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
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cheltenham [England]
Edward Elgar Pub
2012
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| Series: | New horizons in management
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| Collection: | Edward Elgar eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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 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 |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 180 p ill |
| ISBN: | 9780857933119 9781848447530 |