234 research outputs found
Applying technology to work: toward a better understanding of telework
Technology is enabling employees to work away from the office as teleworkers, where they experience increased flexibility to manage their work and personal lives. The last several decades have seen telework rapidly expand as a work mode, which offers both new opportunities and challenges for employees and corporations alike. This paper covers a brief overview of telework research and practice, in the hopes of providing a better understanding of this rapidly emerging form of virtual work. The paper first describes its growing popularity and the types of telework being practiced, and then reviews some key findings in prior research by examining alterations in the work–family interface, job satisfaction, and organizational identification. Present-day factors spurring telework’s growth and factors holding it back are then discussed, including issues of technology acceptance, business continuity, and carbon footprint, as well as challenges such as isolation, co-worker resentment, and managerial reluctance. The paper then briefly explores some crucial issues facing telework in the future if it is to remain a successful work practice, including knowledge sharing, individual differences, and the way organizational policies and practices are enacted. Finally, some proscriptive recommendations for managers are offered in the hopes of helping practitioners harness the potential of this form of technology-enabled virtual work
When Reality and Rules Collide: Understanding the Business Context of Ethical Decisions
With the series of ethics scandals over the last decade, more and more companies have created, updated, or clarified their corporate codes of conduct. Yet even though tougher and more detailed guidelines are in place, managers often find themselves questioning the validity and application of some rules in certain situations. In particular, when managers experience a disconnect between company rules and what is actually occurring on the job, they are faced with the choice of whether or not to adhere to the rules, or bend or break them. This inbasket exercise simulates a day in the life of a corporate manager who faces such a challenge, and provides participants with the opportunity to experience real-world ethical dilemmas and to assess their own views in relation to them. It is designed primarily for use with graduate students or upper-division undergraduates
When Reality and Rules Collide: Understanding the Business Context of Ethical Decisions
With the series of ethics scandals over the last decade, more and more companies have created, updated, or clarified their corporate codes of conduct. Yet even though tougher and more detailed guidelines are in place, managers often find themselves questioning the validity and application of some rules in certain situations. In particular, when managers experience a disconnect between company rules and what is actually occurring on the job, they are faced with the choice of whether or not to adhere to the rules, or bend or break them. This inbasket exercise simulates a day in the life of a corporate manager who faces such a challenge, and provides participants with the opportunity to experience real-world ethical dilemmas and to assess their own views in relation to them. It is designed primarily for use with graduate students or upper-division undergraduates
Monolithic Adsorbent-Based Rapid-Cycle Vacuum Pressure Swing Adsorption Process for Carbon Capture from Small-Scale Steam Methane Reforming
Low-Cost Superconducting Fan-Out with Repurposed Josephson Junctions
Superconductor electronics (SCE) promise computer systems with orders of
magnitude higher speeds and lower energy consumption than their complementary
metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) counterpart. At the same time, the scalability
and resource utilization of superconducting systems are major concerns. Some of
these concerns come from device-level challenges and the gap between SCE and
CMOS technology nodes, and others come from the way Josephson Junctions (JJs)
are used. Towards this end, we notice that a considerable fraction of hardware
resources are not involved in logic operations, but rather are used for fan-out
and buffering purposes. In this paper, we ask if there is a way to reduce these
overheads; propose the repurposing of JJs at the cell boundaries for fan-out;
and establish a set of rules to discretize critical currents in a way that is
conducive to this reassignment. Finally, we demonstrate the accomplished gains
through detailed analog simulations and modeling analyses. Our experiments
indicate that the introduced method leads to a 48% savings in the JJ count in a
tree with a fan-out of 1024, as well as an average of 43% of the JJ count for
signal splitting and 32% for clock fan-out in ISCAS'85 benchmarks.Comment: 11 pages, 20 figures, submitted to IEEE TA
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