...WORKFORCE New international division of labor Main article: New international division of labour The global workforce, or international labor pool, reflects a new international division of labor that has been emerging since the late 1970s in the wake of other forces of globalization. The global economic factors driving the rise of multinational corporations—namely, cross-border movement of goods, services, technology and capital—are changing ways of thinking about labor and the structure of today's workforce. With roots in the social processes surrounding the shift to standardization and industrialization, post-industrial society in the Western world has been accompanied by industrialization in other parts of the world, particularly in Asia. As industrialization takes hold worldwide and more cultures move away from traditional practices in respect to work and labor, the ways in which employers think about and utilize labor are changing. Labor supply Main article: Labor force The global supply of labor almost doubled in absolute numbers between the 1980s and early 2000s, with half of that growth coming from Asia.[3] At the same time, the rate at which new workers entered the workforce in the Western world began to decline. The growing pool of global labor is accessed by employers in more advanced economies through various methods, including imports of goods, offshoring of production, and immigration.[4] Global labor arbitrage, the practice of accessing the lowest-cost workers from...
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...Running Head: SMARTPHONES AND THEIR EFFECT ON OUR SOCIAL INTERACTIONS Smartphones and their Effect on our Social Interactions Ashley L****** NMCC Abstract We walk through this world with our heads down. Immersed in the technological realm, we disregard the real. We converse with our hands rather than our mouths, tapping keyboards and touchpads to the rhythm of our thoughts. This is the way we communicate in the 21st century. In the last decade, advances in information technologies have substantially altered the way humans interact. Between email, texting, social networking, instant messaging, and Skype, people now have the resources that would make it possible to spend days or months without coming face-to-face with another person, yet still remain connected with the world. I love my smartphone. I am in awe at just how much phones have advanced in the last 20 years. From the first one that was gigantic in size, then leading to a smaller simple flip phone to these beautiful, amazing slim pieces of hardware that can do more than I could have ever imagined a phone doing. Smartphones are something to be amazed with. Smartphones can certainly make our lives easier for us as we use them for everyday tasks such as communicating, checking our calendars, using as alarm clocks, as calculators, setting reminders and so much more. However, as smartphones keep advancing with new ways to make our lives easier, are they hindering our natural need for social...
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...The strategic management report for Noki Table of content [pic] 1.0 Introduction of Nokia: Nokia is the second largest mobile phone maker by unit sales in the world at 2012 (only after Samsung).And Nokia also is one of the world's largest telecommunications equipment manufacturers.Nokia also produces mobile phone infrastructure and other telecommunications equipment for applications such as traditional voice telephony,ISDN,broadband access, professional mobile radio, voice over IP, wireless LAN and a line of satellite receivers. Nokia Corporation engages in the manufacture of mobile devices and mobile network equipment,as well as in the provision of related solutions and services worldwide.The company has four main business functions or segments: Mobile Phones, Multimedia, Enterprise Solutions, and Networks.Nokia was the worlds largest vendor of mobile phones from 1998 to 2012. 2.0 SWOT analysis: 2.1 Strengths: 3.0 The analyzing of external environment(PESTEL analysis): PESTEL identifies the political, economic,social, technological, environmental, and legal factors that of which directly affect a company. 3.1 Political/legal forces: Along with the development and deregulated of marketing,both of operators and manufacturers are free to act independently of government intervention. In some countries like India and China where have partial regulations,government does do some interventions.For example...
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...Technology and electronics is the way of the ever changing world for businesses and society as we evolve into time. When we think business we think the best in product, innovation, up to date technology and the branded electronic company and where it sits in the global business world. The researcher discovered that recent records show that less than a year ago in August 2013, Samsung was ranked number one in the top ten largest electronic companies in the world as oppose to its leading competitor the Apple company ranked at number four during this time period. This ranking was based on the most revenue produced, engineering and mechanical aspects. In addition, the smart television, the smart phone, the Samsung washing machine and the company is considered to be the most admired brand in Southern Africa. (Kwon, 2013) Samsung a Korean based company that was established on March 1, 1938 in a city named Taegu, located in South Korea by a gentleman named Byung-Chull Lee. This gentleman only had thirty thousand Korean won which is equivalent to twenty-eight U.S. dollars today which is not very much at all to start a company. The Samsung name means “three stars” in the Korean language and within several decades the company progressed into a prosperous global electronics company. (Samsung Corporation, 2013) The researcher gathers that the name meaning stars is catchy and seems to be an empowerment or motivator to reach for the stars. The evolution and creation of the Samsung Company’s...
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...improve our access to information technology. Smart phone applications for quick access and ease of service anytime anywhere . The usage of this technology on the personal and professional level is becoming a widespread nowadays. Casual observation shows that smart phone have taken the way people communicate in their workplace and affect their working performance. This comes as no surprise in the information technology world nowadays. Despite their popularity. One must consider whether smart phones are merely a workplace appropriateness or source of distraction. For instance, a worker attending a meeting can retrieve whatever information he/she needs while he/she is in the conversance room; however, that same worker can disrupt the meeting each time his/her phone rings. Arguably, there are pros and cons for the performance of the employee of using the smart phone in their work performance, but it is important to relies the potential liability that smart phone effect the employees performance. We are in a litigious society with a rise in the organization liability, Thompson and Bluvshtein (2008) (1) report that " … employee use of technology is resulting in greater rates of employees misuse, discipline for such misuse, and, ultimately, litigation''(P.284) which can be to require of a formal Smartphone policy and training related to proper use of this technology. In this research we will find out the affection of using the smart phone on employees performance and profitability index...
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...publication at: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/236669025 Impact of Smartphone's on Society ARTICLE in EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH · FEBRUARY 2013 Impact Factor: 0.74 CITATIONS READS 7 50,697 2 AUTHORS, INCLUDING: Tariq Rahim Soomro Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Scien… 48 PUBLICATIONS 36 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE Available from: Tariq Rahim Soomro Retrieved on: 28 September 2015 European Journal of Scientific Research ISSN 1450-216X / 1450-202X Vol. 98 No 2 March, 2013, pp.216-226 http://www.europeanjournalofscientificresearch.com Impact of Smartphone’s on Society Muhammad Sarwar Department of Information Technology, SZABIST Dubai, United Arab Emirates E-mail: sarwar.baloch@gmail.com Tel: +971-50-5055285; Fax: +971-2-4045110 Tariq Rahim Soomro Corresponding Author, College of Engineering & Information Technology Al Ain University of Science & Technology, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates E-mail: tariq.soomro@aau.ac.ae Tel: +971-3-7024883; Fax: +971-3-7024777 Abstract The intention of this study is to investigate how Smartphone‘s are impacting the society and also how Smartphone‘s are going to transform the culture, social life, technology landscape and other diverse aspects of modern society. The intention of this study is to understand all the positive and negative aspects of Smartphone on the society. The study will primarily focus on impact of Smartphone on business, education, health sectors...
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...cellular phones, the Internet and television are all associated with advancement in technology. In many ways the electronic mediums are similar to the natural form of communication, while they are different on other levels. Modern mobile cellular phones deliver messages similar to the traditional phones, but this new medium has changed the nature of communication. The modern structure of wireless global communication was predicted in 1945, with the “geostationary” radio communication “satellite”, long before the cell phone was ever invented. (Clarke 305-308)The geostationary satellites are positioned on a specific Even today cellular phones use radio technology similar to FM or AM radios. The invention of the traditional landline telephone has created an “interpersonal medium” (Burkell 312-323) with which one person can communicate personal messages to another person verbally. Today because modern cellular phones have revolutionized the device, now it can do much more than just two way communication between two individuals. The wave of smart-phones introduced to the market has created a new era of telephone based communication. For example not only can the Blackberry device be used for voice and text communication between two individuals, but also can be used for mass text messages, emails, Internet and can even to stream live television and radio. The Blackberry has significantly changed the way we approach our social, personal and academic life. It is not just a phone that...
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...Tenner starts the book off in a interesting direction with foreshadowing terms rearranging effect , repeating effect, complicating effect, regenerating effect, recongesting effects, Revenge effect and reverse revenge effect which lye as a base. The base of these terms and meaning made me think about different fields of science and how they terms have shaped the field. Tenner illustrates a history of these principles thru Mary Shelley the writer of Frankenstein because she pointed out “dilemmas of all science-based technology.”(Tenner 15) Shelley wrote about technology that was not developed at the time, but science and technology were a new combination for the time. Being able to analyze DNA and understand a portion of what we are looking...
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...Television , cars , radio , computers and finally cell phones . Moreover, as cell phones are a part of communication which is an dispensable tool that we cannot life without, since simply cell phones reasonable our daily life in a communicated way . Moreover, cell phones are a machine that human invented in order to make the communication between the part of the society easier, as the society is become bigger and bigger , the ways of communications is more increasing . Cell phones , now a days becomes the most important way of communications between the individuals even if they are in different nations .Beside, a mobile phone is a device that can make and receive the telephone calls over a radio link , whilst moving around a wide geographic area . It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile phone operator , allowing access to the public phones , network .In addition to telephony , modern mobile phones also support wide variety of other services such as text – messaging, MMS, email , internet access short range wireless communications , business applications , gaming and photography . Mobile phones that offer these and more general computing capabilities are referred to as smart phones. However, a smart phone is a high –end mobile phone built on a mobile computing platform , with more advanced computing ability and connectivity than contemporary feature phone. Mobile phones are used for a variety of purposes , including keeping...
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...communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as videos)”. No wonder why students nowadays are so caught up in technology. If you would look around, you’d probably notice people looking down on their phones with their eyes locked on their screens. Social media is now a norm that today’s society has adjusted to from a conservative culture. It has become a common change for people referring to their social lives. In fact, basic personal human interaction is slowly becoming displaced by this new era of technology. Unlike in personal human interaction, social media provides the convenience and the essential communication for venturing into this changing world. However, personal human interaction also gives us opportunities to be more physically healthy; talking to people, and basically being more active outside compared to being silent and...
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...October 30, 2014 Social Media-Cause and Effect Much controversy revolves around the idea of social media. Some claim that altogether, social media benefits society by helping connect people in an easy, hassle-free way. Others argue that social media is a distraction and a waste of time. Regardless of whether social media can be considered good or bad; it has and continues to have multiple effects on our society. Social media continues to revolutionize, shape, and change our society’s basic functions, including the interaction between society members, the promotion and advertisement of products, and the altering of individual privacy. Technology is always changing, so the cause and effect it has on our society is vast and diverse. Communication plays a vital role in society, and social media continually constitutes to change in the way we communicate. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, etc., are all examples of social media that affects each of us, or whether we have an account or not. Society’s ways of communicating is growing rapidly, and Facebook has become one of the greatest examples to support this. Shilpa Shanbhag stated, “Facebook became the most popular social network in India in the week ending July 10, 2010 with a 24.69% share of all visits to social media sites. It has grown to a 32% share in October 2010, and the share has since increased to 34.66% in the week ending November 20, 2010.” The growth rate does not represent the communication change, rather...
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...and patents related to data security, wireless transmission of data, and what they are known best for; their push email service. By securing these licences and patents it has given Blackberry an edge in the market with the features it offers, and allowed them to establish a target market which was business people and professionals, before moving into the general market. The major stakeholders of the company are two of the founding members, who currently serve as Co-CEOs of the firm. RIM performs well financially on a consistent basis, with revenue figures reaching $4.2 billion in 2011, although this is down 15% from the previous quarter. In the USA RIM owns 40% of the smart phone market, however their blackberry products are weaker internationally than their rivals Nokia. to IDC | | Top five mobile phone manufacturers, by 2010 global sales according to Strategy Analytics | Rank | Vendor | Unit shipments | Market share | Annual sales growth | | Rank | Vendor | Unit shipments | Market share | | 1 | Nokia | 453.0 million | 32.6% |...
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...Cell phone use has become more and more prevalent in the last 20 years anlong with the growing use of these devices, comes upgrades. What started off as a basic electronic brick whose sole function was sending and receiving calls has developed into aesthetically pleasing machines capable of, among other things, browsing the internet and taking pictures. The market for cell phones and especially smart phones is saturated with companies offering everything from better cameras to faster processing speeds. Competition between the different companies has become fierce with each offering different plans to try and attract as many customers as possible. The questionnaire will attempt to answer questions as why people have cell phones, what functions they like in their devices and whether cell phones become a problem in families and society. Cell Phone Questionnaire 1. Do you own a cell phone? Yes / No? Why or Why not? 2. If yes, is your cell phone a smart phone? Yes / No? Why or why not? 3. If yes, is your phone an IPhone or Android? Why did you pick that type of cell phone? 4. How satisfied are you with your phone? A. Very Satisfied B. Satisfied C. Indifferent D. Dissatisfied E. Very Dissatisfied 5. When your contract is up, do you plan on staying with the same phone? Yes / No? Why or why not? 6. Do you feel a cell phone has made your life easier? Yes / No? Why or why not? 7. Do you think cell phones interfere...
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...Cell phones should be allowed to be used in school to support education. They should have cell phones in school because if you need to use the internet to look up a definition or to help them with work they can use their phone.(debate.org) Cell Phones are A Distraction We should not bring cell phones to school. My reasoning behind this is because cell phones are an additional distraction in the classroom. With many cell phones capable of not only calling others, but also texting, playing games, surfing the web, and taking pictures a cell phone contains many functions to get distracted with. We should bring cell phones to school. We should bring cell phones to school. Cell phones allow teachers to communicate with their students faster through email. Student should phone during class One thing is that, that for the kids who sometimes write slower than others can record their class session and use it at home not all kids are fast enough to write as fast as they might think or teachers may think and if it's sloppy when they get home and forget and look at their notes they might think it's not for homework and if kids play games in school so what if it sharpens their mind and makes them more aware of things instead of sleeping in class. They can listen to the teachers at home too. Phones should not be allowed in class. They will just lower your grade point average, and there are some students who would use them to cheat on test during class. Then they would fail there classes...
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...are used to spread information through mass communication. It is used to spread a variety of news, events, and things such as the weather or other topics. In this day and age not many people use a newspaper or magazine for their source of daily information, but rather a variety of digital Medias such as the internet, television, and their smart phones. Everything that is printed on paper can be easily accessed from the comfort of your home without having to leave the house and pay for the information. The effects of Mass Media on the public are that we now have access to a much easier way to communicate and get a message spread across the world. Some of the major developments of Media over the last century are: The newspaper and Magazine in the 1900’s, the Radio in the 1940’s, The Television in the 1950’s, Satellite TV in 1962, the Internet in 1969, and the first smart phone (IBM Simon) in 1992. All of these media outlets have played their own roles in society, and they still do to this day. All of the types of media that were mention are all still used to this day. So how exactly have these different types of media played a role in society? The Newspaper for starters, was one of the first types of media ever invented. It was different from a book, more efficient than word of mouth, and much unlike the other “newspapers” before it. It allowed people to find many different news stories and much more in one bundle of paper rather than seeing it on different single papers throughout...
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