organisation / inovation

Organization/Innovating MGT2032M

Please select one of the following questions and prepare a 200 word esay. You should make use of

photographs to ilustrate the focus of your asignment (maximum of 3 images).

Please folow the esay format guidelines:

– Font: Arial, Size 12

– Alignment: Justifed

– Spacing: 1.5

– Paragraphs: Leave an aditonal space

Q1. Select an organisational proces suported by technology; analyse it using concepts from either

a technological determinist or a social construction of technology perspective.

– For example you may wish to consider one of the folowing examples:

o Buying a train ticket; ordering a cofe; clocking in/out at work; sicknes monitoring;

banking; pasport control; your own choice.

Q2. You have ben asked to introduce a new technology into the work place. Discus how

technological determinism or social construction of technology would inform your managerial

practice.

– For example you may wish to consider one of the folowing examples:

o Self-scaning technology; admision control; security of the building;

Q3. Using concepts from either technological determinism or social construction of technology how

would you aproach redesigning the notion of a lecture, or the practice of lecturing.

–    For example you may wish to consider the folowing aspects:

o Who would you take into acount

o What echnology would you select

References needed :

Diffusion of innovations – Everett M. Rogers 2003 (Book)

Does technology drive history?: the dilemma of technological determinism – Merritt Roe Smith, Leo Marx c1994 (Book)

Philosophy of technology: an introduction – Val Dusek 2006 (Book)

Philosophy of technology: the technological condition : an anthology 2014 (Book)

Rethinking objectivity – Allan Megill 1994 (Book)

Shaping technology/building society: studies in sociotechnical change – Wiebe E. Bijker, John Law 1995 (Book)

The social shaping of technology – Donald MacKenzie, Judy Wajcman 1999 (Book)

The sociology of work: an introduction – Keith Grint 2005 (Book)