I am publishing a case study collection with IGI Publishing, due to be released in 2012 and entitled 'Technological Development and Workplace Change.' If you would like to contribute a case study to this collection, then please let me know as soon as possible – preferably with an abstract or an idea. However, if you do not have anything in particular in mind but would still like to contribute, let me know and I am sure we can work out something together. Email:
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Please send abstracts and other communications by October 20th, 2011.
The way that people work, whether in an office or a factory or elsewhere, depends on the technology employed to mediate between what they produce (their output) and how it is used as an input by the organisation involved. Information technology means that it is no longer necessary for people to work in the same place that their created intellectual property is employed and, in some cases, discrete manufacturing activities may be outsourced completely. Many other technologies have drawn a distinction between the place where people work and the place where that work is used, contracted and rewarded.
What are the limits and implications of these changes? Through a series of relevant and timely case studies, the principal issues are drawn out and evaluated in terms of:
- changing workplace responsibilities and behaviour
- changing structure of organisations resulting from emergent technologies
- entrepreneurial opportunities that arise from the replacement of hierarchies by networks, in line with the first two areas.
Overall Objective of the Book
The nature of modern work is continually changing and that brings with it the need for adaptations to managerial methods and approaches in a very wide range of industries. To meet this need, this book will provide details of latest applications in organizational technology advancement and workplace change in various sectors, drawing upon the most recent ideas and empirical research. This will provide both theoretical and practical applied approaches to new workplace issues for the benefit of practitioners, educators, students and all interested parties. Good workplace practice can represent an important source of sustainable competitive advantage for organisations, particularly those involved with the creation of intellectual property and members of the knowledge-based economy.
Target Audience
This book will appeal to professionals and researchers working in the field of management, organizational behaviour, technology and knowledge management, as well as employee relations, human resource management and the sociology of work and organizations.
Moreover, the book will provide insights and support executives concerned with the management of expertise, knowledge, information and organizational development in different types of work communities and environments.
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Technology and changing workplace behaviour
Telecommuting and gender
Telecommuting and diversity issues
Outsourcing and employer-employee relations
Computer-mediated work and security issues
Social solidarity in the dispersed workplace
Entrepreneurial opportunities in the dispersed network paradigm
Health and safety issues in the dispersed workplace
Productivity and family issues
Work-life balance
Technological approaches to workplace inefficiencies
Technology and power
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