Social work professional organization development: history, purpose, and possibilities

The Evolving Organization of Professional Work

This paper traces the main lines of evolution of the organization of professional work. The argument is illustrated with material on the case of doctors and hospitals. Market and hierarchy principles have become progressively more salient in professional work; but we argue that in parallel, the community principle has been growing more influential too. Building on Adler and Heckscher (2006), we...

Work organization and software development

The current state of traditional software development is surveyed and essential problems are investigated on the basis of empirical data and theoretical considerations. The concept of optimisation cycle is proposed as a solution. The relation of several different kinds of local optimisation cycles to the specifications, the communications, and the optimisation problem is integrated into a conce...

Possibilities of the Philosophy of History

Critical Thinking: Challenges, Possibilities, and Purpose

Development of ICT in Professional Work

ICT plays a critical role in many organisations of today. It is important in well-tried systems development methods as well as in recently improved object-oriented methods to support development of information and communication technology in many different organisations. The methods provide prescribed and formal ways to perform the development. This paper reports the results from two different ...