Overview
- Re-evaluates the current impact of ICT on Quality of (Working) Life
- Describes changes in different national contexts
- Is written by highly reputable experts and covers the topic from interdisciplinary perspectives
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Acceleration for Vulnerable Populations
- Acceleration, Alienation and Appropriation at the Workplace
- Changing Working Conditions
- Coping with Computerization
- Employment Relations
- Ergonomics
- Finding Balance to Reduce Stress in the World of IT
- Information and Communication Technology
- Job Satisfaction
- Job Stress and Burnout
- Older Workers and Organizational Change
- Optimal Flow and Action on the Workplace
- Organizational Change
- Paradox of Information Technology
- Quality of Working Life
- Technological Accelaration
- Technostress on the Workplace
- The Digital Revolution
- Time and Work Pressure
- Trusting Complex Work Systems
- Well-Being and Work-Life Balance
- Work Intensification
- Work-Family Balance
- Work-Life Balance
- Work-Life and Work-Age Balance
About this book
This book discusses the impact and effects of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on quality of working life of employees. It describes the changes and the acceleration of processes caused by the widespread use of ICT in a broad range of working areas and in different national contexts. It explores the important role ICT has come to play in nearly all work places in developed societies and the impact it is starting to have on work places in developing countries. The book brings together experts from the fields of ICT and quality of working life and from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, including sociology, psychology, industrial engineering and macro ergonomics. It discusses the range of current positive and negatives effects as well as the possible increase of both kinds of effects in the future. The final chapter of the book integrates the diverse perspectives of the authors and gives recommendations on how to increase the possible positive outcomes and to diminish negative effects of ICT in an accelerated society.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Christian Korunka, PhD. Professor for Work & Organizational Psychology at the University of Vienna, Austria.
Research interests: Effects of Organizational change on employees, new job demands, ICT and quality of working life, burnout, engagement.
Peter Hoonakker, PhD., Associate Director of Research and Scientist at the Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Research interests: Implementation and evaluation of health information technology, quality of care and patient safety.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Impact of ICT on Quality of Working Life
Editors: Christian Korunka, Peter Hoonakker
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8854-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8853-3Published: 12 May 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7850-3Published: 03 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-8854-0Published: 25 April 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 230
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Positive Psychology, Quality of Life Research, Human Resource Management, Industrial and Organizational Psychology