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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 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. Scholars and professionals in organization studies,
management, HRM, innovation and knowledge management will find this
book engaging and enlightening.
In The Laws of the Knowledge Workplace, Dr Jemielniak has collected
research-based chapters providing deep, interdisciplinary insight
into knowledge professions, addressing issues of professional
identity, emotion, power and authority, trust and indoctrination,
and management behaviour. This leads to an examination of issues
related to time and work scheduling and its bearing on play,
family, symbolic sacrifices, and employee burn-out. In particular,
it delves into the identity shifts between knowledge workers and
managers, nepotism and turnover intentions among knowledge workers,
the implementation of engineering projects, coordination problems
in offshore production systems, leadership in virtual teams,
decision support systems; taking into account the moral aspects of
consequences, netnography as a tool for studying knowledge work,
and innovative networks in the aviation industry. The accounts and
studies in this book come from management, organization studies,
sociology, and anthropology of work perspectives and are fully
international in scope. They highlight the scale of the serious
changes in occupational roles and to the meaning of work that is
taking place in knowledge-intensive environments and give a pointer
to what might constitute good and bad management practice in
knowledge-intensive companies.
With an emphasis on peer-produced content and collaboration,
Wikipedia exemplifies a departure from traditional management and
organizational models. This iconic "project" has been variously
characterized as a hive mind and an information revolution,
attracting millions of new users even as it has been denigrated as
anarchic and plagued by misinformation. Have Wikipedia's structure
and inner workings promoted its astonishing growth and enduring
public relevance? In Common Knowledge?, Dariusz Jemielniak draws on
his academic expertise and years of active participation within the
Wikipedia community to take readers inside the site, illuminating
how it functions and deconstructing its distinctive organization.
Against a backdrop of misconceptions about its governance,
authenticity, and accessibility, Jemielniak delivers the first
ethnography of Wikipedia, revealing that it is not entirely at the
mercy of the public: instead, it balances open access and power
with a unique bureaucracy that takes a page from traditional
organizational forms. Along the way, Jemielniak incorporates
fascinating cases that highlight the tug of war among the
participants as they forge ahead in this pioneering environment.
This book provides a thorough review of tested qualitative methods
often used in organization studies, and outlines the challenges and
essential requirements of designing a qualitative research project.
The methods examined include case studies, observation,
interviewing and the repertory grid technique. By highlighting
certain key 'rules' for carrying out qualitative research and
describing issues that should be avoided, this second volume of
Qualitative Methodologies in Organization Studies is essential
reading for academics and researchers who wish to understand the
current state of qualitative data gathering within organization
studies. Those exploring organization studies will find this
two-volume collection extremely valuable as it contains robust
contributions from highly-skilled authors who are actively
researching in this field.
This book brings together key theories behind qualitative research,
whilst drawing attention to novel, cutting-edge approaches to data
gathering, such as visual anthropology and storytelling. Offering a
comprehensive guide to qualitative analysis, this book goes further
than examining research methods to open a discussion on the roles
of reflexivity, imagination, emotions and ethics in qualitative
research, Covering topics such as reflective analysis, sociological
paradigms, action research and organizational ethnography, this
book is ideal reading for those who wish to address the gap between
undergraduate and postgraduate research-based edited books and
encompasses a wide array of methods. Those exploring organization
studies will find this two-volume collection extremely valuable as
it contains robust contributions from highly-skilled authors who
are actively researching in this field.
This book provides a thorough review of tested qualitative methods
often used in organization studies, and outlines the challenges and
essential requirements of designing a qualitative research project.
The methods examined include case studies, observation,
interviewing and the repertory grid technique. By highlighting
certain key 'rules' for carrying out qualitative research and
describing issues that should be avoided, this second volume of
Qualitative Methodologies in Organization Studies is essential
reading for academics and researchers who wish to understand the
current state of qualitative data gathering within organization
studies. Those exploring organization studies will find this
two-volume collection extremely valuable as it contains robust
contributions from highly-skilled authors who are actively
researching in this field.
This book brings together key theories behind qualitative research,
whilst drawing attention to novel, cutting-edge approaches to data
gathering, such as visual anthropology and storytelling. Offering a
comprehensive guide to qualitative analysis, this book goes further
than examining research methods to open a discussion on the roles
of reflexivity, imagination, emotions and ethics in qualitative
research, Covering topics such as reflective analysis, sociological
paradigms, action research and organizational ethnography, this
book is ideal reading for those who wish to address the gap between
undergraduate and postgraduate research-based edited books and
encompasses a wide array of methods. Those exploring organization
studies will find this two-volume collection extremely valuable as
it contains robust contributions from highly-skilled authors who
are actively researching in this field.
With an emphasis on peer-produced content and collaboration,
Wikipedia exemplifies a departure from traditional management and
organizational models. This iconic "project" has been variously
characterized as a hive mind and an information revolution,
attracting millions of new users even as it has been denigrated as
anarchic and plagued by misinformation. Has Wikipedia's structure
and inner workings promoted its astonishing growth and enduring
public relevance?
In "Common Knowledge?," Dariusz Jemielniak draws on his academic
expertise and years of active participation within the Wikipedia
community to take readers inside the site, illuminating how it
functions and deconstructing its distinctive organization. Against
a backdrop of misconceptions about its governance, authenticity,
and accessibility, Jemielniak delivers the first ethnography of
Wikipedia, revealing that it is not entirely at the mercy of the
public: instead, it balances open access and power with a unique
bureaucracy that takes a page from traditional organizational
forms. Along the way, Jemielniak incorporates fascinating cases
that highlight the tug of war among the participants as they forge
ahead in this pioneering environment.
How networked technology enables the emergence of a new
collaborative society. Humans are hard-wired for collaboration, and
new technologies of communication act as a super-amplifier of our
natural collaborative mindset. This volume in the MIT Press
Essential Knowledge series examines the emergence of a new kind of
social collaboration enabled by networked technologies. This new
collaborative society might be characterized as a series of
services and startups that enable peer-to-peer exchanges and
interactions though technology. Some believe that the economic
aspects of the new collaboration have the potential to make society
more equitable; others see collaborative communities based on
sharing as a cover for social injustice and user exploitation. The
book covers the "sharing economy," and the hijacking of the term by
corporations; different models of peer production, and motivations
to participate; collaborative media production and consumption, the
definitions of "amateur" and "professional," and the power of
memes; hactivism and social movements, including Anonymous and
anti-ACTA protest; collaborative knowledge creation, including
citizen science; collaborative self-tracking; and internet-mediated
social relations, as seen in the use of Instagram, Snapchat, and
Tinder. Finally, the book considers the future of these
collaborative tendencies and the disruptions caused by fake news,
bots, and other challenges.
The social sciences are becoming datafied. The questions once
considered the domain of sociologists are now answered by data
scientists operating on large datasets and breaking with
methodological tradition, for better or worse. The traditional
social sciences, such as sociology or anthropology, are under the
double threat of becoming marginalized or even irrelevant, both
from new methods of research which require more computational
skills and from increasing competition from the corporate world
which gains an additional advantage based on data access. However,
unlike data scientists, sociologists and anthropologists have a
long history of doing qualitative research. The more quantified
datasets we have, the more difficult it is to interpret them
without adding layers of qualitative interpretation. Big Data
therefore needs Thick Data. This book presents the available
arsenal of new methods and tools for studying society both
quantitatively and qualitatively, opening ground for the social
sciences to take the lead in analysing digital behaviour. It shows
that Big Data can and should be supplemented and interpreted
through thick data as well as cultural analysis. Thick Big Data is
critically important for students and researchers in the social
sciences to understand the possibilities of digital analysis, both
in the quantitative and qualitative area, and to successfully build
mixed-methods approaches.
Modern workplaces are far more technology-driven than the
organizations of a few decades ago, leading to a different set of
challenges for employers to keep their employees working
efficiently, and for employees to balance their work and home
lives. Managing Dynamic Technology-Oriented Businesses: High-Tech
Organizations and Workplaces explores the culture of modern
high-tech workplaces and the different challenges and opportunities
that new technologies present for modern workers and employers.
This pivotal reference will delve deep into management practices
throughout the world, including American, European, Asian, and
Middle-Eastern high-tech companies.
The concepts of knowledge management and knowledge-intensive work
have been developing for quite a while as one of the most critical
components to organizational success. Despite its importance across
the globe, there has never been a truly international resource to
address the issues, trends, and theories involved in this area of
study. ""The Handbook of Research on Knowledge-Intensive
Organizations"" offers an international collection of studies on
knowledge-intensive organizations with insight into organizational
realities as varied as universities, consulting agencies,
corporations, and high-tech start-ups. As one of the first
comprehensive books to cover the topics vitally important for the
whole theory of organization and management, this ""Handbook of
Research"" delivers a state-of-the-art view on this timely issue.
The concept of innovation management and learning organizations
concepts strongly emphasize the high role of human/intellectual
capital in the company and the crucial function of knowledge in
modern society. However, there is often a paradox between
managerial language and actual practice in many organizations: on
one hand, knowledge-workers are perceived as the most valued
members of organizations while, on the other, they are being
manipulated and "engineered"-commonly driven to burn-out, and
deprived of family life. All this leads to the emergence of new
organizational phenomena that, up to now, have been insufficiently
analyzed and described. Management Practices in High-Tech
Environments studies this issue thoroughly from an international,
comparative, cross-cultural perspective, presenting cutting-edge
research on management practices in American, European, Asian and
Middle-Eastern high-tech companies, with particular focus on
fieldwork-driven, but reflective, contributions.
The New Principles of Management is a textbook meant for European
students of principles of management. Developed basing mainly on
international cases as well as drawing from international examples
of managerial practices, it attempts to address the needs of
globalized companies better than other, typically US-centric
textbooks. The New Principles of Management challenges many of the
fossilized and outdated management notions and covers the topics
most relevant for modern 21st century organizations, rather than
their historic developments.
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