Annotated Bibligography

Work Cited

Baker, Ellen, Gayle C. Avery, and John Crawford. "SATISFACTION AND PERCEIVED PRODUCTIVITY WHEN PROFESSIONALS WORK FROM HOME." Research & Practice in Human Resource Management 15.1 (June 2007): 37-62. Business Source Complete. EBSCO. [Library name], [City], [State abbreviation]. 24 July 2008 .

The authors, researchers in the School of Management in the University of Technology, Sydney, and Macquarie Graduate School of Management in Macquarie University look at the work from home option (WFH) of 20 different Australian Organization to try to help human resource manager understand how to better assist employees into WFH programs. The authors used questionnaires to assess the organizational, job, individual and household factors to see which factors affect WFH programs the most. They also ask about the employees’ satisfaction, and perceived productivity done. They find that organizational and job related factors have more effect on the WFH experience than individual or household factor. However, individual and household factor have a wide variability of effect which must be deal on an individual basis. This work will help me learn the important factors needed in order to creating a successful WFH software system and how to better implement it.

Butler, E. Sonny, Cheryl Aasheim, and Susan Williams. "Does Telecommuting Improve Productivity?." Communications of the ACM 50.4 (Apr. 2007): 101-103. Computers & Applied Sciences Complete. EBSCO. [Library name], [City], [State abbreviation]. 24 July 2008 .

The authors, Professors in the Department of Information Technology at Georgia Southern University examine various telecommuting companies to see whether or not telecommuting improves a company’s productivity. Employers have started to place more value on labor productivity. Telecommuting is believed to increase productivity, and has become a popular tool for managing employees. These professors take a look at the temporary effects, but focuses on the long-term effects telecommuting systems have on various companies’ productivity. Through their research, they found that telecommuting has had a positive effect on a company’s productivity when managed properly. This research will help me learn more about how telecommuting system directly affect workers, and how productivity is increase. Through this report, I will try to find better way to increase productivity through telecommuting even more.

Clear, Fintan, and Keith Dickson.. "Teleworking practice in small and medium-sized firms: management style and worker autonomy." New Technology, Work & Employment 20.3 (Nov. 2005): 218-233. Business Source Complete. EBSCO. [Library name], [City], [State abbreviation]. 24 July 2008 .

The authors, researchers at the Business School and Technology Management department at Brunel University conduct an empirical study of how many small and medium-size companies conduct teleworking practices. They find that many organizational factors such as management attitudes, worker autonomy and employee flexibility to be critical component to making teleworking function smoothing. They believed that these components were more important than facilitating a success implementation of a teleworking system. They find that teleworking in small/middle size business were mainly done by managers and specialist instead of regular workers. This research will help me understand the difference of a smaller business and a larger business, and what differences in the software of implementation would be needed to get better employee morale and productivity.

Gebauer, Judith, and Fei Lee.. "Enterprise System Flexibility and Implementation Strategies: Aligning Theory with Evidence from a Case Study." Information Systems Management 25.1 (Winter2008 2008): 71-82. Business Source Complete. EBSCO. [Library name], [City], [State abbreviation]. 24 July 2008 .

The authors, researchers from the college of business at the University of Illinois look at flexibility as an important consequence for operational efficiency and long-term effectiveness of an enterprise system. They specifically look at how manager should implement strategies through a theory which can determine the flexibility requirements of an enterprise system. They implemented this theory at a Fortune 100 form and based on their finding, presented a roadmap that can guide flexibility and implementations strategies based on both projects and process characteristics. This article will help me learn the amount of flexibility I will need to consider when implementing a new WFH system into a company.

Harrington, S.. "Telecommuting: a test of trust, competing values, and relative advantage." Professional Communication, IEEE Transactions Volume 42, Issue 4, Dec. 1999 223-239. 24 Jul 2008 .

The author, a professor from Georgia College and State University looks at the challenges brought to management by virtual work arrangements. The challenge which he focuses on is that of a company’s trust with their employees. He addresses issues such as how much can managers trust their employees to work outside their presence? Through his research, the author finds that his study offers the support for the important role of trust, security, and culture in the implementation of a virtual work arrangement. This article will give me a better understanding of the mindset of the employees and the importance of trust and security between the employees and management of a company to implement such a system.

Kirk, James, and Robert Belovics.. "making e-working work." Journal of Employment Counseling 43.1 (Mar. 2006): 39-46. Business Source Complete. EBSCO. [Library name], [City], [State abbreviation]. 24 July 2008 .

The authors, part of the human service department in Western Carolina University look into the growing field of e-working as it is estimated to be up to 20 million full and part time telecommuters in the United States by 2010. The author tries to assist employment counselor with organizing and implementing virtual work arrangements. The authors go into detail about the growth of e-worker program, the benefits and drawback to teleworking, and discuss some of the critical elements needed in order to have a successful teleworking program. This article will help me learn important key point of teleworking programs and how to successfully make it work.

Kock, Ned. "Designing E-Collaboration Technologies to Facilitate Compensatory Adaptation." Information Systems Management 25.1 (Winter2008 2008): 14-19. Business Source Complete. EBSCO. [Library name], [City], [State abbreviation]. 24 July 2008 .

The author, a researcher from the Division of International Business and Technology Studies at Texas A&M International University argues that the current e-collaboration technology available are flawed, and poses many obstacles which decreases the effectiveness of communication in complex collaborate task. He believes that the lack of face to face communications often makes collaborator change their communicative behavior in order to compensate for an obstacle. He concludes that by saying that more research on how e-collaborating technologies need to be designed to facilitate compensatory adaptation. This article will help me learn some of the barrier when designing my propose change for the software implementation of a teleworking system.

Krušinskas, Rytis. "APPLICATION OF OPTION VALUATION METHODOLOGY TO TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT PROJECTS." Economics & Management (Aug. 2008): 128-134. Business Source Complete. EBSCO. [Library name], [City], [State abbreviation]. 24 July 2008 .

The author, a researcher from Kaunas University of Technology in Luthuania looks into many technological investment of many companies. Through his observation he tries to create a valuation methodology to evaluate which types of technological investments are worth the money of businesses. Through his research, he find that there are many investments which are worth implementing, however are not viable solutions for the present time due to the face speed at which technology is growing. The author’s research presents sequence of company value increase calculation evaluating possible risks. Obtained results of empirical research allows to make conclusions regarding technology adoption strategy selection. This paper will help me learn how to evaluate what is necessary to implement into a WFH system and what is not needed.

Kumpikaitė, Vilmante, and Ramune Čiarnienė.. "NEW TRAINING TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPING HUMAN RESOURCES." Economics & Management (15 Aug. 2008): 93-94. Business Source Complete. EBSCO. [Library name], [City], [State abbreviation]. 24 July 2008 .

The authors, researchers from Kaunas University of Technology in Luthuania look into how new technologies are tied to improvements in a companies productivity. They note how advancement in technology allows companies to downsize and be leaner, as well as replace human capital with computers systems. The authors however focus their research on how to use technology to train and develop human resources of the company. By using training technologies, such as e-learning, it allows the company to easily train their employees to be more competent, knowledgeable and skilled in their job. The authors not that employees must not be resistant to change in order for such a system to work. This article will help me look into the idea of using e-learning to train employee to use the new system I am proposing to be implemented.

Lee, Honggirl. "Telework vs. central work: A comparative view of knowledge accessibility ." Decision Support Systems Volume 43, Issue 3, April 2007 687-700 . 24 Jul 2008 .

The author, who has received a M.S. in logistics system from Korea Maritime University, and a Ph.D. in management information systems from Tokyo Institute of Technology discusses the importance of accessibility to information on a virtual system with the increasing popularity of telework arrangements. The author is concerned with the lack of effort to investigate the knowledge accessible by distributed workers. His studies examines the gap between telework and central work in accessing knowledge with varying levels of tacitness, and in the use of communication of media for knowledge exchange. Through surveys and questionnaires, the author finds that although information richness perception of a medium is largely rational, it is also partially re-structured by non-rational factors. This article will help me find the problem in accessibility of data need for employees to complete a task, or work in a group to better create a software to fix these flaws.

McCafferty, Dennis. "Bye-Bye Boomers ." VARBusiness Volume 24, May 2008 6-8, 10. 24 Jul 2008 .

The author, a NWC Analyst talks about how the workforce of baby boomer retiring will cause a shortage of employees. Because of this, some government agencies are employing new systems of telecommuting to rehire some of the retiring baby boomer by offering flexible hours, and allow them to work at home. This article shows the usefulness of such telecommuting systems, and how it allows companies, even government agencies to allow flexible work hours to keep their workforce up.

Prystash, D. "Corporate attitudes and commitments to telecommuting." Professional Communication, IEEE Transactions Volume 38, Issue 2, June 1995 95-99. 24 Jul 2008

The author, part of the AT&T Easylink Services, talk about the use of telecommuting by information and knowledge workers in various fields. He notes that these advancements had been made possible by the increasing availability of enabling technologies, and easy-to-use software, access to information both private and public. He also talks about the attitude of managers and corporation of telecommuting. He covers topics such as corporate commitments, motivation, productivity, supervision and employee satisfaction of telecommunication. This article is a good choice to give me a great idea of how upper management view these type of software, and gives me an understanding of what they would want from the new software I am proposing.

Rothman, J. "Making telecommuting work." Software, IEEE Volume 17, Issue 5, Oct. 2000 124-126. 24 Jul 2008 .

The author, a journalist for Software, IEEE, talks about what is necessary in order to make the software for telecommuting work. He believes that it is possible to create a telecommuting culture-an environment in which people can successfully work from whenever they happen to be physically. The author also states that one of the critical components of this culture is building and maintaining an open and trustful communication between the managers and the employees and between the employees and the rest of the team. This article will help me learn more on what is necessary in order to know how a company works, and help with the implementation of my proposed system.

Tung, L. "Information technology as an enabler of telecommuting ." International Journal of Information Management Volume 16, Issue 2, April 1996 103-117. 24 Jul 2008 .

The author, part of the School of Accountancy and Business at Nanyang Technological University talk about the change of how telecommuting is allowing people to do their work from anywhere but the office. They believe that the rise of cost effective information technology system is the reason telecommuting systems are continuing to expand. They talk about how it has expand from single repetitive task to a now very wide variety of tasks, even group projects. The author also talks about some of the weaknesses such as security, maintenance, and training required for implementation of such a system. This article will help me get a better understand of how information technology has impacted telecommunication. I will use this knowledge to help me better design my program I have proposed to implement.

Yeung, Arthur, and Wayne Brockbank.. "Reengineering HR Through Information Technology." Human Resource Planning 18.2 (June 1995): 24-37. Business Source Complete. EBSCO. [Library name], [City], [State abbreviation]. 24 July 2008 .

The authors, researcher from the college of business at San Francisco State University and University of Michigan talk about how Human Resources have been reengineered by information technology. Based on in-epth case studies of four major corporations (Hewlett-Packard. Apple Computer, AT&T, GE Nuclear Energy) and surveys from 33 corporations, this article discuss and address five basic questions related to Human Resources. Why do companies reengineer HR? How are companies using reengineering? What are the possible outcomes of reengineering? What makes reengineering work? What factors stall reengineering initiatives? This article will help me learn how Human Resources have change from the impact of information technology and help me in my implementation of my proposed system.