Do occupations have their own time?
Findings of a pilot study on time cultures as exemplified by midwives, artists, site managers, and tram drivers
Abstract
"We have different points on the route, when I drive by, the unit compares with the master computer how sharp we are running, plus one or minus one or plus zero in minutes. After a while you don't need a watch any more." (tram driver)
"Actually there aren't any time stipulations. You can't plan a birth. The kids come when they want, there's nothing you can do about it." (midwife)
"You have to figure out what's important at a given moment and what is less important and divide up your time on that basis." (site manager)
The quotes from the replies by the respondents to survey questions about the way they experience time show that their work requires each of them to treat time differently. Whereas the procedures in some gainful occupations are highly synchronised and strict observance is closely supervised, in other occupations such as that of the midwife they seem to be freer, almost indefinite and so open that one has difficulty organising one's own time, as another midwife said.
Weiterführende Informationen
Produktdetails
- Verlag
- Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB)
- Erschienen
- 2009
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- Reihe
- BIBB Fachbeiträge zur beruflichen Bildung
- URN
- urn:nbn:de:0035-0304-2
- Sprachen
- englisch / deutsch