Work Without Boundaries

Drawing on more than a decade of inter-disciplinary research, thisbook provides a comprehensive overview of the available theories,concepts, data and research on new work organizations and theconcept of 'work without boundaries'.* Explores a concept of work that is not restricted bytraditional organizational rules like regular office hours, asingle workplace, fixed procedures and limited responsibility* Provides a comprehensive overview of the available theories,concepts, data and research on new work organizations* Examines the shift of power away from organizations to makeindividuals accountable for their own employability and work* Draws on over a decade of original research into 'workwithout boundaries' in which the authors are keyauthorities* Brings together organization theory and work psychology withscholarship from related fields including sociology, socialpsychology, cognition and psychobiology

About the Authors viiForeword by Cary L. Cooper ixPreface xiAcknowledgments xiii1 The New Work 1The new inequality 4New markets and new structures 7The new work life 13What is so new about "The New Work"? 16The new and the old work 18The purpose and structure of this book 222 The New Rules of Work: On Flexible Work and How to ManageIt 25Flexible work 29Flexibility through empowerment 35Flexibility through substitution 48Separate paths? 603 The New Work Life and the Dimensions of Knowledge69The cognitive knowledge demands 71The social knowledge demands 81The societal knowledge demands 97The existential knowledge demands 10 7Some concluding considerations 1204 The Place of Work in Life 123Separate spheres 126Competing spheres 129Coping with boundaries 130Mutually favored spheres 133New conditions outside work life: the consumption society134The moral supermarket 138The market aesthetic 141The new family 144Organizing living 149Conflict and balance in life 158An individual matter 1625 Work Life, Stress, and the New Ill Health 163Stress as a social problem and research area 167Stress models for the work life 172The new work life as a source of stress 189The new ill health 205The new ill health, work environment, and the possibility spaceof work 2126 Some Concluding Comments and Reflections 217The deregulation of working life 218The individualization of working life 219The heterogenization of working life 220The new inequality 221New strains and symptoms 222Flexibility and power in times of economic recession 223Future - trust or new forms and fields for externalregulation? 225References 229Index 253