Mobility and Technology in the Workplace
1st Edition
Published on 7. April 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
244 pages
978-1-138-86407-8 (ISBN)
Description
The contemporary period has witnessed the rapid evolution in a wide range of mobile technology. This book charts the profound implications these technological changes have for workers and business organizations. From an organizational point of view they have the potential to transform the nature of organizations, through allowing workers to be increasingly mobile. From the perspective of workers these changes have the potential to impact on their work-related communications, how they manage the increasingly blurred public-private divide, and the nature of the home-work boundary.
These chapters provide a detailed insight into these issues through bringing together an international collection of contemporary studies and analysis and taking a critical perspective towards some of the advertised myths regarding mobile technology usage. Issues covered include:
Travel and changing nature of spatial mobility patterns.
Work-Space and Place and the 'leaking' out of organizations into more public domains.
Mobile Work Practices including detailed and heterogeneous case studies.
Home-work dynamics and the changing nature of the home-work boundary.
Implications for Public Policy
These chapters provide a detailed insight into these issues through bringing together an international collection of contemporary studies and analysis and taking a critical perspective towards some of the advertised myths regarding mobile technology usage. Issues covered include:
Travel and changing nature of spatial mobility patterns.
Work-Space and Place and the 'leaking' out of organizations into more public domains.
Mobile Work Practices including detailed and heterogeneous case studies.
Home-work dynamics and the changing nature of the home-work boundary.
Implications for Public Policy
Reviews / Votes
'This book enlarges the discussion of mobility from tools and technologies to employees working in multiple places and between them' Matti Vartiainen (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
19 s/w Abbildungen, 11 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 8 s/w Zeichnungen, 22 s/w Tabellen
22 Tables, black and white; 8 Line drawings, black and white; 11 Halftones, black and white; 19 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
398 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-86407-8 (9781138864078)
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Mobility and Technology in the Workplace
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Person
Donald Hislop is a Senior Lecturer at Loughborough University Business School.
Content
Contents 1. Introduction Donald Hislop Work Space/Place 2. Working on the Move: Subverting the Logic of Non-space John Holm & Gavin Kendall 3. Working on the Move: The Social and Digital Ecologies of Mobile Work Places Laura Forlano 4. Voluntary Ghettos and Mobile Bureaucracy: Civic Activity and Acts of Citizenship Under Threat Tommy Jensen Work-Related Travel 5. Travelling to Work: A Century of Change Colin G. Pooley 6. The Business of Train Travel: A Matter of Time Use Glenn Lyons, David Holley & Juliet Jain 7. Geographies of Business Travel in the Professional Service Economy James R. Faulconbridge & Jon V. Beaverstock Mobile Work Practices 8. The Lonely Life of the Mobile Engineer? Carolyn Axtell & Donald Hislop 9. Re-Space-ing Place: Towards Mobile Support for Near Diagnostics Mikael Wiberg 10. 420 Years of Mobility ICT Enabled Mobile Interdependencies in London Hackney Cab Work Silvia Elaluf-Calderwood & Carsten Sorensen 11. Context Matters: Un-ubiquitous Use of Mobile Technologies by the Police Daniel Pica & Carsten Sorensen Home Work Dynamics 12. Mobile Phones, Spillover and the 'Work-Life Balance' Diannah Lowry & Megan Moskos 13. Freedom and Flexibility with a Ball and Chain: Managers and their Use of Mobile Phones Keith Townsend & Lyn Batchelor 14. Travel, Availability and Work-life Balance Ann Bergman & Per Gustafson 15. Do Mobile Technologies Enable Work-Life Balance? Dual Perspectives on BlackBerry Usage for Supplemental Work Catherine Middleton, Public Policy 16. Mobile Work and Challenges for Public Policy Dan Wheatley, Irene Hardill, Anne Green