WORK330
Innovative Work Arrangements
0.5 Credit

Hours per week:
  • Lecture/Discussion: 3

Contemporary economic and political developments such as globalization, new communications technologies, and concerns about environmental sustainability and work/life balance have contributed to the emergence of new and innovative work arrangements. This course considers a diversity of workplace innovations such as reconfigured decision-making processes, new communicative paradigms, and a variety of ownership structures, distribution networks, community economic development initiatives and employment arrangements that create both opportunities and obstacles for today's workers and workplaces.The course will put special emphasis on how these innovations may both empower workers and create new opportunities and may also produce new tensions and obstacles.