Browsing by Author "Chakraborty, Saikat"
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Doing dignity work: Indian security guards interface with precariousness
Noronha, Ernesto; Chakraborty, Saikat; D'Cruz, Premilla (Springer, 2018-08-22)Increasing global competition has intensified the use of informal sector workforce worldwide. This phenomenon is true with regard to India, where 92% of the workers hold precarious jobs. Our study examines the dynamics ... -
Embodying Change at Work: an autoethnography in the Indian public sector
Chakraborty, Saikat (TQR Publications, 2020-05-17)Beyond the macro picture of change in the Indian public sector triggered by economic deregulation and restructuration, the variegated experiences of employees exposed to organizational changes remain hidden and masked. ... -
Place matters: (dis)embeddedness and child labourers’ experiences of depersonalized bullying in Indian Bt cottonseed global production networks
D’Cruz, Premilla; Noronha, Ernesto; Banday, Muneeb Ul Lateef; Chakraborty, Saikat (Springer Science + Business Media, 2021-01-04)Engaging Polanyi’s embeddedness–disembeddedness framework, this study explored the work experiences of Bhil children employed in Indian Bt cottonseed GPNs. The innovative visual technique of drawings followed by interviews ... -
Redefining dignity in the context of precarity: Indian security guards’ interface with their clients, suppliers and unions
Chakraborty, Saikat (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)Precarity, marked by uncertainty, instability and insecurity has become a significant feature of contemporary work and employment. This is particularly applicable to India, where 93% of the workforce (which includes those ... -
This place is not the same anymore; temps are coming in
Chakraborty, Saikat (SSRN, 2017)As organisations increasingly rely on temporary work arrangements, there is a significant rise in the proportion of workers in part-time, contractual, fixed tenure, and other such labour engagements. Due to the difference ... -
Using narratives in creativity research: handling the subjective nature of creative process
Chakraborty, Saikat (Nova Southeastern University, 2017)For most of us, creative processes are those which can produce outcomes that are capable of being judged ascreative. The outcome-centric recognition of creativity has heavily downplayed the process-perspective ofcreativity ...