Exam 4: Work Design: Enabling Global Collaboration

Technology today has increased the ways work blends together with other aspects of life.This is very similar to how work was configured in ____________ societies.

IT has altered employees and the way they work by doing all of the following EXCEPT:

Today's IT increases the effectiveness of workers,particularly with the use of both ________ tools and collaboration tools.

This is a list of activities on a Web site that briefly highlights what individuals are doing,thinking,and updating and in return gives the community a sense of what is happening.

The qualities found in a successful remote worker include all of the following EXCEPT:

The concept of "jobs" is being replaced with the concept of work,requiring a framework that links the IS Strategy with the organization strategy to answer all of the following EXCEPT:

All of the following are new types of jobs created by the growing reliance on technology EXCEPT:

Traditionally,people communicated either in person or on the telephone.E-mail has had a profound impact on communication because it decoupled the time the sender communicates with the receiver.

Employees may resist a change in IS by: denying that the system is up and running,trying to convince others it has no value,refusing to use the system,and/or _________ the system by distorting or altering inputs.

Which one of the following is NOT a factor driving the use of telecommuting?

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) realized it did not have adequate policies,education or technology in place for remote workers when:

Which one of the following is a valid statement?

Lewin's change model to gain acceptance of new technology is based on 3 stages.Match the stage to its objective.

According to Thomas Friedman,collaboration is the way that small companies can "act big" and flourish in today's flat world.

How have hiring practices been impacted by IT?

What do we call members of the generation that's grown up using computers,the Web and social network sites as a normal,integrated part of their lives?

Team members who are _______________ and prefer to do several activities at one time may want to have IM or VOIP available to them so that they can communicate with their colleagues and still work on other tasks.

Identify the following technologies as primarily supporting either communication or collaboration efforts.

List the challenges that a global,virtual team must overcome to be successful.

Managers in today's global,virtual workforce must rethink how they break from traditional methods of managing,particularly in the all of the following ways EXCEPT: