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Summary
Summary
This critical ethnographic study of knowledge workers and knowledge-intensive organization workplaces focuses on the issues of timing and schedules, the perception of formality and trust and distrust in software development as well as motivation and occupational identity among software engineers.
The book is a cross-cultural, comparative study of American and European high-tech workplaces that addresses the issues currently of interest to both Academia and to practice and provides a rare international comparison of organizations from both sides of the Atlantic. Its conclusions shed new light on the problems typical for software projects. The book specifically focuses on, and gives voice to, the perspectives of knowledge workers rather than managers and will thus be useful to not only scholars and human resource managers from software companies, but also to high-tech professionals.
Scholars and professionals in organization studies, management, HRM, innovation and knowledge management will find this book engaging and enlightening.
Author Notes
Dariusz Jemielniak, Associate Professor of Management and Head, Center for Research on Organizations and Workplaces (CROW), Kozminski University, Poland