Managing the Mobile Workforce: Leading, Building, and Sustaining Virtual Teams
Autor David Clemons, Michael Krothen Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 dec 2010
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Tools, tips, and strategies for hiring, training, supporting, and motivating the modern mobile workforce
IDC has estimated that mobile workers worldwide will surpass one billion by 2011. This isn't just a trend, but the direction that business is heading. Managing the Mobile Workforce gives managers and executives at all levels key essentials for coping with this new reality, empowering them to create, sustain, support, and reward a highly passionate and productive mobile work force. Managing the Mobile Workforce- Shares startling facts and figures indicating how many workers already are and will be working
- Explains why trust is the glue that binds managers and workers together across vast distances—and how to achieve it
- Provides strategies to manage performance in a virtual world--and why mobility can actually increase productivity
- Reveals how technology and great leadership can reduce the virtual distance between you and your mobile workers
- Gives eight motivational principles and tools for mobile leaders
- Suggests a new way of looking at the virtual team development process
David Clemons has provided 20 years of executive leadership and innovation to the digital education industries. Today, as the CEO of Achieve Labs Inc., David is speaking nationally and internationally within the mobile industry. David lives in Eagle, Idaho, as a true mobile worker and employs a large "mobiForce," including international partners and content specialists.
Michael Kroth, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the University of Idaho in Adult/Organizational Learning and Leadership. He has authored Transforming Work: The Five Keys to Achieving Trust, Commitment, and Passion in the Workplace (2001), co-authored with Patricia Boverie; The Manager as Motivator (2006) and Career Development Basics (2009) with McKay Christensen. He is a memeber of the National Speaks Association and speaks nationally and internationally.
Learn more about this book and David and Michael's work at www.managingthemobileworkforce.com.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780071742207
ISBN-10: 0071742204
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 160 x 236 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Editura: McGraw Hill Education
Colecția McGraw-Hill
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0071742204
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 160 x 236 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Editura: McGraw Hill Education
Colecția McGraw-Hill
Locul publicării:United States
Cuprins
Introduction; Part One: Connecting to Connectivity; Chapter 1: Moving to Mobility; Chapter 2: Keeping up with the Phoneses; Chapter 3: It's not just the Equipment, Stupid....; Chapter 4: Introducing The Passionate Mobile Workforce Model; Part Two: Seven Essentials for Creating and Sustaining a Passionate Mobile Workforce; Chapter 5: Deciding if and how a mobile workforce can build sustainable competitive advantage; Chapter 6: Choosing the workers needed to be competitive; Chapter 7: Providing the right technological support; Chapter 8: Providing the right managerial support; Chapter 9: Building collaborative structures; Chapter 10: Trust or bust; Chapter 11: Developing an Integration Plan for your Entire Organization; Part Three: The Players: Success Stories; Chapter 12: Examples of Executive Leadership in a Mobile Work Environment; Chapter 13: Examples of Small Business Leadership in a Mobile Work Environment; Chapter 14: Examples of Managerial Leadership in a Mobile Work Environment; Chapter 15: Examples of Individual Leadership in a Mobile Work Environment