Effect of Technology Acceptance Among Employees in the Second Half of Their Working Life
摘要
Integration of technology into the workspace is a continuous process which has a major impact in the manner of functioning. It is essential to make the employees ready in accepting and integrating technology in their work. The present study explores the effect of socio-demographic factors like age, job designation, educational qualification and years of experience of employees who are in their second half of working life on the acceptance of technology integrated in the organisation. Four dimensions of acceptance of technology was considered namely usefulness of technology integrated at work, user-friendliness of new technology, availability of training and organisational support. The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), was applied as the grounded theory for the present study. Survey method was integrated where 250 structured questionnaires were distributed to the supervisors and clerical employees of three manufacturing organisations, out of which 225 were further processed for percentage analysis, chi-square and the correlation coefficient test. It was observed that organisations should adopt technology which is useful as well as user friendly. Providing sufficient training and organisational support will make the acceptance effective. Management can use the insights of the study to adopt use-friendly technology, provide sufficient training programs for employees of different age groups, educational backgrounds, years of experience and designation to ensure acceptancy.