Mobility and Technology in the Workplace

✍ Scribed by Donald Hislop

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Figures......Page 8
Tables......Page 9
Contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 13
1 Introduction......Page 14
Part I: Work space/place......Page 26
2 Working on the move: Subverting the logic of non-space......Page 28
3 Working on the move: The social and digital ecologies of mobile work places......Page 41
4 Voluntary ghettos and mobile bureaucracy: Civic activity and acts of citizenship under threat......Page 56
Part II: Work-related travel......Page 68
5 Travelling to work: A century of change......Page 70
6 The business of train travel: A matter of time use......Page 87
7 Geographies of international business travel in the professional service economy......Page 100
Part III: Mobile work practices......Page 116
8 The lonely life of the mobile engineer?......Page 118
9 Re-space-ing place: Towards mobile support for near diagnostics......Page 133
10 420 years of mobility: ICT-enabled mobile interdependencies in London hackney cab work......Page 148
11 Context matters: Un-ubiquitous use of mobile technologies by the police......Page 164
Part IV: Home–work dynamics......Page 178
12 Mobile phones, spillover and the ‘work–life balance’......Page 180
13 Freedom and flexibility with a ball and chain: Managers and their use of mobile phones......Page 193
14 Travel, availability and work–life balance......Page 205
15 Do mobile technologies enable work–life balance? Dual perspectives on BlackBerry usage for supplemental work......Page 222
Part V: Public policy......Page 238
16 Mobile work and challenges for public policy......Page 240
Index......Page 253