In The Laws of the Knowledge Workplace, Dr Jemielniak has collected research-based chapters providing deep, interdisciplinary insight into knowledge professions, addressing issues of professional identity, emotion, power and authority, trust and indoctrination, and management behaviour. This leads to examination of issues related to time and work scheduling and bearing on play, family, symbolic sacrifices, and employee burn-out.In particular, it delves into the identity shifts between knowledge workers and managers, nepotism and turnover intentions among knowledge workers, the implementation of engineering projects, coordination problems in offshore production systems, leadership in virtual teams, decision support systems; taking into account the moral aspects of consequences, netnography as a tool for studying knowledge work, and innovative networks in the aviation industry. The accounts and studies in this book come from management, organization studies, sociology, and anthropology of work perspectives and are fully international in scope. They highlight the scale of the serious changes in occupational roles and to the meaning of work that are taking place in knowledge-intensive environments and give a pointer to what might constitute good and bad management practice in knowledge-intensive companies
Introducing the laws of knowledge work, Dariusz Jemielniak; Accretion, angst and antidote: the transition from knowledge worker to manager in the UK heritage sector in an era of austerity, Alistair Bowden and Malgorzata Ciesielska; Nepotism and turnover intentions among knowledge workers in Saudi Arabia, Maryam Alhamadi Aldossari and Dorota Bourne; Knowledge work and the problem of implementation - the case of engineering, Lars Bo Henriksen; Coordinating work in the repair and modification of offshore production systems - the role of the project manager, Vidar Hepso; Role of the virtual team leader: managing changing membership in a team, Kaja Prystupa-Rz?dca and Dominika Latusek-Jurczak; Decision support systems as knowledge workers, Aleksandra Przegali?ska; Qualitative research on the organization of work in internet prosumer projects, Sebastian Skolik; Innovative networks in knowledge-intensive industries - how to make them work? An empirical investigation into the Polish Aviation Valley, Wojciech Czakon and Patrycja Klimas; Index.