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Author: Kadence Buchanan
Due to the growing complexity and turbulence of the business environment and the related growth in research knowledge about behavior within organizations, managers of the 21st century have to take four themes as paramount: the necessity of managing the challenges of change; functioning within a global
Because of accelerated shifts in global competition and technology, there is a tendency for organizations to become less mechanistic and more organic (flexible). Bureaucracy, which for decades promoted efficiency and predictability through rules and control, is yielding to practices that create greater employee involvement and adaptation. With organic involvement come flatter structures and a wider span of control for managers. As firms will create a lean structure, they will become able to cope with its increasing size and respond to environmental conditions.
From the stand point of the individual, job satisfaction is an internal state that leads to the pursuit of objectives. From the standpoint of the manager, it is the mean though which subordinates will ( Next Page )
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