Despite growing academic and practical concerns about IT-transformed workplaces, little research empirically investigates these concerns. This paper adopts a unique approach to address these concerns by evaluating the appropriateness of traditional drivers of career salience in high IT working environments. Building on established measures of role stress, participation in decision making, job i...

Advancements in communication technologies change the way we interact with each other significantly, making distance less of an issue for keeping in touch and collaborating with others. However, they can also take away social elements such as the feeling of closeness in an interaction, making it important to examine the effects that these technologies (the virtual workplace, smart phones and ub...

‘I don’t know what’s wrong with our students. We’ve taught them all they need to know but they just can’t seem to remember any of it when they’re at work’. This paraphrase may be a familiar call of some teachers bemoaning how students have difficulty in applying their learning. Linking classroom theory to workplace practice is the focus of a systematic review in this issue of Perspectives on Me...

In this paper we fuse HRM and KM perspectives in order to explore the detrimental impact of age discrimination or “ageism” prevalent in UK organizations on the development of social capital, considered to be so vital for improved organizational performance in knowledge-based economies. We discuss the potential impact of new age discrimination legislation in the UK in overcoming ageism, highligh...

Workplace Smoking Policies Approximately 30 percent of all private sector workplaces have a formal smoking policy, while a majority of Americans support smoking policies. Governments at all levels and the private sector are increasingly adopting or strengthening such policies and there is no evidence of retrenchment. In addition, the protection of nonsmokers, who account for 67 percent of the p...

The United States construction industry experienced 151 fatalities resulting from workers colliding with objects and equipment in 2009. These fatalities accounted for approximately 18% of the total construction fatalities and 3% of the total workplace fatalities experienced that year. Construction workers and equipment are often required to function at close proximity on construction jobsites. ...

We consider the role of ‘workplace studies’ in design and specifically, what it means to use ethnography to ‘inform’ design. We suggest that there is a need for a foundational change in the configuration of the practical relationship between ethnography and design if the approach is to be of lasting utility: from the traditional product-oriented configuration where ethnography attempts to infor...

Abstract This article combines literatures on immigrant integration and migration intermediaries to add a skilled perspective theories of integration. Using case study foreign-born engineers in the Norwegian oil gas industry, we develop multi-level conceptual framework actors that are involved engineers. We identified through in-depth, semi-structured interviews with human resource managers, wo...

Abstract Based on the integration of results Part I and II, this chapter develops research-based measures interventions for practitioners regarding context, product, process. This includes identification good practices design workplace techniques.