Download or read book Technology and the Transformation of White collar Work written by Robert E. Kraut and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The introduction of new technology and communication to businesses is forever altering the roles and responsibilities of the white- collar workers. This unique collection from authors in such diverse disciplines as psychology, computer science, sociology, history, communication, and public policy, discusses the ways in which these changes have and are effecting the workplace and the employees while speculating on future changes and effects. Of special significance are the methods suggested for introducing information technology into the workplace. These new methods will increase the quality and quantity of goods and services produced while increasing the quality of working life for employees.
Download or read book The Technological Transformation of White Collar Work written by Barbara Elizabeth Baran and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Technological Transformation of White Collar Work written by Barbara Elizabeth Baran and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Automation and Technological Progress written by Everett Malcolm Kassalow and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Information Technology and Productivity of White Collar Knowledge Workers written by Hugh Whalen and published by Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International. This book was released on 1993 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Homeworkers written by Ursula Huws and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of trends in telework in the UK - traces how technological change has increased the employment of nonmanual workers doing work at home, esp. In the USA, France, UK and Sweden; based on a 1982 questionnaire survey, discusses the advantages and disadvantages of telework (incl. Flexibility in hours of work, working mothers' personal child care, relatively low wages, psychological aspects, loneliness, etc.); covers employees attitudes, management attitudes, and relations with trade unions; outlines a code of practice. References.
Download or read book The Transformation of Work written by Stephen Wood and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-09-02 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1989, and now reissued with a new preface by the editor, this interdisciplinary study brings together an internationally distinguished group of scholars to shed light about work organization and the effects of new management methods and technologies. The book gives an incisive account of changes in work organization and relations during the latter part of the 20th Century. Accessible and comprehensive, it will be of interest to those in the sociology of work, industrial relations, organization theory, economics, geography and management
Download or read book White Collar Automation written by Jacob Siegman and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Digital Labor written by Thomas Young and published by Rumjog Media Group. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the industrial revolution, automation has transformed our global economy and the way we work. Early forms of automation took the form of machines meant to replace humans who performed repetitive, manual labor on the assembly line or in agriculture. Blue collar jobs have since been on the edge of obsolescence as automation became more and more advanced. We now live in an information economy world running on advanced computing systems... and we are now in the midst of a new wave of digital automation. 'Digital Labor' is a concept that explains a new set of emerging software-based technologies that automate knowledge work, that is, tasks that involve data analysis and rule-based workflow through the use of computers. Virtual workers have now emerged to perform much of the repetitive work we rely on in the digital sphere, much like their physical robotic counterparts on the manufacturing floor. What makes Digital Labor different? Will my job be impacted by Digital Labor? How can I be position myself to take advantage of the coming changes? The progression of mechanization and robotics automation in a physical sense has progressed mostly on a linear basis and displaced a tremendous amount of blue collar workers. Those workers have pivoted into service sector jobs and other fields. However, since Digital Labor is a software-based innovation, it brings with it new implications at scale. It is progressing at a nonlinear basis and will impact white collar workers just the way blue collar workers were impacted, but it's going to happen exponentially faster. What happens next is not known. But, this book explores how white collar workers, who have been immune to many forms of automation for the past 20-30 years, are in the crosshairs of advanced software and technologies in the digital space.
Download or read book The Changing Nature of Work written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-09-07 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there is great debate about how work is changing, there is a clear consensus that changes are fundamental and ongoing. The Changing Nature of Work examines the evidence for change in the world of work. The committee provides a clearly illustrated framework for understanding changes in work and these implications for analyzing the structure of occupations in both the civilian and military sectors. This volume explores the increasing demographic diversity of the workforce, the fluidity of boundaries between lines of work, the interdependent choices for how work is structured-and ultimately, the need for an integrated systematic approach to understanding how work is changing. The book offers a rich array of data and highlighted examples on: Markets, technology, and many other external conditions affecting the nature of work. Research findings on American workers and how they feel about work. Downsizing and the trend toward flatter organizational hierarchies. Autonomy, complexity, and other aspects of work structure. The committee reviews the evolution of occupational analysis and examines the effectiveness of the latest systems in characterizing current and projected changes in civilian and military work. The occupational structure and changing work requirements in the Army are presented as a case study.
Download or read book Computer Chips and Paper Clips written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1987-02-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion to Volume I presents individually authored papers covering the history, economics, and sociology of women's work and the computer revolution. Topics include the implications for equal employment opportunity in light of new technologies; a case study of the insurance industry and of women in computer-related occupations; a study of temporary, part-time, and at-home employment; and education and retraining opportunities.
Download or read book Healthy Work written by Namir Khan and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference provides an overview of relevant literature to engineers, managers, accountants, occupational health and safety specialists, and industrial hygienists, so that they, and other professionals, can understand what has caused our workplaces to become primary sources of physical and mental illness.
Download or read book Digital Transformation and Industry 4 0 written by Dr. Evren Ersoy and published by Dr. Evren Ersoy. This book was released on with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT There are two major technological revolutions in the history of humanity that have been experienced chronologically and continue until today. These are the society 5.0 and industry 4.0 revolutions. The aim is to carry out professional and academic studies that will enable the invention of related technologies in order to increase the welfare level of humanity and reach the targeted level of welfare within the scope of technology and human values. Therefore, the future of societies will be designed with qualified human resources and innovation paradigm, which are two important factors that will enable humanity to be prosperous and sustainable societies. This study covers the transformation of individuals, societies, businesses and especially government authorities for the society 5.0 and industry 4.0 revolutions that will deeply affect all societies globally. It is explained how qualified human resources will change the future with the effect of new technologies and new jobs in the synthesis of technology and people. In addition, there are propositions about how it will affect the development of societies with science, technology, innovation and R&D studies for the intellectual accumulation of qualified people, and most importantly entrepreneurship ecosystem. There are studies on how societies develop the production economy with the innovation-development model, that classical societies are transformed into learning and rational societies, individuals' learning and development responsibilities change and expectations from them are at a higher level, especially technology and science take place in all areas of business and social life. It has been researched which new talents and skills people should have for new jobs within the scope of child and women entrepreneurs, digital natives, and the future of generation x and y. The innovation paradigm is at the heart of these ability and skill researches in the synthesis of technology and people. It has been determined how to use technology and science power for innovation, local and global effects of innovation, and which mission humanity should lead for the future. In addition, Research has been conducted on the most important agendas of today, including innovative development issues with digitalization and digital transformation technologies, transformation of societies, smart cities, digital countries, the future of societies, digital natives and world citizenship, Turkey's digital transformation roadmap proposition, industry 4.0 technology ecosystem and technology development zones in the digital age. Keywords: technology and human, innovation, digital transformation, industry 4.0, society 5.0, future jobs and technology
Download or read book Tendencies and Tensions of the Information Age written by Jorge Reina Schement and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of technology and the hunger for information has caused a wave of change in daily life in America. Nearly every American's environment now consists of cable television, video cassette players, answering machines, fax machines, and personal computers. Schement and Curtis argue that the information age has evolved gradually throughout the twentieth century. National focus on the production and distribution of information stems directly from the organizing principles and realities of the market system, not from a revolution sparked by the invention of the computer. Now available in paperback, Tendencies and Tensions of the Information Age, brings together findings from many disciplines, including classical studies, etymology, political sociology, and macroeconomics. This valuable resource will be enjoyed by sociologists, historians, and scholars of communication and information studies.
Download or read book Selling Technology written by Asaf Darr and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selling Technology offers a look at high-tech markets from within, through the experience of salespeople, purchasing agents, and engineers who construct markets for emergent technologies through their daily engagement in sales interactions. Although sales occupations comprise 12 percent of the American labor force, sales work has been a neglected area of study. Asaf Darr's ethnographic exploration of the sales process for standard and emergent technology argues that our cultural stereotypes of sales work and salespeople, shaped during the industrial era and through popular images of the Yankee peddler and the car salesman, no longer apply to the changing nature of sales in an information economy. In the high-technology settings in which cutting-edge artifacts are traded, Darr finds that sales work deviates sharply from our traditional cultural images. The educational level and technical skills of the sales force are increasing, sellers' and buyers' engineers engage in co-development, and long-term collaborative relationships are replacing brief sales encounters. A growing number of work tasks and skills previously performed and mastered in the design or production phases have become part of the sale of emergent technology. New control mechanisms over the work of the sales engineers are also appearing. Unlike most ethnographic studies of salespeople, which focus on the insurance, finance, and retail sectors., Darr's groundbreaking book turns to the daily sales practices of an information economy.
Download or read book Technology And Employment written by Eli Ginzberg and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1986-10-27 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First in a series by the Conservation of Human Resources of Columbia University, this volume explores the impact of the computer-communications revolution on the employment of workers, especially women and minorities. The authors identify general trends in the workforce since 1960, and discuss the effects of computers on the kinds of jobs filled by women, and the diminishing opportunities for employment available to those with limited formal education. Based on extensive field research of companies, they argue that the computer-communications revolution is leading to widespread upskilling of work, and that this is a major threat to those who are least prepared, least educated, and least trained. The authors stress the need to strengthen the relationship between the educational system and the labor market, and to bolster programs that integrate labor and disadvantaged workers. ISBN 0-8133-0399-0: $27.50.
Download or read book High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy written by Carla Freeman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-15 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy is an ethnography of globalization positioned at the intersection between political economy and cultural studies. Carla Freeman’s fieldwork in Barbados grounds the processes of transnational capitalism—production, consumption, and the crafting of modern identities—in the lives of Afro-Caribbean women working in a new high-tech industry called “informatics.” It places gender at the center of transnational analysis, and local Caribbean culture and history at the center of global studies. Freeman examines the expansion of the global assembly line into the realm of computer-based work, and focuses specifically on the incorporation of young Barbadian women into these high-tech informatics jobs. As such, Caribbean women are seen as integral not simply to the workings of globalization but as helping to shape its very form. Through the enactment of “professionalism” in both appearances and labor practices, and by insisting that motherhood and work go hand in hand, they re-define the companies’ profile of “ideal” workers and create their own “pink-collar” identities. Through new modes of dress and imagemaking, the informatics workers seek to distinguish themselves from factory workers, and to achieve these new modes of consumption, they engage in a wide array of extra income earning activities. Freeman argues that for the new Barbadian pink-collar workers, the globalization of production cannot be viewed apart from the globalization of consumption. In doing so, she shows the connections between formal and informal economies, and challenges long-standing oppositions between first world consumers and third world producers, as well as white-collar and blue-collar labor. Written in a style that allows the voices of the pink-collar workers to demonstrate the simultaneous burdens and pleasures of their work, High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy will appeal to scholars and students in a wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, women’s studies, political economy, and Caribbean studies, as well as labor and postcolonial studies.
