 - 91 |
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2021
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