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CHAPTER 7: Crowdsourcing Opportunities and Challanges - Coggle Diagram
CHAPTER 7:
Crowdsourcing Opportunities and Challanges
1.0 The Opportunities and Challenges of Organizaton
Wider pool of resources and access to a pool or skills from all over the world.
Acquire faster execution without having to hire or/and train new employees
Highly match the needs and solution of the tasks
Reduce workers gap in certain sectors
It can grow and shrink according to the organization needs
Employees can enter or exit the crowd sourcing without any significant transaction cost
Not involve with any administration costs.
May open up new labour market rather than replace the existing workers.
Employers may lose some control over the work.
Less concerned with meeting specification and adhering to policies beside ensure the quality of the product.
CHALLENGES OF ORGANIZATIONS:-
Awareness and acceptance by employers to employ crowd worker.
Lack of trust.
Difficulties in ensuring the quality.
2.0 The Opportunities and Challenges of Platform Operators
-. Platforms that connected the firms with enormous number of workers
First stop to find demand crowd labour.
Organizations and workers can interact and negotiate prior to entering a transaction.
Utilize the talents who still want to contribute to the economy.
Improve the productivity of local talents
CHALLENGES OF PLATFORM OPERATORS
Infrastructure : where the basic physical and organizational structure and facilities.
Lack of Awareness & Acceptance
No established national minimum standard, which reduce the credibility of markets.
LOCAL SCENARIO
Lack of experienced talents
Lack of auto mechanism
The payment mechanism
Cyber crimes instilled fear and reduced confidence in crowd sourcing platforms.
3.0 The Opportunities and Challenges of Crowd workers
OPPORTUNITIES
Generate income
The workers has the flexible in terms of time, location and duration.
Expand their social and professional and network
Improve the productivity of local talents
CHALLANGES
No protection of the employments law
Computer or mobile device reasonably fast internet connection
Ability to do something well expertise
Tasks are few and far between
Develop countries can work directly for firms around the globe
Low skills level for urban and rural areas and places.
The attitude of the workers
The workers motivation to do the tasks such as financial incentives
4.0 Recommended Solutions
Organizations
Standards and gudelines
Online quality-assurance mechanisms
Mandating satisfaction clauses
Privacy or nondisclosure policies
Crowd workers
Workers could boycott their employers
Ongoing training for communities that have moderate level of skills
Subsidized fees for further training
Platform
Standard and guidelines
Local scenario
Provide skills training
Ongoing training for community that have moderate level of skills
Subsidized fees for further training
Providing financial assistance
Providing trusted Internet facilities
5.0 Ethical Issues in Crowd sourcing
Pay low wages because of spend long hours on the website
Company exploit the public for their own benefit.
Lack of law protecting and distributing ownership
People that not realize they have been exploited by company
The workers earn no benefits and enjoy no job security