The rising tide of artificial intelligence and business automation: Developing an ethical framework

Recent advancements in robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and sensors now enable machines to automate activities that once seemed safe from disruption—including tasks that rely on higher-level thinking, learning, tacit judgment, emotion sensing, and even disease detection. Despite these advancements, the ethical issues of business automation and artificial intelligence—and who will be affected and how—are less understood. In this article, we clarify and assess the cultural and ethical implications of business automation for stakeholders ranging from laborers to nations. We define business automation and introduce a novel framework that integrates stakeholder theory and social contracts theory. By integrating these theoretical models, our framework identifies the ethical implications of business automation, highlights best practices, offers recommendations, and uncovers areas for future research. Our discussion invites firms, policymakers, and researchers to consider the ethical implications of business automation and artificial intelligence when approaching these burgeoning and potentially disruptive business practices.     

人工智能技术与人力资源管理实践:影响逻辑与模式演变

人力资源管理的演变与科技革命密切相关。当前,代表最新技术力量的人工智能已进入工作场所。这些技术将如何影响人力资源管理实践,是否会带来人力资源管理模式的变革,这一问题受到学术界越来越多关注。本文采取弱技术决定论视角,重视技术的异质性、技术的应用以及情境的差异,循着"技术路线"-"技术应用"-"技术影响"-"模式变革"的框架展开研究。首先对人工智能三大技术流派进行介绍,通过纵向梳理三者的发展轨迹,深入对比三者的技术差异。接着从技术应用出发,逐一分析各流派影响人力资源管理实践的具体逻辑,并辨析这种影响是否会带来人力资源管理模式的变革。最后,本文指出人工智能时代并不存在一个绝对的人力资源管理模式,人力资源管理究竟会演化为何种模式与工作的智能化程度密切相关。在此基础上,本文尝试构建了一个人工智能时代人力资源管理模式演变的分析框架,并对甄别到的四种典型情境下的人力资源管理模式进行介绍,以期对未来研究有所启示。本文通过考察人工智能技术对企业人力资源管理的影响,在理论上丰富了人工智能时代的技术与组织研究。     

模具标准件参数化模型库的开发

使用AutoCAD提供的ActiveX Automation接口,通过VB.NET操作AutoCAD中的图形元素,根据特征参数数据库,实现模具标准件的参数化模型库的创建,同时通过优化特征参数数据库以及标准件数据库提高系统效率。     

作业流自动化与业务流程重组

随着业务流程重组 (BPR)的推广与应用 ,其价值越来越受到管理者的重视 ,流程重组的理论与其方法的研究不断深入与丰富。本文从流程整合和流程简化两个方面探讨了作业流自动化在BPR中的应用 ,分析了这一具体的信息技术的基本内容及其在流程重组中的作用     

电网调度自动化系统安全及其完善

文章针对影响电网调度自动化系统运行中的安全问题,具体分析导致系统不安全的因素,并就电网调度自动化系统安全管理与完善提出了相应的对策与建议。     

集中自动化控制系统在补连塔洗煤厂的应用

大型现代化选煤厂通过引进先进的自动化洗选设备,可以较大的提高设备运行的可靠性,这给集中自动化控制的应用提供了硬件保证.另外,集中自动化在选煤厂的应用极大地提高了设备效率和人员效率,真正实现了高产高效.     

COVID-19 and hospitality 5.0: Redefining hospitality operations

The sudden outbreak of COVID-19 has severely affected the global hospitality industry. The hygiene and cleanliness of hotels has become the focal point in the recovery plan during COVID-19. This study investigates the effects of past disasters on the global hospitality industry, and how the industry responded to them. Since past pandemics and epidemics identified hygiene and cleanliness as an important factor, this study further explores the role of technology in ensuring hygiene and cleanliness. Hence, this study further examines the scalability of Industry 5.0 design principles into the hospitality context, leading to Hospitality 5.0 to improve operational efficiency. The study further delineates how Hospitality 5.0 technologies can ensure hygiene and cleanliness in various touchpoints in customer’s journey. This study serves as a foundation to understand how synergy between humans and machines can be achieved through Hospitality 5.0. The theoretical and practical implications are discussed.     

股票的发行、上市和交易

<正> 当一个企业面临资金短缺时,它可以通过发行股票来筹集资金,股票发行后可在证券交易所上市交易。股票的发行、上市、交易牵涉到许多复杂的法律和经济问题,每个证券投资者必须对此有充分的了解,才能在多变的市场上游刃有余。下面我们主要以美国的情形为例,说明股票发行、上市和交易的全过程。