Description: The central theme of this book is how new media affect organisational behaviour and employee well-being. It will be essential reading for students of organisational psychology and related disciplines.
Review Quotes:
"Editors Derks and Bakker (both Department of Wortk and Psychology, Erasmus Univ., the Netherlands) provide an overview of the evolution of digital media in the workplace in their introduction to this volume, which is part of the "Current Issues in Work and Organizational Psychology" series...This volume provides practical research results and guides for utilizing online tools in the workplace... Summing Up: Recommended" - N.J. Johnson, formerly, Metropolitan State University, for CHOICE, September 2013
"This timely collection highlights current concerns about the psychology of digital media use in the workplace - from email to social networks, from computer games to video conferencing, and from corporate training to surveillance. Each case study raises the question whether our high expectations about networked and mobile computing are over-hyped or justified, and how they impact work-life balance and productivity." - Peter Krapp, University of California, Irvine, USA