Software by Design: Shaping Technology and the Workplace - Hardcover

Salzman, Harold; Rosenthal, Stephen R.

 
9780195083408: Software by Design: Shaping Technology and the Workplace
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0195083407 ISBN 13: 9780195083408
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

As computers become increasingly integral to business and other organizational operations around the world, software design must increasingly meet the social demands of the workplace. This book provides an examination of how various social factors together shape technical design decisions.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Harold Salzman is Director of the Technology, Work, and Organizations Program at the University of Louisville Center for Urban and Economic Research.

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As computers become more and more integral to business and other organizational operations around the world, software design must increasingly meet the social demands of the workplace. This book provides an informative, cogent examination of how various social factors - such as organizational structure, workplace relations, and market conditions - together shape software developers' technical design decisions. Through a survey of major software companies and in-depth case studies of the banking, hospital, and equipment field service industries, the authors identify factors that influence specific design strategies and examine the significant consequences that engineering decisions have on users' work, workplace quality of life, and opportunities for autonomy and skill development. The book concludes with a chapter devoted to exploring how a progressive design approach can improve both the performance and working conditions of an organization. By providing an important empirical study of the social construction of technology, the authors offer an insightful understanding of the challenges inherent in effective software design. The book will appeal to professionals and students in software design, information systems management, computer science, and the sociology of work and technology.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0195083407
ISBN 13 
9780195083408
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
364
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