工艺的配置:组织工作的替代模式

Configurations of Craft: Alternative Models for Organizing Work

ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT ANNALS · 2021
被引 120
人大 AFT50ABS 4*

中文导读

回顾了百年来管理文献中工艺的概念,将其重新定义为优先人类参与而非机器控制的工作方式,并识别出传统与当代共五种工艺配置模式,为理解替代性工作组织提供理论框架。

Abstract

The concept of craft has long lived in the margins of organizational research and has typically been equated with a primitive form of manufacturing. Craft, however, seems to have had a resurgence, and is now increasingly associated with alternative approaches to work and organization in contemporary society. Yet, despite growing research on the phenomenon, insights have remained fragmented due to a lack of common theoretical infrastructure. In an effort to synthesize the disparate threads of research on craft, we conducted an interpretive review of the concept’s use in management and organizational literature over the past century. Based on this we propose a reconceptualization of craft as a timeless approach to work that prioritizes human engagement over machine control. We identify the distinct work skills and attitudes that are typically associated with craft, and illustrate how these appear across two conventional configurations (traditional and industrialized craft) and three contemporaneous configurations (technical, pure, and creative craft) that are visible in the literature. Finally, we suggest how our framework could be used as a general theory for understanding alternative approaches to work against the backdrop of growing affordances of machine technology, and sketch future research avenues for exploring specific craft-related tensions and evolutionary processes.

组织行为工作设计工艺研究管理理论