EMERGENCE Project

Real Work in a Virtual World:
the human impact of organisational transformation in a digital global economy

 
   
   
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Day 1: Monday 12 May
  Opening (in German) Fritz Verzetnitsch, President of the Austrian Trade Union Federation (ÖGB) and President of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)

Herbert Tumpel, President of the Austrian Chamber of Labour (AK)
 Real work in a virtual world: time, space and contract
  Real work in a virtual world (in German) Jörg Flecker, Forschungs- und Beratungsstelle Arbeitswelt (FORBA), Vienna, Austria
Work beyond the boundaries of space and time?
181kb		 Work beyond the boundaries of space and time? (in English) Ursula Huws, London Metropolitan University, UK
Labour and capital in the ‘new economy’
117kb		 Labour and capital in the ‘new economy’
(in English)		 Greg Albo, York University, Toronto, Canada
 Employment strategy and the relocation of work
A real Employment Strategy for a virtual European Union
27kb		 A real Employment Strategy for a virtual European Union (in English) Robert Strauss, DG Employment and Social Affairs, European Commission
Relocation of eWork, employee involvement and impact on Human Resource Management (presentation)
254kb

Relocation of eWork, employee involvement and impact on Human Resource Management (paper)
142kb

 Relocation of eWork, employee involvement and impact on Human Resource Management: illustrations from best and worst practices
(in English)		 Monique Ramioul, Hoger Instituut voor de Arbeid (HIVA), KU Leuven, Belgium
The Indian software industry and relationships with the European market (presentation)
210kb

The Indian software industry and relationships with the European market (paper)
136kb

 The Indian software industry and relationships with the European market (in English) Rajendra Bandi, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India
 eWork and gender
Good jobs, bad jobs: telework and gender issues (presentation)
232kb

Good jobs, bad jobs: telework and gender issues (paper)
95kb

 Good jobs, bad jobs: telework and gender issues (in English) Penny Gurstein, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Digital work as the basis for biographical planning
211kb		 Digital work as the basis for biographical planning (in German) Bettina-Johanna Krings, Research Center Karlsruhe, Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe, Germany

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Day 2: Tuesday 13 May
 The extent of telework
The mobility of tele-mediated work over time
135kb		 The mobility of tele-mediated work over time
(in English)		 Malcolm Brynin, Institute for Social and Economic Research, The University of Essex, UK
Practices and trends of telework in the Portuguese industry (presentation)
218kb

Practices and trends of telework in the Portuguese industry (paper)
310kb

 Practices and trends of telework in the Portuguese industry: the results of surveys in the textile, metal and software sectors
(in English)		 Paula Urze, Sónia Barroso, António Moniz, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, and Fraunhofer-Institut für Systemtechnik und Innovationsforschung (ISI), Karlsruhe, Germany
 A new international division of labour
The use of offshore labour by Australian firms using eWork
116kb		 The use of offshore labour by Australian firms using eWork (in English) Peter Standen, Jan Sinclair-Jones, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia
eOutsourcing editorial work from the EU to Asia
117kb		 eOutsourcing editorial work from the EU to Asia: A Precarisation of high-skilled work?
(in German)		 Simone Dahlmann, Analytica Social and Economic Research, London, UK
  Vietnam entering the global information economy – examples for the relocation of work from Europe (in English) Ha Nguyen, Hanoi School of Business (HSB), Vietnam National University, Vietnam
 ICT and work organisation
‘The information revolution – progress or threat?
98kb		 ‘The information revolution – progress or threat? On the interrelations between information and communication technologies and new forms of work organisation’, commissioned by the Vienna Chamber of Labour (in German) Manfred Krenn, Forschungs- und Beratungsstelle Arbeitswelt (FORBA)
 Call centres: inhumane or attractive?
Managing flexibility at organisational boundaries (presentation)
77kb

Managing flexibility at organisational boundaries (paper)
96kb

 Managing flexibility at organisational boundaries: the case of telephone call centres in Germany (in German) Ursula Holtgrewe, Gerhard- Mercator-Universität Duisburg, Germany
Attractiveness in a neo-Tayloristic workplace
108kb		 Attractiveness in a neo-Tayloristic workplace: the case of Norwegian call centres (in English) Carla Dahl-Jørgensen and Hans Torvatn, SINTEF Industrial Management, Trondheim, Norway
 Geographically distributed work
Integrating a geographically distributed workplace by means of high-quality video
633kb		 Integrating a geographically distributed workplace by means of high-quality video
(in English)		 Sören Lenman, Centre for User- Oriented IT-Design (CID), Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
  Geographical distribution of work – a challenge for competences and labour relations
(in German)		 Pamela Meil, Institut für Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung (ISF), Munich, Germany

 

 
   

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