Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B Lecture Notes - Walmart, Ebay, Information Access

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B
• Professor: Dart

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Exam 2 of 4 essays (these are the forest), 8 of 10 paragraph answers (clusters of trees that aren"t forests), 3 bonus questions (one about the leafs) How has ict changed : work, management, business, the environment of business. Focus on core things they"re good at and outsource everything else. Strategies to define what core competence you have and to outsource the nonessential areas of production. Increased efficiency: moderate amounts over breaks, etc. Improve efficiency, but employees tend to abuse their access to technology. Information access or overload: with the internet now, students have access to a ridiculous number of articles versus trying to find them in a library, on paper. Your brain on computers": concerns about long-term cognitive impairments from repeated, prolonged distraction, we are guinea pigs for mental deficiency awesome. Ict is not just a tool it links to broad types of inquiry: gaming (men) and mobile phones (women) transforming 21st cognition and social behaviour.