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In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power (repost)

Posted By: Veslefrikk
In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power (repost)

In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power By Shoshana Zuboff
Publisher: Basic Books 1988 | 496 Pages | ISBN: 0465032125 | DJVU | 3 MB

While recognizing that computer-based information systems threaten to subvert the traditional manager's role, Zuboff, an associate professor at Harvard Business School, asserts that the computer is paving the way for a redistribution of authority in the workplace. As she sees it, computers allow clerical staff to take on more decision-making, help top managers rationalize overall efficiency and give blue-collar workers a deeper understanding of the science that undergirds industrial operations. But this optimistic picture of computerization is far from inevitable, she writes. Her five-year study of eight organizationsa pharmaceutical giant, Global Bank Brazil, a Bell System operating company, pulp and paper mills, a dental-claims outfit among themreveals that human resistance to computers can undermine the new technology at every level. Geared to managers and information-systems experts, her findings, though ponderously written, will be a value to those who want to get the most knowledge and power from computerization.