This document discusses how technology impacts business operations and stakeholders. It recognizes that technological advancements can deliver new capabilities before considering implications. Dramatic workplace changes over the last two decades like computing, the internet, email and messaging offer increased productivity but also complexity in evaluating performance and motivation. Issues around applying IT in business include privacy, recruitment practices, low-cost carriers shifting costs to passengers, and disposal of obsolete technology.

2. The Answer is
“TECHNOLOGY
The Answer is
“TECHNOLOGY
”
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Office of the
Future
“DOING MORE WITH LESS”
1) What does the above phrase referring to?
2) What do we need so that we can do/get
“more” things with “less”?

3. 3
Topic Outcome
At the end of this chapter, students should be
able to:
Recognize how the emergence of
technology impacts the business operation
and its stakeholders.

5. Ethics & Technology
 Technological advancement often deliver new
& improved functional capabilities of business
before we have had to fully consider the
implications of those improvements.
 Dramatic changes in workplace technology
over the last 2 decades – specifically desktop
computing, the internet, and the growth of
email and instant messaging – offers “ease of
access”, “ease of use”, and the “increased
worker productivity”.

6. Impacts of IT Technology Over
Workplace/Workpractice
Manage by
Outcome vs.
Manage by
Attendance
Social
Networking
Impacts of IT
Technology Mobile
Workforce
Virtual
Office
Faster
Access to
Info at
Realtime
Ability to
work away
from office
Work from
Home
Hybrid
Virtual
Team
Pay for
Output e.g.
Performance
Complexity
in evaluate
perf. &
motivation
The Future of
Work

7. Issues on Application of IT
Technology on Business
Spam Blogs
Selling
Personal
Details
Freeware
Porno-graphy
Facebook
-a-holic
Phishing
How to Hack
Facebook
YouTube?
Got Fired coz
Facebook
Art of
Phishing

9. Ethical Issues on Scientific
Breakthrough
Bio-technology
& Stem Cell
Human
Genome
Genetically
Engineered
Foods Bio
Weapon
Cloning

10. Issues
1. Can employer (manager/supervisor) access
and see the PC screen of employee without
their approval or knowledge? (The purpose is
to check if they are abusing the Internet
facility or doing personal stuffs while at work).
If the employee come to know about it, can
he/she make a complain for violating their
right for privacy?

11. Issues (cont.)
2. Recruitment through Social Networking is
getting popular nowadays. If an employer
access the candidates’ Facebook’s profile
before calling them for interview, is this an
allowable business practice?

12. Issues (cont.)
3. Is “Low-Cost Carriers” really mean low price?
Or do those airlines force passengers to pay
the costs to passenger in a nice manner?
Ryan Air
Cheap Flight

13. Issues (cont.)
4. Where did the developed countries dumped
their obsolete technology gadgets? Where are
the “backdoor” for these obsolete
technology?
Toxic
Technology

14. ANY
QUESTION