Download or read book Human Resource Implications of Robotics written by H. Allan Hunt and published by Kalamazoo, Mich. : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. This book was released on 1983 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suggests that current perceptions of the robot population, robotics employment, & potential unemployment due to robotics have been exaggerated. Contends that the introduction of industrial robots & its effects will be evolutionary rather than revolutionary.
Download or read book Human Resource Implications of Robotics written by H. Allan Hunt and published by Kalamazoo, Mich. : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. This book was released on 1983 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suggests that current perceptions of the robot population, robotics employment, & potential unemployment due to robotics have been exaggerated. Contends that the introduction of industrial robots & its effects will be evolutionary rather than revolutionary.
Download or read book The Productivity Human Resource and Societal Implications of Robotic and Advanced Information Systems written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Robot Ethics written by Patrick Lin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prominent experts from science and the humanities explore issues in robot ethics that range from sex to war. Robots today serve in many roles, from entertainer to educator to executioner. As robotics technology advances, ethical concerns become more pressing: Should robots be programmed to follow a code of ethics, if this is even possible? Are there risks in forming emotional bonds with robots? How might society—and ethics—change with robotics? This volume is the first book to bring together prominent scholars and experts from both science and the humanities to explore these and other questions in this emerging field. Starting with an overview of the issues and relevant ethical theories, the topics flow naturally from the possibility of programming robot ethics to the ethical use of military robots in war to legal and policy questions, including liability and privacy concerns. The contributors then turn to human-robot emotional relationships, examining the ethical implications of robots as sexual partners, caregivers, and servants. Finally, they explore the possibility that robots, whether biological-computational hybrids or pure machines, should be given rights or moral consideration. Ethics is often slow to catch up with technological developments. This authoritative and accessible volume fills a gap in both scholarly literature and policy discussion, offering an impressive collection of expert analyses of the most crucial topics in this increasingly important field.
Download or read book International Human Resource Management written by Dennis R. Briscoe and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an ideal foundation text for anyone studying or working in the International Human Resource Management (IHRM) arena. This text utilizes and incorporates most of what is currently known, researched or experienced in the field. It features data and examples from academic research, international businesses and consulting firms, as well as experiences of and interviews with HRM managers in multinational and global firms. This book offers both a theoretical and practical treatment of this important and constantly evolving area. Thoroughly updated and revised, this second edition now includes key terms, learning objectives, discussion questions and an end-of-book integrative case. It has been designed to lead readers through all of the key topics in a highly engaging and approachable way. This book focuses on IHRM within multi-national enterprises (MNEs) and covers topics including: * MNE and country culture * organizational structure, strategy and design * international joint ventures and cross-border mergers and acquisitions * labour standards, ethics and codes of conduct * selection and mangement of international assignees * training and management development * compensation and benefits * health and safety and crisis management * IHRM departments and professionals Uncovering precisely why IHRM is important for success in international business and how IHRM policies and practices function within the multinational enterprise, this outstanding textbook provides an essential foundation for an understanding of the theory and practice of IHRM. This book is essential reading for all students, lecturers and IHRM professionals.
Download or read book Reinventing Jobs written by Ravin Jesuthasan and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Optimize Human-Machine Work Combinations Your organization has made the decision to adopt automation and artificial intelligence technologies. Now, you face difficult and stubborn questions about how to implement that decision: How, when, and where should we apply automation in our organization? Is it a stark choice between humans versus machines? How do we stay on top of these technological trends as work and automation continue to evolve? Work and human capital experts Ravin Jesuthasan and John Boudreau present leaders with a new set of tools to answer these daunting questions. Transcending the endless debate about humans being replaced by machines, Jesuthasan and Boudreau show how smart leaders instead are optimizing human-automation combinations that are not only more efficient but also generate higher returns on improved performance. Based on groundbreaking primary research, Reinventing Jobs provides an original, structured approach of four distinct steps--deconstruct, optimize, automate, and reconfigure--to help leaders reinvent how work gets bundled into jobs and create optimal human-machine combinations. Jesuthasan and Boudreau show leaders how to continuously reexamine what a job really is, and they provide the tools for identifying the pivotal performance value of tasks within jobs and how these tasks should be reconstructed into new, more optimal combinations. With numerous examples and practical advice for applying the four-step process, Reinventing Jobs gives leaders a more precise, planful, and actionable way to decide how, when, and where to apply and optimize work automation.
Download or read book Handbook of Industrial Robotics written by Shimon Y. Nof and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1999-03-02 with total page 1388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Industrieroboter gehoren heute zum Alltag. In den letzten zehn Jahren verlagerte sich der Schwerpunkt der Neuentwicklungen weg von den Robotern selbst, hin zu alternativen Formen der kunstlichen Intelligenz, mit denen die Gerate ausgestattet werden. Dem Rechnung tragend, beschaftigt sich die zweite Auflage dieses Handbuchs vor allem mit Anwendungen und Strategien zur Problemlosung in der Industrie. Angesprochen werden Themen wie Graphiksimulatoren, objektorientierte Software, Kommunikationssysteme und Mikro- und Nanoroboter. (04/99)
Download or read book Human Resource Management and Technological Challenges written by Carolina Machado and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the challenges and changes that new technologies bring to human resources (HR) of modern organizations. It examines the technological implications of the last changes taking place and how they affect the management and motivation of human resources belonging to these organizations. It looks for ways to understand and perceive how organizational HR, individually and as a team, conceptualize, invent, adapt, define and use organizational technology, as well as how they are constrained by features of it. The book provides discussion and the exchange of information on principles, strategies, models, techniques, methodologies and applications of human resources management and technological challenges and changes in the field of industry, commerce and services.
Download or read book Personnel Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Meaningful Work written by Andrea Veltman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the importance of work in human well-being, addressing several related philosophical questions about work and arguing on the whole that meaningful work is central in human flourishing. Work impacts flourishing not only in developing and exercising human capabilities but also in instilling and reflecting virtues such as honor, pride, dignity, self-discipline and self-respect. Work also attaches to a sense of purposefulness and personal identity, and meaningful work can promote both personal autonomy and a sense of personal satisfaction that issues from making oneself useful. Further still, work bears a formative influence on character and intelligence and provides a primary avenue for exercising complex skills and garnering esteem and recognition from others. The author defends a pluralistic account of meaningful work, arguing that work can be meaningful in virtue of developing capabilities, supporting virtues, providing a purpose, or integrating elements of a worker's life. In light of the impact of meaningful work on living well, the author argues that well-ordered societies provide opportunities for meaningful work, that individuals would be well advised to pursue these opportunities, and that the philosophical view of value pluralism, which casts work as having no special significance in an individual's life, is false. The book also addresses oppressive work that undermines human flourishing, examining potential solutions to mitigate the impact of bad work on those who perform it. Finally, a guiding argument of the book is that promoting meaningful work is a matter of ethics, more so than a matter of politics. Prioritizing people over profit, treating workers with respect, respecting the intelligence of working people, and creating opportunities for people to contribute developed skills are basic ethical principles for employing organizations and for communities at large.
Download or read book Postindustrial Possibilities written by Fred L. Block and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While it is often acknowledged that we live in a "postindustrial" age, our economic concepts have lagged far behind our postmodern sensibility. In this incisive new work, the well-known sociologist, Fred Block, sheds obsolete and shopworn economic analysi
Download or read book Social Robots from a Human Perspective written by Jane Vincent and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive overview of the human dimension of social robots by discussing both transnational features and national peculiarities. Addressing several issues that explore the human side of social robots, this book investigates what a social robot is and how we might come to think about social robots in the different areas of everyday life. Organized around three sections that deal with Perceptions and Attitudes to Social Robots, Human Interaction with Social Robots, and Social Robots in Everyday Life, it explores the idea that even if the challenges of robot technologies can be overcome from a technological perspective, the question remains as to what kind of machine we want to have and use in our daily lives. Lessons learned from previous widely adopted technologies, such as smartphones, indicate that robot technologies could potentially be absorbed into the everyday lives of humans in such a way that it is the human that determines the human-machine interaction. In a similar way to how today’s information and communication technologies were initially designed for professional/industrial use, but were soon commercialized for the mass market and then personalized by humans in the course of daily practice, the use of social robots is now facing the same revolution of ‘domestication.’ In the context of this transformation, which involves the profound embedding of robots in everyday life, the ‘human’ aspect of social robots will play a major part. This book sheds new light on this highly topical issue, one of the central subjects that will be taught and studied at universities worldwide and that will be discussed widely, publicly and repeatedly in the near future.
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Artificial Intelligence in Human Resource Management written by Strohmeier, Stefan and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cutting-edge Handbook offers a comprehensive introduction to the emerging research field of artificial intelligence (AI) in human resource management (HRM). Broadly mapping AI fields relevant for HR, it not only considers the more well-known areas of machine learning and natural language processing, but also lesser-known fields such as affective computing and robotic process automation.
Download or read book The Social Implications of Robotics and Advanced Industrial Automation written by Daniel Millin and published by North Holland. This book was released on 1989 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robots and other advanced technologies will undoubtedly exert a profound influence on all aspects of life in the future. This book is the result of a conference involving computer experts and scholars from the social sciences, who met to discuss the deep concern felt about the social implications of rapid innovations in information processing. Among the issues raised were the effects of advanced technologies on the quality of life, and the dichotomy between the 'information poor' and the 'information rich' at both international and individual level. Hopes that robots will, paradoxically, make the world more human were expressed, the challenge being to use the technologies in an appropriate way but not to impose them.
Download or read book Industrial Policy written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Technology and Employment written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Work Inc written by Edmund Byrne and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining legal and philosophical problems for a new social contract that is fair to workers.
