MORE THAN TEMPORAL CONTROL: FORMS OF AGENCY THAT MATTER TO HIGH-SKILLED INDEPENDENT WORKERS

Hillary Abraham; Melissa Mazmanian; Jina Hong; Margaret Jack; Charis Asante-Agyei; Ingrid Erickson

doi:10.5465/AMBPP.2021.244

MORE THAN TEMPORAL CONTROL: FORMS OF AGENCY THAT MATTER TO HIGH-SKILLED INDEPENDENT WORKERS

Hillary Abraham, Melissa Mazmanian, Jina Hong, Margaret Jack, Charis Asante-Agyei, Ingrid Erickson

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Nearly one third of U.S workers today are self-employed or independent contractors. Autonomy has long been identified as a driving motivation for independent workers, but it remains unclear how these workers experience this component of their work in their day-to-day lives. In an interview and diary study with high-skilled independent workers, we find that autonomy is not a monolithic or unidimensional experience; rather, it encompasses multiple agentic facets (particularly, temporal, operational, environmental, and holistic agency) that workers value and describe as core to their choice to engage in independent work.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2021.244
State	Published - 2021
Event	81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2021: Bringing the Manager Back in Management, AoM 2021 - Virtual, Online Duration: Jul 29 2021 → Aug 4 2021

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Management Information Systems
Management of Technology and Innovation
Industrial relations

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