Management Practices in High-tech Environments (Premier Reference Source) - Hardcover

Jemielniak, Dariusz; Kociatkiewicz, Jerzy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1599045648 ISBN 13: 9781599045641

Publisher: Information Science Reference, 2008

Synopsis

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 "engineered"-commonly 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. Management Practices in High-Tech Environments studies this issue thoroughly from an international, comparative, cross-cultural perspective, presenting cutting-edge research on management practices in American, European, Asian and Middle-Eastern high-tech companies, with particular focus on fieldwork-driven, but reflective, contributions.

Edition details

• Publisher: Information Science Reference
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1599045648
• ISBN 13: 9781599045641
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 378