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ThoughtFarmer Social Intranet - Employee Engagement White Paper - ThoughtFarmer Social ... - 0 views

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Staff morale is closely linked with company productivity and performance, yet HR and Corporate Communications managers often have limited tools to impact morale. This free white paper uses extensive data and research, expert insight, and real-world examples to explain how a social intranet can improve employee engagement.
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Center for Nonprofit Excellence: The CNE in Charlottesville, VA - 0 views

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Stephan Dohrn on 24 Aug 11

Collection of links and research papers on Collaboration

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Papers in Trust | Mendeley Group - 0 views

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Psychology Group on Mendeley on the topic of Trust. Contains a lot of interesting literature on the topic.

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New work spaces. Trend report. - 0 views

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Report on the office of the future

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Future Work Skills 2020 | Institute For The Future - 0 views

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shared by Stephan Dohrn on 17 Dec 11 - No Cached

Rather than focusing on future jobs, this report looks at future work skills—proficiencies and abilities required across different jobs and work settings.
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The 10 key skills for the future of work - Online Collaboration - 0 views

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shared by Stephan Dohrn on 17 Dec 11 - No Cached

The Palo Alto, Calif.–based nonprofit research center focuses on long-term forecasting and recently released a report titled “Future Work Skills 2020″ (available for free download here) that analyzes some of the key drivers reshaping work — including WebWorkerDaily’s greatest hits like connectivity, smart machines and new media — coming up not with specific, recommended professional paths but instead with broad skills that will help workers adapt to the changing career landscape. What are they?
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Scientists prove telecommuting is awesome - Online Collaboration - 0 views

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shared by Stephan Dohrn on 14 Nov 11 - No Cached

telecommuters were performing better than their counterparts in the office. They took more calls (it was quieter and there were fewer distractions at home) and worked more hours (they lost less time to late arrivals and sick breaks) and more days (fewer sick days). This translated into greater profits for the company because more calls equaled more sales. The telecommuters were also less likely to quit their jobs, which meant less turnover for the company.
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Perceived Proximity in Virtual Work: Explaining the Paradox of Far-but-Close - 1 views

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shared by Sari Stenfors on 29 May 11 - No Cached

One's colleagues can be situated in close physical proximity, yet seem quite distant. Conversely, one's colleagues can be quite far away in objective terms, yet seem quite close. In this paper, we explore this paradoxical phenomenon of feeling close to geographically distant colleagues and propose a model of perceived proximity (a dyadic and asymmetric construct which reflects one person's perception of how close or how far another person is). The model shows how communication and social identification processes, as well as certain individual and socio-organizational factors, affect feelings of proximity.
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How social influence can undermine the wisdom of crowd effect - 0 views

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shared by Stephan Dohrn on 17 May 11 - No Cached

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Summary: "Although groups are initially "wise," knowledge about estimates of others narrows the diversity of opinions to such an extent that it undermines the wisdom of crowd effect in three different ways. The "social influence effect" diminishes the diversity of the crowd without improvements of its collective error. The "range reduction effect" moves the position of the truth to peripheral regions of the range of estimates so that the crowd becomes less reliable in providing expertise for external observers. The "confidence effect" boosts individuals' confidence after convergence of their estimates despite lack of improved accuracy. Examples of the revealed mechanism range from misled elites to the recent global financial crisis."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Summary: "Although groups are initially "wise," knowledge about estimates of others narrows the diversity of opinions to such an extent that it undermines the wisdom of crowd effect in three different ways. The "social influence effect" diminishes the diversity of the crowd without improvements of its collective error. The "range reduction effect" moves the position of the truth to peripheral regions of the range of estimates so that the crowd becomes less reliable in providing expertise for external observers. The "confidence effect" boosts individuals' confidence after convergence of their estimates despite lack of improved accuracy. Examples of the revealed mechanism range from misled elites to the recent global financial crisis."</div>

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The Network Community: An Introduction to Networks in the Global Village - 0 views

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shared by Stephan Dohrn on 30 Jul 11 - Cached

Wherever they have looked, researchers have found thriving communities. This is so well documented that there is no longer any scholarly need to demonstrate that community ties exist everywhere, although the alarmed public, politicians and pundits need to be constantly reassured and re-educated. But there is a pressing need to understand what kinds of community flourish, what communities do — and do not do — for people, and how communities operate in different social systems.
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Can Absence Make a Team Grow Stronger? - Harvard Business Review - 3 views

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shared by Stephan Dohrn on 03 May 11 - No Cached

Stephan Dohrn on 03 May 11

Summary: "The scores of successful virtual teams the authors examined didn't have many of the psychological and practical obstacles that plagued their more traditional, face-to-face counterparts. Team members felt freer to contribute--especially outside their established areas of expertise. The fact that such groups could not assemble easily actually made their projects go faster, as people did not wait for meetings to make decisions, and individuals, in the comfort of their own offices, had full access to their files and the complementary knowledge of their local colleagues. Reaping those advantages, though, demanded shrewd management of a virtual team's work processes and social dynamics. Rather than depend on videoconferencing or e-mail, which could be unwieldy or exclusionary, successful virtual teams made extensive use of sophisticated online team rooms, where everyone could easily see the state of the work in progress, talk about the work in ongoing threaded discussions, and be reminded of decisions, rationales, and commitments. Differences were most effectively hashed out in teleconferences, which team leaders also used to foster group identity and solidarity."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Summary: "The scores of successful virtual teams the authors examined didn't have many of the psychological and practical obstacles that plagued their more traditional, face-to-face counterparts. Team members felt freer to contribute--especially outside their established areas of expertise. The fact that such groups could not assemble easily actually made their projects go faster, as people did not wait for meetings to make decisions, and individuals, in the comfort of their own offices, had full access to their files and the complementary knowledge of their local colleagues. Reaping those advantages, though, demanded shrewd management of a virtual team's work processes and social dynamics. Rather than depend on videoconferencing or e-mail, which could be unwieldy or exclusionary, successful virtual teams made extensive use of sophisticated online team rooms, where everyone could easily see the state of the work in progress, talk about the work in ongoing threaded discussions, and be reminded of decisions, rationales, and commitments. Differences were most effectively hashed out in teleconferences, which team leaders also used to foster group identity and solidarity."</div>

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A surrealistic mega-analysis of redisorganization theories - 0 views

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shared by Stephan Dohrn on 20 Oct 11 - No Cached

Objective To systematically review the empirical evidence for organizational theories and repeated reorganizations.
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Trust - 0 views

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an informal paper on trust in high performance virtual teams

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