After-hours connectivity management strategies in academic work
After-hours connectivity management strategies in academic work
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学术工作中的下班后连接管理策略
DOI：
10.1111/ntwe.12217
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2021
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Aljabr N
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新兴文献已经确定了专业人士为管理下班后的工作连接而开发的一系列策略，但它在很大程度上将这些策略视为相互独立。现有的研究没有捕捉到连通性的动态性质，也没有捕捉到这如何有助于在实践中重新划定边界。在这里，我们将学者作为一个职业群体来关注，他们经历了与工作的联系，因为他们可以自由决定(在一定程度上)何时在教学职责之外工作。在两个案例研究的基础上，我们首先引出了三种连通性管理策略--细分、优先排序和疏远--并说明了支持它们的实践及其相互交织的关系，因为学者们试图保持自己的专业身份。其次，我们认为，技术并不一定会模糊工作和非工作之间的界限，但它也可以被用作分隔这两个领域的“边界对象”。
Emerging literature has identified a range of strategies that professionals develop in order to manage after‐hours connectivity to work, but it has largely treated those strategies as being independent from each other. Existing research has not captured the dynamic nature of connectivity or how this may facilitate the redrawing of boundaries in practice. Here, we focus on academics as an occupational group that experiences connectivity to work, given their discretion to decide (to a degree) when to work outside their teaching duties. Drawing on two case studies, we first elicit three connectivity management strategies—segmentation, prioritisation and distancing—and illustrate the practices that support them and their intertwining relationship, as academics try to maintain their professional identity. Second, we argue that technology does not necessarily contribute to a blurring of boundaries between work and nonwork, but it can also be used as a ‘boundary object’ that separates the two domains.