The Structuration of Information and Communication Technologies and Work–Life Interrelationships: Shared Organizational and Family Rules and Resources and Implications for Work in a High-Technology Organization

2013 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annis G. Golden
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Family Rules ◽  
Information And Communication

scholarly journals Initial experience at a university teaching hospital from using telemedicine to promote education through video conferencing

2012 ◽  
Vol 130 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Monteiro Tavares Pereira ◽  
Thiago Rodrigues Araújo Calderan ◽  
Marcos Tadeu Nolasco da Silva ◽  
Antonio Carlos da Silva ◽  
Antonio Carlos Marttos Jr ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Video Conferencing ◽  
Trauma Surgery ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Microsoft Excel ◽  
International Training ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
One Year

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Telehealth and telemedicine services are advancing rapidly, with an increasing spectrum of information and communication technologies that can be applied broadly to the population's health, and to medical education. The aim here was to report our institution's experience from 100 videoconferencing meetings between five different countries in the Americas over a one-year period. DESIGN AND SETTING: Retrospective study at Universidade Estadual de Campinas. METHODS: Through a Microsoft Excel database, all conferences in all specialties held at our institution from September 2009 to August 2010 were analyzed retrospectively. RESULTS: A total of 647 students, physicians and professors participated in telemedicine meetings. A monthly mean of 8.3 (± 4.3) teleconferences were held over the analysis period. Excluding holidays and the month of inaugurating the telemedicine theatre, our teleconference rate reached a mean of 10.3 (± 2.7), or two teleconferences a week, on average. Trauma surgery and meetings on patient safety were by far the most common subjects discussed in our teleconference meetings, accounting for 22% and 21% of the total calls. CONCLUSION: Our experience with telemedicine meetings has increased students' interest; helped our institution to follow and discuss protocols that are already accepted worldwide; and stimulated professors to promote telemedicine-related research in their own specialties and keep up-to-date. These high-technology meetings have shortened distances in our vast country, and to other reference centers abroad. This virtual proximity has enabled discussion of international training with students and residents, to increase their overall knowledge and improve their education within this institution.

scholarly journals Nomadic, Informal and Mediatised Work Practices: Role of Professional Social Approval and Effects on Quality of Life at Work

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 12878
Author(s):  
Maëlle Périssé ◽  
Anne-Marie Vonthron ◽  
Émilie Vayre
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Social Approval ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Organisational Commitment ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Right

Several studies have emphasised the effects of perceived social approval in employees’ professional environment (colleagues and managers) on the implementation of remote and mediatised work practices and, more specifically, on their spatial, temporal and material characteristics. The use of information and communication technologies has been identified in the literature not only as affecting the levels felt by employees in terms of their relation to work (organisational commitment and recognition for work accomplished) but also in terms of work-life balance and health (stress and addictions). However, these studies are few in number when it comes to nomadic and informal work practices and rarely address perceived social approval in employees’ professional entourage. We used an empirical study based on a questionnaire survey. The results indicate that employees favour smartphone and laptop use. The effects of perceived social approval in their professional entourage differ according to the technologies used. These uses also have an impact on commitment and recognition, but their effects on employees’ perception of the effects of work life on “non-work” life and on addiction-related behaviours are more nuanced. These findings lead us to discuss the “right to disconnect” and the development of support and supervision schemes for nomadic, informal and mediatised work practices.

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