"Thomas, a faculty member at MIT, urges managers not to put blind hopes into smarter machines but to find smarter ways to organize people. Rather than recoil from the idea that technological change is political, he argues, theorists and practitioners alike should use political differences to inspire new uses for technology and more creative forms of industrial organization. In an imaginative final chapter, Thomas proposes an "aesthetic of process" for coordinating the aspirations of those who work in the factory, the engineering lab, and the corporate boardroom." "As U.S. companies battle for survival in an era of growing global competition, What Machines Can't Do offers valuable insights into the ways we organize work. Challenging conventional theories and provoking controversy in its call for change, it is essential reading for anyone interested in the impact of technology on jobs and organizations and in the future of the industrial enterprise."--BOOK JACKET.
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