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Provides a valuable approach for addressing the full range of management, organizational, and human resource issues that arise when factories implement advanced manufacturing technologies. Draws on recent case studies, surveys, and results of extensive research to examine the effects of automation on job design, organizational structure, and union-management relations.E

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• Preface
• The Author
• Part 1 Understanding the Human Infrastructure in Factories
• 1 The Clear Links Between Proper Human Resource Planning and Successful Automation
• 2 Assessing Automation2s Impact on People in Organizations: A Framework
• Part 2 First-Order Effects: How Job Tasks Change
• 3 Keeping Machine Operations Involved: Nine Options
• 4 How Technical and Administrative Support Jobs Are Affected
• 5 The Changing Role of Supervisors and Managers
• Part 3 Second-Order Effects: Organizational Adaptations to Job Changes
• 6 Specifying New Job Skills and Selection Criteria
• 7 Developing Training Programs That Match New Job Needs
• 8 Adapting Personnel Policies to Facilitate Automation
• 9 Altering the Organizational Structure to Enhance Performance
• Part 4 Implementing Factory Automation Successfully
• 10 Overcoming Resistance to Factory Automation
• 11 Structuring Automation Project Teams and the Change Process
• 12 Realizing the Potential of Factory Automation: Key Strategies for Success
• AppAndix: Human Infrastructure Impact Statement
• References
• Index

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CHOICE Review

This book reflects a tremendous range of competence and ability on the part of Majchrzak (University of Southern California). She presents a superior and detailed review of the literature on human resource issues relevant to factory automation and provides a reasonably successful model applicable to a vast amount of the infinite variety of industrial experience. The work is organized in four parts: Understanding the Human Infrastructure in Factories; First-Order Effects: How Job Tasks Change; Second-Order Effects: Organizational Adaptions to Job Changes; and, Implementing Factory Automation Successfully. Approximately one quarter of the book is devoted to appendixes that contain a form for evolving an impact statement (Human Infrastructure Impact Statement Instrument), a glossary, and a selective bibliography of international scope. In the preface, the author relates her problem in writing a book with dual appeal to academics and managers, and, true to her background, adopts an academic tone. As such, the book has clear and valuable appeal to academics and students of automation, but its dense treatment will find less favor with practicing managers and engineers. E. Owens Western Washington University