Computerization and the Transformation of Employment : Government, Hospitals, and Universities.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Table and Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Computerization and Work: An Overview -- The Nature of Technological Revolution: An Approach to Analysis -- Some Highlights of Three Decades of General Process Computer Usage -- Major Implications of New-Era Computerization for Work and Organizational Structure -- Some Key Characteristics of Nonprofit Organizations -- Notes -- 2 Computerization in the Public Sector: The New York City Experience -- The Push to Computerize -- Improvements in Productivity and Service -- Four Data Systems at Closer Range -- Computerization in the City Today: An Assessment -- Computerization and Changes in Work -- The Outlook for Job Entry and Mobility -- Notes -- 3 Computerization in Hospitals -- The New Environment -- Why Hospitals Need Computers: Complexity of Production and Administration -- Hospital Computerization: Range of Applications and Types of Systems -- Variations in Experience and Changing Strategies -- Computerization in Selected Hospitals: The Interviews -- The Pace of New Adoptions -- Computerization and Work -- Notes -- 4 Computerization in Universities and Colleges -- Higher Education at the Crossroads -- Academic Computing: The Challenge of the New Technology -- Administrative Computing: Old Systems Versus New Systems -- Computerization in Four Institutions: The Interviews -- The Outlook for Computerization in the Years Just Ahead -- Computerization and Work -- Notes -- 5 Future Directions -- The Issue of Productivity Gains in Nonprofit Organizations -- Implementing Adoption of the New Technology -- Outlook for the Decade Ahead -- Computerization and Employment -- Notes -- Appendix A: Selected Examples of Computer Applications from The Mayor's Management Report, 1984.

Appendix B: Two Case Studies of Computerization in Hospitals -- Appendix C: A Case Study of Computerization in Universities and Colleges -- Index.

This book aims to shed light on the impact of computerization on employment in terms of changes in the nature of work and career opportunities and changes in the distribution of occupations in three groups of organizations: municipal government, hospitals, and colleges and universities..

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