Explain how technology can be used as a form of control in an organization using a Postmodernist perspective?

Explain how technology can be used as a form of control in an organization using a Postmodernist perspective?



Overt form of control: technological designs builds behavioral demands directly into production systems. Technology can discipline workers for example surveillance tapes, but this takes away truth and justice towards efficiency and rationality. Efficiency logic is often bolstered by the institutional myth that efficiency serves rationality (form of control). Knowledge becomes a commodity, only relevant if it can be translated into information. Power struggles will occur over the control of information. People are being monitored by cyberveillance. A means of greater democratic resistance.


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