back to basics: facilitating engagement in modern work environments
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Presentation at the Boston College Social Media and Digital Innovation Workshop - sponsored in part by the National Science FoundationTRANSCRIPT
Back to Basics: Facilitating Engagement in
Modern Work Environments Terri L. Griffith
Emma NordbäckJohn E. Sawyer
Ron E. Rice
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Workforce Premise
EmployeesNon-Employees
Workforce Premise
EmployeesNon-Employees
Work DesignLeadership?
Three R’s and a D
Relationships to City Labs, Social Media Privacy &
Lists…
But First, Do Non-Hierarchical
Design Features Matter?
Social Facilitation and the
Beginnings of Social Psychology
1986
“In the last chapter of our 1980 book on work redesign, we made some predictions about how work would be designed in the future—and we got it exactly wrong….
…[in the future] less concerned with the properties of specific jobs and more with ways of exploiting technological advances to help self-managing individuals and teams efficiently coordinate what they do in pursuit of collective purposes.”
Substitutes (Compliments) for Leadership
Feedback from the Work ItselfTechnology Support Workplace/Context
Knowledge to Work Independent of Supervisor
Our Quest
Are these results sound or have we missed something? If sound, I think this is a big deal.
We will have a second organization of less sophisticated employees soon.
How might we do this globally with both employees and independents? (which gets us
closer to answers for basic education)
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