Working Lives and in-House Outsourcing
Working Lives and in-House Outsourcing

Author: Jacqueline Zalewski

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-09-05

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0429885547

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This book offers a sociological account of the process by which companies instituted and continue to institute outsourcing in their organization. Drawing on qualitative data, it examines the ways in which internal outsourcing in the information technologies and human resources professions negatively affects workers, their work conditions, and working relationships. With attention to the deleterious influence of outsourcing on relationships and the strong tendency of market organisations to produce social conflict in interactions – itself a considerable ‘transaction cost’ – the author challenges both the ideology that markets, rather than hierarchies, produce more efficient and less costly economic outcomes for companies, and the idea that outsourcing generates benefits for professional workers in the form of greater opportunity. A demonstration of the social conflict created between employees working for two separate, proprietary companies, Working Lives and in-House Outsourcing will be of interest to scholars with interests in the sociology of work and organizations and the sociology of professions, as well as those working in the fields of business management and human resources.

Working Lives and In-house Outsourcing
Working Lives and In-house Outsourcing

Author: Jacqueline M. Zalewski

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781138606319

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This book offers a sociological account of the process by which companies institute outsourcing in their organization. Drawing on qualitative data, it examines the ways in which internal outsourcing in the IT and HR professions negatively affects workers, their work conditions, and working relationships.

Bringing the Jobs Home
Bringing the Jobs Home

Author: Todd G. Buchholz

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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Buchholz explores the crisis of the outsourcing of American jobs, and reviews potential solutions.

The Software Architect Elevator
The Software Architect Elevator

Author: Gregor Hohpe

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2020-04-08

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1492077496

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As the digital economy changes the rules of the game for enterprises, the role of software and IT architects is also transforming. Rather than focus on technical decisions alone, architects and senior technologists need to combine organizational and technical knowledge to effect change in their company’s structure and processes. To accomplish that, they need to connect the IT engine room to the penthouse, where the business strategy is defined. In this guide, author Gregor Hohpe shares real-world advice and hard-learned lessons from actual IT transformations. His anecdotes help architects, senior developers, and other IT professionals prepare for a more complex but rewarding role in the enterprise. This book is ideal for: Software architects and senior developers looking to shape the company’s technology direction or assist in an organizational transformation Enterprise architects and senior technologists searching for practical advice on how to navigate technical and organizational topics CTOs and senior technical architects who are devising an IT strategy that impacts the way the organization works IT managers who want to learn what’s worked and what hasn’t in large-scale transformation

The Outsourced Self
The Outsourced Self

Author: Arlie Russell Hochschild

Publisher: Metropolitan Books

Published: 2012-05-08

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1429963093

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From the famed author of the bestselling The Second Shift and The Time Bind, a pathbreaking look at the transformation of private life in our for-profit world The family has long been a haven in a heartless world, the one place immune to market forces and economic calculations, where the personal, the private, and the emotional hold sway. Yet as Arlie Russell Hochschild shows in The Outsourced Self, that is no longer the case: everything that was once part of private life—love, friendship, child rearing—is being transformed into packaged expertise to be sold back to confused, harried Americans. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and original research, Hochschild follows the incursions of the market into every stage of intimate life. From dating services that train you to be the CEO of your love life to wedding planners who create a couple's "personal narrative"; from nameologists (who help you name your child) to wantologists (who help you name your goals); from commercial surrogate farms in India to hired mourners who will scatter your loved one's ashes in the ocean of your choice—Hochschild reveals a world in which the most intuitive and emotional of human acts have become work for hire. Sharp and clear-eyed, Hochschild is full of sympathy for overstressed, outsourcing Americans, even as she warns of the market's threat to the personal realm they are striving so hard to preserve.

State DOT Outsourcing and Private-sector Utilization
State DOT Outsourcing and Private-sector Utilization

Author: Thomas R. Warne

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 0309069629

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This report will be of interest to state departments of transportation (DOTs), as well as to other transportation professionals and the public who seek to leverage their work forces by outsourcing key activities. The report examines the current practices in outsourcing, what decisions are involved in deciding when to outsource, procuring and administering outsourced services, what are the most commonly outsourced activities, and determining the effectiveness of outsourcing. This report is an update of NCHRP Synthesis 246: Outsourcing of State Highway Facilities and Services, which provided a comprehensive look at the status of outsourcing as it existed in 1997, and the data compiled for this synthesis are compared with the data of the earlier synthesis, where appropriate. The information for this effort was derived in part from a survey questionnaire distributed to all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Replies to the survey came from 38 states and the District of Columbia. Information was also derived from a review of the relevant literature, which focused primarily on the engineering and design elements outsourced by state DOTs.

Decision Making for Outsourcing and Privatization of Vehicle and Equipment Fleet Maintenance
Decision Making for Outsourcing and Privatization of Vehicle and Equipment Fleet Maintenance

Author: John Wiegmann

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 69

ISBN-13: 0309213274

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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 692: Decision Making for Outsourcing and Privatization of Vehicle and Equipment Fleet Maintenance presents a framework for conducting systematic analysis and making decisions on outsourcing and privatization of vehicle and equipment fleet maintenance.

The New Economy of the Product Life Cycle
The New Economy of the Product Life Cycle

Author: Andrey Tyulin

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-03-02

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 3030378144

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This book presents the theory and practice of product lifecycle management, chiefly focusing on modern approaches suitable for digitalized enterprises. In addition to describing adaptive methods for advanced product creation using big data analytics, it presents economic and mathematical models for managing product lifecycles based on the application of recent methods (e.g. digital design and automated intelligent systems) to control pre-production and production processes. Given its scope, the book appeals to researchers, economic analysts and entrepreneurs alike.

Dead Ringers
Dead Ringers

Author: Shehzad Nadeem

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2011-01-17

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1400836697

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A vivid portrait of India’s outsourcing industry In the Indian outsourcing industry, employees are expected to be "dead ringers" for the more expensive American workers they have replaced—complete with Westernized names, accents, habits, and lifestyles that are organized around a foreign culture in a distant time zone. Dead Ringers chronicles the rise of a workforce for whom mimicry is a job requirement and a passion. In the process, the book deftly explores the complications of hybrid lives and presents a vivid portrait of a workplace where globalization carries as many downsides as advantages. Shehzad Nadeem writes that the relatively high wages in the outsourcing sector have empowered a class of cultural emulators. These young Indians indulge in American-style shopping binges at glittering malls, party at upscale nightclubs, and arrange romantic trysts at exurban cafés. But while the high-tech outsourcing industry is a matter of considerable pride for India, global corporations view the industry as a low-cost, often low-skill sector. Workers use the digital tools of the information economy not to complete technologically innovative tasks but to perform grunt work and rote customer service. Long hours and the graveyard shift lead to health problems and social estrangement. Surveillance is tight, management is overweening, and workers are caught in a cycle of hope and disappointment. Through lively ethnographic detail and subtle analysis of interviews with workers, managers, and employers, Nadeem demonstrates the culturally transformative power of globalization and its effects on the lives of the individuals at its edges.