DP1 Hl Bus&Emplment

Select one of the following topics and write a short essay and prepare to present your findings. Research some background information about the topic and identifying the social and ethical issues related to the topic. Remember the focus of the essay should be the essay title.
1. Discuss the need for training and retraining due to changes in technology.


2. Evaluate the use of mobile phones and PDA and their effect on productivity in the workplace


3. Evaluate the Internet as a tool in the recruitment process.


4. The social and ethical issues of outsourcing. What are the trends? Where is it happening? What sorts of companies are currently outsourcing? What are the ethical issues that companies are faced with? What are the social issues?


5. Due to the increased use of ICT in the office, jobs are getting easier. Discuss this statement.

Health Task DP2

1. Pick any of the news articles on health in the following link http://www.ehealthnews.eu/ and Prepare a presentation following the format below

a) Describe the technology
b) State any social/ethical issues arising
c) State the effects of the technology
d) Desrcibe at least a solution to a single problem identified.

2.
a) What is meant by the term ‘telemedicine’?

b) Outline the different tasks the doctor can do with telemedicine.

c) Describe the different hardware and software requirements for successful telemedicine.

d) Find a range of news articles that mention telemedicine – what issues are raised in these articles.
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20060424005120&newsLang=en
http://bjournal.com/2005/content/article_views.php?ID=1300&Author=121
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20060419005571&newsLang=en
http://www.kfmb.com/features/healthcast/story.php?id=44895
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/4313353.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3727779.stm

e) Privacy of patient information is always a concern for both patients and doctors. Create a table below which included the possible risks for data being accessed by unauthorized people and the solutions to this