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Human Resource Practices for Implementing Advanced Manufacturing Technology (1986) / Chapter Skim
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2 Planning
Pages 17-20

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... Therefore, the need for a comprehensive human resource plan cannot be overestimated. The more sweeping the technological change, the more important is that plan in helping the company to use the new technology to maximum competitive advantage.
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... A CRAMPION FOR ORGANIZATIONAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION A champion for the AMT project can greatly increase the chances of success. For planning as comprehensive as the committee recommends, the champion needs to support not only technological change, but organizational change as well.
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... Such participation will ensure that the plans developed include all relevant considerations and have the support of all who will be affected. The committee found the practice used in a number of instances: · The implementation teams at plants C and D included people with experience in similar efforts to transfer that experience to the new site.
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... showed its employees video tapes that linked automation to making employees more effective and jobs easier. The tapes stressed that, given changing worldwide competition, impending plans to automate were a natural and necessary extension of the plant's nearly 30-year history of automation.
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