The new knowledge workers

by Jemielniak, Dariusz

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Title Statements

Full title :The new knowledge workers / Dariusz Jemielniak.

Summary

This critical ethnographic study of knowledge workers and knowledge-intensive organization workplaces focuses on the issues of timing and schedules, the perception of formality and trust and distrust in software development as well as motivation and occupational identity among software engineers. The book is a cross-cultural, comparative study of American and European high-tech workplaces that addresses the issues currently of interest to both Academia and to practice and provides a rare international comparison of organizations from both sides of the Atlantic. Its conclusions shed new light on the problems typical for software projects. The book specifically focuses on, and gives voice to, the perspectives of knowledge workers rather than managers and will thus be useful to not only scholars and human resource managers from software companies, but also to high-tech professionals.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2010.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Edward Elgar
Place of Publication:Cheltenham
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2010.

The Physical Object

Description:vii, 180 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781848447530, 1848447531
oclc:ocn649804408
LC Classification:HD9696.2.P72
Dewey Decimal:338.470051

1. Outline of the Research Project -- 2. Work -- 3. Knowledge-intensive Organizations -- 4. Knowledge Workers -- 5. Research Methods and the Organizations Studied -- 6. Modern Bureaucracies -- 7. High Time in High-tech -- 8. Trust in Knowledge Work -- 9. Pleasure, Motivation and Identity in Knowledge Work.

Subjects

Arbeitsbedingungen Computer software industry Computer software industry -- Employees Computer software industry -- Longitudi… Computer software industry -- Longitudi… Computer software industry -- Longitudi… Computer software industry -- Longitudi… Geistige Arbeit Gestion des connaissances Knowledge management Logiciels -- Études longitudinales. -- … Logiciels -- Études longitudinales. -- … Longitudinal studies Mitarbeiter Poland Softwareindustrie United States