Management, Labour Process and Software Development

Reality Bites

Rowena Barrett (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2005
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-32047-4 (ISBN)

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Research from Australia, Europe, and the UK is used to examine the differences between the image and reality of work in the software development industry and to provide an analysis of software development and developers.

This revealing book is about software development, the developers themselves, and how their work is organized and managed. The latest original research from Australia, Europe, and the UK is used to examine the differences between the image and reality of work in this industry. Chapters also cover issues surrounding the management of 'knowledge work and workers' and professionals in order to expose some of the problems of the management of software development work and workers.

Rowena Barrett

1. Introduction: Myth and Reality 2. A Short History of Software 3. The Labor Process in Software Startups: Production on a Virtual Assembly Line? 4. Managing the Software Development Labour Process: Direct Control, Time and Technical Autonomy 5. Trick and Technical Autonomy As Control in Knowledge Work 6. Coming and Going at Will? Working Time Organization in German IT Companies 7. Professional Idenitity in Software Work: Evidence from Scotland 8. Organizational Commitment Among Software Developers 9. The Reality of Software Developing

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.1.2005
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Research in Employment Relations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	570 g
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Office Programme ► Outlook
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik
	Sozialwissenschaften
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Personalwesen
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	0-415-32047-X / 041532047X
ISBN-13	978-0-415-32047-4 / 9780415320474
Zustand	Neuware