Exchange of knowledge is becoming increasingly important to modern organizations. In this chapter is explained what this elementary knowledge exchange consists of and how a virtual workplace can support knowledge exchange between workers. A scenario from the medical domain illustrates how physicians can improve their knowledge exchange by utilizing the virtual workplace models introduced. Bette...

Information and communication technology is at the core of administrative work and it has a significant influence on work and on the work environment. This paper presents a study designed at understanding the digital transformation of student administration at a large university. Through quantitative and qualitative data, different aspects of the digital workplace are highlighted. The study is ...

The Information area has revolutionized the workplace. Douglas Kruse, a professor of human resources and the director of the program for disability research at Rutgers University, states that 7% of employed persons with disabilities work 20 hours or more a week from home. While some modern countries have established “virtual teams”, which are said to be comprised of people who are geographicall...

In a previous study, we analyzed data from a field study to determine the usability problems in a groupware system. That 75% of the system use was asynchronous surprised us. Consequently, we suspected that the user-centered method that had been employed in that evaluation, might have been insufficient to detect problems related to such heavy asynchronous use. Re-analysis of the data using an ar...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate how professionals who are continuing their education rate a higher quality management course with an emphasis on reflective learning and real problem-solving. audited consists module-based teaching, while students work improvement project at workplace between sessions. This has twofold aim: contribute the design courses based doing as we learn...

occupational asthma is defined as “a disease of variable airflow limitations and/or airway hyper-responsiveness due to causes and conditions attributable to a particular occupational environment and not stimuli that are being encountered outside the workplace.” an analysis of general population-based studies published up to 2007 showed that 17.6% of all adultonset asthma is due to workplace exp...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background : work-related stress has increased during recent years throughout the world as well as in developing countries. studies demonstrate that work-related stress can have a negative effect on the quality of life, productivity, and as a result lead to considerable socioeconomic consequences. the purpose of the curren...

Workplace deviance has become a growing concern for many organizations particularly in developing countries because of its negative consequences on organizational productivity. Drawing on the basis of organizational support theory, this study examined the relationship of perceived organizational support and perceived supervisor support with workplace deviance. The aim of this paper was to test ...