Isolation and technology: the human disconnect
Journal of Organizational Change Management
ISSN: 0953-4814
Article publication date: 1 October 2000
Abstract
Management control over production has often meant control over one means of production: people. There is evidence of the use of social isolation to control human behavior throughout recorded history. Traces the development of social isolation through the multiple lenses of management, economics, psychology, sociology, engineering technology, social psychology, and communication science and presents a taxonomy of perspectives for discussion. The taxonomy is further elucidated through the assignment and distribution of 13 organizational factors for both the objective state and subjective feelings of social isolation as linked to advances in telecommuting and other off‐site “open collar” work.
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Citation
Vega, G. and Brennan, L. (2000), "Isolation and technology: the human disconnect", Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 13 No. 5, pp. 468-481. https://doi.org/10.1108/09534810010377435
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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