| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥1,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥2,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Three interrelated empirical research projects have been conducted to find that indeed information technology does affect career development, skill formation, and coaching for people in the organizations ; and that opportunities for face-to-face interaction remain important as ever, indicating that such interaction is complementary rather than alternative to IT-based virtual contacts. First, introduction of home offices in a pharmaceutical company entails new challenges for adaptation of new recruits into the organization. Second, a new form of emergent organization in a cosmetics company was experimented to develop home page for its customers. Each participant differently makes sense out of the organizing efforts, suggesting the ubiquity ofl Rashomon effect in such a change situation. Third, life history studies of entrepreneurs have been conducted to report that human network along with IT based network plays a significant role in their career development. Out of all these three studies, the elements of emotions seem to be pertinent in explicating what is going on at the workplace in this new age of IT.Methodologically, it is found that narrative approaches in qualitative research methods seem to be fruitful in delving into such new organizational phenomena as those examined in this study.
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