Adaptability of New Technology in Business Organizations

This report discusses the issue of adaptability of new technology in business organizations and its impact on productivity and performance of employees. It highlights the positive and negative effects of adapting to new technology and provides future implications of this issue. The reflective writing section discusses the personal learning and development of academic skills, while the personal development plan focuses on improving numeracy, problem-solving, and action planning skills.

ACADEMIC RESEARCH
AND WRITING

Table of Contents
PART 1- REPORT..........................................................................................................................3
Introduction..................................................................................................................................3
Main body....................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................4
PART-2 REFLECTIVE WRITING................................................................................................5
PART 3- PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN...........................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

PART 1- REPORT
Introduction
Advancement in technology is resulting in frequent change within technology. As a result,
new technology introduction to industries is increasing (Berger, 2019). But this has resulted in
creation of one of the main and most prominent business issue which is adaptability of new
technology. Various kinds of business are today focusing issues in terms of adaptability of new
technology within business (Haseeb and et. al., 2019). This report will lay emphasis upon
‘Adaptability of new technology business issue, and ways in which this issue is affecting various
organizations in both positive and negative manner. Further in this report, future implications of
adaptability of new technology will be provided.
Main body
Positive effects of Adapting to new technology issue on companies
Adaptation of new technology can directly impact an organization in many different
ways. But mostly in positive manner if its adaptation is done positively. A study of (Van Zyl,
2020) has clearly heled in explaining that appropriate and effective adaption of new technology
within organization can directly help in enhancing productivity of employees. Various
components of new production technology positively impact upon different group of employees
as well as upon their skills as well as upon their knowledge. Effective change within productivity
of employees can also be observed or obtained with the help of new technology on the basis of
different criteria’s such as on the basis of age, skills, knowledge etc. (Van Zyl, 2020). From
study results of (Van Zyl, 2020) it was also identified that overall productivity of lower skilled
employees can also be enhanced with the help of appropriate and effective adaption of new
technology. However, as per the results of (Flatt and Taylor) adaption to new technology can
directly help in reducing various kinds of barriers faced by organization. In health nd social care
industry as well adaption of new technology can enhance effectiveness of treatment, reduce risk
factor associated with new technology, and can also help in providing high quality and effective
treatment and therapies to patients. Access to advance technology can further help hospitals in
enhancing overall experience of patients and can also make treatment much cheaper. This clearly
helps in understanding that proper adaption of new technology can impact organization in
positive manner.
Negative effects of Adapting to new technology issue on companies

Adaption of new technology has impacted organizations in many different ways but
mostly in negative manner. In order to gain advantage of adapting new technology it is extremely
important for organizations to adapt right system with correct procedure and polices. Not doing
so can impact companies negatively because adaption of new technology require updates in
existing polices, additional training provision to employees (Flatt and Taylor, 2018). According
to (Ketzenberg and Metters, 2020) adoption of new technology require re-structuring of business
operations, changes within existing schedule. Not only this cost of maintenance of new
technology is also high and constant improvement within operations of organization are required.
Researcher further explains that not adopting correct technology can directly impact performance
and productivity of employees at workplace. According to the results of (Graham, 2020) today
many different kinds of technologies are getting introduced for different purposes. Due to this
engineering is becoming one of the main and most prominent choice of youngsters because of
which it becomes important for industries to bring changes within their existing technology and
adopt new technology as per changes or introduction of new technology.
Conclusion
From the above it has been summarized that adaptation of new technology is one of the
main issues for business organizations today. It can impact organizations in both positive and
negative manner. Appropriate and curate adoption of new technology can directly help
organizations in bringing positive improvement within overall productivity of employees. If
correct and appropriate technology is adopted and implemented then it can result in enhancement
of overall productivity of employees but if correct or right technology is not adopted then it can
result in degrading of performance of employees. Future implications of adaption of new
technology business issues are that whenever organizations focus upon adapting new technology,
they can first of all conduct result about chosen or selected technology in order to ensure that
selected technology is correct and appropriate for business or not. This is because selection of
appropriate technology would directly affect policies, procedures, training provided to
employees etc. Organizations can further conduct research upon understanding compatibility of
new adopted technology with employees so that due to new technology performance of
employees is not impacted.

PART-2 REFLECTIVE WRITING
Reflective writing refers to a mode of writing that is related with the aspect of aspect
making an interpretation and expression of ideas and learning through the mode of writing
(Williams, Woolliams and Spiro, 2020). It involves the personal experiences and terminologies.
During the course of my module I have learned various aspects including note taking,
research skills, evidence based learning, and various other learning. This learning is further
supported with the learning of academics and the reflection including the Gibbs reflective model.
During session 2 I had learned the concept of referencing that how they add value to the
writing and the research material. I have learned the method of Harvard referencing. I had
understood that with the mode of referencing the authenticity of the material and writing would
be raised. For example:
Gibson, A., and et.al., 2017, March. Reflective writing analytics for actionable feedback.
In Proceedings of the seventh international learning analytics & knowledge conference (pp. 153-
162).
I had learned that how with the mode of referencing I would be able to make my work more
authenticate and reliable.
I had also make learning regarding the formation of paragraph and its meaning. I had
learned that how they make the writing more interesting and informative.
In session 3 I have learned the concept of academic writing. I have learned that how to
write academic writing and what are the aspect that are needed to be focused while writing the
academic writing like clarity, use of formal English, impersonality, and various other. I have
learned that while writing the academic writing I need not to use abbreviation and try to be
impersonal. I had also learned that how to write essay. I had understood that the data meaning
and its presentation along with its sources.
During session 4 I had developed my knowledge regarding the journals that how it will
be useful in the referencing and how to make an adequate classification and identification of the
journal in accordance with the concept. This has raised my knowledge regarding referencing.
During session 5 I have learned that how to make identification among the articles,
books, peer reviewed article and various other. This week I have also learned the research skill
that how to make research of the articles. During this session I had learned that how to make
research in the textbooks and in which terms of the media will be used for research. I have also

developed various personal skills including the self-awareness, communication, teamwork,
numeracy, leadership and various other. I have also analysed that I still need to work towards the
numeracy, problem solving, action planning and various other skills.
This learning is considered as highly important for my academic and future career. This
is because with the help of this learning I would be able to get explore my academic and future
career. This will assist me in my future learning and academic career.
This learning will help me and assist me in my future development of career because with
this knowledge I would be able to make exploration of the knowledge and flourish my skills.
This will also insist me that how I would lead my future academic in an informative manner.
With this reflection I had understood that how with the effective learning and skills development
I can assist growth in my future career development.
PART 3- PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Academic Skill Action Future
Implicatio
ns
Numeracy In order to bring
improvement within my
numeracy skills I an
focusing upon attending
numeracy and quantitative
skills training and
development sessions.
Results of this training
session can directly help
me in bringing
improvement within my
numeracy skills
I will be using my numeracy skills in
practical mathematical subjects areas that are
important for me to develop a successful
career.
Problem solving I will be focusing upon
using my lecture
materials, attending
I will be using this problem solving skills
within my career plans as it is one of the most
important and desirable skills which is

workshops of problem
solving and reading
relevant books and
journal articles.
required to be present within employees and
required within industries.
Action planning
In order to develop action
planning skills I will be
focusing upon bringing
improvement within my
planning and analysis
skills. I will be focusing
upon identifying my
strengths and weaknesses
using SWOT analysis, use
my knowledge regarding
planning and analysis and
will also ask for guidance
from my mentors for
identifying ways in which
I can develop my action
planning skills.
I will be using this skill for achieving my
career and academic goals as by using action
planning skills I can identify strategies using
which achievement of goals and objective
can become much easier.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Berger, T., 2019. Adopting a new technology: potatoes and population growth in the
periphery. The Economic History Review, 72(3), pp.869-896.
Flatt, R.E. and Taylor, C.B., 2018. Adapting a Technology-Based Eating Disorder Model for
Athletes. Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology, 12(4), pp.699-717.
Haseeb, M., and et. al., 2019. Industry 4.0: A solution towards technology challenges of
sustainable business performance. Social Sciences, 8(5), p.154.
Ketzenberg, M.E. and Metters, R.D., 2020. Adapting operations to new information technology:
A failed “internet of things” application. Omega, 92, p.102152.
Van Zyl, G., 2020. The impact of new production technology on employee productivity in the
South African workplace. Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences, 13(1), p.8.
Williams, K., Woolliams, M. and Spiro, J., 2020. Reflective writing. Red Globe Press.
Online
Graham. L., Adapting to New Technologies. 2020. [Online]. Avaialbel through:<
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429307140-17/adapting-new-
technologies-loren-graham >.
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