Draft: IT Changes Cause Changes in the Rules of Work

Draft written in January

• see 2019 Musashino City Endowed Lecture "IT and Rules Now and in the Future"

• Musashino City Endowed Courses] "IT and Rules Now and in the Future" to be offered at Seikei University in the second semester of 2019.

• Coordinator Kazuhiro Shiozawa.

• The target audience is mainly students of the law school, all four grades of the four faculties (Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Letters, Faculty of Science and Technology), plus 150 Musashino citizens.

• A gentle introduction to contemporary topics in the area of expertise and its near future

  • I think it would be good to talk about how advances in information technology are changing the rules for how work is done, etc.
  • https://logmi.jp/business/articles/320484

• Generational range of audience seems to be wide

  • Different associations with the term information sharing
    • Post paper on a physical bulletin board
    • Contact them in turn through the telephone network.
    • circulate a circular notice (e.g. to the public)
    • Posting on electronic bulletin boards
    • Send Email
    • Batch reporting on mailing lists
    • Send a message to one person in chat
    • In some cases, today's college students have a generation of class chat rooms on line in high school.
  • I guess we should check the history first and create a common understanding.

Flexible working style - individual support - Attitude toward the individual - The opposite approach to mass production industrial products

• Payroll Tables
  • Technology that does not face each individual, but bundles people together by job class or other characteristics to handle them efficiently.
• Cost of individualized service
  • Absorbed by information processing technology
    • Cybozu HR system#5bb4465aaff09e00007dd9c4.
  • Communication on groupware instead of physical interviews

hierarchical organization

• Organizational structure suitable for controlling a large number of people in a situation where information distribution is a bottleneck - command and control
  • An organization is composed of people who issue orders and people who follow those orders.
• It separates the "thinkers" from the "doers."
  • Those who act are the first to detect changes in reality.
  • If reality doesn't change, it doesn't matter if the thinkers are separated.
    • If not, the inability to think based on the changes you perceive will be fatal.
• Responsibility to ask questions, responsibility to insist on what you want to do

  • As the program for working mothers was being expanded and expanded, a sales man complained to Aono, "Why do you support only mothers so much? What did Aono say? He said, "Well, tell me what you want me to do.

  • https://logmi.jp/business/articles/320484

Environmental Changes

• The reason we set "rules" and make people follow them is because there are benefits to be gained by doing so.

  • Law is not ethics or religion.
  • If the situation doesn't meet, if the current rules are disadvantageous, they will be amended.
  • The rules of the country, the laws, also have means of amendment.
  • The same goes for internal rules; rules that are detrimental to working efficiently should be revised.

• partial access right

• Intellectual Production of Engineers Before and After

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