Barry University
Administrative Theory and Practice, Spring “A” 2013
Mark E. Thompson
February 18, 2013

Research Paper, Assignment #4

Professor: Sam Stanton
Abstract
Your abstract should be one paragraph and should not exceed 120 words. It is a summary of the most important elements of your paper. All numbers in the abstract, except those beginning a sentence, should be typed as digits rather than words. To count the number of words in this paragraph, select the paragraph, and on the Tools menu click Word Count.

Managing People with Technology
Technological advances in the workplace have brought about a drastic change in the business environment, and the way people are managed. The workplace is being shaped today by an advanced web, powerful technologies, and social media that is accessible on any electronic device of any size. The merging of these technologies and workforce trends are creating a generation of workers who are hyper connected, and managers who are learning to communicate with them.
Losing the Face to Face
I know that in the medium sized government where I work, most critical collaboration and crisis resolution is still done face-to-face with the support of technology. However, the use of technology can severely limit the amount of interaction among employees. Most of the resources that an employee could need can be accessed right from their desk. A lot of the planned and impromptu meetings around the coffee machine in the employee lounge, smoker’s outpost in the back parking lot, are often replaced by email and voice mail messages, conference calls, and shared access to data over computer networks. Email is a way that allows most of the work to get done ahead of time so that meetings in person can be as productive as possible and employees can convey thoughts and feelings. In the book, Business at the Speed of Thought, Bill