998 Search Results for Technology in the Workplace
Safety and Technology
One of the easiest ways to ensure that the work environment is productive and profitable is through safety. Safety measures improve performance, job satisfaction, and trust between management and employees. Reduction of acciden Continue Reading...
Employee Training in a Culturally Diverse Workplace
Workplace training is vitally important for any company -- whether the company has mostly native-born experienced workers or a culturally diverse workforce including recent immigrants. But when it Continue Reading...
privacy in the workplace encourages contempt.
Legitimate Limits
Economic reasons for supervision.
Reasons of inter-employee, and employee-customer safety.
Reasons of performance.
Definition of excessive supervision/invasion of privacy.
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Modern technologies are both exhilarating and frightening, bringing problems along with great promise. (Daphne Taras, James Bennett)
What effect has technology had on your workplace?
The high tech revolution has definitely affected all aspects of Continue Reading...
Computer Technology
Technology and Writing in the Workplace
Over the last decade there has been a significant change in technology which is available in the workplace, and the way that technology is used. The computer has been credited with having Continue Reading...
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Lastly, Cummings and Worley (2007) surmise that employee involvement can also "improve capabilities of employees thus enabling them to perform better" (p. 353). The authors give the example that when organizations wish to increase their emplo Continue Reading...
The first step in project management involves identifying the requirements. The second step is establishment of a clear and achievable objective. The third step is finding a balance for the competing demands for quality, scope, time and cost. Finall Continue Reading...
Information Systems and Computer Technology Has on the Practice of Nursing
Innovations in telecommunications and information systems have revolutionized the delivery of health care services in many ways in recent years in general and on the practic Continue Reading...
Perhaps, one of the best examples of interdependent workplace safety program and organization is America's Dial 911 government agency. With Dial 911, worse scenarios in workplace accidents can be prevented. This is being made possible by advanced t Continue Reading...
Virtual Workplace Communication
Cons or Disadvantages of Using DIVA in Amazon.com
Amazon.com has one of the most diverse business models of any e-commerce retailer today, including their fastest growing business unit, Amazon Web Services (AWS) whic Continue Reading...
Communicating in the Virtual Workplace
Communication is an integral part of every workplace because it makes it possible for all the employees to work together as a cohesive unit. Globalization and Internet have dramatically changed the business env Continue Reading...
Crime
Workplace is not safe from numerous types of crimes. These crimes can range anywhere from burglary to homicides and from discrimination on the basis of sex to even rape for that matter. But these crimes are physical crimes and it is easy to a Continue Reading...
Consequently, the large-scale implant of chips would certainly have damaging effects on people.
One of the latest reports of people having their privacy broken is when residents from Milton Keynes, UK, have informed police officers that a Google re Continue Reading...
..three-fourths of employers monitor their employees' web site visits in order to prevent inappropriate surfing." (Employee Monitoring: Is There Privacy in the Workplace?)
In my own experience I have found that technological innovations like email a Continue Reading...
gender roles in the workplace pre-exist much of what we think defines what work really is; not only do they pre-exist the modern working world of offices and factories, but they also seems older than more basic things, like writing and currency. Fro Continue Reading...
Communicating in the Virtual Workplace: Analyzing Messages
Effective communication is crucial to the success of any organization. It plays a significant role in the planning and control of organizational resources, and is, therefore, essential for t Continue Reading...
" (2004, p.159) Activities have included:
(1) Development and promotion of industry-wide standards;
(2) Funding of research for investigation of the impact of IT on quality;
(3) Provision of incentives that provide encouragement of investment in I Continue Reading...
Removing Smoking in the Workplace Increases Productivity
The purpose of this proposed study is to determine if removing smoking from the workplace has increased workplace productivity. The writer will explore the question by using a survey study me Continue Reading...
Productivity in the Workplace
An average employee lives around 10,000 days of his lifetime working. When one looks at it this way, it is rational to try and make this time at work as gratifying and rewarding as one can, so that people can be saved f Continue Reading...
My view was that each classroom should implement computer technology in the teacher process. Therefore my superiors also had to be convinced of the current benefits of implementing a computer system that students could use almost constantly.
Once I Continue Reading...
Sociology of the Workplace
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Gender Inequality at Workplace
Annotated Bibliography
Dixon, S. (2001). Work Experience and the Gender Earnings Gap. New Zealand Economic Papers, 35(2), 152+. Retrieved March 27, 2012, from Questi Continue Reading...
Social Innovation Workplace
The role that social innovation plays in the global marketplace
It is clear that online marketing is becoming popular in all global corporations. Just as most things in life have shown significant progress, companies suc Continue Reading...
Many of the answers used to hold workers with disabilities can also crack work-related problems of older workers. But older workers would not point out that they are disabled, even though they may come across functional limitations that are comparab Continue Reading...
Statistics in the Workplace
Use of Statistics at Cincom Systems
The use of statistics in pervasive throughout Cincom Systems, from tracking customer behavior through research surveys to measuring software quality and continually striving to attain Continue Reading...
(Brodwin; Cardoso; Star, 2004)
Since it is a fact that those people with special needs do face many more challenges in their lives than other people, the possibility of technological assistance for them must be given extreme importance, and when th Continue Reading...
Business
Information Technology and the Small Business
Information technology has had an impact on all areas of society, including a major impact on the business world. For some small businesses, there is an assumption that information technology i Continue Reading...
It’s About Time My Students Actually Have Working Technology
The students of today will become the employees of tomorrow. The workplace has grown increasingly sophisticated from a technological perspective, and students must have the capabiliti Continue Reading...
new technology, particularly technology that affects the way people communicate, is never morally neutral. It changes the way people see themselves and the ways they relate to others. Technology has brought human beings closer -- as manifested in th Continue Reading...
Community policing calls for decentralization both in command structure and decision-making. Decentralized decision making permits officers on the front line to take responsibility for their job. When an officer is given more power to create soluti Continue Reading...
Drug tests can also be inaccurate, and show false positives, and are ineffective for more dangerous 'hard' drugs that have a shorter half-life in the body than 'soft' drugs like marijuana.
Many extremely successful companies do not use employee wor Continue Reading...
Wireless Broadband Technology
Overview of Wireless technology
Presently it is quite evident to come across functioning of a sort of wireless technology in the form of mobile phone, a Palm pilot, a smart phone etc. With the inception of fast connect Continue Reading...
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Dell Inc. Marketing and Manufacturing Process Integration
Based on analysis of Sources: (Kapuscinski, Zhang, Carbonneau, Moore, Reeves, 2004) (Gunasekaran, Ngai, 2009) (Bilek, 2010)
Discussion of Current Business Issues
Today Dell suf Continue Reading...
Computers and Technology in the Classroom
One of the critical advantages of introducing technology into the classroom, even for the youngest of elementary school children, is that technology offers the presentation of clear problems that require im Continue Reading...
Women and the Information Technology Industry: Where is the Attraction?
Opportunities in technology companies are fueling the economy, yet few women pursue them. A recent Pittsburgh Technology Council panel discussion revealed that there are many re Continue Reading...
integrating ethical use of technology into the K-12 curriculum
Integrating Technology in the Classroom
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 aims to close the achievement gap between disadvantaged and struggling students and their peers. The messag Continue Reading...
heavy reliance computerized technology machines blunted assessment skills nurses read- machine patient.
Nursing discussion questions
Technology can substantially enhance patient care. Contrary to the notion that technology 'does' the nursing, nurs Continue Reading...
Information Technology (IT) CSR
Strategic Corporate
The modern day businesses are more globalized based on which economic and corporate concerns have given rise to the concept of corporate social responsibility. The new economy has had a great effe Continue Reading...
Role of Technology in Corporate and Social Responsibility
Insider trading. The insider trading case that has become most prominent is that against Raj Rajaratnam who ran the hedgefund Galleon Group, and was charged along with his co-defendant, Danie Continue Reading...