The Internet in the Workplace
How New Technology Is Transforming Work

This book focuses on the ways in which netcentric technologies have transformed the workplace.

Patricia Wallace (Author)

9781107460119, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 November 2014

316 pages
23.4 x 15.6 x 1.7 cm, 0.65 kg

"Provides a well-researched overview of how the Internet influences the physical and social environments of organizations where people are employed....An important primer for those of us who consult with connected organizations....A well-researched, concise perspective of the technological revolution that is currently sweeping the workplace and much of society at large." Contemporary Psychology

The capabilities offered by netcentric technologies might seem to eliminate the need for physical workplace altogether, but the workplace remains, partly because the virtual, and in fact, the physical appearance of a typical office looks about the same. Nevertheless, the psychological characteristics of the workplace have changed considerably. Workers, from the mail room clerk to the CEO, are learning new skills - to capitalize on the net's power, but avoid the egregious blunders that the net so dramatically amplifies. In The Internet in the Workplace, Wallace shows how netcentric technologies touch every kind of workplace, and explores the challenges and dilemmas they create.

1. The internet transforms the workplace
2. The netcentric technologies emerge
3. Work, nonwork, and fuzzy lines between
4. Business communication
5. Leadership in the internet age
6. Knowledge management
7. Virtual teams and computer-supported cooperative work
8. E-learning
9. Workplace surveillance and privacy
10. The changing context of employment
11. The netcentric workplace
future trends.

Subject Areas: Business & management [KJ], Psychology [JM]