Manjunath,
Welcome to Mg-Ed-Dv. Do you work in the nice building in New Delhi
pictured in:
http://www.indiansources.com/software/html/tati90r1.htm ?
You ask whether IT is "making managers who see into a PC's face rather than
into people's eyes?" I think the telephone already "de-eyed" much
communication a long time before PCs came on the scene. What's your issue
here? De-humanization? Less accuracy in assessing people with whom you
conduct business with? Certainly there is the prospect that advances in
video applications in computing will bring "eyes" back in many management
applications in coming years. Staring at PC monitor should be understood as
a transitory structural dimension. In some future time (hard to say exactly
when) we'll have more a "virtual reality" interface instead.
As far as the management education/management development issues, certainly
students/trainees are increasing in computer-based training (CBT) including
web-based training (WBT). I am using WBT for all my courses (using Socrates
materials) at St. John's but still have face-to-face sessions for the
courses too. Undergraduates particularly seem to prefer such a mix at this
time rather than 100 percent CBT. As the web becomes increasing important
to managing, more time is spent in class leveraging Net acquired resources
for enhanced understanding of managing.
Cybercollegially,
Charlie Wankel
St. John's University--New York City
mg-ed-dv listmaster
wankelc@stjohns.edu
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Hi,
I'm a software engineer and have joined recently to this list. I think
today's managers have to be more conversant with advances in the
Information Technology along with their own area of specialization. My
query
to the fellow members of this listgroup is how do you think has the
Information Technology aided todays managers? Has it resulted in the
business world becoming more demanding from them?
Thanks in advance for your views.
Manjunath Balur