Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant: Burnout: The Epistemologies of a Modern Condition

博士论文研究改进补助金：倦怠：现代状况的认识论

• 批准号: 1947213
• 负责人: Lilly Irani
• 金额: $ 1.55万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-04-01 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1947213&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Improvement; Grant

This project investigates ‘burnout’ at work as a category of experience and object of inquiry in science, organizational design, and culture. Blending insights from science and technology studies on scientific classification processes, organizational design, and knowledge workers, it asks three main research questions: What epistemic, political, and institutional changes account for shifts in the ways that burnout has been conceptualized and addressed? How do actors make claims about burnout? Why has the concept of burnout become crucial to efforts to maintain well-being within the workforce? These questions will be answered using a mixed-methods research design blending archival research, ethnography, interviews, and participant workshops to investigate three case studies: the early history of burnout research, a group who study burnout among healthcare workers, and a group of software developers experiencing burnout. Broader impacts include holding participatory workshops among stakeholders to inform them about their condition and generate knowledge about how burnout manifests in individual, interpersonal, and institutional contexts.This project synthesizes data from multiple qualitative research methods to understand the phenomena of ‘burnout’ within the modern workplace. Data from historical archival research, ethnographic observations, and participatory focus groups are triangulated to understand the causes and consequences of burnout within the modern workforce, and how the concept of burnout has undergone cultural, political, and historical transformations. Documentary analysis of the early history of burnout research enables understanding of how the concept of burnout has changed over time. Participant observation of a university-based research group who studies burnout among healthcare workers allows for understanding of how burnout affects physicians and how interventions are developed to deal with it. Ethnographic observations among information technology workers who develop open source software facilitates deeper understanding of how workers define and deploy the notion of burnout in non-medical contexts. Taken together, this project advances the current state of knowledge about burnout in science and technology studies and social and cultural studies of work.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

本研究将工作倦怠作为科学、组织设计和文化的一种经验和探究对象进行调查。融合科学分类过程，组织设计和知识工作者的科学和技术研究的见解，它提出了三个主要的研究问题：什么认识，政治和制度的变化占转变的方式，倦怠已被概念化和解决？演员们是如何声称自己精疲力竭的？为什么职业倦怠的概念对维持员工福利的努力至关重要？这些问题将使用混合方法的研究设计混合档案研究，民族志，访谈和参与者研讨会调查三个案例研究：职业倦怠研究的早期历史，一组研究医疗工作者职业倦怠的人，以及一组经历职业倦怠的软件开发人员。更广泛的影响包括在利益相关者之间举办参与式研讨会，告知他们的状况，并产生关于职业倦怠如何在个人，人际和机构环境中表现的知识。本项目综合了多种定性研究方法的数据，以了解现代工作场所中的“职业倦怠”现象。从历史档案研究，民族志观察和参与焦点小组的数据进行三角分析，以了解现代劳动力的倦怠的原因和后果，以及如何倦怠的概念已经经历了文化，政治和历史的转变。通过对职业倦怠研究早期历史的文献分析，可以了解职业倦怠的概念是如何随着时间的推移而变化的。参与观察的一所大学为基础的研究小组谁研究的医疗工作者之间的职业倦怠，可以了解职业倦怠如何影响医生，以及如何制定干预措施，以应对it.Ethnographic观察信息技术工作者谁开发开源软件，促进更深入地了解工人如何定义和部署的概念，在非医疗环境中的职业倦怠。总之，该项目推进了科学和技术研究以及社会和文化工作研究中关于职业倦怠的知识现状。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。