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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Distributed Work"”.
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Information, Activity and Social Order in Distributed Work: The Case of Distributed Software Problem Management
… of the information practices used by a distributed F/OSS development organization to manage software problems, including the first description of a fundamental information object, the bug report network; clearly drawn distinctions between the information management work necessary to …
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Investigation of the Effects of Feedback and Goal Setting on Knowledge Work Performance in the Distributed Work Environment
Enabled by advanced information technologies, the distributed work environment has become a choice of organizations. When employees and supervisors work in geographically separate locations, management challenges emerge. Performance improvement may become an issue. Performance may be improved by …
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D-work innovation : where, when and in which social context do good ideas evolve in the distributed work environment of knowledge workers?
The nature of work is changing. Until recently, the majority of people worked in fixed, team-based collaborations in collocated settings for fixed periods of time. Currently we are experiencing a major shift towards distributed work. D-work is multi-tasking (workers participate in many projects and …
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Remote management: traditional leadership behaviors in a contemporary work environment
Today the geographic distance between workers is increasing. The purpose of this study was to investigate the distributed work environment by specifically focusing on leader behavior and its impact on subordinate outcomes. This study asked if the traditional core set of leadership behaviors is …
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Network Effect on Teams, Team Processes, and Performance
… how teams become more efficient in their work processes and develop a shared problem-solving framework, which in turn are beneficial for team performance. These computational tools allow us to measure and assess the influence of established team processes in an online and distributed work …
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In sync over distance : flexible coordination through communication in geographically distributed software development work
… dissertation, I examine how the members of a distributed software development team (LC) operating entirely virtually for four and half years developed useful social practices to collaborate across time and space. Based on various communication data from LC, I analyze the communicative …
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Connected distribution : planning Boston for the future worker
… mobile technology continues to decentralize the workplace and employees are become liberated from their desks, the role of the office building within its urban context entered a state of flux. Accelerated by the burgeoning sharing economy and increased telecommuting, cities must start to …
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Design of an IT solution for distributed conceptual design processes
… of product design processes in a geographically distributed work environment. While the need for such a solution exists, there have been few strides to update the tools engineers currently use. The 2.009 design process is used as a model to better understand the particular needs of conceptual …
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What difference does a robot make? managing ambiguity in distributed knowledge work
… make to the management of ambiguity in distributed knowledge work? We examined this question in a post-surgical intensive care where remote medical workers struggled to coordinate their work in the face of ambiguities related to their extremely sick patients. Our in-depth field study …
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Tools and Techniques for Effective Distributed Requirements Engineering: An Empirical Study
… development teams are often geographically distributed from their customers and end users. This creates significant communication and coordination challenges that impact the effectiveness of requirements engineering. Travel costs, and the local availability of quality technical staff …
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Advancing a Systems Perspective on Innovative Behavior
… factors supporting or constraining innovative work behavior and recognizing the complexity of their interactions are vital to sustaining an innovative workforce, yet how factors interact has not been comprehensively studied.</p> <p>Recognizing innovative work behavior as the output of a complex …
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Enabling collaborative modelling for a multi-site model-driven software development approach for electronic control units.
An important aspect of support for distributed work is to enable users at different sites to work collaboratively, across different sites, even different countries but where they may be working on the same artefacts. Where the case is the design of software systems, design models need to be …
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Documenting dreams : patient-centered records versus practice-centered records
… of document genres to manage, not only their distributed knowing about patients' care, but also their own movements across time-space. I outline a perspective on documents and knowing which attempts to highlight the role of human practice in how people use documents to coordinate their …
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Time zone effects : the impact of human resource practices and cultural intelligence on global team outcomes
… MisraInspite of the rapidly growing global workforce, human resource practices have not been developed to address the challenges of working in the global context. Research on virtual teams has long highlighted both physical as well as temporal distance as unique aspects of geographically …
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The effects of group membership and task experience on asynchronous computer-mediated group performance, group competencies and group member reactions
… (CMC) to communicate and coordinate work are ubiquitous and highly dependent on the permeation of virtual work groups throughout the organizational structure. In this era of distributed work, it is imperative to determine which factors affect the efficiency and effectiveness of …
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Patient Sociotechnical Assemblages: The Distributed Cognition of Health Information Management
… <p>Exploring health information management as a distributed sociotechnical assemblage is the conceptual approach of this research. A distributed cognition perspective lends insight to drawing boundaries and establishing connections of personal health information management practices in …
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The impacts of Delphi communication structure on small and medium sized asynchronous virtual teams
… improvement of Internet technology has motivated distributed work groups to collaborate without meeting face to face. Although asynchronous meetings through Web-based group communications systems enable groups dispersed temporarily and geographically to collaborate more flexibly, parallel and …
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An organizational framework for the use of web-based tools in ""Virtual"" project teams
… contribution of my research is a holistic framework relating the effects on virtual project teams of Internet/web-based tools. The goal of my research was to develop a theory to explain the selection and use of web-based tools by virtual teams operating in different contexts, and to explain and …
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Crowdsourcing Scientific Work: A Comparative Study of Technologies, Processes, and Outcomes in Citizen Science
<p>Citizen science projects involve the public with scientists in collaborative research. Information and communication technologies for citizen science can enable massive virtual collaborations based on voluntary contributions by diverse participants. As the popularity of citizen science …
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