The second volume of this popular handbook demonstrates the richness and breadth of the IS and IT disciplines. The book explores their close links to the practice of using, managing, and developing IT-based solutions to advance the goals of modern organizational environments. Established leading experts and influential young researchers present introductions to the current status and future directions of research and give in-depth perspectives on the contributions of academic research to the practice of IS and IT development, use, and management.
The major focus of this Handbook is the design and potential of IT-based student learning environments. Offering the latest research in IT and the learning process, distance learning, and emerging technologies for education, these chapters address the critical issue of the potential for IT to improve K-12 education. A second important theme deals with the implementation of IT in educational practice. In these chapters, barriers and opportunities for IT implementation are studied from several perspectives. This Handbook provides an integrated and detailed overview of this complex field, making it an essential reference.
"This book compiles estimable research on the global trend toward the rapidly increasing use of information technology in the public sector, discussing such issues as e-government and e-commerce; project management and information technology evaluation; system design and data processing; security and protection; and privacy, access, and ethics of public information technology"--Provided by publisher.
"This book looks at solutions that provide the best fits of distance learning technologies for the teacher and learner presented by sharing teacher experiences in information technology education"--Provided by publisher.
Information Technology in a Global Society is the first textbook written specifically for the new IB ITGS syllabus (first exams May 2012), covering IT systems, social impacts and ethical issues, and each area of application. This teacher's solutions book contains marking schemes and rubrics for all of the exercises from the textbook - over 200 in all.
Human resources departments spending half of their time administering their companies' HR plans ... Line managers with no access to records on either their own staff's performance, or even on their own department's success in meeting corporate goals ... Employees knowing precious little about the value or cost of their benefits packages... Just a few examples, but the message is clear: The vast majority of human resource information systems (HRIS) as they exist today are woefully inadequate for supporting productive personnel functions. As the twenty-first century approaches - and with it, ever-greater competitive pressures for increased performance at reduced cost, and faster, more efficient communication with less effort - it's plain that most American businesses desperately need a technological shot in their human resource arms. In this trailblazing book, Alfred J. Walker shows HR professionals how to move HRIS from its present back-office, record-keeping role to its rightful place as the central business technology of a winning organization. Based on principles Walker has successfully implemented at many of the nation's Fortune 100 companies, Handbook of Human Resource Information Systems leads you step-by-step through the stages necessary to fundamentally shift the focus of the HR function - by utilizing the HRIS more effectively, establishing it as a guiding force, and positioning your company for strategic advantage in the years ahead. The book begins by outlining the history of HRIS, its early and as yet largely unfulfilled promise, the basic principles of HRIS planning and development, and the enormous potential inherent in an "extended" HRIS that serves as the primeinformation and decision-support system for an entire organization. You'll then find practical guidance on the nuts-and-bolts issues of HRIS implementation, including how to develop and/or design HRIS to fit company needs, with an emphasis on analyzing work flow and re-engineering the work prior to automating tasks; manage the system for optimal organizational advantage, and involve users in ongoing development of HRIS; justify costs and allocate resources, with an eye toward immediate gains and long-range benefits; and change management structures to reflect your new HRIS environment, and plan for the future. Amply illustrated with many charts, tables, and examples, the Handbook of Human Resource Information Systems shows you how to do what the most forward-thinking businesses are already doing: Extending the reach of HRIS companywide to such critical areas as empowering line managers to be more effective, help with communications, interactive benefits, career development systems, and employee recruitment. In short, this pioneering book brings to life an idea whose time has come - and whose benefits are long overdue.
This handbook provides an accessible overview of the most important issues in information and computer ethics. It covers: foundational issues and methodological frameworks; theoretical issues affecting property, privacy, anonymity, and security; professional issues and the information-related professions; responsibility issues and risk assessment; regulatory issues and challenges; access and equity issues. Each chapter explains and evaluates the central positions and arguments on the respective issues, and ends with a bibliography that identifies the most important supplements available on the topic.
The Industrial Information Technology Handbook focuses on existing and emerging industrial applications of IT, and on evolving trends that are driven by the needs of companies and by industry-led consortia and organizations. Emphasizing fast growing areas that have major impacts on industrial automation and enterprise integration, the Handbook covers topics such as industrial communication technology, sensors, and embedded systems. The book is organized into two parts. Part 1 presents material covering new and quickly evolving aspects of IT. Part 2 introduces cutting-edge areas of industrial IT. The Handbook presents material in the form of tutorials, surveys, and technology overviews, combining fundamentals and advanced issues, with articles grouped into sections for a cohesive and comprehensive presentation. The text contains 112 contributed reports by industry experts from government, companies at the forefront of development, and some of the most renowned academic and research institutions worldwide. Several of the reports on recent developments, actual deployments, and trends cover subject matter presented to the public for the first time.
This Handbook explores the largely unchartered territory of media, technology, and organization studies, and interrogates their foundational relations, their forms, and their consequences. The chapters consider how specific mediating technological objects such as the Clock or the Smartphone help us to create organizational form.
