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.... are widely used to coordinate open source projects[13] but email has also become common when simply communicating with someone in the next office, or even in the same office[22, 9] Yet, it still presents many problems when used for certain tasks, as it is not capable of handling social context[38], workflow and negotiation. One aspect of communication still not well supported by asynchronous tools is context awareness. In face to face interactions, a great deal of information is expressed by using nonverbal cues, which help in putting participants on the same page [10] These cues are ....

K. Sproull. The nature of managerial attention. In L. Sproull and P. Larkey, editors, Advances in Information Processing in Organizations, pages 9--27. JAI Press, Greenwich, CT, 1984.

....interrupted. With the exception of one first line manager, all subjects were male. Two managers (one first line and one secondline) were of European background. The remaining subjects were of North American background. While there are some suggestions that communication patterns vary along gender [21, 23] and cultural lines [22] these issues could not be examined here without broader participant demographics. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Our results generally replicated earlier results in the amount of time managers spend alone (42 in our data) and in how much time they spent in communication with ....

Sproull, L.S. The Nature of Managerial Attention.

....the period of a week. ON MANAGEMENT A great deal is known about management management styles, management theories, techniques, leadership qualities. Far less is known about how managers really spend their time and how they cope with the numerous forces competing for their attention. Sproull [20] provides an early empirical study of interruption. Sproull shadowed seven managers for 3 6 days each, taking notes on what they did. She found that a manager s day is dominated by brief, oral communication (80 ) and many short activities (an average of 58 activities with a duration of 9 minutes) ....

....has not significantly changed a manager s daily life. The discourse surrounding the concept of information overload suggests that technology is exacerbating the problem. This study, however, suggests that managers still follow the same communication patterns that were documented ten [18] twenty [20], or even thirty years ago [5] While changing technology certainly has effects on society, it is not clear that technology is causing all of the challenges that critics predict. The complexities surrounding availability imply that the acceptability of interruption is a socially constructed ....

Sproull, L.S. The Nature of Managerial Attention. in JAI Press, 1984, 9-27.

....such as managers it represents their most frequent workplace activity. Questionnaire data and observational data produce estimates of between 35 and 75 of time being spent in face to face interaction, with these figures depending on job type (Kraut, Fish, Rice Chalfonte, 1993, Panko, 1992, Sproull, 1984, Whittaker, Frohlich Daly Jones, 1994a) While these studies document the frequency of interpersonal communication, they do not show its precise benefits or function. The importance of interpersonal communication is demonstrated by research into scientific collaboration, which reveals that ....

SPROULL, L. (1984). The nature of managerial attention. In L. SPROULL & J. LARKEY, Eds, Advances in information processing in organisations. Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press.

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Sproull, L., The nature of managerial attention, in Advances in Information Processing in Organizations, L. Sproull and J. Larkey, Editors. 1984, JAI Press: New York. p. 9-27.

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