scholarly journals Team and Project Work in Engineering Practices

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (3a) ◽  
pp. 27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Buch ◽  
Vibeke Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Project Work ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Engineering Work ◽  
Work Affect ◽  
Engineering Practices

In this article, we investigate teamwork amongst professionals in engineering consultancy companies in order to discern how teamwork affects the collaboration and work practices of the professionals. The article investigates how professional engineering practices are enacted in two engineering consultancy companies in Denmark where teamwork has been or is an ideal for organizing work. Through a practice-based lens, the article sets out to investigate, firstly, how discourses about team and project work affect engineering work practices; secondly, how technologymediated management is reconciled in teamwork practices; and thirdly, how team and project work affect engineering professionalism and collaborative work practices. A practice theoretical framework informs the analysis. Teamwork is investigated as a phenomenon enacted through the sayings, doings and relatings of practitioners in landscapes of practices and the interconnectedness of the practices is traced through the setup of specific ecologies in the sites.

On the Measurement of Participation Equality

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 32-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce A. Reinig ◽  
Roberto J. Mejias
Keyword(s):  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Gini Coefficient ◽  
Coefficient Of Variation ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Group Support Systems ◽  
Group Support ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Team Members

Participation equality is often a key process construct in research models that examine the effects of group support systems (GSS) technology and e-collaboration. GSS are generally thought to reduce the dispersion of participation among team members and thus make participation more equally distributed. However, research conclusions in the literature regarding participation equality are not always consistent with this finding. Researchers have used a variety of approaches to operationalize participation equality including unit-based measures, such as the standard deviation, and dimensionless measures such as the Gini coefficient and the coefficient of variation. Researchers have also varied in their measurement of participation units with some counting phenomena such as comments, words, or remarks. The authors report on an exploratory study that demonstrates conditions in which research conclusions regarding the participation equality construct are dependent on both the participation unit analyzed and whether a unit-based or dimensionless measure is used to compute participation equality. The authors conclude with recommendations for researchers investigating participation equality and practitioners that seek to measure and track participation equality in their collaborative work practices.

scholarly journals Using a Theoretical Framework in a Qualitative Metasummary About Fatigue Adaptation After Stroke

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 171-171
Author(s):  
Ruth Anderson ◽  
Leslie Davis ◽  
Chiao-Hsin Teng
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Adaptive Leadership ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Stroke Survivors ◽  
Care Partners ◽  
Physical Dysfunction ◽  
Adaptive Challenges ◽  
Adaptive Work

Abstract We describe how we used a theoretical framework, Adaptive Leadership Framework for Chronic Illness (ALFCI), to complete a qualitative metasummary in a scoping review of 26 articles. We abstracted and grouped qualitative findings relevant to fatigue adaptation in stroke survivors using constructs of the ALFCI as 4 main themes: 1) adaptive challenges, 2) adaptive work, 3) adaptive leadership and collaborative work, and 4) technical challenges and technical work. We found that stroke survivors encountered different aspects of challenges (e.g., physical dysfunction vs. mental distress) and utilized various adaptive work (e.g., conserving energy vs. restructuring normality) as well as what stroke survivors needed from healthcare professionals (e.g., basic knowledge about fatigue). The ALFCI provides a useful lens to synthesize qualitative findings regarding fatigue adaptation and therefore researchers can target different problems that need to be tackled for stroke survivors, care partners, or healthcare professionals, respectively.

Doing Research Upside Down: Action and Research in Cross Self-Confrontations

2019 ◽  
pp. 202-218
Author(s):  
Laure Kloetzer
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Work Analysis ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Taking Action ◽  
Objective Research ◽  
Mainstream Psychology

This paper highlights three main points. Firstly, it argues that despite the positioning of mainstream psychology as “objective research” i.e. disengaged from taking action in public life, there has always been in psychology a (quantitatively) minor but (qualitatively) strong tradition of intervention, defined as a joint practice engaging researchers and practitioners in social transformation. It shows how this alternative way of doing research affects all dimensions of the researchers’ professional practice, for better or for worse. Secondly, it presents a specific perspective on intervention, created in France and used in multiple work settings in the last twenty years, called Clinic of Activity. It then introduces and discusses a methodology designed to support development at work through collaborative work analysis and structured dialogue, the Cross Self Confrontations. Thirdly, it reports on a research in Cross Self-Confrontations recently conducted in a Swiss factory, and shows how this methodology supports the co-creation of knowledge and the development of dialogue within a group of workers and across the hierachical lines, therefore contributing to the deep discussion and transformation of work practices.

Time, Place and Identity in Project Work on the Net

2005 ◽  
pp. 51-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sisse Siggaard Jensen ◽  
Simon B. Heilesen
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Frames Of Reference ◽  
Project Work ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Collaborative Project ◽  
Communication Program ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Place And Identity

This chapter identifies some of the fundamental conditions and factors that affect collaborative project work on the Net. Understanding them is fundamental to developing key qualities in Net-based collaborative learning such as confidence, reliability, and trust. We argue that: (1) Collaboration and social interaction develop in continuous oscillations between abstract and meaningful frames of reference as to time and place. (2) Such oscillations condition the creation of a double identity of writer and author modes in social interaction. (3) Collaborative work creates an ever-increasing complexity of interwoven texts that we have to develop strategies for organizing. (4) One such important strategy is the negotiation of roles among the participants. Having established this theoretical framework, we discuss how to deal with these conditions in an actual Net-based learning environment, the Master of Computer-Mediated Communication program at Roskilde University, Denmark.

scholarly journals An examination of software engineering work practices

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice Singer ◽  
Timothy Lethbridge ◽  
Norman Vinson ◽  
Nicolas Anquetil
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Engineering Work

The politics of office design

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Roderick
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Office Design ◽  
Open Plan

Abstract Recent changes in open plan office design are intended to facilitate flexible and collaborative work practices. Though promoted in terms of aesthetics and functionality, these changes in layout and furnishing communicate a great deal about how work and the workers that perform them are understood. Drawing upon the semiotics of framing and the chronotope, the open plan office is analyzed as a multimodal realization of neoliberal discourses on the flexibilization and deregulation of work. As such, the collaborative open plan office does more than represent or give expression to neoliberal ideologies, it normalizes and makes durable the work processes, identities and temporalities of neoliberalized labour.

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