This is a Networking Space for Practitioners
who are  internal or external change agents
to contact and learn from  each other's experience
and from their own 'Research-in-Action'
through leading-edge workplace  innovation.
 
 There are currently 3 dimensions to  this Network Space:-

Knowledge Work Teams &  IT Working Smart Ecologically Open Space for Research Reports                                      and  New  Topics

                     

 Knowledge  Work Teams & IT   

Innovation in work organization has increasingly  shifted to a focus on professional, managerial, and technical roles  where the core work of people is to interpret information and apply  considerable theoretical knowledge, with intellective and social  skills, to create new knowledge and provide new  solutions.

Designing for this work involves many new  challenges; ie., non-linear work processes, rapidly changing  information technology, tensions between standardization and  creative freedom, collaboration among highly- individualized  disciplines, employee retention issues, employee involvement in  strategic management, increasing overlaps between worklife and  homelife, virtual, geographically-dispersed work teams with  fluctuating membership, etc.
 

To  identify fellow Practitioners, in this field of work design, click on the 'Contact Directory' , under KNOWLEDGE WORK, on  your right;
OR
To sign-on to a contact list for this field,  click on the 'New Contact Form', under KNOWLEDGE WORK, on  your right,
OR
To Post or Review information and questions  from other Practitioners,
Click on the 'Bulletin Board  Postings', under KNOWLEDGE WORK, on your  right.

 Working Smart  Ecologically  

To compete effectively in an age of increasing  environmental pressures, business must attract "Green" markets,  lower environmental risk, and develop clean, energy-efficient  technology.  An ecological model of work encompasses the full  system of production, from resource extraction, through material  transformation processes, to transport systems, and finally to  end-use or re-use.

Working ecologically requires  collaboration between labour and management, and often, in a  multi-enterprise context.   For, solutions are not only  technical, but they are also a function of the way workplaces are  designed, how work is organized, and how all employees are  trained.
 

To  identify fellow Practitioners, in this field of work design, click  on the 'Contact Directory' , under ECOLOGY, on your right;
OR
To sign-on to a contact list for this field, click on the 'New Contact Form', under ECOLOGY, on your right,
OR
To  Post or Review information and questions from other  Practitioners,
Click on the 'Bulletin Board Postings',  under ECOLOGY, on your right