Leading Information Technology Company Research Articles

A Review of the Leading Information Technology Companies’ Modern Slavery Statements

Modern slavery is an insidious problem in many sectors of the global economy, and it poses a challenge for the information technology industry. However, the issue of modern slavery in the information technology industry has received little or no attention in the business and management literature and this paper looks to provide an exploratory review of one of the ways in which the leading information and communication technology companies have addressed this issue, by reviewing their modern slavery statements. The findings reveal that five interlinked themes, namely, corporate commitment; risk assessments and due diligence in supply chains: codes of conduct; awareness, capability building, and training; and future plans and key performance indicators illustrated the spirit of the selected companies’ modern slavery statements. Identifying and tackling the risk of modern slavery within supply chains presents the major challenges for the information technology companies, and the paper concludes that the leading technology companies’ modern slavery statements can be best seen as a work in progress. Keywords modern slavery, modern slavery statements, leading information technology companies, supply chains, auditing

Clinico Epidemiological Profile of Repetitive Stress Injuries in Computer Professionals of West Coast of India

Repetitive Stress Injury can be regarded as a modern-day epidemic, a gift of industrialization. We have conducted a study to find the prevalence of musculoskeletal injuries in computer professionals with the aim to present data on the problem. The initial data was collected by a self-administered questionnaire enquiring about years of work and per day working hours, symptomatology with their duration and severity, their own appreciation of work output. These individuals were called up according to symptoms, assessed according to their symptomatology, relevant investigations and different modalities of treatment were advised. The study was conducted in one of the leading information technology company at our city. A total of 1159 questionnaires were collected. Six hundred and twenty-four (53.8%) had at least one positive symptom. 46.6% had stage 1 symptoms, 38.5% had stage 2 and 8.1% had stage 3 symptoms at the time of presentation. Two hundred and six patients were examined clinically by the senior author and a definitive clinicoanatomical diagnosis could be made only in 43 patients. Median age in our study group was 24 years. Ninety-eight (22.17%) of positive patients concluded decrease work output due to their symptoms, but only 50(11.3%) patients had consulted a doctor. Two hundred four (46.15%) of patients contributed their symptoms to an ill designed workstation. We conclude that repetitive stress injuries are a definitive problem in computer professionals. The median age in our study group was lower than many international studies. Nearly half of these patients were in stage 2 and stage 3 at presentation.

Financial Analysis of Select Information Technology Company in India

The paper is an attempt to analyze the financial statements of Indian selected Information Technology company mainly based on specific ratios. With intense global competition in the market, booming performance has been a major challenge to management. Because of its strategic importance in the national interest, it is crucial to evaluate the financial performance of Information Technology company by knowing their triviality. Moreover, efficiency of Information Technology industry has assumed primeval essence in a developing country like India due to its major offering towards the growth of economy. In the global ambience, entrants of Information Technology industry have been the vanguard role in India’s financial system with its latest technology and new service-level. Information Technology companies, therefore, perpetually explore means to refashion the business to ameliorate performance. These possible developments can be examined with strength of financial statement analysis. This paper epitomizes an empirical study of financial statement of the selected leading Information Technology company in India from diverse perspectives through statistical tools, graphs and tables, and offers suggestions for melioration of potency in the industry. The study embosoms that Wipro Ltd. remains a transcending performer over the last six years in the Information Technology sector with premier in its financial performance. Overall, the paper provides important spring of dexterity and is efficacious for managers, stakeholders and groundwork.

Job Stress of IT Employees in Tamilnadu – An Empirical Study

Stress is a part of our work. Beyond the threshold level, stress causes adverse effect on the physical and mental wellbeing of the workers, whatever may be the work done, proves the research studies. Information Technology (IT) industry employees’ jobs, though financially is attractive when compared with other industries, the experienced level of stress is significant greater. In the context of changing policies, globalization, liberalization, competition, downsizing, and arrival of brand-new innovation and technologies work becomes stressful naturally. The present study aims at addressing the problems of IT employees related to job stress. The present study attempted to throw light on the various problems of job stress among IT employees in Chennai city at Tamilnadu State. The tool “Job Stress Scale” was used to measure the stress in terms of ten categories of stressors: Role overload, Role ambiguity, Role conflict, Unreasonable group and political pressure, Responsibility for persons, Under participation, Powerlessness, Poor peer relations, Low status, and Strenuous working conditions. The 103 employees were drawn as a sample from five leading IT companies, occupying various positions. The data were obtained and analysed using correlational, Chi-Square, ‘t’ test, ANOVA and Factor Analysis. The results revealed that role conflict arose because of poor peer-relations. There was significant relationship between marital status of employees and job stress. There was association between role overload and responsibility for persons. Significant difference was found between married and unmarried employees with regard to job stress. No difference was found between different categories of employees. This study throws light on the problems related to job stress among IT employees that would be helpful in managing stress, evolving new policies and act as source for further research.

A commentary on the leading information technology companies' approaches to corporate social responsibility

The emergence of digital technologies is seen to be vitally important in driving future economic development, but they may have damaging implications for society. This contradiction begs the question of how leading information technology companies, that play an important role in developing, disseminating, promoting, and facilitating the digital technologies, address social responsibility. The aim of this commentary paper is to shed some light on this question by reviewing how the leading information technology countries publicly approach corporate social responsibility. This article describes how the companies emphasised their commitment to corporate social responsibility and evidenced that commitment in a variety of ways, before offering some wider reflections on the role of corporate social responsibility within the economy and society.

The Impact of Technology Adoption on Organizational Productivity

Purpose: This research investigates the impact of technology adoption on organisation productivity. The framework has three independent variables viz. technological change, information technology (IT) infrastructure, and IT knowledge management and one dependent variable as organisational productivity. Research design, data and methodology: An explanatory research design with a quantitative research method was employed, and data was collected using a self-administered questionnaire using online as well as an offline survey. The sample consisted of 300 IT managers and senior-level executives (production as well as service team) in leading IT companies in Malaysia selected using snowball sampling. Normality and reliability assessment was performed in the first stage utilising SPSS 22, and Confirmatory Factory Analysis (CFA) was performed with maximum likelihood estimation to assess the internal consistency, convergent validity, and discriminant validity. Finally, Structural Equation Model (SEM) and path analysis are conducted using AMOS 22. Results: The research findings demonstrated that technological change and IT infrastructure positively and significantly impact the organisation's productivity while IT knowledge management has significant but negative impact on organizational productivity of IT companies in Malaysia. Conclusion: The research concludes that all three factors plays important role in deciding organizational producvity. Recommendations, implications, limitations and future research avenues are discussed.

Emerging needs of human talent training in leading information technology companies, a socioformative analysis

Emerging needs of human talent training in leading information technology companies, a socioformative analysis

Emerging needs of human talent training in leading information technology companies, a socioformative analysis

This study takes the challenge of identifying different opportunities that innovation training of human talents can offer to information technology companies. The skills developed during innovation formation are desired to supply the talent demand in leading companies. By using available information, the analysis has been done using socioformative approach and identifying indicators and metrics applied by highly efficient innovative companies. It has been concluded that innovation is being conceptualised in different ways in each company and in accordance with a geographical reality. The study showed through a documentary analysis that there are common elements in these companies; having as a strategic factor the training of human talent in order to develop innovation in the knowledge society.

Analyzing Determinants of Product Placements in the Movie 'The Internship’

A Hollywood movie entitled ’The Internship’, which was released in the year 2013 is known for its accurate portrayal of a world leading information technology company, located in Silicon Valley, California, USAThis paper intends to find out how far the audience received the company-endorsed messages. The research was conducted in three steps, the first one involved a movie showing, after which the students needed to finish submit a resume assignment about what message they received from the movie. The second step was to spread the questionnaire to 100 students, containing indicators from product placement theory. The last step was analyzing the data using factor analysis to find out what determinants are the most influential in keeping the viewers’ interest and to find out whether the movie was enough to show the true conditions of the company.

Valor da tecnologia da informação na firma: estudo com empresas brasileiras

Estudos realizados no início de 2000, a partir de dados objetivos de desempenho, confirmaram o valor da Tecnologia da Informação (TI) diretamente no nível da firma (A. S. Bharadwaj, 2000; Santhanam & Hartono, 2003). Contudo, a literatura recente tem sinalizado para resultados distintos, tendo em vista a padronização na oferta de produtos e serviços de TI. Na perspectiva da Teoria Baseada em Recursos, o artigo testa se o valor da TI continua a ser captado pelas medidas de desempenho da firma, conforme estudos realizados no início de 2000 com firmas americanas. Para isso, reúne dados objetivos e variáveis de 149 empresas líderes em TI no Brasil, no período de 2008 a 2011. Utilizando a Regressão Linear e a análise de dados em painel, testou-se aquela associação e constatou-se que as capacidades de TI estão associadas ao desempenho em apenas quatro dos 32 relacionamentos testados, sendo um negativo. Portanto, no conjunto, confirmou-se o impacto nulo das capacidades de TI diretamente no nível da firma - corroborando as demandas da literatura para análise desse impacto em níveis intermediários de desempenho. Limitações e oportunidades de pesquisa constam nas conclusões.

Decision Latitude, Psychological Job Demands and Work-Life Imbalance — A Study among Software Professionals

The sunshine sector of the Indian economy — the Information Technology (IT) sector has been beneficial to the country in many aspects. It has not only helped India gain a prominent place in the global business scenario, it has also provided enormous employment opportunities with international exposure to the youth of India, given handsome pay-checks, fetched foreign exchange and above all redefined the concept of work. However, not everything is smooth sailing for these knowledge workers. Work-life balance is a growing concern for this genre of employees. In the light of the changing paradigms of work, a study was carried out among software professionals to seek answers to the following research questions: (i) What is the extent of work-life imbalance experienced by the software professionals? (ii) What is the relationship between the socio-demographic variables, job correlates (namely decision latitude and psychological job demands) and work-life imbalance of the respondents? Descriptive research design was used for this study. The study was conducted among 90 software professionals, in Chennai. The respondents were chosen randomly from leading IT companies in Chennai. The main source of data for the study was the primary sources i.e., the respondents themselves. The results of this empirical study portray the extent of work-life imbalance among other key findings of the software engineers in the city of Chennai.

ASP effects in the small-sized enterprise: the case of the Bizmeka service from Korea Telecom

An application service provider (ASP) is a business model providing information technology (IT)-enabled solutions to customers over the Internet. Utilizing an ASP model, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can acquire affordable IT solutions. Korea Telecom (KT), a leading IT company in Korea, provides an ASP service called Bizmeka to SMEs. In this study, we identify factors influencing the perceived benefits of Bizmeka usage. We also examine the relationship between the perceived benefits of Bizmeka usage and customer satisfaction. Based on the results of our survey, we found the following factors to be important in determining customer satisfaction with ASPs: cost and time impact, maintenance impact, and security risks.

Partners in learning: Redefining mentorship for a learning organization

Mentorship programmes are popular for the development of black managers in South Africa. In the literature, controversy surrounds attempts to institutionalize mentorship. In this article it is argued that the concept of a learning partnership should replace that of mentorship, particularly in what are seen to be learning organizations. Many mentorship programmes are predicated on the belief that a warm and caring relationship is a prerequisite for effective development of protégés. Redefining the desired relationship as a learning partnership removes this demand on the relationship and places it squarely in the confines of a normal business affiliation in which the focus is mutual learning. Essential to the process of black advancement is empowerment. There are a number of dimensions to empowerment. In this article three key dimensions are discussed in relation to the development of black managers, namely objective power, subjective power and empowerment in competence. Based on insights gained in the initial phases of a mentorship programme implemented in a leading information technology company, a number of principles are offered for implementing learning partnerships in a learning organization. These revolve around the need to use a new paradigm to interpret the learning experiences that constitute a developmental relationship between a young and promising employee and a more experienced and knowledgeable manager.