Navigating Through Changing Times: Knowledge Work in Complex Environments

ISBN-13: 9780367889142 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 316 str.

Anne Eskola

Opis

The aim of Navigating through Changing Times: Knowledge Work in Complex Environment to give insights on how complexity has changed the environment of many business organizations. The book aims at identifying and discussing special features of business organizations performing knowledge work in a knowledge-oriented economy.

Spis treści

Part 1: New Ways of Working and Leading

1. Knowledge Work and New Ways of Working

Anne Eskola

2. Leading a Specialist

Pia Heilmann

3. Ethical Solutions to Ethical Problems in Knowledge Work

Minna-Maaria Hiekkataipale

4. The Necessity of Intrinsic Motivation and Self-determination

Frank Martela and Tuukka Kostamo

5. Tensions, Spaces of Self-organization and Resilience

Mika Nieminen and Heli Talja

Part 2: Lessons Learned from Forerunners

6. Lessons Learned from Traditional and "new-age" Leadership

Tommi Auvinen, Elina Riivari, and Pasi Sajasalo

7. Value Co-creation through Digitalization

Katja Rantala and Heikki Karjaluoto

8. Informal Human Resource Principles and Practices as a Key to Growth

Minna Janhonen and Tiina Taipale

9. Agile Ways of Working

Liinamaaria Hakola

10. Organizing at the Edge of Chaos

Sami Jantunen, Tapio Koivisto, Anne Eskola, and Pia Heilmann

11. Participative Strategy Work

Elli Antikainen, Tommi Auvinen, and Pasi Sajasalo

Part 3: Practical Guidelines for Changing Times

12. Classroom as Organization - an Educational Strategy for Emergent Learning

Anne Herbert and Elyssebeth Leigh

13. Shared Understanding of Business Purpose as a Structure of Organizing Work

Marianne Ekonen and Heidi Forsström-Tuominen

14. Supporting Prospective Organizational Sensemaking with Collaborative Methods

Sami Jantunen and Tapio Koivisto

15. Navigating in Turbulent Environments: How to Keep Staying in the Game?

O autorze

Dr Anne Eskola is a Principal Lecturer at the School of Business, JAMK University of Applied Sciences, Finland.