Computerization and Work (IFIP State-of-the-Art Reports)

Ulrich Briefs

ISBN 10: 3540153675 / ISBN 13: 9783540153672

Editore: Springer 1985-04-01, 1985

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• Titolo: Computerization and Work (IFIP State-of-the-Art Reports)
• Editore: Springer 1985-04-01
• Data di pubblicazione: 1985
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3540153675
• ISBN 13: 9783540153672
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

This reader contains contributions referring to one of the most urgent problems in systems design: the effects of computerization on human work and approaches to ameliorate systems design in order to create better conditions for living human work in a computerized world. Of course the choice of papers has been operated somewhat arbitrarily. It primarily reflects the work of IFIP's Working Group 9.1. "Compu­ ters and Work" and of some of its members. The papers were compiled aiming at focussing on very material pro­ blems in the field of "Computers and Work". They substantively re­ flect in several points the discussions and the concern of the Wor­ king Group. Some conclusions from a series of workshops held from 1980 onward by the Working Group are likewise contained and directed to the IFIP community and to other parties concerned. The reader inserts itself into a rather extended line of activities of the Working Group: in addition to contributions to the two IFIP Working Conferences on Human Choice and Computers held in 1974 and in 1979 (proceedings published by North Holland) a recent IFIP Wor­ king Conference on Systems Design For, With and By the Users (held in September 82, proceedings published in March 83 by North Holland) and a joint TC3/TC9 Working Conference on Education for Systems De­ signer/User Co-operation (proceedings to be published by end 84).

Contenuti

Section I.- Information Technology and Work in the Present Society.- Computers―A Gift of Fire.- Information Technologies and Social Power.- The Impact of Information Processing on the Working Class.- Section II.- The Major Specific Impacts of Computerization on Work.- Computerization and Employment.- Information Technology and Skills: Problems in Research and Politics.- Computerized Information Systems in Personnel.- Section III.- Some Prerequisites for Systems Design in the Interest of the Workers.- Individual and Social Implications of Data Processing and Office Automation in Service Industries.- Participation in Technical Change.- Computerization and Education.- Section IV.- Approaches in System Design for a Defense of Human Work.- Organizational Consequences of the Use of EDP―How to Design Information Technology.- Humanizing Computerized Information Systems.- Conclusions.- IFIP TC 9―Working Group 1 “Computers and Work” Conclusions and Recommendations from the Workshop on the Effects of Computerization on Employment.- IFIP TC 9―Working Group 1 “Computers and Work” Conclusions and Recommendations from the Workshop on the Effects of Computerization on Professional Skills.- Sources and Acknowledgements.