Technological Change and Manpower Development


Book Description

Manpower development and HR functions are now getting highly influenced by technological changes. Successful technological change requires HR support although such support areas differ from organization to organization. This book is an attempt to discuss all the aspects of manpower development issues in technological era. This book provides a comprehensive text for HR students. It addresses the organizations' requirement to practice the technology management issues, focusing more on human resource functions. Some key areas explained in this book are-training and development, Compensation, performance management, new skill development issues, management of change, etc. The book deals with some new- age tools like Balance Scorecard, HR Scorecard, Competency Mapping and Knowledge Management Areas which are commonly used in this new-age technology era, to track, measure and develop manpower to sustain in competition. In the absence of a customised textbook in this area of study, this book has been developed to understand intricate technological change issues, especially those which influence HR functions and manpower development aspects.
















Work, Organizations, and Technological Change


Book Description

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.







Changing Technology and Manpower Requirements in the Engineering Industry


Book Description

Report on a study of the effect of technological change on labour demand in the engineering industry of the UK, and on likely implications for further training - outlines methodology used, examines technological change in individual processes, the employment implications of machine shop automation, etc., and includes some conclusions and recommendations for future work. Flow charts and statistical tables.