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First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (306 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
HR Pioneers; For More Information:; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter One; Beginnings; New Products, New Frontiers; The Human Resources Explosion; Enter the 6600; A Gnat That Swallowed a Whale; Cray Departs; Full Steam Ahead; A Society That's Burning; Bytes of Education; At the Peak; Decline of the Dream; Chapter Two; HR in America-A Brief History; The CDC Philosophy; In the Hot Seat; The HR Culture Itself; The Employee Equation; Early Hurdles; Doors Wide Open; Growing in the Greenhouse; Chapter Three; A Plant Against Poverty; Plants for Prosperity. |
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Minority Business SupportEducation is Key; The Two Ventures; Health Care on a Reservation; Prison Education; Wheels Goes Flat; Factories with Fences; Charitable Programs; Chapter Four; Pro-Employee; Recruiting College Knowledge; A Listening EAR; Peer Pressure; Better Health, Better Life; Some Flexibility; Personal Days Off; Into the Great Outdoors; Enable the Disabled; Serve the Community; Money and Jobs; Chapter Five; Teach the World; The Business of HR; Employees as Entrepreneurs; A Second Chance; Opportunities in Employment; Not Business as Usual; Advocating for Small Business. |
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Providing the PlaceChapter Six; Ceridian Corporation; StayWell; Gantz Wiley Research; VTC; Business and Technology Centers; NJK Holding Corporation; Plato Learning, Inc.; Last Thoughts and Observations; Appendix A; Appendix B; Control Data's Story Bears Moral for All; Bibliography. |
| Summary |
"Control Data Corporation not only revolutionized the mainframe computer market but also redefined human resources and its role in the lives of employees. With groundbreaking programs such as Employee Advisory Resource, PLATO, and StayWell, Control Data showed that caring for employees is an integral part of the best business plan. Control Data's human resource function also worked to do good in the community, working with inmates at prisons across the state, employees in poverty-stricken areas of the country, and at-risk children. This book strives to show how Control Data, in its heyday and beyond, worked to do what was best for its employees and the communities in which they lived and worked. Though Control Data Corporation split apart and evolved, its legacy lives on. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-273) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Control Data Corporation -- Personnel management -- History.
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Control Data Corporation. |
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Personnel management. |
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History. |
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Computer industry -- Personnel management -- History.
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Computer industry -- Personnel management. |
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Personnel management -- United States -- History.
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United States. |
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Computer industry. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Berg, Norb.
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Dawe, Frank.
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Morris, Jim.
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Baker, Gene.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jensen, Mark. HR Pioneers : A History of Human Resource Innovations at Control Data Corporation. Saint Cloud : North Star Press of St. Cloud, ©2013 |
| ISBN |
0878399402 |
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9780878399406 (electronic book) |
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