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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299476703321

Titolo

Human resource management and technological challenges / / Carolina Machado, J. Paulo Davim, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham [Switzerland] : , : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-319-02618-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 170 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

Management and Industrial Engineering, , 2365-0540

Disciplina

658.3

Soggetti

Personnel management

Information storage and retrieval systems - Personnel management

Industrial engineering

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

HRM politics and practices -- Technological impact  and consequences in HRM -- Communication, participation and involvement -- Equal opportunities -- Health and safety -- How work is changing -- Matching human and technological needs -- Motivating people in a technological environment -- Knowledge management in the new technologies era -- Developing leadership skills -- Global management -- Matching human and technological needs -- Strategic management -- Innovation and change -- Entrepreneurship -- Employee motivation -- Learning skills and styles in technology innovation -- Training effectiveness.

Sommario/riassunto

This book focuses on the challenges and changes that new technologies bring to human resources (HR) of modern organizations. It examines the technological implications of the last changes taking place and how they affect the management and motivation of human resources belonging to these organizations. It looks for ways to understand and perceive how organizational HR, individually and as a team, conceptualize, invent, adapt, define and use organizational technology, as well as how they are constrained by features of it. The book provides discussion and the exchange of information on principles, strategies, models, techniques, methodologies and applications of human resources management and technological challenges and changes in the field of industry, commerce and services.