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CHANGING THE CONTEXT OF MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONS
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CHANGING THE CONTEXT OF MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONS
“Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet.”
(Hackbart-Dean, 2012)
Since its existence, our world is continuously changing, bringing new technological
innovations and advancements each day. The pace of change in our lives increases beyond
expectations fuelled by scientific and technological developments, changing our way of perceiving
the world (Brauns, 2013). The evolution of business has achieved the milestone of making life
easy and comfortable. Companies worldwide provide different goods and services to make life
easier. Still, any business’s success depends entirely on the practical strategic plan that is executed
effectively. Along with that, effective leadership is what drives the organization’s business to lead
the market. Organizational management and business environment are interlinked with each other
and are responsible for any organization’s success. Organizational management goes beyond the
corporate structure because it requires leaders to develop specific techniques to solve issues to
achieve business goals (Leonard, 2018).
Organizational management is the process of communicating, coordinating, and
accomplishing actions while keeping corporate objectives in mind. Additionally, it involves
managing relationships with stakeholders, technologies, and other artifacts within the
organization, making it successful (Clegg et al., 2019). Now, the world has made it necessary for
organizations to adopt the change to ensure their survival. According to Sanborn, a manager's
success in life is based not only on the ability to enhance and change but also to change sooner
than your competitors, customers, or business (Monroe & Pagliari, 2008). Business change is
essential as it allows a company to adapt to its environmental changes to improve its market
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position. The past few years have entirely changed the business procedures and trends.
Organizations need to respond effectively to keep their name alive in the market; they must be
urged to change because of the continuously changing technology world, constantly evolving
customer needs, changing global economy, etc. (Small Business, 2020).
Organizational design is now the top priority of management worldwide because of
increased global competition and pressure due to the continuous use of advanced information
technology. Nowadays, managers focus on digging out new strategies and improved business
trends to motivate employees and coordinate work activities effectively to increase the
organization’s wealth(Brauns, 2013). Changing the context of management and organizations
shows various effects on the business. The management and organization context changing is
associated with different vital factors, such as technology, decision-making with power and
politics, leadership styles, and culture and diversity. This essay will emphasize each key factor
related to context change and how business organizations respond to them.
Technological Impact on Management and Organizations.
Technological innovations have made our life much more comfortable and straightforward
than before. Technology plays an essential part in business organizations. Technology is crucial
because the organization that fails to advance in technology is at the potential risk of lagging in
the present competitive global market. Joan Woodward initially illustrated the technology and
organization relationship in the mid-1960s. She was the first person to view the organizational
structure from a technological point of view. Every organization utilizes technology in various
forms for their business, which has a necessary and crucial effect on an organization’s nature,
design, structure, and working. The technology’s scope that an organization can adopt or employ
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is vast, ranging from simple things to investing in the latest computer-aided manufacturing
machinery(Ahmad, 2014). In our recent era, information and communication technology is
consistently changing the manner of business’s value creation, working ways and places, and the
method of interacting and communicating with each other (Cascio & Montealegre, 2016).
Technological changes have various impacts on an organization’s management. It also
influences the organization’s design in many ways. Techno-structural activities are concerned with
the organization’s structure, whereas inter-relationships between design and technology are related
to people on the job. Technological changes can help reduce cost, improve product quality and
productivity, and motivate employees to develop creative and unique approaches towards
problems. It allows organizations to minimize the cost per hire. Nowadays, technological changes
have changed organizations’ payment system as everyone receives their payment directly into
bank accounts. Furthermore, it dramatically improves the workflow and set new organizational
behaviors to help companies achieve the ultimate goal of success(Ahmad, 2014).
Technological change creates a platform for possible global cooperation, communication,
and implementation of new solutions. Technological changes in organizations have rapidly
increased the significance of an organization’s non-material resources with time. Nowadays,
information and communication technology (ICT) is regarded as the fundamental component for
organizations’ successful functioning, primarily virtual organizations. It is vital in implementing
technological tools, internet communication, and resource planning within the organizations
(Bulińska-Stangrecka, 2016).
Artificial intelligence, cloud database, blockchain management are the real changes seen
in organizations across the globe. Now managers need to develop specific skills and approaches
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to cope with the technological changes to maintain the organizational operation. Managers need
to create a sense of urgency to have a clear eye on the goal. They need to explain and train
employees to motivate them to cope with technological changes like artificial intelligence.
Feedback, progression, and innovation are crucial for managers to run a successful business
(Andriotis, 2017). Proper education and training related to technological changes at the right time
could have benefited organizations struggling to adjust to changes, but it’s never too late to start
learning.
Impact of Decision-Making with Power and Politics in Organizations.
One of the critical factors associated with an organization’s success is the decision-making
process. It is a process of making decisions towards the strategic direction. It involved the
development of action plans to implement and the control forms to evaluate their results. The
corporate decision-making process is primarily used to solve issues like problematic search,
incremental solution, dynamic non-linear reiteration, etc. The organization managers use a
perfectly well-organized, rational, and logical process for decision-making. The three models to
make decisions are rational, bounded rational, the garbage can, etc. The managers worldwide use
the rational model to identify the problem, collect information, weigh the solution, and then choose
and implement a solution. The second method is bounded-rationality, in which the problem is hard
to identify because of limited information resources and other factors. The third decision-making
process is organized based on different factors, such as problematic preference, unclear
technology, and fluid participation. (Clegg et al., 2019).
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