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  • Essay / Technological progress and its implications for business...

    Over the centuries, technology has played an important role in life and it is constantly evolving, shaping new social forms. Social analysts have denied the idea that technology is simply the product of rational technical imperatives and that technology is actually a socio-technical product, depending on the situations of its creation and use. (Wajcman 2002) In the beginning, technology was known as the application of scientific knowledge to create an outcome, which can be either a product or a service. Yet this is not absolutely true, as human beings have created inventions through trial and error. Technology has a dynamic force to help accomplish tasks within an organization. This can be considered beneficial, but bad. Beneficial for businesses if it can improve the progress of work and generate profits, but evil refers to negative consequences that can occur, intentionally or unintentionally, such as the creation of weapons. (Volti 2012) Over the years, thanks to technological progress, this has had an impact on organizations, changing ways of working; the way people behave, creating knowledge and profits. Looking at how connected and dependent we are on the use of technology, has technology shaped who we are or the other way around? This essay will cover the relationships between technology, organizations, management and employees, based on the perspectives of two divergent groups – modernists and postmodernists. Modernists adopt an objective ontology, they believe that things already exist for a reason and the task is then to discover and discover the truth. With ideology centered, they focus on the reality of knowledge and are not influenced by personal feelings and interpretations but based on facts that can be tested and measured. They also fuck... middle of paper ... with the modernists because they feel that we are rather the servants of technology. Truth may exist independent of human consciousness, but there is no objective way to define it. Additionally, postmodernists do not accept the fact that there is an organizational structure because there should be no boundaries. Postmodernists are more concerned with how to solve problems by studying their implications rather than trying to understand the reason behind them, as modernists do. In postmodernism, they emphasize that organizational culture is not real; it only serves an illusion. Postmodernists disagreeing with modernist methods of control will result in organizational effectiveness. They seek to deconstruct previous sources of authority and power. When power is distrusted, they attempt to implement a less hierarchical approach in which sources of authority are more diffuse..