Robotics: Challenges for the human resources manager

Robots present industry with the exciting possibility of improving productivity and cutting costs. But there are other kinds of costs involved—the human costs—and it is these that the human resources manager must keep to a minimum through careful planning and implementation of the new technology....

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Published inBusiness horizons Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 38 - 46
Main Authors Knod, Edward M., Wall, Jerry L., Daniels, John P., Shane, Hugh M., Wernimont, Theodore A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Greenwich Elsevier Inc 01.03.1984
Elsevier Advanced Technology Publications
Elsevier Science Ltd
Subjects
Automation
Employee attitude
Human resource management
Impacts
Industrial robots
Labor aspects
Methods
Personnel management
Robotics
Robots
Robots, Industrial
Social aspects
Workforce planning
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Summary:Robots present industry with the exciting possibility of improving productivity and cutting costs. But there are other kinds of costs involved—the human costs—and it is these that the human resources manager must keep to a minimum through careful planning and implementation of the new technology.
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ISSN:0007-6813
1873-6068
DOI:10.1016/0007-6813(84)90007-7