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DESCRIPTION:Jenna Myers\n\nUniversity of Toronto\n\nManaging Failures of Au
 tomation through Adaptive Interdependence: The Value of Human Skill during
  Rapid Technological Change\n\nDate: Friday March 14\, 2025\n	Time: 10:30 A
 M -12:00 PM\n	Location: Armstrong building\, room 155A\n\nAll are cordially
  invited to attend.\n\n\nAbstract:\n\nExisting literature highlights that 
 organizations can manage technology failures through formal process improv
 ement and local adaptations. However\, these solutions are incomplete for 
 organizations facing rapid technological change. In this article\, I draw 
 on an ethnographic study of ElectriCo\, a microelectronics manufacturer fo
 r U.S. defense\, focusing on assembly workers who frequently encountered f
 ailures across a shifting portfolio of automated technologies. My findings
  revealed that ElectriCo used an approach that I term adaptive interdepend
 ence\, in which human workers were flexibly inserted into the work process
  to perform tasks manually when automated technologies failed. These findi
 ngs expand our understanding of human-technology interdependence by showin
 g that humans are sometimes needed to augment technological potential\, re
 versing the typical view of augmentation. They also underscore the value o
 f manual skills in managing automation failures\, suggesting that organiza
 tions should invest in training and development to maintain these skills u
 nder some conditions. Paradoxically\, in environments of rapid technologic
 al change\, the question of what skills remain valuable following automati
 on should be somewhat decoupled from the question of what tasks technologi
 es can theoretically perform.\n
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LOCATION:Room 155A\, Donald E. Armstrong Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3
 A 3L1\, 3420 rue McTavish
SUMMARY:Organizational Behavior Area Research Seminar Series: Jenna Myers
URL:/desautels/channels/event/organizational-behavior-
 area-research-seminar-series-jenna-myers-364132
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