Exploring the Unison of Socio-Technical Assemblage

Work from home (or remote working) has become the new normal ever since the pandemic hit the world. This new normal, which represents the unison of social and technical assemblage, has been used as a backdrop in the study to explore the nature of employee job behaviour and its impact on job satisfaction. The sample consisted of employees who are working remotely from their homes in the information technology sector. The Cronbach alpha of the questionnaire was found to be .862. The results indicate that dimensions of employee job behaviour like enhanced work association, need for interaction for information exchange, and increased work responsibility were found to be highly correlated in the backdrop of work from home. Further, employee job behaviour was found to be significantly impacting job satisfaction of employees in the backdrop of work from home.

Metastructuring for Standards

This chapter focusses on the appearance and implementation of process standards in software development organizations. The authors are interested in the way organizations handle the plurality of process standards. Organizations respond by metastructuring to the increasing demand for standardizing their development processes. Standards metastructuring summarizes all organizational mechanisms for facilitating the ongoing adaption of global standards to the organizational context. Based on an in-depth single case study of a software developing organization in the automotive technology sector, the authors found four areas of metastructuring, four roles for standard mediation, and four types of metastructuring activities. With the case study, they encourage further research that proves standards in use and how organizations respond to the challenges of standardization.

Educated Physically Disabled Women in the Information and Communication Technology Sector

The purpose of this study was to analyze how highly educated women with physical disability (WwPD) are employed and integrated in the information and communication technology (ICT) field as experienced by themselves. This question is important due to the lack of knowledge regarding the employment of highly educated WwPD in the ICT sector. An empirical study was carried out with the help of a qualitative research method that involved eight interviews. The study showed that disability has a significant impact when women choose the ICT sector for their studies. However, one of the significant findings was that the individuals characters matter the most.

THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH-TECH PRODUCTION

This study is based on a comprehensive analysis of high-tech production as an economic phenomenon. The article on “Theoretical and practical aspects of high-tech production development” reveals the main approaches to the definition of a high-tech complex, a high-tech sector, a high-tech industry, and high-tech products. The article focuses on the allocation of industries according to the level of manufacturability, and describes the main development trends of the following high-tech sectors of the Russian economy: pharmaceuticals, power engineering, production of medical equipment, civil aviation and information technology sector. The key purpose of the study is to research theoretical and practical aspects of high-tech production development. To achieve the purpose, it is necessary: to consider the main approaches to the definition of high-tech production, to disclose the problem of determining the industries by the level of manufacturability, to describe the development of high-tech sectors in the Russian economy.The scientific novelty of the work lies in a number of unknown and little known facts, as well as in the development of theoretical provisions on the issue of defining high-tech production and selecting industries by the level of technology, and in the analysis of the development of key indicators of some high-tech industries. The research is based on the articles of foreign and Russian authors, various Internet resources, analytical materials prepared by the Higher School of Economics, as well as statistical compilations presented on the website of the Federal State Statistics Service.

RESCO (REUSABLE SUSTAINABLE COMMODITY)

What do we do with our e-waste? The answers would possibly be „what is e-waste‟, „office IT vendor‟ and „collection boxes‟ to „we just dump it in the dustbin‟ or „put it in our cupboards for a long long time.‟ It is like that disposing of e-waste effectively (or at all) is not a priority because, we think, it doesn‟t really get in our way.E-waste recycling is a concept barely existent in India. As a result, the electronic waste generated is often dumped in rivers or in dump yards without proper treatment. This is hazardous for both the environment and personal health. Electronic waste (e-waste) is one of fast-growing trash streams in the country. Knowledge Growth and The Telecommunications Technology sector has improved electronic use equipment exponentially. Soon expiration and subsequent upgrades of electronic products, are compelling consumers discard old products, which then accumulate large e-waste in a solid stream of waste. E-waste is growing in India at a rate of 10%. Major recycling of e-waste is carried out in the non-formal sector using primitive and hazardous methods. . Adequate legal action and inexpensive, friendly to nature, A technical solution will be needed to fix the issue.With increasing production of electronic devices, the carbon emission is also increasing drastically. Even processes like recycling have a high usage of resources like water and electricity which are also (though in lesser quantities) degrading the environment. The UN has set up Sustainable Development Goals which set up certain goals that we need to match up in future.Seeing that a large amount of carbon emissions come from development of electronics, we decided to build a project that can help people to REUSE old electronic products. Keywords: Reusability, Recycling, Android Development, Donation, NGOs

Interoperable System for COVID-19

In the year 2020, the world halted due to the spread of COVID-19 or SARS-CoV2 which was first identified in Wuhan, China. Since then, it has caused a plethora of problems around the globe such as the loss of millions of lives. India was one of the countries which were majorly affected by this pandemic. Thousands lost their lives and millions had to be hospitalized and taken into medical care. Due to this, there is an abundance of unorganized and redundant medical data in the Health Information Technology sector. Many hospitals contain various mismatched health records of a single person. We attempt to develop an Interoperable System specifically for COVID-19 using the openEHR standard to organize health records in digital form by creating Electronic Health Records. These records can be accessed and shared by multiple hospitals and clinics to reduce the redundancy of health records. This would establish effective communications between different hospitals and greatly make data sharing, efficient and low cost. Standardization can hugely affect medical errors. Interoperability provides hospitals to share across many channels and help Health care workers to detect discrepancies easily. Lives that are lost due to human error in the health care system can be minimized or even completely avoided. The number of hospitals using interoperable standards is still low and we hope that this paper will help make a change towards following the standard.

Integrating Blockchain Technology with Internet of things to Efficiency

The research study focused on integrating blockchain technology with the internet of things. The study is necessitated by the need to come up with practical and feasible means to improve the accuracy, accountability and trust among various parties involved in blockchain transactions. The research recognizes the fact that there has been an increasing using of the cryptocurrency in the global market. This has lead to the emergence of blockchain, which is one of the disruptive technologies in the information and technology sector. The research study indicates that there is a need to improve on the architecture of blockchain and the IoT system. It shows that there is a need to develop a new model to improve its efficiency and accuracy. This research paper recommends the use of decentralized model to enhance the efficiency of the integration of the blockchain technology and IoT.

Interoperable System for COVID-19

In the year 2020, the world halted due to the spread of COVID-19 or SARS-CoV2 which was first identified in Wuhan, China. Since then, it has caused a plethora of problems around the globe such as the loss of millions of lives. India was one of the countries which were majorly affected by this pandemic. Thousands lost their lives and millions had to be hospitalized and taken into medical care. Due to this, there is an abundance of unorganized and redundant medical data in the Health Information Technology sector. Many hospitals contain various mismatched health records of a single person. We attempt to develop an Interoperable System specifically for COVID-19 using the openEHR standard to organize health records in digital form by creating Electronic Health Records. These records can be accessed and shared by multiple hospitals and clinics to reduce the redundancy of health records. This would establish effective communications between different hospitals and greatly make data sharing, efficient and low cost. Standardization can hugely affect medical errors. Interoperability provides hospitals to share across many channels and help Health care workers to detect discrepancies easily. Lives that are lost due to human error in the health care system can be minimized or even completely avoided. The number of hospitals using interoperable standards is still low and we hope that this paper will help make a change towards following the standard.

ROLE OF TALENT DEVELOPMENT IN ENHANCING INNOVATIONS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SECTOR: AN INVESTIGATIVE STUDY

The ability of entrepreneurs to produce new products is fundamental, because the organisational environment changes rapidly. Changes in socio-economic systems, changes in the expectations and needs and desires of customers, are challenges faced by organisations through new products or services as well. Innovations created by companies are the key to competitive advantage that determines the success of an organisation (Kuratko, 2015; Urbancova, 2012). Talent development is the driver of innovation. Therefore, current research focuses on to study the employee perception talent development impact on innovation. KEY WORDS: Strategy, Structure, Climate, Culture, Socio-Economic System.