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Matti A. Vartiainen. Senior advisor, professor (emer.) of work and organizational psychology at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Aalto University School of Science. My research interests focus on psychological and social-psychological phenomena in organizational innovations, digital work, new ways of hybrid, remote, mobile and multilocational work, distributed virtual teams and organizations. These phenomena are studies from the action regulation theory viewpoint. In addition, the role of collaborative digital platforms supporting knowledge building and future competencies are of interest.
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Address: Work Psychology and Leadership
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management
Aalto University School of Science
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Proceedings of ITA Conference 2004, Crete, Greece, 2004
This paper examines factors that contribute to the virtual workers' feelings of distress. Virtual... more This paper examines factors that contribute to the virtual workers' feelings of distress. Virtual-spesific mental load factors (stressors) were explored in this qualitative multi-case study to increase the understanding of distress in dispersed work environment. Virtual environment generates new job demands, and, therefore, new stressors that dispersed work group members and leaders need to cope with in their daily work. The widely used stress and well-being surveys, which are based on the traditional stress theories, do not show the real state of virtual workers' well-being, because their indicators do not measure the substantial virtual-specific mental load factors. This paper shows the new stressors caused by different dimensions of virtuality: geographical dispersion, mobility, diversity of actors, asynchronous working, temporal structure, and mediated interaction.
60 Trust, identity, and effectiveness in virtual organizations Marko Hakonen1; Jukka Lipponen2; M... more 60 Trust, identity, and effectiveness in virtual organizations Marko Hakonen1; Jukka Lipponen2; Matti Vartiainen1; Niina Kokko1 1 Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, firstname. lastname@ tkk. fi 2 University of Helsinki, Finland, firstname. lastname@ ...
... On one hand, innovations usu-ally occur through disturbances and conflicts in the social syst... more ... On one hand, innovations usu-ally occur through disturbances and conflicts in the social system; it is pos-sible to learn from experiences ... fi Tomi Rantamäki Helsinki University of Technology TAI Research Centre Tel+ 358-9-4514914, Fax + 358-9-4513665 E-mail: tomi. ...
Journal of Personnel Psychology, Jun 1, 2017
Adult Education in Finland, 1987
Proceedings of ITA Conference 2004, Crete, Greece, 2004
This paper examines factors that contribute to the virtual workers' feelings of distress. Virtual... more This paper examines factors that contribute to the virtual workers' feelings of distress. Virtual-spesific mental load factors (stressors) were explored in this qualitative multi-case study to increase the understanding of distress in dispersed work environment. Virtual environment generates new job demands, and, therefore, new stressors that dispersed work group members and leaders need to cope with in their daily work. The widely used stress and well-being surveys, which are based on the traditional stress theories, do not show the real state of virtual workers' well-being, because their indicators do not measure the substantial virtual-specific mental load factors. This paper shows the new stressors caused by different dimensions of virtuality: geographical dispersion, mobility, diversity of actors, asynchronous working, temporal structure, and mediated interaction.
60 Trust, identity, and effectiveness in virtual organizations Marko Hakonen1; Jukka Lipponen2; M... more 60 Trust, identity, and effectiveness in virtual organizations Marko Hakonen1; Jukka Lipponen2; Matti Vartiainen1; Niina Kokko1 1 Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, firstname. lastname@ tkk. fi 2 University of Helsinki, Finland, firstname. lastname@ ...
... On one hand, innovations usu-ally occur through disturbances and conflicts in the social syst... more ... On one hand, innovations usu-ally occur through disturbances and conflicts in the social system; it is pos-sible to learn from experiences ... fi Tomi Rantamäki Helsinki University of Technology TAI Research Centre Tel+ 358-9-4514914, Fax + 358-9-4513665 E-mail: tomi. ...
Journal of Personnel Psychology, Jun 1, 2017
Adult Education in Finland, 1987
This is a book about mobile virtual work. It aims at clarifying the basic concepts and showing p... more This is a book about mobile virtual work. It aims at clarifying the basic
concepts and showing present practices and future challenges. The roots of the book are in the collaboration of few European practitioners and re-
searchers, who met each other under the umbrella of the Swedish SALTSA
programme (see next page) in January 2002 in Stockholm. The group was
first called ‘ICT, Mobility and Work Organisation’ but redefined itself
quickly as ‘Mobile Virtual Cooperative Work’ group. The change of the
name reflects the development of reasoning in the group. We could not
find much material on mobile work, certainly not systematic studies, al-
though a growing interest in mobile technologies and services could be
found. Practices of telework and virtual organizations were better known,
but we were convinced that the combination with mobile work was some-
thing different and new. Our main target became to understand what it was all about.