Integrating Human Aspects in Production Management: Ifip Tc5 / Wg5.7 Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Aspects in Production Manage (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780387230658)

In recent years the situation of production enterprises has been aggravated by the change from a vendors' market to a buyers' market, the globaHsation of competition, a severe market segmentation and rapid progress in product and process technologies. Beside cost and quality, time has taken on an increasingly important role, forcing enterprises to become ever more dynamic and versatile. Therefore, in all areas of production management, novel, effective concepts, procedures and tools have been developed in order to meet these new requirements. But beyond these more technical, organisational and information technology related aspects there is certainly another one which has to be considered more closely than ever before, namely that of human resources. Is not group technology also related to group work? Do partners in a global network only operate according to predefined process schemes with no personal contact? Are the mental process models of the programmers of ERP-systems the same as those of the users? What is the impact of human behaviour and what consequences are to be expected if organisational and individual objectives are separated? And finally, how do necessary technological changes affect the workforce and the individual needs and wishes of the employees.

Author: Gert Zülch
ISBN-10: 0387230653
ISBN-13: 9780387230658
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 11/09/2004
Pages: 385
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.40w x 1.20d