The Co-evolution of Organization, Technology and Personality

Gamel O. Wiredu ()
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Gamel O. Wiredu: Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration

Chapter Chapter 4 in Mobile Computer Usability, 2014, pp 61-87 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Understanding both the nature and the character of human personality in relation to organization and technology is important for the epistemology of mobile usability being espoused by this book. This has become necessary especially because of the fact that mobile computers are invariably personal technologies. They are personal in the sense of how they shape and are shaped by the evolution of personality. However, personality-based user needs are seldom considered in existing accounts of mobile usability. For instance, one of the motivations behind the espousal of this book’s thesis is that extant theories are bereft of cognitive ideas about the user’s means of existence and survival such as learning, development, personal information management and timely notifications of dangerous circumstances (Blom and Monk 2003). Furthermore, from the organizational perspective, mobile work now associates organizational role taking of the Weberian bureaucratic order with the personality of particular modes of a person’s being. This is because mobile computing is underpinned by diverse software applications and it engenders organizational services innovation. These attributes of mobile computing have induced the inclusion of workers’ persons in the organizational frame.

Keywords: Human Capital; Object Activity; Personal Motive; Advanced Activity; Mobile Computer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-41074-1_4

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