Telecommuting and Virtual Offices : Issues and Opportunities [Paperback]

Nancy J. Johnson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 5, 2001

Telecommuting by any name: telework, mobile work, home offices, virtual employees, or telematics, is one of the most intriguing and least understood results of advances in portable computing. Employees and communities are eager to embrace it, and the media reports about it as a perk with the power to attract new talent, as well as to retain good employees. The question is how to start a program and what should an organization worry about? The difficulty for many managers is getting good advice on starting and managing programs effectively. Telecommuting and Virtual Offices: Issues and Opportunities presents usable research and advice on many of these issues. This book is for academics or practitioners seeking a better understanding of designing and managing telework programs.

Editorial Reviews

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"The material in this book is comprehensive and quite current. I would recommend this book to both managers and researchers. Its practical nature would certainly help any organization planning to adopt telecommuting for establishing virtual offices. A researcher will find this book provides a valuable compendium of work and research in the area." -Gordon Hunter, University of Lethbridge, Canada

"...a first in telecommuting research. This book provides an excellent summary of the current issues faced by practitioners involved with virtual organizations and telecommuting programs." -France Belanger, Virginia Tech, USA

About the Author

Nancy Johnson is currently the associate dean of the School of Business at Capella University. For the past nine years she was an assistant professor of MIS with Metropolitan State University, Minneapolis, MN. She was in private industry for twenty years prior to that. Author of four book chapters and numerous articles, and conference presenter, she was also a guest editor for a special edition on telecommuting of the Journal of End User Computing. She has also been a book and web site reviewer for Choice Journal for five years. She was a Fulbright Scholar in 1992 in Malaysia. She holds a BS and MBA from University of Minnesota, and is a doctoral candidate at Walden University. Her research interests include human factors in successful change management, justification methodologies of IT investment in the public sector, and international use of IT.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 255 pages
• Publisher: IGI Global (January 5, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1878289799
• ISBN-13: 978-1878289797
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,886,812 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)