The Ethical Implications of the Virtual Work Environment

2010 ◽  
pp. 68-86
Author(s):  
Rachel N. Byers
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Virtual Work ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Virtual Work Environment ◽  
Major Factors

Ethical issues due to the following four major factors inherent to virtual work are examined: (1) organizational culture, (2) trust, (3) cross-cultural diversity, and (4) monitoring. The author proposes that the negative ethical implications of the virtual work environment can be overcome by following the suggested steps and proposed guidelines. Areas for potential future research are included and are followed by an overall discussion of the issues covered and some closing remarks.

Group Processes in the Virtual Work Environment

2012 ◽  
pp. 48-66
Author(s):  
Andrea Roofe Sattlethight ◽  
Sungu Armagan
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Direct Relationship ◽  
Virtual Work ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Group Processes ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Virtual Work Environment

This chapter explores an alternative approach to group processes in the virtual environment as a system of alliances, encompassing leader, member, and group. The purpose of this research is to determine if a system of alliances encompassing leader, member, and team exists in the virtual environment. The authors explore the applicability of alliances to a 21st century management environment by testing a conceptual model using 20,000 bootstrapped samples of 96 employed professionals and students studying in an online environment. They find evidence that group processes in a technology-mediated environment can be defined by a three-way-system of alliances in which the leader plays a less dominant role than in traditional groups. The authors find that the individual’s relationship with the group may be built through a trust relationship with other members rather than a direct relationship with the leader. Directions for future research and implications for management practice are also discussed.

Workers in a Virtual Work Environment

2020 ◽  
pp. 147-164
Author(s):  
Bonnie Yau ◽  
Toran Law ◽  
Steve Tsang
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Virtual Work ◽  
Virtual Work Environment

Ambiguity and Group Consensus

2011 ◽  
pp. 43-50
Author(s):  
Morgan M. Shepherd ◽  
Jr Martz ◽  
Vijay Raghavan
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Virtual Work ◽  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
Constitutional Convention ◽  
Business World ◽  
Know How ◽  
Virtual Work Environment ◽  
To Come

When you assemble a number of people to have advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those people all their prejudices, their passions, their errors or opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly, can a perfect production be expected? ~ Benjamin Franklin, Constitutional Convention, September 15, 1787 Franklin’s eighteenth century question foreshadows a basic concern for today’s team-dominated business world. First, while individuals are still important, groups are becoming the de-facto unit of work for organizations today. Working cooperatively is becoming a necessity; working collaboratively is becoming paramount to career success. Second, as the work environment changes into a virtual work environment, it is important to know how groups deal with making decisions. In this light, before we ask groups to come to consensus in a virtual environment, we must be clear on how well they understand consensus itself.

Designing Pervasive and Multimodal Interactive Systems

2010 ◽  
pp. 212-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara R. Barricelli ◽  
Piero Mussio ◽  
Marco Padula ◽  
Andrea Marcante
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
System Architecture ◽  
Virtual Work ◽  
Interactive Systems ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
Fourth Section ◽  
The Third ◽  
Virtual Work Environment ◽  
Interactive Environment ◽  
Tourist Guides

The chapter is organized into five sections. The first section concerns related works. The SSW methodology section presents the design approach, introducing some considerations about the phenomena affecting the HCI process. The third section deals with the system architecture. The fourth section illustrates the annotation primitive operator. The fifth section describes the experiences gained on the field by illustrating several case studies: different scenarios are introduced in which experts have to afford complex problems (e.g. diagnoses, territorial portal organization, tourist guides organization, yard management) in a collaborative asynchronous way and using different devices (e.g. desktop PC, PDAs) to access their SSW from everywhere and in different working contexts. The implemented multimodal interactive environment permits experts to face the problems related to their activity, to update and manage a shared knowledge base and to adapt and evolve their virtual work environment by adding tools becoming unwitting programmer.

Ethical Implications of Cultural Barriers to the Depression Diagnosis: Conversations with Primary Care Physicians

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (9) ◽  
pp. 683-701
Author(s):  
Diana Cagliero
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Primary Care Physicians ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Treatment Options ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Ethical Implications

This article explores ethical issues raised by Primary Care Physicians (PCPs) when diagnosing depression and caring for cross-cultural patients. This study was conducted in three primary care clinics within a major metropolitan area in the Southeastern United States. The PCPs were from a variety of ethnocultural backgrounds including South Asian, Hispanic, East Asian and Caucasian. While medical education training and guidelines aim to teach physicians about the nuances of cross-cultural patient interaction, PCPs report that past experiences guide them in navigating cross-cultural conversations and patient care. In this study, semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven PCPs which were transcribed and underwent thematic analysis to explore how patients’ cultural backgrounds and understanding of depression affected PCPs’ reasoning and diagnosing of depression in patients from different cultural backgrounds. Ethical issues that arose included: limiting treatment options, expressing a patient’s mental health diagnosis in a biomedical sense to reduce stigma, and somatization of mental health symptoms. Ethical implications, such as lack of autonomy, unnecessary testing, and the possible misuse of healthcare resources are discussed.

scholarly journals Virtual Reality at the Service of People with Functional Diversity: Personalized Intervention Spaces

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Manuel Lagos ◽  
Jessica Martín ◽  
Ángel Gómez ◽  
Thais Pousada
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Functional Diversity ◽  
Functional Capacity ◽  
Virtual Work ◽  
Virtual Work Environment ◽  
Personalized Intervention

Virtual reality allows to generate an environment of great realism, while achieving the immersion of the user in it. The purpose of this project is to use this technology as a complementary tool in the rehabilitation of people with functional diversity. To do this, an application is being developed that will offer different environments that simulate situations in everyday life. Through its initial menu, the professional will be able to select the virtual work environment, with different configuration options to adapt each scenario to the user’s needs. This customization of the scenarios will allow such things as configuring the degree of difficulty of the activity to eventually adapting the elements of the scenario to the functional capacity of the user.

Applying Dramaturgy to Virtual Work Research

2012 ◽  
pp. 277-285
Author(s):  
Shawn D. Long ◽  
Frances Walton ◽  
Sayde J. Brais
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Complex Dynamics ◽  
Virtual Work ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Research Techniques ◽  
Virtual Work Environment ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Work Domain

Dramaturgy as a research approach is a creative and useful tool to fully understand the complex dynamics of individuals interacting in a virtual work environment. Following Goffman’s seminal dramaturgical research techniques, this chapter applies the principles and tenants of dramaturgy to virtual work. The authors examine the historical and theoretical underpinnings of dramaturgy and offer a potential research design integrating this methodological approach. The chapter extends the dramaturgical approach to offer challenges and opportunities of using this research approach in an electronic work domain.

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