Work, Organizations, and Technological Change

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Keynote Address

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Perspectives on the Human Potential in Technological Change

      • George Kozmetsky

      Pages 3-16

3. Technological Change and Human Resources

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. The Co-Evolution of Technology and Work-Organization

      • Gerhard O. Mensch

      Pages 19-38

   3. Using Demographic and Technological Forecasts for Human Resource Planning

      • Carol T. Schreiber

      Pages 39-51

   4. Managing U. S. Army Technological Change: Constraints and Opportunities from the Human Resource Perspective

      • Harry M. West III

      Pages 53-72

4. Labor Market Impacts on Human Resource Planning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73

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   2. Integration of Technological Change into Human Resources Supply-Demand Models

      • Donald M. Atwater, Edward Bres III, Richard J. Niehaus, James A. Sheridan

      Pages 75-90

   3. Personnel Planning: The Importance of the Labour Market

      • Richard Pearson

      Pages 91-101

   4. A system for Assessing the Feasibility of U.S. Naval Officer Manpower Plans

      • Murray Rowe, Joe Silverman

      Pages 103-111

   5. Corporate Training Investment Decisions

      • Dieter Sadowski

      Pages 113-123

   6. A Model of Total Compensation in a Market Comparability Framework

      • Pierre Martel

      Pages 125-136

5. Introduction of Technology into Actual Work Settings

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137

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   2. The Modernization of a Refinery: Its Influence on Men, Their Work and Structures

      • Pierre Miret

      Pages 139-152

   3. Technological Change and Work Organization in the U.S. Army: A Field Experiment

      • William A. Pasmore, Abraham R. Shani, John Mietus

      Pages 153-166

   4. Impact of Two Successive Mechanization Projects on Motivation and Work Organization in a Bank

      • Raoul Gobel, Andre Meers

      Pages 167-178

   5. Technological and Organizational Change in Office Work

      • Wolfgang H. Staehle

      Pages 179-190

   6. Effects of “Office of the Future” Technology on Users: Results of a Longitudinal Field Study

      • B. A. Gutek

      Pages 191-210

6. Approaches for Organizational Efficiency

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211

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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.

• Experiment
• Innovation
• Management
• Motivation
• Potential

• Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA

  Gerhard Mensch

• Office of the Assitant Secretary of the Navy, (Manpower and Reserve Affairs), USA

  Richard J. Niehaus

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