Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant: Burnout: The Epistemologies of a Modern Condition

博士论文研究改进补助金：倦怠：现代状况的认识论

基本信息

批准号：
1947213
负责人：
Lilly Irani
金额：
$ 1.55万
依托单位：
University of California-San Diego
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-04-01 至 2022-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1947213&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant

项目摘要

This project investigates ‘burnout’ at work as a category of experience and object of inquiry in science, organizational design, and culture. Blending insights from science and technology studies on scientific classification processes, organizational design, and knowledge workers, it asks three main research questions: What epistemic, political, and institutional changes account for shifts in the ways that burnout has been conceptualized and addressed? How do actors make claims about burnout? Why has the concept of burnout become crucial to efforts to maintain well-being within the workforce? These questions will be answered using a mixed-methods research design blending archival research, ethnography, interviews, and participant workshops to investigate three case studies: the early history of burnout research, a group who study burnout among healthcare workers, and a group of software developers experiencing burnout. Broader impacts include holding participatory workshops among stakeholders to inform them about their condition and generate knowledge about how burnout manifests in individual, interpersonal, and institutional contexts.This project synthesizes data from multiple qualitative research methods to understand the phenomena of ‘burnout’ within the modern workplace. Data from historical archival research, ethnographic observations, and participatory focus groups are triangulated to understand the causes and consequences of burnout within the modern workforce, and how the concept of burnout has undergone cultural, political, and historical transformations. Documentary analysis of the early history of burnout research enables understanding of how the concept of burnout has changed over time. Participant observation of a university-based research group who studies burnout among healthcare workers allows for understanding of how burnout affects physicians and how interventions are developed to deal with it. Ethnographic observations among information technology workers who develop open source software facilitates deeper understanding of how workers define and deploy the notion of burnout in non-medical contexts. Taken together, this project advances the current state of knowledge about burnout in science and technology studies and social and cultural studies of work.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目将工作中的“倦怠”作为科学、组织设计和文化领域的一种体验和探究对象进行研究，融合了科学技术研究中关于科学分类过程、组织设计和知识工作者的见解，要求进行三项主要研究。问题：哪些认知、政治和制度变化导致了职业倦怠的概念化和解决方式的转变？为什么职业倦怠的概念对于维持劳动力福祉变得至关重要？ ?这些问题将通过以下方式得到回答混合方法研究设计，融合了档案研究、人种学、访谈和参与者研讨会，以调查三个案例研究：职业倦怠研究的早期历史、研究医护人员职业倦怠的小组以及经历职业倦怠更广泛影响的软件开发人员。包括在利益相关者中举办参与式研讨会，让他们了解自己的状况，并了解倦怠在个人、人际和机构环境中如何表现。该项目综合了多种定性研究方法的数据，以了解现代工作场所中的“倦怠”现象。数据通过对历史档案研究、民族志观察和参与性焦点小组的三角分析，了解现代劳动力中职业倦怠的原因和后果，以及职业倦怠的概念如何经历文化、政治和早期历史的转变。职业倦怠研究有助于了解职业倦怠的概念如何随着时间的推移而变化。对研究医护人员职业倦怠的大学研究小组的参与者观察可以了解职业倦怠如何影响医生以及如何制定干预措施来应对它。开发开源软件的信息技术工作者的人种学观察有助于更深入地了解工作者如何在非医学环境中定义和部署倦怠概念。总而言之，该项目推进了科学技术研究和社会中有关倦怠的知识现状。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。