Knowledge management through the developmennt of knowledge repositories: Towards work degradation
(2015) New Technology, Work & Employment — Vol. 30, n° 2, p. 158-172 (2015)
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- This paper questions the consequences of the use of electronic knowledge repositories for work and employment. Drawing on critical research suggesting that knowledge management associated with such tools presents similarities to scientific management principles, it proposes to examine the following key research question: how do employees experience the transformation of the employment relationship when a knowledge repository is introduced to the workplace? The inquiry is grounded in an exploratory qualitative case study of a knowledge management system designed to foster knowledge-sharing in a Belgian public administration. The findings illustrate two complementary outcomes: this system resulted in employees experiencing deskilling and work degradation, and was met with resistance. Significantly, this paper considers work degradation as a reflexive phenomenon in the context studied, where knowledge-sharing systems produced deskilling and resistance as part of a specific re-regulation process.
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Taskin, L., & Van Bunnen, G. (2015). Knowledge management through the developmennt of knowledge repositories: Towards work degradation. New Technology, Work & Employment, 30(2), 158-172. https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12049 (Original work published 2015)