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| Groups of people who work interdependently toward some purpose. |
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| Economic, social, and cultural connectivity. (Interdependence with People in other parts of the world) |
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| Observable demographic or physiological differences in people, such as their race, ethnicity, gender, age, and physical disabilities. |
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| The differences in the psychological characteristics of employees, including personalities, beliefs, values, and attitudes. |
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| Minimizing conflict between work and non-work demands. |
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| An employment relationship in which people perform a variety of work activities rather than hold specific jobs, and are expected to continuously learn skills that will keep them employed. |
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| Any job in which the individual does not have an explicit or implicit contract for long term employment, or one in which the min. hours of work can vary in a non systematic way. |
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| Work Practices whereby employees use information technology to perform their jobs away from the traditional physical workplace. |
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| Teams whose members operate across space, time, and organizational boundaries, and who are linked through IT to achieve organizational goals. |
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| Stable, long-lasting beliefs about what is important in a variety of situations, that guide our decisions and actions. |
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| The study of moral principles or values that determine whether actions are right or wrong and outcomes are good or bad. |
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(CSR)
Corporate Social Responsibility |
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| An Organization's moral obligation toward its stakeholders. |
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| Shareholders, customers, suppliers, governments, and any other groups with a vested interest in the organization. |
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| A set of principles and procedures that help researchers to systematically understand previously unexplained events and conditions. |
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| A process of developing theory through the constant interplay between data gatherings and the development of theoretical concepts. |
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| The idea that a particular action may have different consequences in different situations. |
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| Organizations that take their sustenance from the environment and in turn, affect that environment through their output. |
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| Any structured activity that improves an organizations capacity to acquire, share and use knowledge in ways that improve its survival and success. |
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| The Sum of an organization's human capital, and relationship capital. |
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| The ability to recognize the value of new information, assimilate it, and apply it to commercial ends. |
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| Informal groups bound together by shared expertise and passion for a particular activity or interest. |
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