The transformational technologies of the Internet-Web compound continue to exert a vast and readily apparent influence on the way we live and work. In recent times, internet penetration is now very high in most parts of the world, impacting the context and content of the workplace and the boundary between work and private life is even more porous. Not only has the reach increased, but the technologies to access the Internet-Web have further evolved towards increasing portability. The hardware evolution from desktops to laptops to mobile technologies (phones, tablets, watches, eyeglasses) marches forward. The increasing mobility and 24/7 accessibility offers the opportune time to revisit the transformations occurring.
Today the Internet consists of billions of digital devices, people, services and other physical objects with the potential to seamlessly connect, interact and exchange information about themselves and their environment. Organizations now use these digital devices and physical objects to produce and consume Internet-based services. This new Internet ecosystem is commonly referred to as the Internet of People, Things and Services (IoPTS). In this follow-up to their 2006 volume, Simmers & Anandarajan examine how The Internet of People, Things and Services (IoPTS) transforms our workplaces.
Information and communications technology (ICT) expansion from desktops to laptops to ubiquitous smart objects that sense and communicate directly over the internet – the IoPTS - offers us the opportune time to revisit how the Internet transforms our workplaces.
Table of Contents:
List of Tables and Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
Claire A. Simmers
Murugan Anandarajan
Part 1 Iopts Workplace - People
Chapter 2: Moving from the IoT to the IoP: Applying Mary Parker Follett’s Circular Response, Integration, and Law of the Situation to the Role and Responsibilities of the User in the IoPTS Workplace
Lisa T. Nelson
Chapter 3: The Internet of Things and Cognitive Analytics
Constant D. Beugré
Chapter 4: Sustainable Careers and IoPTS: May the Internet of People, Things and Services be too much of a good thing for career and human resource management?
Veronica M. Godshalk
Chapter 5: Cyberloafing in the Realm of IoPTS: Examining Individual Neutralization and Organizational Citizenship Behavior
Rashimah Rajah
Vivien K. G. Lim
Chapter 6: Social Media, Data Privacy, and the Internet of People, Things, and Services in the Workplace: A Legal and Organizational Perspective.
Kimberly W. O’Connor
Gordon B. Schmidt
Part 2 IoPTS Workplace – Things
Chapter 7: Initiating the Internet of Things: Early Adopters’ Expectations for Changing Business Practices and Implications for Working Life
Ulrika H. Westergren
Ted Saarikko
Tomas Blomquist
Chapter 8: The Impact of the Internet of Things (IoT) on the IT Security Infrastructure of Traditional Colleges and Universities in the State of Utah
Wendy Campbell
Chapter 9: Securing the Smart Phone: A Motivational Model
Irina-Marcela Nedelcu
Murugan Anandarajan
Chapter 10: Intranets of People, Things, and Services: Exploring the Role of Virtual Human Resource Development
Elisabeth E. Bennett
Part 3 IoPTS Workplace – Services
Chapter 11: A SWOT Analysis Relating the Internet of Things to Designing Effective HR Performance Management Systems
Thomas Stephen Calvard
Chapter 12: Beyond the Consulting Room: The Internet of People, Things and Services and the Human Factors of Outpatient Support
James G. Phillips
Chapter 13: An Examination of Online Repurchasing Behavior in an IoT Environment
Carol D. Portillo
Terri R. Lituchy
Chapter 14: Leading the Digital Supply Chain
David B. Kurz
Chapter 15: A Framework to Reduce IoPTS Security Breaches in the Smart Workplace
Erika Pleskunas
Murugan Anandarajan
Chapter 16: IoPTS and the Future Workplace: A Global Perspective
Murugan Anandarajan
Claire Simmers
About the Author :
Claire A. Simmers is Professor Emeritus, Department of Management, Erivan K. Haub School of Business, Saint Joseph's University, USA.
Murugan Anandarajan is Professor of MIS and Department Head, Management, Decision Sciences & MIS, LeBow College of Business, Drexel University, USA.
