Management Practices in High-Tech Environments

By Dariusz Jemielniak

The concept of innovation management and learning organizations concepts strongly emphasize the high role of human/intellectual capital in the company and the crucial function of knowledge in modern society. However, there is often a paradox between managerial language and actual practice in many organizations: on one hand, knowledge-workers are perceived as the most valued members of organizations while, on the other, they are being manipulated and "engineered"--commonly driven to burn-out, and deprived of family life. All this leads to the emergence of new organizational phenomena that, up to now, have been insufficiently analyzed and described. Management Practices in High-Tech Environments studies this issue thoroughly from an international, comparative, cross-cultural perspective, presenting cutting-edge research on management practices in American, European, Asian and Middle-Eastern high-tech companies, with particular focus on fieldwork-driven, but reflective, contributions.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1599045648
• ISBN13: 9781599045641
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Igi Global Scientific Publishing
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.6" x 11.1"