Integrating Technology with Workers in the New American Workplace
Author: Scott Ralls
Publisher: Department of Labor Office of American Workplace
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9780160454219
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Scott Ralls
Publisher: Department of Labor Office of American Workplace
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9780160454219
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Scott Ralls
Publisher: Department of Labor Office of American Workplace
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Wayne F. Cascio
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor Standards
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 276
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1991-02-01
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0309045835
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: J. Kevin Ford
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2014-01-14
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 1317781228
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: James W. Cortada
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005-11-03
Total Pages: 656
ISBN-13: 0190290188
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.