Introduction to the brave new workplace: organizational behavior in the electronic age
综述电子时代组织行为的性质与意义，探讨新工作、新工作者和新工作场所的特征，包括电子工作、自我管理、风险个体化及性别特征反转，并分析其对家庭、性别关系和社区的社会影响。
Abstract This paper provides an overview of the nature and meaning of organizational behavior in the electronic age. I review objectives and questions addressed by the Special Issue on Brave New Workplace. Next, I review literature on new work, new workers and the new workplace which provides the context for the Special Issue and its contributions. Specifically, I review literature on features of ‘the new modernism’ in society. I relate macro level social trends and globalization to the political economy of workplace risks. Four themes which characterize new work and work settings are addressed: electronic work, self‐management, individualization of risks, and the inversion of the gender characteristics at work and home. Social implications of new work are explored, including implications which new work practices and new modernist institutions hold for the family, for gender relations and for communities. I conclude by discussing how papers in the current volume contribute to understanding key issues in the brave new workplace. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.