Description
Globalization of business, internationalization of trade, and increasing prevalence of multi-cultural interdisciplinary teams are starting to redefine the nature of Place of work work. Different-time/different-place/different-culture teams will grow to be the norm. Same-time/same-place/same-culture teams will grow to be the exception. The International Place of work of the Future (IOF) will likely be a dramatically different environment than that which exists in the majority of nowadays’s organizations. Prospects for the IOF give rise to a large number of questions, that are addressed on this book. What are the salient issues? What design options or solution strategies exist to address these issues? How might these design options be best implemented? What are their implications? As well as, a lot of specific topics will likely be discussed including: multi-cultural team productivity, IT platform requirements, and global telecommunications.