Past empirical research related to call centres' has had a preoccupation with panoptic extrapolations and suggestions of stereotyping of call centres using ‘sacrificial HR' strategies that encourage, high staff turnover, absenteeism and stress as the norm. The aim of this research is to...

High rates of labour turnover in the call centre sector are, in the view of some commentators, indicative of widespread employee 'burnout'. However, few studies have formally investigated the frequency or antecedents of job burnout for this particular group of workers. This paper presents the...

Past empirical research related to call centres’ has had a preoccupation with panoptic extrapolations and suggestions of stereotyping of call centres using ‘sacrificial HR’ strategies that encourage, high staff turnover, absenteeism and stress as the norm. The aim of this research is to...

A number of employees individually and cooperatively resist the controls of the electronic surveillance systems in the PowerGrid call centre. However, this is not the case in all teams. One team is faced with a labour process that directs their resistance to be focused directly at management,...

Advances in information and communication technologies bring along changes in working and employment conditions. Automationed work is moved to distant areas and businesses get elaborate, far from the center and network-based. Another change similar to the disintegration of production process is...

Behavioral economics documents the importance of status and self-image concerns in the workplace, but is largely silent about how to instrumentalize them to induce effort. Awards - widespread in the corporate sector and elsewhere - are motivators that derive their value from such social...