The Future of Engineering Work - Increasing Flexibility in Work Content, Environment and Processes

Hannele Lampela, Jorma Papinniemi

2013

Abstract

This article presents an exploratory study of the trends affecting engineering work in the future, and their implications for managing engineering processes within companies. In many industries, the future workplace will be significantly different from that of today, changing the content of the work, the working environment and the way we work. In this study the effects of these workplace changes are discussed, based on both literature and practical experiences, from an engineering point of view as an example of highly knowledge-intensive work, and further research needs are identified.

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Lampela H. and Papinniemi J. (2013). The Future of Engineering Work - Increasing Flexibility in Work Content, Environment and Processes . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: FWP, (WEBIST 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-54-9, pages 601-607. DOI: 10.5220/0004512006010607


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@conference{fwp13,
author={Hannele Lampela and Jorma Papinniemi},
title={The Future of Engineering Work - Increasing Flexibility in Work Content, Environment and Processes},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: FWP, (WEBIST 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={601-607},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004512006010607},
isbn={978-989-8565-54-9},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: FWP, (WEBIST 2013)
TI - The Future of Engineering Work - Increasing Flexibility in Work Content, Environment and Processes
SN - 978-989-8565-54-9
AU - Lampela H.
AU - Papinniemi J.
PY - 2013
SP - 601
EP - 607
DO - 10.5220/0004512006010607