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This presentation focus on describing the management challenges of the work force in turbulent business environments, where corporations rely increasingly on interorgani-zational arrangements. The networked organizational environment has brought along novel requirements for extreme flexibility and openness in directing operations, and consequently, pose novel challenges in managing the human resource pool. These challenges are summarized into two broad categories: promoting cultural integration and ensuring continuous renewal. The integration promotion takes place in core processes for building up the shared social architecture and for realizing the coordinated cooperation. The continuous renewal, in turn, is managed through innovation and entrepreneurial empowerment processes. Based on this examination, we address the questions for the SIS role in supporting the organizational change process and in facilitating the efficient communication in cross-boundary relationships. In the final part, some recommendations are presented for the educational activities and for personnel training in organizations.
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Viitanen, J. (1999). The Management of Work Force in Networked Organizational Environment. In: Juliff, P., Kado, T., Barta, BZ. (eds) Educating Professionals for Network-Centric Organisations. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 17. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35393-7_14
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