The time famine: toward a sociology of work time.
This paper describes a qualitative study of how people use their time at work, why they use it this way, and whether their way of using time is optimal for them or their work groups. Results of a nine-month field study of the work practices of a software engineering team revealed that the group's c...
| Publicado en: | Administrative Science Quarterly Vol. 44; no. 1; pp. 57 - 82 |
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Administrative Science Quarterly
March 1999
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