Essays on Computer Age

Executive Summary

This report shows the purported business plan of Nerd Patrol, a partnership business formed by three friends- John, Mary and Nabil. The business will be on hardware and software services, debugging, networking and franchise sales. The strategy to be adopted by the company would be using innovativeness in creating top quality for clients. Financial discipline would be adhered to. The long term goal of the business is to grow and start manufacturing innovative hardware components and software programming. Each role of active and passive managers is spelt out in this report. Employees would constitute of four units – computer engineers, marketing ...

Human Resources

Abstract.3 Introduction..4

Sexual Harassment in the Computer Age.4

Preventing Sexual Harassment in the Work Place5 Role of the Human Resource Department5 Supreme Court Decisions on Sexual Harassment.6 Sexual harassment as a form of bullying..7

Sexual harassment as intentional tort9

Liability of the employer for the injury or harm caused by the employee9 Conclusion10-12 References13 Abstract This paper aims to present the consequences of sexual harassment incidents that occur in multinational companies, firms and organizations in the U.S. At the same time, the independent and dependent variables of sexual harassment will be analyzed. For the independent variable, it shall include absenteeism of the ...

Question 1

What is the “Digital Divide”?

Answer

Digital divide is a term used to describe inequalities between people, in terms of access to, use of, or knowledge of information and communication technologies (Wikipedia 2011). In other words, digital divide describes the discrepancy between groups having access to technology and those who do not have.

Question 2

How has work been transformed in the computer age?

Answer

Advent of computer age is both, a boon and a bane. It is a boon because it reduces a lot of human effort. It makes it easier to handle, store and retrieve data. It is a bane ...

In the world over the years, various ages have come and gone. Some ages don’t go but stay with us for along time. Those that go become history, but the ages that persist form part of our daily life. In the history of our world, various ages have come and others have come and gone. We have read in the history books about the ice age, the Iron Age when mankind used iron in making his tools and so on. Over along time now, we have been characterized by changes in technology and fast movement of information. This ...