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Anthropocentric-based robotic and autonomous systems: assessment for new organisational options
Moniz, António Brandão - Centro de Investigação em Inovação Empresarial e do … - 2010
automation. More recently, the debate also covers issues related to working perception of people dealing with autonomous systems … (e.g. Autonomous robotics) in tasks related to production planning, to programming and to process control. In fact, today …
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Occupations at risk: explicit task content and job security
Nedelkoska, Ljubica - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2010
purpose, we use detailed information about the tasks that employees performed at their jobs, and the work devices assisting … them, in West Germany, over a period of 27 years. The main results suggest that automation decreased both the explicit … manual task content within occupations and the job security of occupations specialized in such tasks. Occupations which …
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Introduction: New Perspectives on the Quality of Working Life
Kattenbach, Ralph; Jacqueline O’Reilly - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 22 (2011) 2, pp. 107-113
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Between Keeping Your Head Down and Trying to Get Noticed: Agency Workers in French Car Assembly Plants
Purcell, Christina; Brook, Paul; Lucas, Rosemary - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 22 (2011) 2, pp. 169-187
Numerical flexibility is commonly promoted as a driver of employment growth. However, contingent work is frequently associated with “bad jobs”, particularly for those in low skilled occupations. Agency work is a common and growing form of contingent work and is often promoted as a tool for...
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Riding the Wave: Exclusionary Practices in Markets for Microprocessors Used in IBM-Compatible Personal Computers
Wilson, Robert; Warrwn-Boulton, Frederick - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 2 (1995) 2, pp. 241-262
This paper examines exclusionary practices allegedly used by Intel to maintain its dominant position in sales of microprocessors for IBM-compatible personal computers (PCs), focusing primarily on the preferential allocation of scarce product among customers. The paper considers the period...
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Robots and humans as co-workers? The human-centred perspective of work with autonomous systems
Moniz, António B. - Centro de Investigação em Inovação Empresarial e do … - 2013
to exemplify the issues related with automation in working environments and the emergence of new HCI approaches that …
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Mitbestimmung und Innovation aus Betriebsratsperspektive. Ergebnisse qualitativer Studien (Co-determination and Innovation from a Works Council Perspective. Some Qualitative Resear...
Stracke, Stefan; Nerdinger, Friedemann W. - In: Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, … 17 (2010) 1, pp. 30-53
Innovationen werden als wichtige Erfolgsstrategie fuer Unternehmen gesehen. Dabei stellt sich die Frage, ob es auch Aufgabe fuer Betriebsraete sein kann, langfristig die Innovationsstrategie der Unternehmen zu beeinflussen und die Innovationsbereitschaft der Beschaeftigten anzuregen. In diesem...
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IMPLEMENTING THE NEW TOTAL REWARDS PROCESS WITHIN THE DIGITALIZED SOCIETIES
LEFTER, Viorel; NICA, Elvira; MIRONESCU, Alexandra - Centrul de Cercetare în Administraţie şi Servicii …
The society evolved and with it also the human’s professional needs. Employees want and need to be acknowledged for their valuable and extra contributions. Rewards and recognition are powerful tools for demonstrating appreciation and reinforcing those behaviors that lead to superior products,...
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Réorganisation des entreprises et caractéristiques du travail collectif dans l'industrie. La diversité des formes de coopération
Gheorghiu, Mihaï Dinu; Moatty, Frédéric - In: Revue économique 57 (2006) 6, pp. 1177-1203
Using the french employee survey on ?Organisational Change and Computerisation?? (coi) in 1997 and post-investigation by interview we analyse the collective dimension of work in industry. The quantitative section analyses teamworkers? characteristics according to their professional situations....
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Entry Deterrence through Fixed Cost Reducing R&D
Atallah, Gamal - In: Rivista di Politica Economica 97 (2007) 4, pp. 49-78
The paper explores the role of R&D investments reducing fixed production costs in entry deterrence. An incumbent monopolist and a potential entrant can perform R&D to reduce their fixed production costs, with bidirectional and asymmetric technological spillovers. It is shown that deterrence,...
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