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1 online resource (336 pages) |
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""PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE WORKPLACE""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Designing For Technological Change: People In The Process""; ""THE PROBLEM""; ""LEADERSHIP""; ""EMPLOYEE INVOLVEMENT""; ""TRAINING""; ""INCENTIVES""; ""ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE""; ""TECHNOLOGY""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""Improving the Development, Acceptance, and Use of New Technology: Organizational and Interorganizational Challenges""; ""THE NATURE OF INNOVATION: WHAT IS KNOWN""; ""FOCUS: STRATEGY, RESOURCES, REWARDS""; ""The Business Mix""; ""The Activity Mix""; ""Rewards"" |
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""FAST: TOWARD MULTIPLE, SPEEDY INNOVATIONS""""Willingness to Be First""; ""Channels for New Ideas""; ""Communication Links""; ""Dismantling Territorial Rivalries and Status Barriers""; ""Commitment""; ""FLEXIBILITY: THE USE OF RESOURCES""; ""Work Systems""; """"Desperately Seeking Synergies""""; ""Project Flexibility""; ""FRIENDLY: INTERORGANIZATIONAL COLLABORATION""; ""Stimulating New Uses for Technology""; ""Capability Expansion""; ""Organization-Spanning Technology""; """"Bridging"" Organizations: Mechanisms for Technology Transfer""; ""Complexities of Collaboration""; ""CONCLUSION"" |
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""NEXT STEPS""""A Case History of Organizational Change: People and New Technology""; ""TRADITIONAL APPROACH""; ""A CONCURRENT APPROACH TO SYSTEM CHANGE""; ""ORGANIZATIONAL RENEWAL""; ""A New Shift Schedule""; ""Individual Performance Appraisals""; ""Process Performance Measurement""; ""Training""; ""Sunshine Concept""; ""Self-Evaluation""; ""Inside/Outside Concept""; ""Learning""; ""Outside Resources""; ""TECHNOLOGY""; ""PC Network""; ""MRP II""; ""Centralized Control""; ""Systems Integration""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Achieving Excellence through People, Technology, and Teamwork"" |
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""THE ENVIRONMENT, THE FACILITY, AND THE OBJECTIVES""""ELEMENTS OF A STRATEGY TO BECOME WORLD CLASS""; ""Technology""; ""People""; ""Teamwork""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""2 Medical Technologies""; ""The Process of Adopting Innovations in Organizations: Three Cases of Hospital Innovations""; ""ROGERS'S BASIC INNOVATION ADOPTION AND DIFFUSION MODEL""; ""REVISIONS NEEDED IN MODEL FOR INNOVATION ADOPTION BY ORGANIZATIONS""; ""Temporal and Contextual Preconditions for Innovation Adoption""; """"Shocks"" That Trigger Innovation""; ""Adoption Activities Become Complex, Divergent Progressions"" |
| Bibliography |
""REFERENCES""""1 Automated Manufacturing Technologies""; ""Capitalizing on New Manufacturing Technologies: Current Problems and Emergent Trends in U.S. Industry""; ""TECHNOLOGY""; ""SKILLS""; ""PROCEDURES""; ""STRUCTURE""; ""STRATEGY""; ""CULTURE""; ""NEW TECHNOLOGY AND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Design and Implementation of a Process for a Large-Scale System Change at Boeing""; ""COMPANY OVERVIEW""; ""A NEW FACILITY: DECISION AND DESIGN""; ""SOCIO-TECHNICAL SYSTEM""; ""Design Principles""; ""Early Implementation""; ""Labor and Management Cooperation""; ""LESSONS"" |
| Notes |
""Setbacks Provide Learning Opportunities"" |
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Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- United States -- Congresses
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Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on -- United States -- Congresses
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Manufacturing industries -- Technological innovations -- United States -- Case studies -- Congresses
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Medical technology -- United States -- Case studies -- Congresses
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Office practice -- Automation -- Case studies -- Congresses
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Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on
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Manufacturing industries -- Technological innovations
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Medical technology
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Office practice -- Automation
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Technological innovations -- Economic aspects
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Staff, National Research Council
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| ISBN |
9780309597784 |
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0309597781 |
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