Technological Challenges and Management

160 Pages·2016·5.786 MB·English

by  Machado, Carolina

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Technological Challenges and Management
MATCHING HUMAN AND BUSINESS NEEDS
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challenges that today’s organizations face in the areas of human L
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Organizations need to implement a more proactive and flexible L
management, matching their human and business needs. Due to this
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made by researchers, academics, and practitioners in this field of study A
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worldwide. With the focus of this reality, this book exchanges experi-
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and management research, and future directions for this field of study.
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the management field in dealing with different challenges that organiza- D
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business. They propose the sharing of knowledge, through debate and N
information exchange, about technological challenges and manage- A
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ment, matching the critical items of human and business needs. The
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EDITED BY
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Feliciana Machado and Paulo Davim
Technological Challenges
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M AT C H I N G H U M A N A N D B U S I N E S S N E E D S
EDITED BY
CAROLINA MACHADO • J. PAULO DAVIM
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Contents
Preface ...............................................................................................................vii
Editors .................................................................................................................ix
Contributors .......................................................................................................xi
Chapter 1 Fashion or adoption? Harmonization of new
technologies with strategy, structure, and culture ..............1
Yasemin Sen
Chapter 2 Technological and organizational changes:
Challenges for HRM ................................................................15
José Manuel Gameiro Rebelo dos Santos and
Maria Amélia Marques
Chapter 3 The concept of e-HRM, its evolution and effects on
organizational outcomes .........................................................35
Mine Afacan Findikli and Yasin Rofcanin
Chapter 4 Organizational change success as a communicational
agency effect: Structuration, textualizing,
and networking .........................................................................51
Ivo Manuel Pontes Domingues
Chapter 5 Electronic human resource management in SMEs:
An exploratory study in a Portuguese municipality .........79
Sara Carvalho and Carolina Machado
Chapter 6 Collaboration in processes supported by Web 2.0:
The emergence of interactivity ..............................................97
Jorge da Silva Correia-Neto, Jairo Simião Dornelas, and
Catarina Rosa e Silva de Albuquerque
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Chapter 7 Enhancing online fashion retail: The quest
for the perfect fit ......................................................................125
Alessandra Vecchi, Fanke Peng, Mouhannad Al-Sayegh,
and Susan Hamilton
Preface
Technological Challenges and Management: Matching Human and Business
Needs is dedicated to technological challenges and management with spe-
cial emphasis on the new advances and challenges that today’s organiza-
tions face in the areas of human resources and business, resulting from
continuous and highly complex changes in technological resources.
Nowadays, organizations face many challenges, namely, in the techno-
logical field, which causes many changes related to organizational struc-
ture and strategy. As a result, organizations need to implement a more
proactive and flexible management, matching their human and business
needs. Due to this reality, it is important to study and understand varied
contributions made by researchers, academics, and practitioners in this
field of study worldwide.
With the focus on this reality, this book aims to exchange experiences
and perspectives about the state of technological challenges, management
research, and future directions for this field of study, taking into account
the deep implications that these challenges have in the organization of
human resources. It aims to support academics and researchers and those
operating in the management field in dealing with different challenges
that organizations face today, with special emphasis on the relationship
between technological changes, human resources management, and
business.
For the purpose of sharing knowledge, through debate and infor-
mation exchange, about technological challenges and management, and
matching two critical items like human and business needs, this book
is divided into seven chapters: Chapter 1 covers “Fashion or Adoption?
Harmonization of New Technologies with Strategy, Structure, and
Culture.” Chapter 2 discusses “Technological and Organizational Changes:
Challenges for HRM.” Chapter 3 contains information on “The Concept of
E-HRM, Its Evolution and Effects on Organizational Outcomes.” Chapter 4
describes “Organizational Change Success as a Communicational Agency
Effect: Structuration, Textualizing, and Networking.” Subsequently,
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Chapter 5 covers “E-HRM in SME: An Exploratory Study in a Portuguese
Municipality.” Chapter 6 describes “Collaboration in Processes Supported
by Web 2.0: The Emergency of Interactivity.” Finally, in Chapter 7
“Enhancing Online Fashion Retail: The Quest for the Perfect Fit” is
presented.
We consider this as an excellent opportunity to participate in an
exchange of information, ideas, and opinions about technological chal-
lenges and management and can say that this book is designed to increase
the knowledge and understanding of all those involved in this field, in
all kinds of organizations and activity sectors, such as human resource
managers, managers in other areas, engineers, entrepreneurs, strategists,
practitioners, academics, and researchers.
We are grateful to CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group for this oppor-
tunity and for their professional support. Finally, we thank all chapter
contributors for their interest and time allotted to work on this project.
Carolina Machado
Braga, Portugal
J. Paulo Davim
Aveiro, Portugal