The Impact Of Technological Impact On Wages And Work

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Introduction
Recently there has been a shift of long lasting and full-time employment in large and basic manufacturing enterprises to nonstandard and short time work in the firms and service sector. Technological changes have fostered much of this transition because most enterprises adopt such advances in technology so as to get a competitive advantage in the market. The effects of technological are somehow highly beneficial to workers, but it also brings job dislocation and trauma in other settings of organizations. The relations of labor occur inevitably at crossroads of all social and economic pressure for example privatization and deregulation of some industries (Bosworth, 2013).
The project seeks to analyze how the change in technology is affecting the labor relations in the employment industry. The important topic has been …show more content…

The recent studies have mostly found that change in technology has supported the requirement of new work practices and has raised a demand for skills through ambiguities between findings at the establishment level and the national level, has lead to two paradoxes. First is the mystery concerning productivity, in that, the technological impact on productivity is much high at the degree of establishment or firm level than it is at a national level (Bosworth, 2013).
Second is the inequality paradox whereby technological advances increases workers wages greatly at the national level than at the degree of establishment. In order to explain these inconsistencies, technology and productivity should well defined and measured in future, so as to estimate and conceptualize the relationship between technological change, wages and skills; and also include a study of the impact of technological advances on firm’s employment systems and the human resource

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