Information technology and communication

 

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & COMMUNICATION 

 

1.What is Managing information withing and outside the organization? 

 

·  Business managers now must know about information technology because is everyone business.

·  Problem is not technical but organizational

·  New structures have to be setup

·  Today business faces challenges in how to handle new technologies and managing their information for productivity

 

2.What is the importance of it? 

 

Information for greatest productivity, communications with the media, e-mail and internet will continue to grow in use. the organization can be summarized as follows: Communication promotes motivation by informing and clarifying the employees

 

3.What are the new technologies that companies must manage for communications purposes? 

 

Now they have private information service are another means for accessing business information, development of fiber optics, local areas networks, satellite technologies facilitate the growth of information technology, now have: computers, desktop publishing capabilities, electronic spreadsheets.

 

 4.Describe the role of technological discoveries throughout history.

Is very vast because in business the new technology help and support to businessmen to save time, money and spade work. Also, by incurring less money much information can send/get in no time.

 

5.What is the importance of technologies in the globalized business world? 

The importance of technology in an increasingly developed world is important because as time goes by and business grows, people must keep in touch and keep track of their business, and the more time goes by, the more important it will be for all countries to be interconnected for the resolution of problems, business and future issues.

 

6.Describe the use of the technologies in the communication field. 

The individuals can work in their house, use e-mail to transmit work, advantages are reduced time, increased flexibility of working hour. employees use modem, telephone lines, and remote workstation to transmit their work.

7.What are the Do’s and Don’ts of Electronic Communication? 

 

DO

o   Handy way to communicate quickly with another person

o   Every person is responsible for the content of an e-mail message

o   Being conscientious in checking and responding electronic messages

o   Read each message before sending it

o   Decide which electronic system is appropriate for the message

o   Organization of the message

DON’TS

o   Sending confidential information

o   Flood system with junk mail

o   Write lengthy messages

 

 

8.How have the Information & communication technologies changed the structure of business organizations?

 

o   Technology has loosened the strings that bind the traditional company

o   Telecommuting lets people work where it is more convenient

o   Can boost profits

o   From home computers to car phones is easy to feel like you’re always “plugged in”

o   Respond instantly to every message whether you’re at home, business trip or on action

 

 9.What are the legal and Ethical implications of the use of technologies? Explain the in detail. 

 

§  Has the potential to exalt or debase the people

§  Threatens privacy; anyone’s privacy be invaded if put to the wrong use with the wrong people, and many people prefer not to give out information on any site as it may frighten them.

o   Invasion of privacy; the intrusion of technology in to our privacy is multidimensional and humiliating; social networking can be misused by privacy breach to cause identity theft, sexual predating, stalking, unintentional fame, employee tracking, and online victimization.

 

§  Collects a lot of information

§  Monitors the exact time of employees

 

FAIR INFORMATION PRACTICES PRINCIPLES:

Considering the privacy of e-mail messages

Employees expect their e-mail messages would be kept private

Employers may read their employee’s mail

Communication monitoring is permissible