The new knowledge workers
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 intern…
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- Full title :The new knowledge workers / Dariusz Jemielniak.
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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 o.
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Edward Elgar Pub
- Place of Publication:Cheltenham [England]
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (vii, 180 pages) : : illustrations.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780857933119, 0857933116, 1280493119, 9781280493119
- oclc:ocn785779505
- LC Classification:HD8039.K59
- Dewey Decimal:338.470051
Table of Contents
COVER; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 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; 10. Summary; References; Index.
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