{"product_id":"distributed-work-9780262083058","title":"Distributed Work","description":"\u003cp\u003eMultidisciplinary research on dynamics  problems  and potential of distributed work. Technological advances and changes in the global economy are increasing the geographic distribution of work in industries as diverse as banking  wine production  and clothing design. Many workers communicate regularly with distant coworkers; some monitor and manipulate tools and objects at a distance. Work teams are spread across different cities or countries. Joint ventures and multiorganizational projects entail work in many locations. Two famous examplesthe Hudson Bay Companys seventeenth-century fur trading empire and the electronic community that created the original Linux computer operating systemsuggest that distributed work arrangements can be flexible  innovative  and highly successful. At the same time  distributed work complicates workers professional and personal lives. Distributed work alters how people communicate and how they organize themselves and their work  and it changes the nature of employee-employer relationships. This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to the study of distributed work groups and organizations  the challenges inherent in distributed work  and ways to make distributed work more effective. Specific topics include division of labor  incentives  managing group members  facilitating interaction among distant workers  and monitoring performance. The final chapters focus on distributed work in one domain  collaborative scientific research. The contributors include psychologists  cognitive scientists  sociologists  anthropologists  historians  economists  and computer scientists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45276662693941,"sku":"ByrdShop_0262083051","price":97.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262083058.jpg?v=1780559502","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/distributed-work-9780262083058","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}