[HTML][HTML] The foundations of a policy for the use of social robots in care

HS Sætra - Technology in society, 2020 - Elsevier
Should we deploy social robots in care settings? This question, asked from a policy
standpoint, requires that we understand the potential benefits and downsides of deploying …

New process technology, job design, and work organization: A contingency model

MR Kelley - American Sociological Review, 1990 - JSTOR
The introduction of programmable machines into blue-collar machining occupations affords
an opportunity to study the conditions under which occupational skill upgrading occurs with …

External learning opportunities and the diffusion of process innovations to small firms: the case of programmable automation

MR Kelley, H Brooks - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 1991 - Elsevier
A widely accepted tenet of contemporary analyses of the diffusion of innovations is that
certain types of organizations are better positioned than others to generate and to adopt …

Programmable automation and the skill question: A reinterpretation of the cross-national evidence

MR Kelley - Human Systems Management, 1986 - content.iospress.com
In this paper, the author re-examines the cross-national case study evidence from her own
and others' research on management's job design practices when using programmable …

Unionization and job design under programmable automation

MR Kelley - Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and …, 1989 - Wiley Online Library
New findings from an original national survey indicate that machining jobs include major
computer programming responsibilities far more commonly than received labor process …

The nexus between industrial robot and employment in China: The effects of technology substitution and technology creation

X Zhang, M Sun, J Liu, A Xu - Technological Forecasting and Social …, 2024 - Elsevier
The widespread application of industrial robots has raised our concerns about employment.
Based on the data of Chinese micro-enterprises from 2000 to 2019, we use staggered and …

Factors governing the evolution and diffusion of CIM

RU Ayres, J Ranta - Analysis, Design and Evaluation of Man–Machine …, 1989 - Elsevier
There are now about 800 FMS (flexible manufacturing systems) in the world. These systems
have some Interesting technological and economic properties, which reflect technological …

L'automatisation micro-électronique: enjeux pour le Tiers Monde

M Lanzarotti - Revue Tiers Monde, 1990 - JSTOR
Après une présentation du contexte et de l'évolution de l'automati sation micro-électronique
des processus de production dans le monde industrialisé, cet article envisage la possibilité …

[PDF][PDF] Human Resource Issues in the Transformation to the Factory of the Future

M Miller - 1986 - preserve.lehigh.edu
Over the past decade, US industry has developed the potential to transform many
manufacturing facilities into" factories of the future." By the factory of the future is meant one …

FACTORS GOVERNING THE EVOLUTION

RU Ayres, J Ranta - Analysis, Design and Evaluation of Man …, 2014 - books.google.com
There are now about 800 FMS (flexible manufacturing systems) in the world. These systems
have some interesting technological and economic properties, which reflect technological …