Lecture 7: Work, Employment and Organisational Structures in the Knowledge-Based Economy

(12^th March, 2007) Lawrence Green

Seminar question/exercise: ‘Teleworking and e-work’

1. What is teleworking (and e-work)?
2. What are the implications of teleworking for: (a) firms and organisations; (b) individual workers?

Useful sources:

• Nancy B. Kurland And Diane E. Bailey, ‘Telework:The Advantages and Challenges of Working Here, There, Anywhere, and Anytime’, Organizational Dynamics, Vol 28, Issue 2, pp 53-68 (Autumn 1999)(Oranizational Dynamics is available online at: www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00902616)

• Also see the EMERGENCE project on e-work: http://www.emergence.nu/ (especially, E Huws, ‘Statistical Indicators of eWork’ available at: http://www.emergence.nu/pubs/385c.pdf)

• Google searches with search terms such as ‘telework implications’ or ‘telework impacts employee’ should yield thousands of hits