Agile Working and Well-Being in the Digital Age

Christine Grant, Emma Russell

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English

Springer Nature Switzerland AG
10 December 2020

Occupational & industrial psychology; Personnel & human resources management; Business mathematics & systems; Occupational medicine; Business applications

Within the digital era, agile working is imperative for organisations and workers to meet the needs of customers, service-users and ever-changing markets. This needs to be achieved whilst meeting goals of effectiveness and well-being. In this book, state-of-the-art theory is used to understand how to optimise agile working by addressing key issues around personality, team-working and management. The authors define the concept of agile working and unpack often-misunderstood terms associated with this, such as remote working and telework. The book explores the well-being consequences of agile work including sedentary behaviours, digital distraction, and digital resistance before offering insights for the future. Examining current practice in the context of established and emerging theory, the book paves the way towards further advances in the field and supports organisations seeking to make agile working work for them.

Agile Working and Well-being in the Digital Age provides a valuable new resource for practitioners and scholars in the fields of occupational and organizational psychology, human resource management, organisational development, mental health and well-being.

Edited by: Christine Grant, Emma Russell
Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 1st ed. 2020
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9783030602826
ISBN 10: 3030602826
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 10 December 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dedication; Christine Grant and Emma Russell.- Foreword; Kevin Daniels.- Acknowledgements; Christine Grant and Emma Russell.- Section One: What is Agile Working?.- Chapter 1: Introduction to Agile Working and Well-being in the Digital Age; Emma Russell and Christine Grant.- Chapter 2: Concepts, Terms and Measurement in Agile Working; Christine Grant.- Section Two: Managing Boundaries.- Chapter 3: Boundary Management: Getting the Work-Home Balance Right; Kelly A. Basile and T. Alexandra Beauregard.- Section Three: Managing Digital Communications.- Chapter 4: The Paradox of Work-email: Individual Differences in Agile Digital Work; Emma Russell.- Chapter 5: Digital Distractions: The Effect and Use of Digital Message Alerts and Their Relationship with Work-life Balance; Maria Uther, Michelle Cleveland and Rhiannon Jones.- Chapter 6: E-Resistance: Making Active Choices for Technology Management in an Agile-working Age ; Deepali D’mello.- Section Four: Healthy, Effective and Sustainable Agile Working.- Chapter 7: A Review of the Agile Working Literature in Relation to Five Facets of Well-being; Maria Charalampous.- Chapter 8: Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour in the Digital Workspace; Anthony Thompson .- Chapter 9: Digital Resilience: A Competency Framework for Agile Workers; Christine Grant and Carl Clarke.- Chapter 10: Virtual Teams as Creative and Agile Work Environments; Petros Chamakiotis.- Section Five: Dynamic and Innovative Approaches to Managing Agile Working.- Chapter 11: Leading and Managing the Occupational Well-being and Health of Distributed Workers; Rachel Nayani.- Chapter 12: The Case of Co-working Spaces for Fulfilling Agile Working and Worker Needs; Alessandra Mossa.- Chapter 13: Concluding Thoughts and Implications; Christine Grant and Emma Russell.-

Dr Christine Grant is a Chartered and Registered Occupational Psychologist and Deputy Head of School at Coventry University. She is a leading applied researcher in the psychology of remote e-working and agile working. Her work explores the impact of technology on remote e-workers work-life balance, job effectiveness and well-being, with an interest in developing new measures and related interventions for employees and employers, including the recently published E-Work Life scale. Christine has secured research funding with the ESPRC, British Psychological Society and many others. She has also worked across sectors with a wide range of organisations as an external consultant. Recently, she contributed to British Psychological Society’s Covid19 crisis working group ‘working differently’ and the government’s expert consultation on the coronavirus pandemic. Her work is disseminated widely through journals, conferences, practitioner guidance and in the media. Dr Emma Russell is a Chartered and Registered Occupational Psychologist and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sussex Business School (USBS). Emma is a member of the ESRC Digital Futures at Work Research Centre, Course Director for the MSc in Occupational and Organizational Psychology, and co-Director of Doctoral Studies for USBS. Emma’s research focuses on work-email activity, and its relationship with personality, well-being, resources and goal achievement. Emma has been funded by the ESRC, Acas, the NHS, RBT and others. She disseminates her research in high impact journals, conference papers, practitioner publications and the wider media.