Management Practices in High-Tech Environments (repost)
Management Practices in High-Tech Environments
IGI Global | 2008-04-16 | ISBN: 1599045648 | 428 pages | PDF | 3,2 MB
IGI Global | 2008-04-16 | ISBN: 1599045648 | 428 pages | PDF | 3,2 MB
The concept of innovation management and learning organizations concepts strongly emphasize the high role of human/intellectual capital in the company and the crucial function of knowledge in modern society. However, there is often a paradox between managerial language and actual practice in many organizations: on one hand, knowledge-workers are perceived as the most valued members of organizations while, on the other, they are being manipulated and engineeredcommonly driven to burn-out, and deprived of family life. All this leads to the emergence of new organizational phenomena that, up to now, have been insufficiently analyzed and described.