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Techlash : The Future of the Socially Responsible Tech Organization / by Ian I. Mitroff, Rune Storesund.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitroff, Ian I., Author.
- Storesund, Rune, Author.
- Series:
- Management, Change, Strategy and Positive Leadership, 2662-3080
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leadership.
- Social responsibility of business.
- Quality control.
- Reliability.
- Industrial safety.
- Business Strategy/Leadership.
- Corporate Social Responsibility.
- Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk.
- Local Subjects:
- Business Strategy/Leadership.
- Corporate Social Responsibility.
- Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (XIX, 55 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2020.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham Springer Nature 2020
- Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2020.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Technology has made human lives incomparably better. Civilization as we know it would utterly collapse without it. However, if not properly managed, technology can and will be systematically abused and misuse and thereby become one of the biggest threats to humankind. This open access book applies proactive crisis management to the management of technology organizations to make them more sustainable and socially responsible for the betterment of humankind. It forecasts the unintended consequences of technology and offers methods to counteract it.
- Contents:
- Ch 1: Threats of Imaginable and Unimaginable Proportions
- Ch 2: Beyond the Hype
- Ch 3: Pluses and Minuses
- Ch 4: Technological Messes
- Ch 5: Managing Tech
- Ch 6: The Socially Responsible Tech Company
- Ch 7: The Moral Underpinnings of Technology
- Epilogue: The Future of Technology. .
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 3-030-43279-3
- OCLC:
- 1148224241
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