Author: Scott RallsPublisher: Department of Labor Office of American Workplace
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Integrating Technology with Workers in the New American Workplace
Author: Scott RallsPublisher: Department of Labor Office of American Workplace
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
American Workplace
Author: Guide to Responsible Restructuring
Author: Wayne F. CascioPublisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Based on research about the effects of downsizing on firm performance, argues that large-scale redundancies produce little long- term cost gains, and that enterprise restructuring is a more efficient means of increasing competitiveness. Based on a survey of 25 large firms over a seven-year period from 1988.
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1484
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1450
Book Description
People and Technology in the Workplace
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309045835
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Quick introduction of new technology is essential to America's competitiveness. But the success of new systems depends on their acceptance by the people who will use them. This new volume presents practical information for managers trying to meld the best in human and technological resources. The volume identifies factors that are critical to successful technology introduction and examines why America lags behind many other countries in this effort. Case studies document successful transitions to new systems and procedures in manufacturing, medical technology, and office automationâ€"ranging from the Boeing Company's program to involve employees in decision making and process design, to the introduction of alternative work schedules for Mayo Clinic nurses. This volume will be a practical resource for managers, researchers, faculty, and students in the fields of industry, engineering design, human resources, labor relations, sociology, and organizational behavior.
Human Values and the Design of Computer Technology
Author: Batya FriedmanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781575860817
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Human values--including accountability, privacy, autonomy, and respect for person--emerge from the computer systems that we build and how we choose to use them. Yet, important questions on human values and system design have remained largely unexplored. If human values are controversial, then on what basis do some values override others in the design of, for example, hardware, algorithms, and databases? Do users interact with computer systems as social actors? If so, should designers of computer persona and agents seek to build on such human tendencies, or check them? How have design decisions in hospitals, research labs, and computer corporations protected or degraded such values? This volume brings together leading researchers and system designers who take up these questions, and more.
New and Popular Titles
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Category : Government information
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Improving Training Effectiveness in Work Organizations
Author: J. Kevin FordPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1317781228
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
This compelling volume presents the work of innovative researchers dealing with current issues in training and training effectiveness in work organizations. Each chapter provides an integrative summary of a research area with the goal of developing a specific research agenda that will not only stimulate thinking in the training field but also direct future research. By concentrating on new ideas and critical methodological and measurement issues rather than summarizing existing literature, the volume offers definitive suggestions for advancing the effectiveness of the training field. Its chapters focus on emerging issues in training that have important implications for improving both training design and efficacy. They discuss various levels of analysis-- intra-individual, inter-individual, team, and organizational issues--and the factors relevant to achieving a better understanding of training effectiveness from these different perspectives. This type of coverage provides a theoretically driven scientist/practitioner orientation to the book.
The Digital Hand
Author: James W. CortadaPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190290188
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
The Digital Hand, Volume 2, is a historical survey of how computers and telecommunications have been deployed in over a dozen industries in the financial, telecommunications, media and entertainment sectors over the past half century. It is past of a sweeping three-volume description of how management in some forty industries embraced the computer and changed the American economy. Computers have fundamentally changed the nature of work in America. However it is difficult to grasp the full extent of these changes and their implications for the future of business. To begin the long process of understanding the effects of computing in American business, we need to know the history of how computers were first used, by whom and why. In this, the second volume of The Digital Hand, James W. Cortada combines detailed analysis with narrative history to provide a broad overview of computing's and telecomunications' role in over a dozen industries, ranging from Old Economy sectors like finance and publishing to New Economy sectors like digital photography and video games. He also devotes considerable attention to the rapidly changing media and entertainment industries which are now some of the most technologically advanced in the American economy. Beginning in 1950, when commercial applications of digital technology began to appear, Cortada examines the ways different industries adopted new technologies, as well as the ways their innovative applications influenced other industries and the US economy as a whole. He builds on the surveys presented in the first volume of the series, which examined sixteen manufacturing, process, transportation, wholesale and retail industries. In addition to this account, of computers' impact on industries, Cortada also demonstrates how industries themselves influenced the nature of digital technology. Managers, historians and others interested in the history of modern business will appreciate this historical analysis of digital technology's many roles and future possibilities in an wide array of industries. The Digital Hand provides a detailed picture of what the infrastructure of the Information Age really looks like and how we got there.