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Mindless

by Simon Head
Sean Pratt
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We live in the age of Computer Business Systems (CBSs)-the highly complex, computer-intensive management programs on which large organizations increasingly rely. In Mindless, Simon Head argues that these systems have come to trump human expertise, dictating the goals and strategies of a wide array of businesses, and de-skilling the jobs of middle class workers in the process. CBSs are especially dysfunctional, Head argues, when they apply their disembodied expertise to transactions between humans, as in health care, education, customer relations, and human resources management. And yet there are industries with more human approaches, as Head illustrates with specific examples, whose lead we must follow and extend to the mainstream American economy. Mindless illustrates the shortcomings of CBS, providing an in-depth and disturbing look at how human dignity is slipping as we become cogs on a white collar assembly line.
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Publisher: Ascent Audio Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781469027807
  • File size: 188937 KB
  • Release date: February 1, 2014
  • Duration: 06:33:37

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  • ISBN: 9781469027807
  • File size: 188966 KB
  • Release date: February 1, 2014
  • Duration: 06:33:33
  • Number of parts: 7

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Business Computer Technology Nonfiction

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English

We live in the age of Computer Business Systems (CBSs)-the highly complex, computer-intensive management programs on which large organizations increasingly rely. In Mindless, Simon Head argues that these systems have come to trump human expertise, dictating the goals and strategies of a wide array of businesses, and de-skilling the jobs of middle class workers in the process. CBSs are especially dysfunctional, Head argues, when they apply their disembodied expertise to transactions between humans, as in health care, education, customer relations, and human resources management. And yet there are industries with more human approaches, as Head illustrates with specific examples, whose lead we must follow and extend to the mainstream American economy. Mindless illustrates the shortcomings of CBS, providing an in-depth and disturbing look at how human dignity is slipping as we become cogs on a white collar assembly line.
Expand title description text
Business Computer Technology Nonfiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Ascent Audio
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9781469027807
    File size: 188937 KB
    Release date: February 1, 2014
    Duration: 06:33:37

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9781469027807
    File size: 188966 KB
    Release date: February 1, 2014
    Duration: 06:33:33
    Number of parts: 7

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  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English