Inside Work Cultures

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Course description
The literature takes students on a guided journey inside the intricate world of work cultures. It offers rich accounts of and insights into how professionals work, talk about their work, how they experience and understand their working in diverse organizational settings. A selection of organizational ethnographies provides students with a research-based understanding of how work and management gets done. The literature explores the daily life of technical experts and contractors, human rights guardians/activists, and field service technicians, among others. The literature provides a selection of cultural resources with which students can understand and address a range of professional practices, working conditions, organizational policies, and conflicting moralities in work, as well as their effect on our (working) lives.