Article Review Draft
Literature Review: Information Technologies impact on U.S. logistics employment rates
Anthony Eisenhard
American Military University
Informational technology is crucial in regards to logistics operations. The dawn of the Internet, computers and automation have created tremendous efficiencies and have created logistics jobs in many areas and almost eliminated others. I want to identify the linkage between the implementation of new technologies in the logistics field and how it adversely impacts logistics employment rates within the United States. I am reviewing literature that relates to my research topic of how the Information technology affects the employment rate in the logistics field. I have assembled 16 individual books, articles, and or sources that will support me in my research of my hypothesis. My goal of this review is to properly order and summarize the data I have accumulated, and to determine areas in which further research and focus is required (Creswell, 2014). The first article that is going to be absolutely critical to my research is the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2015) Occupational employment statistics estimates. This isn’t an article but more specifically a database of information collected by U.S. governmental organizations in order to calculate nationwide employment rates. The data is collected on a monthly basis by the U.S. Census Bureau and from a sampling of sixty thousand households. The employment databases goes back to 1942, however for purposes of my study I will just use recent information from the last 10-15 years. While this data is subjective, it offers strong set of supporting historical employment trends in logistics career fields, and is the current standard in U.S. employment information (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2015). In a research article by (Anderson, Jerman, & Crum, 1997), the authors look to provide empirical research into the impacts of
Anthony Eisenhard
American Military University
Informational technology is crucial in regards to logistics operations. The dawn of the Internet, computers and automation have created tremendous efficiencies and have created logistics jobs in many areas and almost eliminated others. I want to identify the linkage between the implementation of new technologies in the logistics field and how it adversely impacts logistics employment rates within the United States. I am reviewing literature that relates to my research topic of how the Information technology affects the employment rate in the logistics field. I have assembled 16 individual books, articles, and or sources that will support me in my research of my hypothesis. My goal of this review is to properly order and summarize the data I have accumulated, and to determine areas in which further research and focus is required (Creswell, 2014). The first article that is going to be absolutely critical to my research is the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2015) Occupational employment statistics estimates. This isn’t an article but more specifically a database of information collected by U.S. governmental organizations in order to calculate nationwide employment rates. The data is collected on a monthly basis by the U.S. Census Bureau and from a sampling of sixty thousand households. The employment databases goes back to 1942, however for purposes of my study I will just use recent information from the last 10-15 years. While this data is subjective, it offers strong set of supporting historical employment trends in logistics career fields, and is the current standard in U.S. employment information (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2015). In a research article by (Anderson, Jerman, & Crum, 1997), the authors look to provide empirical research into the impacts of