Challenges to Overcoming Organizational Problem in a Multinational Company

Introduction:

Organizations achieve their goals by creating, communicating and operating an organizational behavior system. These systems exist in every organization, but sometimes in varying forms. They have a greater chance of being successful, though, if they have been consciously created and regularly examined and updated to meet new and emerging conditions.

The primary purposes of organizational behavior systems are to identify and then help manipulate the major human and organizational variables that affect the results organizations are trying to achieve. For some of these variables, managers can exert some control over them. The outcomes, or and results, are typically measured in various forms of three basic criteria: performance (e.g. quantity and quality of products and services; level of customer services), employee satisfaction (often exhibited through lower absenteeism, tardiness, or turnover), or Personal growth and development (the acquisition of lifelong knowledge and skills leading to continued employability.

A number of critical changes and challenges faced by managers today. Let’s compare today’s work environment with that of ten years ago. Prepare a list of six to eight items, and include a rationale for your choices.

There are numerous items that you might have identified from your own work experience and your knowledge of organizational issues. Let’s review some of the possibilities.

1. Globalization:

Certainly the emergence of a ‘borderless’ world has had a tremendous impact on the way organizations behave. They are no longer insulated from foreign competition, and this has forced organizations to examine cost efficiencies, structure, job design, human capital, and many other sources of effectiveness and competitiveness.

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