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The Laws of the Knowledge Workplace

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The Laws of the Knowledge Workplace

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The Laws of the Knowledge Workplace book

Changing Roles and the Meaning of Work in Knowledge-Intensive Environments

The Laws of the Knowledge Workplace

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The Laws of the Knowledge Workplace book

Changing Roles and the Meaning of Work in Knowledge-Intensive Environments
ByDariusz Jemielniak
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
eBook Published 14 March 2016
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315556215
Pages 178
eBook ISBN 9781315556215
Subjects Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Engineering & Technology, Social Sciences
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Jemielniak, D. (2014). The Laws of the Knowledge Workplace: Changing Roles and the Meaning of Work in Knowledge-Intensive Environments (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315556215

ABSTRACT

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|10 pages

Introducing the Laws of the Knowledge Workplace

ByDariusz Jemielniak

chapter 2|14 pages

Accretion, Angst and Antidote: The Transition from Knowledge Worker to Manager in the UK Heritage Sector in an Era of Austerity

ByAlistair Bowden, Malgorzata Ciesielska

chapter 3|10 pages

Nepotism and Turnover Intentions amongst Knowledge Workers in Saudi Arabia

ByMaryam Alhamadi Aldossari, Dorota Joanna Bourne

chapter 4|20 pages

Knowledge Work and the Problem of Implementation: The Case of Engineering

ByLars Bo Henriksen

chapter 5|24 pages

Coordinating the Repair and Modification of Offshore Production Systems: The Role of the Project Manager

ByVidar Hepsø

chapter 6|18 pages

Role of the Virtual Team Leader: Managing Changing Membership in a Team

ByKaja Prystupa-Rządca, Dominika Latusek-Jurczak

chapter 7|16 pages

Decision Support Systems as Knowledge Workers Aleksandra Przegalińska

ByDariusz Jemielniak

chapter 8|20 pages

Qualitative Research on the Organization of Work in Internet Prosumer Projects

BySebastian Skolik

chapter 9|26 pages

Innovative Networks in Knowledge-Intensive Industries: How to Make Them Work? An Empirical Investigation into the Polish Aviation Valley

ByWojciech Czakon, Patrycja Klimas
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