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Clock Watching Divides Workplaces, but Time Favors Neither Side.
- Source :
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Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition . 6/30/2004, Vol. 243 Issue 127, pB1-B1. 0p. 1 Cartoon or Caricature. - Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- Examines the issue of time in the workplace and how it is viewed by the workers and management. Example of John Bullard, who was a clock watcher when he worked on his factory line's conveyor belt and now, as an engineer-training coordinator, who feels there isn't enough time in the workday; Activities of lower-level employees in an effort to appear busy before the end of the workday; Comments from Geoff Godbey, professor of leisure studies at Pennsylvania State University, suggesting the cause of clock watching; How clock watching began in the United States when the country was a manufacturing-based economy; Changes in the work place as the result of the U.S.' service-based society.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00999660
- Volume :
- 243
- Issue :
- 127
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition
- Publication Type :
- News
- Accession number :
- 13602404