Managing Technological Change: A Strategic Partnership Approach

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SAGE, May 16, 2002 - Business & Economics - 146 pages

Management of technology (MOT) is a field of study dedicated to the planning and ongoing assessment of technology in organizations, incorporating the innovation, development, and engineering processes into one discipline. Managing Technological Change: A Strategic Partnership Approach fills a critical void by presenting an integrative, strategic, and participative approach to technology management from a multi-industry perspective.

 

Contents

The Need
1
Employee Input in Product Design
9
Summary
17
An Integrative Framework for Technological Change
37
Assessing the Need and Readiness for Change
57
Organizational Barriers to Integrated Change
77
Designing and Implementing Strategic Change
83
Training and Technological Change
101
Creating a Learning Organization
113
Evaluating and Managing Change for Optimal
119
References
131
37
138
Index
141
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Dr. Carol J. Haddad is a Professor in the School of Technology Studies at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan. She joined the faculty in 1993, after a distinguished career in industry and academe. Prior to her arrival at EMU, she served as a tenured faculty member at Michigan State University′s School of Labor and Industrial Relations (1978-1990), and held senior positions with the American Society for Training and Development in Alexandria, Virginia and with the Industrial Technology Institute in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where as a Visiting Research Scientist she established and directed the Institute′s first Labor and Technology Program. She has also been a Research Fellow at Wayne State University′s College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs. An active scholar, Dr. Haddad has been the recipient of over $500,000 worth of research grants and awards, and has published numerous articles, including several on Canadian sectoral training councils in the steel, automotive parts, and electronic and electrical industries. Professor Haddad′s book on the management of technological change, published by Sage, emphasizes the benefits of strategic and participative approaches to technology adoption. Her current work is on the gendered dimensions of technology