Resumen de Open organizing: designing sustainable work practices for the engineering workforce
Maintaining a high quality of life that encompasses work satisfaction and work-life balance is a critical long term need for theengineering practitioners. In this paper I argue that to grow professionally engineers need to design sustainable work environments forthemselves through the productive use of information technology. I present a field study to identify ‘open organizing’ as a model tosustain engineering work. Open organizing refers to development of socio-technical infrastructure that allows people to successfullycontribute to an endeavor irrespective of their physical location. Through a grounded theory analysis of field study data collected froman organization I call Digitech, I outline characteristics of open organizing practices and discuss their benefits for the engineers whoworked there and for the organization. Overall, the findings reveal that successful creation and implementation of open organizing canresult in better work-life balance for engineers and increase productivity and innovation.
