New rules in the workplace: Applying object-relations theory to explain problem Internet and email behaviour in the workplace

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 235-250

  Whitty, Monica T ^a   Carr, Adrian N ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bollas; Cyber harassment; Cyberslacking; Internet; Klein; Netiquette; Object relations; Organisations; Serres; Surveillance; Winnicott; Workplace

Indexed keywords

BOLLAS; CYBER-HARASSMENT; CYBERSLACKING; KLEIN; NETIQUETTE; OBJECT-RELATIONS; SERRES; SURVEILLANCE; WINNICOT; WORKPLACE;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CYBERNETICS; ELECTRONIC MAIL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

INTERNET;

EID: 27644497676     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2004.06.005     Document Type: Article

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