Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Technology and Its Impact on Employment in the Life and Health Insurance Industries
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Advances in Computers
Author:
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0080566510
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Advances in Computers
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0080566510
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Advances in Computers
Dissertation Abstracts International
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Labor and Politics in the U.S. Postal Service
Author: Vern K. Baxter
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1489914684
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Labor and Politics in the U.S. Postal Service grew out of concern for the way a large public organization does its work. It reflects my effort to link experience working as a letter carrier and mail collector with subsequent years of study in the field of organizational sociology. The final product is an academic book that certainly reveals great distance from experience in the postal workplace, but I must confess that the book still presents more a view from the bottom than a view from the top of the post office. I hope this view proves beneficial. It turns out that studying the post office has become an ongoing project that has outlived several jobs, relationships, and hairlines. What originated as a historical study of the 1970 reorganization became an analysis of the causes and consequences of an ongoing process of re structuring and technological change in the post office. Fortunately for me, similar restructurings have recently occurred in organizations and industries across the nation and around the world. The competitive pressures, new technologies, and political and class-based conflicts dis cussed in this book are perhaps more relevant today than they were in the late 1970s when I began research on the post office.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1489914684
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Labor and Politics in the U.S. Postal Service grew out of concern for the way a large public organization does its work. It reflects my effort to link experience working as a letter carrier and mail collector with subsequent years of study in the field of organizational sociology. The final product is an academic book that certainly reveals great distance from experience in the postal workplace, but I must confess that the book still presents more a view from the bottom than a view from the top of the post office. I hope this view proves beneficial. It turns out that studying the post office has become an ongoing project that has outlived several jobs, relationships, and hairlines. What originated as a historical study of the 1970 reorganization became an analysis of the causes and consequences of an ongoing process of re structuring and technological change in the post office. Fortunately for me, similar restructurings have recently occurred in organizations and industries across the nation and around the world. The competitive pressures, new technologies, and political and class-based conflicts dis cussed in this book are perhaps more relevant today than they were in the late 1970s when I began research on the post office.
Rethinking Vocationalism
Author: Rebecca Priegert Coulter
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
ISBN: 9780921908159
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Vocational education can either reinforce or challenge dominant ideology: students can learn to accept and fit into a workplace, or to change it. How we understand the links between knowledge and work will significantly affect our ability to make important political and strategic decisions about education in general and about vocational education in particular. The old questions about education--who controls education? whose interests are served by the education system?--assume new urgency in an era of global restructuring. The contributors to Rethinking Vocationalism examine these questions from a variety of enlightening perspectives. An Our Schools/Our Selves book.
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
ISBN: 9780921908159
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Vocational education can either reinforce or challenge dominant ideology: students can learn to accept and fit into a workplace, or to change it. How we understand the links between knowledge and work will significantly affect our ability to make important political and strategic decisions about education in general and about vocational education in particular. The old questions about education--who controls education? whose interests are served by the education system?--assume new urgency in an era of global restructuring. The contributors to Rethinking Vocationalism examine these questions from a variety of enlightening perspectives. An Our Schools/Our Selves book.
Values, Technology and Work
Author: E. Mumford
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400983433
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This book describes the experiences of four organizations who tried to introduce new computer systems in a humanistic manner so that human as well as business gains would be derived from the introduction of technology. All four paid a great deal of attention to identifying efficiency and job satisfaction needs and to design ing the technical system and its surrounding organizational context in such a way that these needs could be effectively met. Nevertheless, as with all major change, the change process was difficult and demanding and considerable management skill and insight was required before successful systems were implemented. The author set out to identify the extent to which the values of the different groups involved in the design process influenced the way in which computer systems were designed and implemented. She also wished to establish the extent to which the values of technical systems designers, user management and user clerks converged or diverged in the change process. It is hoped that the ideas set out here will contribute both to a greater theoretical understanding of the in fluences which affect technical change and to the practical design of humanistic computer systems. The research was carried out in three large government de partments, two industrial firms and an international bank. Two of the govern ment departments asked for their data to remain confidential and so these are not described in detail in the book. The book is in twelve chapters.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400983433
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This book describes the experiences of four organizations who tried to introduce new computer systems in a humanistic manner so that human as well as business gains would be derived from the introduction of technology. All four paid a great deal of attention to identifying efficiency and job satisfaction needs and to design ing the technical system and its surrounding organizational context in such a way that these needs could be effectively met. Nevertheless, as with all major change, the change process was difficult and demanding and considerable management skill and insight was required before successful systems were implemented. The author set out to identify the extent to which the values of the different groups involved in the design process influenced the way in which computer systems were designed and implemented. She also wished to establish the extent to which the values of technical systems designers, user management and user clerks converged or diverged in the change process. It is hoped that the ideas set out here will contribute both to a greater theoretical understanding of the in fluences which affect technical change and to the practical design of humanistic computer systems. The research was carried out in three large government de partments, two industrial firms and an international bank. Two of the govern ment departments asked for their data to remain confidential and so these are not described in detail in the book. The book is in twelve chapters.
The Impact of Chip Technology on Conditions and Quality of Work
Author: P. M. H. Kendall
Publisher: London : Metra Consulting Group
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Labour administration pub. Research report on the impact of microelectronics technological change on working conditions and labour productivity in ten developing countries - based on a literature survey and an interview survey of informal opinion, discusses the impact of industrial robots, computerization and EDP on job content, work organization, deskilling, job satisfaction, labour relations, training, wages, structural unemployment, etc., of industrial workers and office workers (incl. Woman workers). Diagrams, graphs and references.).
Publisher: London : Metra Consulting Group
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Labour administration pub. Research report on the impact of microelectronics technological change on working conditions and labour productivity in ten developing countries - based on a literature survey and an interview survey of informal opinion, discusses the impact of industrial robots, computerization and EDP on job content, work organization, deskilling, job satisfaction, labour relations, training, wages, structural unemployment, etc., of industrial workers and office workers (incl. Woman workers). Diagrams, graphs and references.).
Information and Communication Technologies, Society and Human Beings: Theory and Framework (Festschrift in honor of Gunilla Bradley)
Author: Haftor, Darek
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1609600592
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 659
Book Description
Information and Communication Technologies, Society and Human Beings: Theory and Framework addresses the extensive area of effects of ICT on human beings and the interaction between ICT, individuals, organizations, and society. This premier reference source features contributions from over 45 distinguished researchers from around the world, each presenting high quality research on Social Informatics, Human Computer Interaction, Organizational Behavior, and Macro-ergonomics. This unique publication is perfect for students, teachers, researchers, engineers, practitioners, managers, policy-makers, and media alike.
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1609600592
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 659
Book Description
Information and Communication Technologies, Society and Human Beings: Theory and Framework addresses the extensive area of effects of ICT on human beings and the interaction between ICT, individuals, organizations, and society. This premier reference source features contributions from over 45 distinguished researchers from around the world, each presenting high quality research on Social Informatics, Human Computer Interaction, Organizational Behavior, and Macro-ergonomics. This unique publication is perfect for students, teachers, researchers, engineers, practitioners, managers, policy-makers, and media alike.
Being Fluent with Information Technology
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309173132
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Computers, communications, digital information, softwareâ€"the constituents of the information ageâ€"are everywhere. Being computer literate, that is technically competent in two or three of today's software applications, is not enough anymore. Individuals who want to realize the potential value of information technology (IT) in their everyday lives need to be computer fluentâ€"able to use IT effectively today and to adapt to changes tomorrow. Being Fluent with Information Technology sets the standard for what everyone should know about IT in order to use it effectively now and in the future. It explores three kinds of knowledgeâ€"intellectual capabilities, foundational concepts, and skillsâ€"that are essential for fluency with IT. The book presents detailed descriptions and examples of current skills and timeless concepts and capabilities, which will be useful to individuals who use IT and to the instructors who teach them.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309173132
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Computers, communications, digital information, softwareâ€"the constituents of the information ageâ€"are everywhere. Being computer literate, that is technically competent in two or three of today's software applications, is not enough anymore. Individuals who want to realize the potential value of information technology (IT) in their everyday lives need to be computer fluentâ€"able to use IT effectively today and to adapt to changes tomorrow. Being Fluent with Information Technology sets the standard for what everyone should know about IT in order to use it effectively now and in the future. It explores three kinds of knowledgeâ€"intellectual capabilities, foundational concepts, and skillsâ€"that are essential for fluency with IT. The book presents detailed descriptions and examples of current skills and timeless concepts and capabilities, which will be useful to individuals who use IT and to the instructors who teach them.
Computer Technology and Social Issues
Author: G. David Garson
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 9781878289285
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
For managers, consultants, researchers, vendors of BPR and academics.
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 9781878289285
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
For managers, consultants, researchers, vendors of BPR and academics.