As a form of expert labour and organizational resource, knowledge workers are important in organizational life as producers and consumers of knowledge. The role of knowledge workers and the ways in which they transfer their knowledge become important as they possess the symbolic and analytic...

This thesis examines the management of change in bureaucracies, with a study focus on the Egyptian civil service sector. The main research aims are to identify what are the main problems of the Egyptian civil service sector, identify the main barriers against the current change programmes...

The paper evaluates the centrality of work to employees in two growing employment sectors, callccentres and software development. It then examines evidence for extensions of work into household and family life in these two sectors. Extensions are identified as tangible, such as unpaid overtime,...

Prologue -- 1: Introduction -- A Transforming Technology -- Attitudes and Phobias -- Characteristics of Information Technology -- Technology as the Midwife of Social Change -- Discussion Questions -- References -- 2: Employment -- Technology and Employment -- Focusing Down -- Sunrise, Sunset --...

"Compared to twenty years ago, the jobs many people do today are increasingly characterised by low pay and insecurity, while countless others cope with workplace stress and ill-health. At the same time the consequences of our current model of economic activity are creating dangerous and critical...