Work, Organizations, and Technological Change

✍ Scribed by George Kozmetsky (auth.), Gerhard Mensch, Richard J. Niehaus (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 403
• Series: NATO Conference Series 11
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume is the proceedings of the Symposium entitled, "Work, Organizations and Technological Change" which was held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany, 14-19 June 1981. The meeting was sponsored by the Special Panel on Systems Sciences of the NATO Scientific Affairs Division. In proposing this meeting the Symposium Directors built upon several preceding NATO conferences in the general area of personnel systems, manpower modelling, and organization. The most recent NATO Conference, entitled "Manpower Planning and Organization Design," was held in Stresa, Italy in 1977. That meeting was organized to foster research on the interrelationships between programmatic approaches to personnel planning within organizations and behavioral science approachs to organization design. From that context of corporate planning the total internal organizational perspective was the MACRO view, and the selection, assignment, care and feeding of the people was the MICRO view. Conceptually, this meant that an integrated approach was needed if all the dimensions of such problems within private and public organizations were to corne out correctly.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Perspectives on the Human Potential in Technological Change....Pages 3-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
The Co-Evolution of Technology and Work-Organization....Pages 19-38
Using Demographic and Technological Forecasts for Human Resource Planning....Pages 39-51
Managing U. S. Army Technological Change: Constraints and Opportunities from the Human Resource Perspective....Pages 53-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Integration of Technological Change into Human Resources Supply-Demand Models....Pages 75-90
Personnel Planning: The Importance of the Labour Market....Pages 91-101
A system for Assessing the Feasibility of U.S. Naval Officer Manpower Plans....Pages 103-111
Corporate Training Investment Decisions....Pages 113-123
A Model of Total Compensation in a Market Comparability Framework....Pages 125-136
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
The Modernization of a Refinery: Its Influence on Men, Their Work and Structures....Pages 139-152
Technological Change and Work Organization in the U.S. Army: A Field Experiment....Pages 153-166
Impact of Two Successive Mechanization Projects on Motivation and Work Organization in a Bank....Pages 167-178
Technological and Organizational Change in Office Work....Pages 179-190
Effects of “Office of the Future” Technology on Users: Results of a Longitudinal Field Study....Pages 191-210
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
Human Resource Planning and Organizational Design....Pages 213-227
Investigating Employees’ Motivations and Satisfactions in an Existing Complex System as a Basis for Future Systems Design....Pages 229-240
Measuring Efficiency and Tradeoffs in Attainment of EEO Goals....Pages 241-256
Front Matter....Pages 257-257
Productivity Enhancement: An Approach to Managing Beneficial Change in a Military-Industrial Work Setting....Pages 259-268
Production Control, Participative Management and Action Research: A Case Study....Pages 269-279
Consultation: A Method to Secure Employee Cooperation in Organizational and Technological Change Programmes?....Pages 281-291
Front Matter....Pages 257-257
Environmental Changes and R&D Organization in Mitsubishi Electric Corporation....Pages 293-303
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for a Tank Crew Training System....Pages 305-314
Front Matter....Pages 315-315
Micro Conditions for Macro Models of Manpower Mobility....Pages 317-331
Lateral Skill Progression/Rank Restructuring Study....Pages 333-341
The Effects of Fluctuations in the Economy or Technology on Cohort Careers....Pages 343-357
A Goal-Focusing Approach to Manpower Planning in Graded Organizations....Pages 359-373
On the Movement of Economists Among Academic Institutions in the United States....Pages 375-388
Front Matter....Pages 389-389
Estimating Program Impacts on Human Resources....Pages 391-391
Occupational Welfare as an Aspect of Quality of Working Life....Pages 392-392
Technology Selection Considering Macro-Economical and Social Factors....Pages 393-393
Technical Innovation in Construction Management a Critical Appraisal of Development in Project Planning and Control....Pages 394-394
Kinetics of Technological Change: Some Theoretical Basis....Pages 395-395
On a Multistage Game of Manpower Planning: Personnel Management vs. Frustrated Employees....Pages 396-396
The Human Side of Project-Teams: Social Start-Up of Team Work....Pages 397-397
Back Matter....Pages 399-412

✦ Subjects

Physics, general