Managing Knoledge Experts, Agencies and Organisations [Paperback]

This book examines how the emergence of 'knowledge workers' affects traditional work and organisation patterns.This book explores the growing phenomenon of atypical work manifested in workforce flexibility, mobility, the feminization of professional employment, and technological changes. Albert and Bradley focus upon an influential group of knowledge-based employees - experts - and show the way in which they are ushering in changes in the work environment by resorting to atypical employment arrangements which are enhanced by an agency system. Case studies are developed from companies including AT&T, The Hollywood film industry, London accounting firms, and specialised agencies such as Labforce and Knowledge Net.This book explores the growing phenomenon of atypical work manifested in workforce flexibility, mobility, the feminization of professional employment, and technological changes. Albert and Bradley focus upon an influential group of knowledge-based employees - experts - and show the way in which they are ushering in changes in the work environment by resorting to atypical employment arrangements which are enhanced by an agency system. Case studies are developed from companies including AT&T, The Hollywood film industry, London accounting firms, and specialised agencies such as Labforce and Knowledge Net.This book explores the growing phenomenon of atypical work manifested in workforce flexibility, mobility, the feminization of professional employment, and technological changes. Albert and Bradley focus on an influential group of knowledge-based employees--experts--and show the way in which they are ushering in changes in the work environment by resorting to atypical employment arrangements that are enhanced by an agency system. Case studies are developed from companies including AT&T, the Hollywood film industry, London accounting firms, and specialized agencies such as Labforce and Knowledge Net.Introduction: The supply side in context; Part I. ExlÃ$