Development in IT and work arrangement

As time goes by, there are more innovations and inventions emerging in the society here and there, especially in the field of IT. In this case, a worker will choose to resist the implementation of a new technology because of some inner thoughts. Firstly, I will state some examples about this point.

1. Human resistance to the use of information technology in construction companies
Information Technology with all its capabilities promise a big potential for construction companies to gain competitive advantage in the market. In the construction industry, it is believed that the use of IT will contribute to improved performance and reduced cost by, for example, reliably tracking and managing construction materials, documents, etc. However, because the human dimension is not given adequate consideration, the process of implementing IT often fails to bring the intended result (Audi et al. 2005).

2. The role and barrier of labour in choosing and implementing information-based technologies
Labour's resistance to the introduction and utilization of IT could lessen its potential impacts. As understood, it is a little impact for the workers to do the things in their job positions whtn the new technologies appearing at present. In some extent, it will influence their wages and effects of their work. Here, it is in the field of policy and industrial development, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

Factually, the value from the workers can not display obviously by that way since IT plays a more important role in the work. It is also the factor that how IT alters an individual’s work.
Although the pressure is lower than before that the new IT has not come out, the workers' contributions is also less than before. However, by this way, a manager will insures that the impact is positive rather than negative. The reason why it is like that is Information Technologies will improve and then promote the development of the companies and increase more profits than before.

So, it illustrates that as soon as IT develops, it will have an impact in the design of work.



References
[1] Audi, Fani, Heru and Purwoadi. (Thursday, 1 September, 2005) 'Human resistance to the use of information technology in construction companies' [online] (Cited 29 March 2009). Available from: www.articlearchives.com/computing/software-services-applications/1021707-1.html.