The critical issues of technological change relates to people before profits. To anticipate signs of change in the planning and implementation of new technology, and assessing the impact of new technology on human resources, managers should ask as:

What individual and organizational values shifting? How will the terms change? How will the change affect organizational and / or individual responsibility? Who needs to be experienced?

Seeking answers to these questions will enable managers to shift their focus from profit maximization to a concern about the integrated organization.

TECHNOLOGY FOSTERS individual and organizational VALUES

Traditionally, people chose to use new technology to dangerous, difficult, dirty jobs [3D's], to carry out a felt need or because a preference for a specific value.

Today, technology enhances value.

One unintended result is that the technology is the first driver and growth engine of the organization and staffing is based on a secondary role.

In a nutshell: employees to facilitate the objectives of the technology.

Therefore, managers in technology-driven organizations consider three questions:

What individual and organizational values shifting? Will the adoption of new technology to devalue individuals? How can new technologies to help achieve individual and organizational objectives simultaneously?

How technology is changing the working conditions?

Managers often exploit workers to work long hours working in technology-driven and undue stress to endure.

If the profits of excellence, technology managers to control and monitor the employers to ensure the maximization of output.

Managerial employees tolerate manipulation because they want job security and rewards.

With fear and insecurity as the main motivators, employees tolerate stress, invasion of privacy, and expanded job descriptions in exchange for job security.

Before the implementation of technological change, managers must find the balance between control and dignity. Technology should be used to enrich rather than destruction employees and managers should seek to prevent new technology demoralizing the workforce.

How will technological change affect organizational and individual responsibility?

Technology entails the punishment of dependency.

When employees rely solely or largely on the technology in their work, they soon believe they are unable to respond without technology.

Therefore, as technology can replace individuals, the technology to displace responsibility.

In technology-driven organizations, employees, any systems and machines. With the computer as the brains and the machine as the backbone of the organization, employees are no longer responsible for the production.

Because the work is an extension of themselves, people who do not feel good about their work does not feel good about themselves.