The need to use the best possible resources will further the emphasis on hiring disabled and minority employees. Technology will help to make these employees effective and efficient contributors to the organization. Changing work habit patterns will require organizations to create alternative work processes for their employees. Many of these processes, such as telecommuting and virtual offices, are technology-based interventions. Accountability will continue to be a major issue at all levels of the organization.
Technology helps provide the necessary structure to determine accountability.
The learner Learner control is an issue that has been gaining in emphasis for a number of years. Technology will provide increasing control to learners, not only over when things are learned, but also how they are learned and even what is important to be learned for specific jobs and situations. Individual responsibility for personal development is the new philosophy of development specialists. Many new programs and opportunities for individual development will be possible because of advances in learning technology. The technology Web-based training through internal and external networks will become a standard as problems with bandwidth and speed are solved.