The High Performance Organization

The High Performance Organization
Author: Linda Holbeche
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2012-05-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136357696

Increased global competition, aided and abetted by technology, has meant that organizations in every sector are having to compete on the basis of speed, cost, quality, innovation, flexibility and customer-responsiveness. If organizations wish to be able to compete successfully in the global marketplace, they need to develop innovative products and services quickly and cost-effectively. The High Performance Organization provides invaluable information and practical tools for people engaged in leading organizational change efforts as an executive, line manager, HR practitioner or change agent. This practical text is grounded in organizational reality as well as having a sound theoretical setting. Illustrative case studies have been drawn from consultancy practice and a wide range of current research.

Civilian Technician Program

Civilian Technician Program
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Investigations
Publisher:
Total Pages: 150
Release: 1980
Genre: United States
ISBN:

Managing the Older Employee

Managing the Older Employee
Author: Casey Hawley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2009-06-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1440514011

Gen Yers are coming into their own. Now making up the largest segment of the workforce at 80 million strong, many are new managers. With so many Baby Boomers holding off on retirement, these new Gen Y managers often must direct people their parents' age—and older. Vast differences in communication styles, job expectations, and management techniques mean that Gen Yers have much to learn when it comes to managing those of their parent's generation, including: How to respond to an older employee who believes his seniority guarantees a promotion and raise, even though his work performance has been below average What to do when a younger manager relies on e-mail, texting, and IMing to communicate with coworkers, and his older employee prefers face-to-face communication How to demonstrate leadership and gain respect from the employees who already have years of rich business experience in the workplace This book is every manager's field guide for managing the new generationally diverse workforce.

Advancing Your Tech Career: A Handbook

Advancing Your Tech Career: A Handbook
Author: Stephen Di Biase
Publisher: Premier Insights LLC
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2015-04-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1508817006

"Advancing Your Tech Career: A Handbook" provides a road map to technical professionals, be those in IT, science, engineering or hybrid degrees, for how to navigate the ambiguous environment of their first job. The treatise deals with the Research and Development environment but is applicable to all new employees in any function.

Ageing and Digital Technology

Ageing and Digital Technology
Author: Barbara Barbosa Neves
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2019-01-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9811336938

This book brings together Sociologists, Computer Scientists, Applied Scientists and Engineers to explore the design, implementation and evaluation of emerging technologies for older people. It offers an innovative and comprehensive overview, not only of the rapidly developing suite of current digital technologies and platforms, but also of perennial theoretical, methodological and ethical issues. As such, it offers support for researchers and professionals who are seeking to understand and/or promote technology use among older adults. The contributions presented here offer theoretical and methodological frameworks for understanding age-based digital inequalities, participation, digital design and socio-gerontechnology. They include ethical and practical reflections on the design and evaluation of emerging technologies for older people, as well as guidelines for ethical, participatory, professional and cross-disciplinary research and practice. In addition, they feature state-of-the-art, international empirical research on communication technologies, games, assistive technology and social media. As the first truly multidisciplinary book on technology use among ageing demographics, and intended for students, researchers, applied researchers, practitioners and professionals in a variety of fields, it will provide these readers with insights, guidelines and paradigms for practice that transcend specific technologies, and lay the groundwork for future research and new directions in innovation.

Engaging Older Adults with Modern Technology: Internet Use and Information Access Needs

Engaging Older Adults with Modern Technology: Internet Use and Information Access Needs
Author: Zheng, Robert Z.
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2012-08-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1466619678

The study of older adults and internet use has emerged as a specific area of interest which covers a wide range of topics ranging from behaviors of senior adults in information search to attitude toward the internet, to the use of the internet for personal and health issues, and to cognitive constrains of seniors in Internet use. Engaging Older Adults with Modern Technology: Internet Use and Information Access Needs takes a structured approach to the research in aging and digital technology in which older adults’ use of internet and other forms of digital technologies is studied through the lenses of cognitive functioning, motivation, and affordances of new technology. This book identifies the role and function of internet and other forms of digital technology in older adult learning. It also bridges the theories with practices in older adults’ internet/digital technology use by focusing on effective design and development of internet and other digital technologies for older adults’ learning. This title is targeted towards educators globally with an emphasis on diverse aspects in older adult and internet learning that include learner characteristics, cognition, design principles and applications.

Active Ageing, Active Learning

Active Ageing, Active Learning
Author: Gillian Boulton-Lewis
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2011-09-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9400721110

This book is concerned with the general issues of ageing, learning and education for the elderly and then with the more specific issues of why, how and what elders want to learn. This monograph consists of 10 chapters written by various internationally renowned researchers and scholar-practitioners in the field.

Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Design for the Elderly and Technology Acceptance

Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Design for the Elderly and Technology Acceptance
Author: Jia Zhou
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 591
Release: 2019-07-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030220125

This two-volume set LNCS 11592 and 11593 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, ITAP 2019, held in July 2019 as part of HCI International 2019 in Orlando, FL, USA. HCII 2019 received a total of 5029 submissions, of which 1275 papers and 209 posters were accepted for publication after a careful reviewing process. The 86 papers presented in these two volumes are organized in topical sections named: Design with and for the Elderly, Aging and Technology Acceptance, Aging and the User Experience, Elderly-Specific Web Design, Aging and Social Media, Games and Exergames for the Elderly, Ambient Assisted Living, Aging, Motion, Cognition, Emotion and Learning.

Technology and Diversity in Higher Education: New Challenges

Technology and Diversity in Higher Education: New Challenges
Author: Inoue, Yukiko
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2006-10-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1599043181

"This book examines current and effective educational practices as well as new challenges involving emerging technologies in increasingly diverse learning environments in higher educationand the impact of the explosion of technology. These challenges are well documented in this collection of essays, case studies, and research reports"--Provided by publisher.