The Human Side to Introducing New Technology; a Historical Perspective.

Industrial Management.

The Human Side of Introducing New Technology; From a Historical Perspective.

Assignment Paper as part of the Advanced Diploma Course in Manufacturing Technology and Management; Department of Mechanical, Manufacturing & Software Engineering; Napier University, Edinburgh.

Original Version Compiled 1995; Revised January 2014.

Author: Peter J. Moore

The Human Side of Introducing New Technology; From a Historical Perspective.

Contents

Introduction

1. Taylor and Taylorism.

2.1. Concepts and Principles.

2.2. Criticisms of Taylor.

2.3. Effects of Taylorism.

2. The Historical Effects of Introducing New Technology

3.4. The Effects on Operators` Jobs.

3.5. Effect on Support Jobs.

3.6. Effects on Supervisors Jobs.

3.7. Effects on Managerial Jobs.

3.8. The Impact on the Organizational Structure.

3.9. Social Implications.

3.10. Effects on Employee Involvement.

3. The Future.

4. Conclusion.

Bibliography

Assignment Paper as part of the Advanced Diploma Course in Manufacturing Technology and Management; Department of Mechanical, Manufacturing & Software Engineering; Napier University, Edinburgh.

Original Version Compiled 1995; Revised 2014.

Author: Peter J. Moore

Introduction.

From research, the effects of Introducing New Technology, was a never ending cascade of `cause and effect` chains. These effects may not have been immediately apparent and in some cases remained concealed within the complex interactions of nations, economies and social structures.

The effects that initially surfaced and that were attributed to the new technology were faced with a multitude of agreement; criticism and controversy based on subjectivity and differing moral standards. P.F. Drucker proposed, in his publication of 1989, that economic theories, as they were known then, were no longer valid in a modern technological market place; citing numerous...