Unit 4 Information
Spying on staff
Information is a key resource for modern business. It has a direct impact on efficiency and performance. There are a lot of flaws between the different parts of business information system in the form of data, voice, text & images. Thanks to technologies information could be gathered and processed. So managers instantaneously analyse developments in their business, solve the problems and exploit opportunities. In other words, they make their business in real-time economy.
Sometimes managers decide to monitor everything and spy on staff in order to keep out their company of insider trading activities. In my opinion, these methods are legal only in working hours. One can use electronic devices recorded telephone conversations, CCTV (“fly on the wall”) in order to monitor the activities of their employees. Trust, but check you must!
Maybe intelligence or security training for employees will be very helpful because it’s easier for people to protect themselves once they know what they have to protect themselves against. Then spying on staff will be unnecessary.
Unit 5 Technology
How good are your gadgets?
The rapid race of technological development is affecting every aspect of our personal and professional lives. Consumer electronic products are making our lives more comfortable and entertaining.
New and more innovative models are coming onto this saturated market all time.
Nanotechnology is a new market, which promises to bring smaller, lighter, more portable devices.
And being investor is not enough to be successful. It couldn’t be the guaranty of your prosperity. Usually innovative, modified project becomes the leader of the market. So investor should always ask himself whether his gadgets are really good (modern and qualitative), because lots a cat in gloves catches no mice.
For example, the technology has deeply changed our lifestyle in the field of mobile telecommunications. This market seems to be saturated but it’s still growing, because industry is looking forward for new sources of growth. Besides traditional functions offered by mobile phones, they offer gadgets for you dog.
Another approach is to encourage people to use their phones more than they do at the moment. New services offer lots of extra capacity at lower prices. Let me give an example. Extending mobile coverage enables the subscribers to make calls wherever they are.
At the same time do the gadgets have only a good impact?
Today parents are increasingly worried about their children, they losing themselves in individualistic activities such as television viewing and computer games. On average children devote 5 hours a day to screen media. Although children generally have a few favorite programs, they mostly use television to kill time when they are bored and have nothing special to do. Now children are no longer playing outside but shutting themselves away in their rooms.
To sum up, technological development has changed forever the way we work and view the world.