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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nWednesday, September 14, 2022 12:00 pm to
  1:30 pm \n\nSpeakers \nHatim A. Rahman, Northwestern University \n\nDesc
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 anizations have embraced experimentation as a means of testing new ideas a
 nd processes, guiding decision making, and evaluating worker performance
 . Nowhere is this more evident than in labor platform organizations, in w
 hich experiments are deployed at an unprecedented scope and scale. While p
 rior research has examined the efficacy of experiments from the platform o
 rganization’s perspective, much less attention has been devoted to unders
 tanding the social effects of experimentation on the subjects of experimen
 tation (i.e., less powerful workers). To build theory in this domain, we
  collected and analyzed longitudinal qualitative data from one of the worl
 d’s largest digital labor platforms. We found that the platform organizati
 on developed what we identify as an experimentation repertoire of transpar
 ent, concealed, and unbounded experiments, which reconfigures less powe
 rful workers’ sense of autonomy in unexpected ways. Specifically, we find
  that worker responses normalize experimentation over time as the new stat
 us quo. Together, we argue that organizations’ experimentation repertoire
  is constitutive of the “experimental hand” that engenders unanticipated s
 ocial effects on less powerful actors’ autonomy. We discuss the implicatio
 ns of our findings for the literature on less powerful worker autonomy, t
 he organizational management of experimentation, and the future of work.H
 atim A. Rahman is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations a
 t the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. His research
  investigates how artificial intelligence, undergirded by algorithms, is
  impacting the nature of work and employment relationships in organization
 s and labor markets. This research has been published in Administrative Sc
 ience Quarterly, Organization Science, and Academy of Management Discove
 ries. Prior to joining Kellogg, Professor Rahman received his PhD and Mas
 ters in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University and hi
 s B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Illinois at Urban
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SUMMARY:The Experimental Hand: Social Effects of Platform Experimentation o
 n Worker Autonomy | CIRHR Research Seminar with Hatim A. Rahman
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