Home, sweet work: requirements for effective home working

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A study was conducted to examine how homeworkers feel toward their employers, their jobs and their families. Based on 62 interviews, it was revealed that the most common motives for homeworking were to reduce the need for travel, enhance the quality of working life, and improve work quantity and quality. Majority claimed that homeworking was a success and felt that it made them better workers. Moreover, they reported that it benefited their employers since it minimized office space and reduced parking space problems as well as overhead costs. According to the interviewees, the most important requirements for a successful homeworking initiative are a suitable job, supportive conditions at home, an organizational culture that favors homeworking, and favorable personal traits such as motivation and personality.

Telecommuting, Home offices

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Career systems in crisis: change and opportunity in the information age

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Career models in the 21st century will be shaped by a combination of the traditional and new models of organization. This means that new ways of organizing will evolve from innovations coupled with the continued presence of tradition or living and working conditions that are familiar. Career management in this environment will require both centralized and decentralized elements involving the application of information technology.

Career Planning, Management

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Cultures of success: characteristics of the U.K.'s leading MBO teams and managers

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Management buy-outs have steadily become part of the organizational culture of the United Kingdom since its introduction in the latter part of the 1970s. One the most crucial factors that must be considered in analyzing the success of buy-outs is the function of managers as a team with common goals and risk taking. Non financial success of firms can be attributed to group orientation and human factors.

Management Skills, Work groups, Teamwork (Workplace), Organizational effectiveness, Management buyouts, Management techniques

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