Work, Organizations, and Technological Change

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.

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Section 1: Keynote Address.- Perspectives on the Human Potential in Technological Change.- Section 2: Technological Change and Human Resources.- The Co-Evolution of Technology and Work Organization.- Using Demographic and Technological Forecasts for Human Resource Planning.- Managing U.S. Army Technological Change: Constraints and Opportunities from the Human Resource Perspective.- Section 3: Labor Market Impacts on Human Resource Planning.- Integration of Technological Change into Human Resources Supply-Demand Models.- Personnel Planning: The Importance of the Labor Market.- A System for Assessing the Feasibility of U.S. Naval Officer Manpower Plans.- Corporate Training Investment Decisions.- A Model of Total Compensation in a Market Comparability Framework.- Section 4: Introduction of Technology into Actual Work Settings.- The Modernization of a Refinery: Its Influence on Men, Their Work, and Structures.- Technological Change and Work Organization in the U.S. Army: A Field Experiment.- Impact of Two Successive Mechanization Projects on Motivation and Work Organization in a Bank.- Technological and Organizational Change in Office Work; The Case of the Visual Display Units.- Effects of "Office of the Future" Technology on Users: Results of a Longitudinal Field Study.- Section 5: Approaches for Organizational Efficiency.- Human Resource Planning and Organizational Design.- Investigating Employee's Motivations and Satisfactions in an Existing Complex System as a Basis for Future Systems Design.- Measuring Efficiency and Tradeoffs in Attainment of Equal Employment Opportunity Goals.- Section 6: Studies in Organizational Effectiveness.- Productivity Enhancement: An Approach to Managing Beneficial Change in a Military-Industrial Work Setting.- Production Control, Participative Management, and Action Research - A Case Study.- Consultation: A Method to Secure Employee Cooperation in Organizational and Technological Change Programs.- Environmental Changes and R&D Organization in the Mitsubishi Electric Corporation.- Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for a Tank Crew Training System.- Section 7: Methods for Mobility Analysis.- Micro Conditions for Macro Models of Manpower Mobility.- Lateral Skill Progression/A rank Restructuring Study.- The Effects of Fluctuations in The Economy or Technology on Cohort Careers.- A Goal-Focusing Approach to Manpower Planning in Graded Organizations.- On the Movement of Economists Among Academic Institutions in the United States.- Section 8: Conceptual Issues.- Estimating Program Impacts on Human Resources.- Occupational Welfare as An Aspect of Quality of Working Life.- Technology Selection Considering Macro-Economical and Social Factors.- Technical Innovation in Construction Management: A Critical Appraisal of Development in Project Planning and Control.- Kinetics of Technological Change: Some Theroretical Basis.- On a Multistage Game of Manpower Planning: Personnel Management vs. Frustrated Employees.- The Human Side of Project-Teams: Social Start-up of Team Work.- Participants.