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Difficulty keeping up with new information
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Education resources out-of-date before printing
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Almost 1/2 of workers report their job affected by technological
changes
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Reinventing
government
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Reforming
education
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Restructuring
organizations
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Re-engineering
businesses
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Greatest increase in employment will be collecting, analyzing, and
reporting information
Training Trends:
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How to introduce technological change into jobs?
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How to address information processing needs?
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How to anticipate needs?
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What skills are needed?
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What is workforce/vocational responsibility?
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How will new jobs be classified?
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How is information protected?
Organizational Trends
Features of work:
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Fewer middle managers
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Large sized companies
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Mergers, acquisitions and alliances (MA & A) Mergers and
acquisitions exceeded $3.195 billion worldwide in 1999. The trend is
rushing forward, and MA & A and joint venture activities are
"transforming whole industries." Examples of MA & A activity abound,
such as those of Virgin Atlantic and Singapore Airlines, AOL and Time
Warner, Daimler-Chrysler, Vodafone and Mannesmann, and more
(Temporal, 2001, p 194).