This picture explains everything.
There are always have wars happening in business world. Every companies and organizations are very competitive. In order to become the survivor and gain trust from people, they have to be more creative and stand out among the others. And, this is why changes happened. What they have changed?
First, employers. In order to expand their business or organizations, employers start to invest on all the high-technologies software, electronics and more. Why? Because of the need of market. To be the survivor in market, employers have to change. Not only changing all the high-technologies, but also employers. There are two ways to make changes on employers. First is sending all the old employees for training. Training can helps old employees to learn new software and familiar with new technologies. Second way is dismiss all the old employees, which is a really cruel and unfair to the old employees.
Second, employees. Employees in old days are very reliable. In old days, employers usually hire employees which have real knowledge on their job. Employees work everything by themselves without relying technologies. For example, they were usually write down and collect every data in a file and everything were in written form. But employees now are more prefer to key in all the data in to computer.
"There is some evidence that individuals are demanding work with a clearer purpose and meaning, and choosing employers with a higher moral standard. "
This is one of the changes of employees - Attitude. Compare to old days, employees tend to choose the companies and employers they want but not employers choose the worker they want. Employees now tend to be more concern about their own social and personal life. They work and socialize at the same time.
"Businesses have begun to embrace the way social networks work, and are looking towards tools that take advantage of the connections they facilitate."
Social networks have play a important role in businesses world. An organization can use network to promote and expand their business. Organizations can actually target their target audiences through social network. It is because there are a lot of different people from the world are using social networking site. Organization can even target them by their demographic and geographic. Great place for business world to expand their businesses.
"Market exchange comes with huge transaction costs - a lack of information, perpetual bargaining, and a lack of organizational memory. Saving cost is something really hard in business world. But with network, organizations can save cost easily without affecting their performance in market place. Through network, organizations can do research and get information easily without using money to hire researchers. It is convenient and save cost at the same time. For example, a boutique. They can sell their clothes online without opening retail shop. They can get stocks by ordering online; research on their target audiences, check their payment and more. Other than paying for their stocks and website payment, every single procedures are free of charge.
Network has changed the economics, the structure of a company, relationship between employers and employees, relationship between business and the job opportunities in the market. Network and businesses are closely related to each other. In the society now, network is important, just as important as money. Without money, a company will not able to win the war in business world, same case, without network, a company will not able to win the war in business world and become the survivor in the world! Let the war begins!
I agree with you with the last line. Without the network, the company will never win in the war!
ReplyDeleteNow network is just like the weapon to the war. If you can't use it wisely, you might lose. You might be gone as well. It is all about fight. In the past, 1 hour is consider as very crucial as an information can be passed from one company to another within that hour. But now, even just a second is VERY important.
Imagine, one type an official email to book a time slot and another one facebook message the person in charge to book. Who will be faster? Definitely the facebook user because most of the people on their facebook for 80% of their time. (even though they are not using it, they'll just leave it open and check whenever there is notifications!)
Nice illustration that explain the phenomena nowadays! Great said of: "Without technology, Network is nothing; without Network, human is nothing." We are been shaped by the network.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely, network had change the way of relationship. I realized that many people are more rely on the virtual relationship, don't you think? Take Facebook for example, we are making friend and talk with others even though we are not talking much in the real life. That's really weird situation.
When comes to business, you are right about the relationship between employee and employer. Nowadays, the employee are more focusing on the job they choose and they want. The role of both parties seem to change. Now is like the employee is choosing the employer rather than employer choosing for employee.
But comes to this point, I think that network had the job scope become easier and effectively, but on the other hand, network had also become the barriers especially in loyalty.
The employee are now seek for balance their work and their life compare to the old days that the employee just follow the instruction from the boss. Now, they had their knowledge and they can go everywhere where the place need them the most. I think network had create an walls between the parties. How do you think?
Agree.. now everyone use facebook more than other website, the benefit for using facebook , it is because of the facebook users own the top visit website.
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of people using facebook start their own business in the cyberspace, Ya, I agree you mentioned, online business is more cheaper than existing business. example like online boutique, they don't even have to apply license,and except your working partners, we don't have to pay government tax. =)
Nice illustration! The time that people facing the computer is increasing since the need of network is also rising. In old days, people work with paper and people but now, people work with computer and network. The basic things for an employers to provide for an employee is a computer and network. Like you said, "without network, a company will not able to win the war in business world and become the survivor in the world!" and I'm totally agree in it!
ReplyDeleteBecause that the network is a need for business and a basic thing for an employee, the work and leisure had become blurrer. Employees will used their working time to on their personal social network and they also do their work at home after working time. Besides that, Facebooking maybe one of the job scope of the employees because they may need to run the fan page of their company at Facebook. For example, when I had my internship in MY FM, I had to on the Facebook all the time to check on other people posting, replying their post and update the website. Because of that, I on my Facebook all the time and chat with my friend while I'm doing my work.
without network, a company will not able to win the war in business world and become the survivor in the world! Let the war begins!
ReplyDeleteI like the way you say this! Seriously nowadays playing a role in internet as well, it can help to create awareness to a business. You can see that every of the company also had it own website. :)
Yes,the relationship between employer and employees is now only for working scope actually. Imagine if your boss or colleague are in monday blue and they show it on facebook, eventually you will try to avoid of making them angry or etc. A nice communication tool in work and for the sake of social life. Besides, maintain the relationship between colleague will increate the whole company performance when we talk about unity.by using social network, we can actually provide intimacy between colleague and thus increase their unity.
ReplyDeleteWithout network, we are nothing, this is a very good statement. It shows that how the current network influence our lifestyle and without it, we will go back to 30-50 years ago, the communication tools will be only letter. Communication speed decides the growth on everything, if you are able to be the fastest one, you conquer the world.
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