We compare male and female upward labor income mobility in Germany and the United States using the GSOEP-PSID Cross-National Equivalent File. Our main interest is to test whether a glass ceiling exists for women. Conventional thinking about the glass ceiling highlights the belief that the...

The growth of modern information technology has created a challenge in the organizational and managerial areas of IT. While technological advances often make tasks easier, the human side of a task is still affected. Cases on the Human Side of Information Technology provides many real-life...

Many factors contribute to the way people view and use information, including task requirements, organizational settings, and personality characteristics. Today it is generally accepted that people are an integral element of an information system. System development methodologies include various...

Technology has always played a decisive role in humanity's progress, although the positive impacts technology has on human development may become tainted by the risks it entails. This book emphasizes the need to consider the geographic, historic, and cultural context of an information...

Information communication technologies in human services are of increasing interest and concern to health and welfare educators, managers, and practitioners due to their useful information management and teaching capabilities. This book significantly contributes to the growing area of ICT...

"This book provides a wide range of interesting and novel approaches to the relationship between technology and humans. It can be used for teaching as well as for research purposes; it contains insights that are of relevance for social and organizational use of information and communications...

This book supplements course instruction and student research with quality articles focused on key issues concerning the behavioral and social aspects of information technology. Containing over 30 chapters from authors across the globe, these selected readings in areas such as user behavior,...

Foreword : lost and found in the reading machine / Michael Toolan -- 1. Authorship attribution and the digital humanities curriculum / Patrick Juola -- 2. Multivariate analysis of stance in fiction : a case study / Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen -- 3. Literary onomastics and language technology / Lars...

Automatic language translation : an enhancement to the mobile messaging services / Swadesh Kumar Samanta, John Woods, Mohammed Ghanbari -- An examination of factors associated with user acceptance of social shopping websites / Jia Shen, Lauren Eder -- An office on the go : professional workers,...

"This book creates awareness on how ICTs contribute to human development in multiple areas, including the link between ICTs and economic, social, and political aspects of human development"--Provided by publisher.