ITM 703 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Essentialism, Reductionism, Job Performance

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 703
• Professor: Farid Shirazi

Document Summary

Itm 703 lec 10 (mar 28): ict & tech. Rapid tech changes globalizaion, demand for skills & educaion, an aging workforce & greater diversity in the labour market changed the employment landscape. Demographic shits the growing paricipaion rates of women & the increased reliance on immigraion in paricular, have shaped the canadian workforce. Without a talented workforce, canadian biz cannot efecively compete. An rbc report indicates that: from an economic point of view canada will coninue to meet the challenges of diversity which has shaped the future success of canadian biz. Barriers to paricipaion in job market: (canada: women paricipaion. Socializaion & early educaion: the research shows that in north america society, girls" aitudes to mathemaics and technology are already being formed in primary grades. Cultural forces & parents along with formal educaion play important roles. Negaive percepion of compuing & related work which afects women paricipaion in icts (programmers, it professionals, etc)