附註:"CommerceNet Press."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-218) and index.
Chapter 1 -- Forces Creating the Change -- Chapter 2 -- Changes: How Is the Practice of Work Evolving? -- Chapter 3 -- Community: What Different Relationships are We Forming? -- Chapter 4 -- People: Why Is This So Hard? -- Chapter 5 -- Organizations of the Future: Show Me Some Success -- Chapter 6 -- Technology: Tell Me How to Do It -- Chapter 7 Resources
摘要:According to Robert Walker, CIO of Hewlett-Packard, the notion of where a corporation starts and stops is going to be different in the future. The current moves toward the virtual corporation, the technological consolidation of traditional job functions, and the growth in part-time employment will continue to change the relationship between workers and their jobs around the world. Many experts believe that people are searching for practical, non-technical guidance about how to make the transition from old centralized work practices to these emerging alternative ways of working. People are discovering that organizational lines, political lines, and geographical separation are less visible obstacles to productive work than they once were, but few are sure about what is going to happen next. The Future of Work, by the president and CEO of the Institute for the Study of Distributed Work, addresses tgese issues and more while offering today's managers and workers practical solutions for building a profitable and successful business. By focusing on the new social psychology of work--a new combination of thinking and acting as an individual and as part of a larger community (whether team, company or industry oriented)--Graham offers guidance through the changing maze of work as we have traditionally viewed it. The ways in which people think about and act at work are changing more quickly and more dramatically than ever before. From the alienation people feel as work becomes less centralized to the increased productivity that is arising from these same decentralized working systems, there are pros and cons lying ahead in the future of work. Grantham offers a provocative view of: where the companies of tomorrow are headed today; how emerging technologies will enable us to define "work" in more ways than previously imagined; and how we, as individuals, will adapt our psyches in order to thrive in the future of work. -- Provided by publisher.
