The Impact of Smartphone in Employees Performance in AMA University

A Research project Submitted to the College of Business and Finance
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Subject ITMA 570

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Introduction
Smartphone technology are growing so fast more than any other electronic equipment in the world and has improve our access to information technology. Smart phone applications for quick access and ease of service anytime anywhere . The usage of this technology on the personal and professional level is becoming a widespread nowadays.
Casual observation shows that smart phone have taken the way people communicate in their workplace and affect their working performance. This comes as no surprise in the information technology world nowadays. Despite their popularity. One must consider whether smart phones are merely a workplace appropriateness or source of distraction. For instance, a worker attending a meeting can retrieve whatever information he/she needs while he/she is in the conversance room; however, that same worker can disrupt the meeting each time his/her phone rings. Arguably, there are pros and cons for the performance of the employee of using the smart phone in their work performance, but it is important to relies the potential liability that smart phone effect the employees performance.
We are in a litigious society with a rise in the organization liability, Thompson and Bluvshtein (2008) (1) report that " … employee use of technology is resulting in greater rates of employees misuse, discipline for such misuse, and, ultimately, litigation''(P.284) which can be to require of a formal Smartphone policy and training related to proper use of this technology.
In this research we will find out the affection of using the smart phone on employees performance and profitability index in the kingdom of Bahrain base on research to be