09-23-2009, 02:30 AM
Koolestboy
I can't say with surety about western societies but in Pakistan, my observation is bit different than what we typically learn from books.
You try to find out some survey results or conduct survey of five six companies which shifted to automated systems in recent past.
What I feel is, the improved and improvised systems have caused entities to enhance the human resource, at least in the shorter run. In longer run, identification of such effects becomes quite difficult due to continuous growth of the entities which genuinly increases the demand.
Theoratically your question is valid, but practically, I am afraid results are different. Reasons may be investigated for behavioural reasons, attitudes, efficiency's measurement and analysis with some yardstick, and political reasons. Just for an example, in public sector the strengths once approved may not be possible to reduce due to involvement of politics and pressures.
We all know KalaBagh Dam is most feasible one, but we can never construct it.
I feel in majority of cases things are not materially affected. Rather, we have seen increase in HOUR in entities which implemented ERPs.
Regards,
Kamran.
I can't say with surety about western societies but in Pakistan, my observation is bit different than what we typically learn from books.
You try to find out some survey results or conduct survey of five six companies which shifted to automated systems in recent past.
What I feel is, the improved and improvised systems have caused entities to enhance the human resource, at least in the shorter run. In longer run, identification of such effects becomes quite difficult due to continuous growth of the entities which genuinly increases the demand.
Theoratically your question is valid, but practically, I am afraid results are different. Reasons may be investigated for behavioural reasons, attitudes, efficiency's measurement and analysis with some yardstick, and political reasons. Just for an example, in public sector the strengths once approved may not be possible to reduce due to involvement of politics and pressures.
We all know KalaBagh Dam is most feasible one, but we can never construct it.
I feel in majority of cases things are not materially affected. Rather, we have seen increase in HOUR in entities which implemented ERPs.
Regards,
Kamran.
