Walton's model for enhancing the contribution of computers in the workplace recognizes the dual potential of advanced information technology (IT): it can either routinize work or it can widen the discretion of users; it can strengthen hierarchical control or facilitate user self-management and learning. And while a company's organizational philosophy may prescribe any one of these effects, it is IT's potential that significantly raises the stakes of IT implementation.
- ISBN10 0875842186
- ISBN13 9780875842189
- Publish Date 1 August 1989
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 April 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard Business Review Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 248
- Language English