Aberdeen Room Wednesday

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Aberdeen Room Wednesday
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Human Resources Management Practices and
Work/Life Balancesor the gloom and doom track

• Pascale Peters et al managerial decision making
• Svein Burgum management strategies
• Martin Weilemaker and Andrew Gaudes CMC or
  f-t-f ?
• Katy Marsh traversing gender roles
• Skye Whiteman and Geoff Dick - inhibitors

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Some key points(papers 1, 2 and 5)

• Occasional and informal preferred over structure
  not a right...ad hoc
• Good performance and trust important
• Focus on day to day management
• Practical problems for management
• Management is complex and demanding
• Management is not standard
• Trust, security and privacy intertwined and is an
  inhibitor

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Key points continued

• Paper 3
• Produced a conceptual matrix suggesting
• F-t-f for no conflict or task conflict
• CMC for relational conflict
• Process conflict both
• Paper 4
• Teleworking can be a catalyst for re-negotiation
  of roles and priorities

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Mitigating Risk via e-Networks

• Fintan Clear data security in SMEs
• Maja Hadzic and Elizabeth Chang using digital
  ecosystems to fight terrorism
• Shane Roberts technology to fight agricultural
  disasters and terrorism

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Key points..

• Security infrastructure exists but extra problems
  for small firms
• Many firms lack policies and written controls for
  data
• A proposal to create a more secure environment
  digital ecosystems - Databases with matching to
  local records and machine readable records can
  help fight terrorism
• Technology can help in early warning systems
• Dispersed expertise is able to be used via
  telework data can be sent to many places for
  analysis

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For me ?

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• Many obvious useful examples of technology for
  the new work environment
• Informal
• Left to (responsible) individuals