USV Annals of Economics and Public Administration (Jun 2020)
IT tools for managers to streamline employees' work in the digital age
Abstract
Throughout this paper we bring to the fore a series of interconnected issues that managers confront themselves with in order to streamline the employees' work in the digital age. More and more, digital technology is being integrated in the lives of all individuals from an early age and this trend will lead to dramatic changes in the sector of education and employability. Within the first section of the paper we shall present a brief evolution of some selective IT tools which have irreversibly changed the business world and great changes are yet to come. The increasing trend of including technology at the work place is challenging the leadership competence. Managers are constrained to improve both their technological skills and their soft skills, in order to manage both the digitalization phenomena and the employees. Throughout the second section of the paper we emphasize some of the most important IT tools used by nowadays managers in their daily work and which are greatly improving their business performance. In section number three we address a selection of the managerial methods of coordinating employees in the digital age. Even if technology achieved to replace many human processes there is still the need for human resources in the business place. Within this section we present a set of managerial practices suitable for the efficient combination of digital and human work. As a bottom line of this research paper, we concluded that presently we are facing a transition and the greatest challenge for managers is to optimize digital and human resources and processes.
