The socio-material nature of careers work: An exploration of knowledge co-creation amongst career practitioners

Milosheva, Marina; Hall, Hazel; Robertson, Peter; Cruickshank, Peter; Lyall, Catherine

Abstract

While knowledge co-creation is a main source of innovation in organisations, little is known about the co-creation of knowledge in career settings, particularly in the context of career guidance. This study represents a novel contribution in the consideration of knowledge co-creation in career settings through the exploration of daily routines of a previously underexplored group of professionals. Ten semi-structured interviews with career practitioners employed by Skills Development Scotland (SDS) were conducted and analysed through a socio-material methodological approach. The findings indicate that career knowledge co-creation is an assemblage of information and socialisation practices situated in a set of socio-material contexts. Specifically, these practices are performed in both physical and technological spaces, and are predicated on career practitioners’ interpretation of their employing organisation’s practice-structuring concepts. While technologies are conducive to the information and socialisation practices that constitute career knowledge co-creation, they can also serve as barriers to its success.

Citation

Milosheva, M., Hall, H., Robertson, P., Cruickshank, P., & Lyall, C. (2021, March). The socio-material nature of careers work: An exploration of knowledge co-creation amongst career practitioners. Poster presented at iConference 2021, Beijing, China

• Presentation Conference Type: Poster
• Conference Name: iConference 2021
• Start Date: Mar 28, 2021
• End Date: Mar 31, 2021
• Deposit Date: Mar 11, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 12, 2021
• Keywords: knowledge, careers. socio-material
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2752015
• Additional Information: This is a poster presented at the iConference, 28-31 March 2021