TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AT WORK by Mcloughlin
"Automate or Liquidate" has been a popular cry in British industry. In "Technological Change at Work" Ian McLoughlan and Jon Clark focus on automation in its most pervasive contemporary guise - computing and information technologies. They draw upon and evaluate the large body of evidence - including examples from their own research and the growing body of evidence from Britain - suggesting that popular views do not always reflect the complex choices and issues that arise when these technologies are introduced. The authors present their own "processual" framework for understanding technological change and its outcomes, and devote attention to the independent influence of the technology itself. They conclude that choices are not as tightly constrained by commercial and technical imperatives as popularly believed. Nevertheless, managers and unions still have a lot to learn in devising the most effective methods of introducing and working with new technology. This revised and extended edition examines the latest research findings, critically evaluates trends towards "flexible specialization" and "human resource management", and places the British experience of technological change at work in a comparative context.
McLoughlin, Ian: - Professor Ian McLoughlin spent fifteen years working for the electronics R&D industry and over ten years in academia. He has consulted and worked in five countries on three continents and presented his work to government science ministers of the UK, Russia, the USA, Malaysia, Taiwan and New Zealand and to the President of Singapore. He became a Chartered Engineer (UK) in 1998, a senior member of IEEE in 2004, a D'Ingenieur Europeen (EU) in 2008 and a Fellow of the IET in 2013. He has published over 130 refereed papers, three books and several book chapters in the fields of signal processing, wireless communications and embedded systems. After ten years at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore - where he ran an MSc programme - he is currently a full professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering and Information Systems at the University of Science and Technology of China.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780335190096 |
| ISBN 10 | 033519009X |
| Title | TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AT WORK |
| Author | Mcloughlin |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Open University Press |
| Year published | 1994-03-16 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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