New Ways of Organizing Work is concerned with examining contemporary changes to how work is organized, how those changes are implemented and how they are experienced by employees. It brings together contributions from an international team of established scholars working in the field and provides empirical evidence from Europe, North America, Asia and Australia.

Dr. Clare Kelliher is Reader in Work and Organisation at Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University, UK. She has a longstanding interest in flexible working including both flexibility of and for employees and has published widely in this field. Dr. Kelliher is currently co-chair of the International Industrial Relations Association Study Group on flexible work practices.

Dr. Julia Richardson is Associate Professor of organizational behaviour in the School of Human Resource Management at York University. Her research interests include flexible work arrangements, career management and international mobility. Her most recent work includes studies of flexible work practices in Canada and globally mobile professionals.

1. Recent Development in New Ways of Organizing Work. Clare Kelliher and Julia Richardson 2. Paradoxical Consequences of the Use of Blackberrys? An Application of the Job Demand-Control-Support Model. Charles-Henri Besseyre des Horts, Kristine Dery and Judith MacCormick 3. Temporary Work and Temporary Work Agencies in Australia: Going From Bad to Worse? Angela Knox 4. Women Doing Their Own Thing: Our Picture of Modern Women at Work? Doris Ruth Eikhof and Juliette Summers 5. Flexible Work, Flexible Selves?: The Impact of Changing Work Practices on Identity. Carol Linehan 6. New Working Practices: Identity, Agency and the Emotional Experience of Remote Working. Jennifer Wilkinson and Carol Jarvis 7. Flexwork in Canada: Coping with Dis-Ease? Julia Richardson 8. Understanding Processes of Individual Resistance to New Working Practices: The Case of Deciding Not To Embrace Telework. Daniel Wade Clarke 9. Telecommuters: Creative Or Exhausted Workers? A Study into the Conditions under Which Telecommuters Experience Flow and Exhaustion. Pascale Peters and Marijn Wildenbeest 10. Innovation in Distributed Teams: The Duality of Connectivity Norms and Human Agency. Paul Collins and Darl Kolb 11. Challenging New Ways of Working for Remote Managers in Global Collaborative Work Environments. Petra Bosch-Sijtema, Renate Fruchter, Matti Vartiainen and Virpi Ruohomaki 12. Observations and Conclusions on New Ways of Working. Clare Kelliher and Julia Richardson