New Ways of Organizing Work - Developments, Perspectives, and Experiences (Hardcover)

Recent years have seen changes taking place in the nature and conduct of work, stimulated by both organizational needs and the needs and desires of individual employees. Organizations have changed the way in which work is carried out in response to factors such as increased cost pressures and the need to operate in a global environment. Employees have also sought changes in their work arrangements in order to help them achieve a more satisfactory relationship between their work and non-work activities. Moreover, in some countries these changes have been augmented by legislative support. Such changes to the nature of work and the way in which it is carried out have wide-reaching implications for organizations, managers, and employees. New Ways of Organizing Work is concerned with examining contemporary changes to how work is conducted, how those changes are implemented, and how they are experienced by employees. The book brings together contributions from an international team of well-recognized scholars and provides empirical evidence from Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia. The book includes several studies that explore new forms of service work, the use of mobile technologies, and geographically distributed teams. Other studies address employee experiences with a specific focus on resistance, identity, and the construction of work / non-work boundaries.