Valuing People and Technology in the Workplace: A Competitive Advantage Framework
Valuing People and Technology in the Workplace: A Competitive Advantage Framework

Author: Hughes, Claretha

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2012-03-31

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1466602414

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Valuing People and Technology in the Workplace: A Competitive Advantage Framework introduces a more proactive, strategic approach to bring employees into, and develop them within, an organization. Interpreting and accepting this concept requires managers to think of employees as they would think of technology. Technology, equipment, and systems are strategically aligned within organizations. Integrating the literature from strategic technology management, strategic human resource management, and human resource development and exploring how this integration can provide competitive advantage to organizations for better implementation of people and technology development initiatives is a potential solution. Valuing People and Technology in the Workplace: A Competitive Advantage Framework provides a comprehensive framework that can be used to develop and design case studies that could measure the identified values that people, technology, and strategy can provide to the organization. This book aims to serve as a guide for managers and leaders as they develop strategies to introduce new people and technology into the workplace.

Valuing People and Technology in the Workplace: Ethical Implications and Imperatives for Success
Valuing People and Technology in the Workplace: Ethical Implications and Imperatives for Success

Author: Hughes, Claretha

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2023-04-03

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1668453231

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Technology’s use has exploded, and many employees have been left behind during the COVID-19 pandemic. Organizations are constantly trying to balance people and technology within the workplace. In today’s highly technological, globalized economy, it is essential that practitioners and researchers understand that people and technology do not exist in isolation from each other within the workplace. Valuing People and Technology in the Workplace: Ethical Implications and Imperatives for Success explains how philosophy, ethics, and systems theory influence the five values of people and technology development. The three main areas that are included to explain how philosophy, ethics, and systems theory relate to the five values are the three philosophical perspectives, diversity intelligence, and the workforce inter-personnel diversity talent management system. Covering topics such as ethics, organizational philosophical perspectives, and value creation model, this premier reference source is an essential resource for business leaders, human resource managers, entrepreneurs, technology professionals, students and educators of higher education, researchers, and academicians.

Creating Value Through Technology
Creating Value Through Technology

Author: Andrew Hampshire

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-11-12

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1472962028

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“Hampshire's book is aimed at the lay reader and its pages are peppered with practical advice and illustrative case studies” – Irish Times Business leaders are often too busy to familiarise themselves with the benefits and risks of technical undertakings such as new IT plans or changing digital platforms. Yet, if managed effectively, such initiatives can result in huge returns. Creating Value Through Technology provides CEOs, business owners and directors with a clear and accessible guide to the most prominent and profitable technologies that are available, allowing them to confidently implement and sustain new tech strategies. Different elements of the value chain can be supported and enhanced by different technologies – so it's important to understand how investments in tech can drive revenue growth, profitability and the valuation of a business. In this informative yet approachable book, Andrew Hampshire draws upon years of experience and an array of case studies to assess the potentiality and feasibility of different technologies in creating value based on a business's overall strategy. Andrew's book is centred around the basic levers of shareholder value creation: revenue growth, earnings growth and cash generation alongside the multiples used to value businesses. The book applies this framework to existing and burgeoning technologies, exploring where they can be best implemented and sustained to encourage growth. With Creating Value Through Technology, business leaders will discover a newfound confidence in incorporating technological strategies that will revolutionise their business for the digital age.

Managing Technology and Middle- and Low-skilled Employees
Managing Technology and Middle- and Low-skilled Employees

Author: Claretha Hughes

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2019-07-23

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1789730775

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Managing Technology and Middle- and Low-Skilled Employees explores the rapidly changing use of digital and systems innovations in the management of specific sectors of the workforce in the modern workplace across different industrial contexts.

Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Business Operations and Management
Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Business Operations and Management

Author: Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., Mehdi

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2018-09-14

Total Pages: 1482

ISBN-13: 1522573631

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Businesses consistently work on new projects, products, and workflows to remain competitive and successful in the modern business environment. To remain zealous, businesses must employ the most effective methods and tools in human resources, project management, and overall business plan execution as competitors work to succeed as well. Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Business Operations and Management provides emerging research on business tools such as employee engagement, payout policies, and financial investing to promote operational success. While highlighting the challenges facing modern organizations, readers will learn how corporate social responsibility and utilizing artificial intelligence improve a company’s culture and management. This book is an ideal resource for executives and managers, researchers, accountants, and financial investors seeking current research on business operations and management.

Impact of Diversity on Organization and Career Development
Impact of Diversity on Organization and Career Development

Author: Hughes, Claretha

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2014-11-30

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1466673257

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Today’s workforce represents individuals of various backgrounds and experiences. The influence of such individuals is becoming an important component in the workplace and researchers continue to explore the challenges of understanding the connection between employee profiles and the overall success of a company. Impact of Diversity on Organization and Career Development brings together a reflective discussion on the previous approaches and strategies of companies in relation to the paradigm shift in workplace equity of today’s workforce. By examining both old and new strategies, the research included in this publication will present a unique approach for future company enhancement and employee success. This publication is an essential reference source for researchers, practitioners, managers, and students interested in the effects of multicultural representation on both a company and its employees through professional growth and advancement.

Cases on Sustainable Human Resources Management in the Middle East and Asia
Cases on Sustainable Human Resources Management in the Middle East and Asia

Author: Jones, Stephanie

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2015-02-28

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 1466681683

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In today’s diverse workforce, managers and administrators are challenged with maintaining an equal and harmonious work environment. Despite the efforts of companies and organizations, training and maintaining employees of diverse cultural backgrounds in one setting continues to present challenges. Cases on Sustainable Human Resources Management in the Middle East and Asia presents a collection of teaching cases intended to examine the experience of modern executives implementing sustainable human resources practices in diverse corporations. Through highlighting practical examples of implementation in real-world settings, this book is an essential reference source for professionals and researchers working in the field of Human Resources Management interested in proven practices and effective strategies for managing diverse work environments, especially across Asia and the Middle East.

Valuing Technology
Valuing Technology

Author: Chris Westland

Publisher: Wiley

Published: 2002-02-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780470820568

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How do you value e-business? Since IT now consumes over half of new capital investment in US firms, the central question facing senior management investing in knowledge intensive businesses is, "how do you value e-business?" This book takes a financial perspective on the new economy and addresses many of the problems that are a part of the financial structure of the new economy. Valuing Technology offers methods for determining the financial valuation of investments made in technology in New Economy businesses. Companies in genomics, proteomics, nanotechnology, robotics, and other highly technical fields require huge up-front costs and often experience other idiosyncrasies of high-tech business. This book covers those angles and more, helping readers accurately valuate modern e-businesses. It provides comprehensive analysis of emerging valuation techniques for New Economy companies and it clearly explains how financial assessment techniques are adapting to high-tech companies.

Managing Human Resource Development Programs
Managing Human Resource Development Programs

Author: Claretha Hughes

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-08-18

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1137492198

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Managing Human Resource Development Programs makes the critical connection between HR development and the larger system of HR management. This book offers a framework for developing HR programs that are customizable to the needs of the organization.

Workforce Inter-Personnel Diversity
Workforce Inter-Personnel Diversity

Author: Claretha Hughes

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-01-04

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 303003433X

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Organization leaders typically look at each job position, characterized as identical based on pay and job description, in the same way. They hire employees to do that particular job and often do not consider other capabilities that the employees may possess. This book examines how to optimize workforce performance by understanding the diversity of skills and competencies of employees. Diversity is generally explored in terms of gender, race, nationality, disability, and other physical characteristics that differentiate one legally protected group of people from another. In the workplace, however, diversity can take on a different meaning, describing not only physical differences but also work performance characteristics unique to each individual employee. Inter-personnel diversity seeks to explore those diverse characteristics and begin to understand each employee’s strengths and weaknesses so that they can be developed to benefit the employee and the organization. This much-needed text will inform scholars and scholar-practitioners in HRD and workforce development how to use these differences to enhance the individual and the organization.