On Thursday night, we learned about five functional business systems: (1) marketing, (2) manufacturing info systems, (3) human resource management, (4) accounting info systems, and (5) financial management systems.
While we were learning about manufacturing info systems, we also learned about CAM (computer-aided manufacturing). We watched a few videos of robots putting together parts to make a chair. Prof. Tuggle mentioned that these were examples of "stupid robots" because they could only work if the parts were laid out in the right place for the robot to grab and attach to the chair. They do not have a sense of what they're grabbing or what it's for, they just do what they are programmed to do. So this is the reason for a lot of human injury in the robotics manufacturing process - if a person is in the wrong place at the wrong time, the robot may end up grabbing the person and injuring him. I decided to look up the number of robot accidents that have occured in the last few years, and I found this information:
"Robot accidents specifically are not tracked by the reporting agencies; rather, they are lumped in with other industrial accidents. As a result, no specific statistics are available. The good news is that there are not many robot accidents--accidents where the injury is caused by direct involvement with the robot. The bad news is that any accident is often serious. I am only aware of one fatality in the last five years, although there were several incidents in the same period."
The other four topics were pretty much review to me, because I've taken a Marketing, Accounting Info Systems and Financial Management class in the last year. I am interested in learning more about HRM though, because I always thought that might be a career I might enjoy doing?
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HR, as a field, is growing in strategic importance for forward-looking firms. Demographics indicate that there's going to be a war for talent as soon as we get this current recession behind us...so this is a good field to get into, and your timing's about right as well....
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