Social impact of ICT.

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Unit 19 - Social impact of ICT.

Computers have already had a great effect on society and work.

How have we evolved? - Room at bank 20 yrs ago - 1 comp now, 100!!

What technology has enabled us to have this change - microprocessors?

Silicon - a semi conductor - allows impulses to pass through cleanly.

Far east - miniaturising!! - Small

Industries - food - reduce the need for human labour. 1.e. cow, milk and bucket. When cheese gets in great demand, cant milk cows myself, so get more people. But still cant keeps up! Can't mechanise cow but can the milking! Now need admin dept to manage staff!! - Paper base system to collate all orders. But now big company - need technology.

Man who builds machine needs more men to build more machines. Etc.

Technology has both positive and negative effect.

000's of jobs have gone because of computers.

The rapid advances in computer and communication technologies have occurred during periods of considerable change in industrialized economies and although many different factors have conspired towards the generally higher levels of unemployment ICT has undoubtedly played a major role in creating new industries and jobs in general, introduction into it systems in organizations may result in:

A need for staff retraining; redeployment; deskilling; regrading; redundancy; changes in job satisfaction; new job opportunities; remote/tele working; changes in career prospects.

An old fashioned secretarial job required typing skills, note taking skills, filing skills, and document organizational skills. Most managers now act as their own secretary, the manager has been reskilled and she has been made redundant.

New Job opportunities

In the last few years the accelerated expansion of the internet and associated computer technologies ICT = many thousands of new jobs opportunities:

Computer hardware, software engineers

> Network designers/developers

> Graphic designers

> Web designers

> Multimedia designers.

Internet service providers (isp's) and wholly internet based ecommerce traders are examples of the entirely new kind of business
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The computer and networking industries have been the creators of high tech jobs. Employment opertunities are found in:

Computer engineering

System software development

Computer sales

Support services

Computer science research and education.

Task- research and draw a list of industries service and manufacturing which have been involved in radical changes in patterns o work and employment in recent yrs.

Negotiating the new economy: The effect of ICT on industrial relations

. The end of "industrial" relations?

There is an argument, which suggests that traditional industrial relations will have little ...

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