The Internet Upheaval or Human Resource Management and Technical Change

The Internet Upheaval: Raising Questions, Seeking Answers in Communications Policy

Author: Ingo Vogelsang

At the beginning of 2000, the U.S. economy was enjoying the longest period of sustained growth and economic prosperity in its history. According to The Internet Upheaval, part of the explanation for this phenomenon is a consequence of how information technologies, in particular the Internet, are upending fundamental economic and social structures.

These research studies explore some of the telecommunications policy ramifications of this upheaval. The first section addresses the complexities of adapting the First Amendment to the Internet, the debate over the taxation of e-commerce, and Internet users' attitudes toward online privacy. The second section looks at how the Internet has changed, or will change, traditional models used by economists, sociologists, and others to explain how the world works. The third section discusses the need for new economic models to deal with the rapidly changing competitive landscape. Finally, the fourth section examines economic and policy aspects of universal service.

Contributors:

Mark S. Ackerman, James C. Brent, Barbara A. Cherry, Benjamin M. Compaine, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Irina Dmitrieva, Robert S. Gazzale, Austan Goolsbee, Shane Greenstein, R. Glenn Hubbard, Jed Kelko, Steven G. Lanning, William Lehr, Douglas Lichtman, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, Paul Milgrom, Bridger Mitchell, Geoffrey Myers, W. Russell Neuman, Shawn R. O'Donnell, Joseph Reagle, Michael Riordan, Juan F. Riveros, Gregory L. Rosston, Padmanabhan Srinagesh, Linda O. Valenty, Bradley S. Wimmer.

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Human Resource Management and Technical Change

Author: Jon Clark

"The case study format provides selected details of the interplay between HRM and technical change and offers some insights into HRM practices in the United Kingdom." --Industrial and Labor Relations Review "This is a well-coordinated effort in which each of the contributors has, unusually, read the work of the others and there is a considerable degree of cross referencing between them. Jon Clark contributes his own case study and, as editor, a thoughtful introduction and a conclusion which pulls the threads together and teases out the theoretical and practical implications." --Work, Employment, and Society "The publication. . .is remarkable not only for the speed with which it was produced but also for the coherence and integration of it. This integration is achieved not only through the editor's valuable introduction and insightful conclusion to the nine different contributions but also through the explicit attempt by the authors to utilise findings from their own research. . . . --Sheila Rothwell, Henley Management College, Human Resources Management Journal Technical change is a fact of modern organizational life, inevitably impacting--to a greater or lesser extent--upon human resource management. This volume provides the first systematic analysis of the relations between technical change and human resource management. Contributors to this impressive volume explore such salient questions as: Is technical change within work organizations still seen largely as a technical matter in which there is no established role for the personnel specialist or human resource manager? Does it present particular opportunities or constraints in the management ofpersonnel? To what extent are organization and job design, total quality management, teamwork, skills training, and employee involvement central or marginal to technical change? And, do non-union firms behave differently from unionized ones in relation to technical change? In this volume, contributors provide answers and offer innovative solutions to these and other questions arising from the rapid technological change within organizations. Replete with actual case studies from a variety of organizational settings, Human Resource Management and Technical Change will be of interest to students and professionals in human resource management, organizational behavior, industrial relations, and general management studies.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	About the Contributors
	Abbreviations
1	Personnel Management, Human Resource Management and Technical Change	1
2	The Role of Personnel Specialists: Centrality or Marginalization?	20
3	Findings from the Workplace Industrial Relations Surveys	43
4	Personnel Leadership in Technical and Human Resource Change	78
5	Human Resource Specialists and Technical Change at Greenfield Sites	101
6	Full Flexibility and Self-Supervision in an Automated Factory	116
7	Human Resource Management in 'Surveillance' Companies	137
8	Introducing On-Line Processing: Conflicting Human Resource Policies in Insurance	155
9	Technical Change and Human Resource Management in the Non-Union Firm	175
10	Towards Factory 2000: Designing Organizations for Computer-Integrated Technologies	192
11	Managing People in a Time of Technical Change: Conclusions and Implications	212
	Bibliography	223
	Index	233