Telecommuting: Distributed Work Programs

Task manager software is useful to support the management of the assignment of the work programs to personnel, monitoring the progress of the tasks and evaluating the personnel performance in an engineering functional organization. Implementation of this software is expected to increase the personnel productivity as well as to provide inputs for the management, which can be utilized to support further decision making activities. To realize such software, an engineering activity is initialized by firstly analyzing the requirement and designing the operational framework, which is used as the base to construct the functional product in the subsequent implementation phases. Index Terms—software engineering, Engineers, engineering functional organization, prototyping

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Initial return to work and long‐term employment patterns: Associations with work‐related permanent impairment and with participation in workers' compensation‐based return‐to‐work programs

American Journal of Industrial Medicine ◽

10.1002/ajim.23233 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 64 (5) ◽

pp. 323-337

Author(s):

Jeanne M. Sears ◽

Deborah Fulton‐Kehoe ◽

Sheilah Hogg‐Johnson

Keyword(s):

Return To Work ◽

Workers Compensation ◽

Employment Patterns ◽

Work Related ◽

Initial Return ◽

Work Programs

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Constructive Distributed Work: An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Collaboration and Research for Distributed Teams

Journal of Business and Technical Communication ◽

10.1177/10506519211021467 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 105065192110214

Author(s):

Michelle McMullin ◽

Bradley Dilger

Keyword(s):

Best Practices ◽

Team Building ◽

Three Dimensional ◽

Integrated Approach ◽

Interdisciplinary Teams ◽

Digital Tools ◽

Distributed Teams ◽

Distributed Work ◽

Team Members ◽

Negative Impacts

Academic work increasingly involves creating digital tools with interdisciplinary teams distributed across institutions and roles. The negative impacts of distributed work are described at length in technical communication scholarship, but such impacts have not yet been realized in collaborative practices. By integrating attention to their core ethical principles, best practices, and work patterns, the authors are developing an ethical, sustainable approach to team building that they call constructive distributed work. This article describes their integrated approach, documents the best practices that guide their research team, and models the three-dimensional thinking that helps them develop sustainable digital tools and ensure the consistent professional development of all team members.

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Economics of Community Work Programs: A Communal Irrigation Project in the Philippines

Economic Development and Cultural Change ◽

10.1086/451012 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 211-225 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Masao Kikuchi ◽

Geronimo Dozina, ◽

Yujiro Hayami

Keyword(s):

The Philippines ◽

Community Work ◽

Irrigation Project ◽

Work Programs

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COLLABORATECOM SPECIAL ISSUE ANALYZING DISTRIBUTED WHITEBOARD INTERACTIONS

International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems ◽

10.1142/s021884301241002x ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 21 (03) ◽

pp. 199-220

Author(s):

LUTZ GERICKE ◽

RAJA GUMIENNY ◽

CHRISTOPH MEINEL

Keyword(s):

Internal Structure ◽

Team Work ◽

Special Issue ◽

Distributed Work ◽

Team Members ◽

Work Settings ◽

Simplified Analysis ◽

Digital Whiteboard

We present the digital whiteboard system Tele-Board, which automatically captures all interactions made on the all-digital whiteboard and thus offers possibilities for a fast interpretation of usage characteristics. Analyzing team work at whiteboards is a time-consuming and error-prone process if manual interpretation techniques are applied. In a case study, we demonstrate how to conduct and analyze whiteboard experiments with the help of our system. The study investigates the role of video compared to an audio-only connection for distributed work settings. With the simplified analysis of communication data, we can prove that the video teams were more active than the audio teams and the distribution of whiteboard interaction between team members was more balanced. This way, an automatic analysis can not only support manual observations and codings, but also give insights that cannot be achieved with other systems. Beyond the overall view on one sessions focusing on key figures, it is also possible to find out more about the internal structure of a session.

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