Challenges and opportunities

A quick look at few dramatic changes now taking place in organization

1. Old employee getting old
2. Corporate Downsizing
3. Temporary working employees
4. Global competition
5. War on terror
In short there are lot of challenges and opportunities today for managers to OB concepts.

1. Globalization to Respond
Organizations are no longer constrained by national borders, world become global
village.
• Increased foreign assignment
Transferred to your employer’s operating division in another country, Once
there, you’ll have to manage workforce, aspiration from employees, and
attitudes from those you are used to back home
• Working with different people
Working with bosses, peers and other employees who were born and raised
in different culture, to work effectively with them you’ve to understand how
their culture, geographic and religion have shaped them.
• Coping with Anti-capitalism backlash
“soak the rich” means fine should be charged with respect of income you
earn. Managers at global companies have come to realize that economic
values are not universally transferable, need to modify by managers to
reflect economic values in those countries they’re working.
• Overseeing Movement of jobs to countries with low cost labor
In a global economy, jobs tend to flow to places where lower cost provide
business firms with a comparative advantages
• Managing people During the war on terror
An understanding of OB topics such as emotions, motivation, communication
and leadership can help managers to deal more effectively with their
employees’ fear about terrorism

2. Managing workforce diversity

The people in organization are becoming heterogeneous demographically, Workforce
diversity= whereas globalization focuses on differences between people from
different countries, mix of people in terms of gender, age, race, and sexual
orientation.
Embracing diversity
Changing US demographics
Changing management philosophy
Recognizing and responding to difference

3. Improving Quality and productivity

World added capacity in response to increase demand. Excess capacity translate in
increase competition, is forcing managers to reduce costs and, at the same time;
improve the organization quality and productivity.

4. Improving Customer service

OB can contribute to improving an organization’ performance by showing that how
employees’ attitude and behavior are associated with customer satisfaction.
5. Improving people skills
Designing motivating jobs, how creating effective teams, techniques for improving
interpersonal skills

6. Stimulating innovation and change

Victory will go the organization the maintain their flexibility, continually improve their
quality and beat their competition in market place. An organization’s employees can
be major block in change, the challenge to the manager to stimulate their creativity
and tolerance for change.

7. Coping with Temporariness

Survival for the organization, is need to move fast and flexible and innovative in their
products, jobs are redesigned, task are done by flexibility, trained old employees
with new technology, better understanding of change, overcome resistance to
change, create organizational culture

8. Working in network organization

Global working through one link i.e. INTERNET, technology changes the people to
work together and communicate at thousand miles, people can work from their home
and non office locations.

9. Helping employees Balance work-life conflicts

Flexible Working hours, reporting time, creating opportunities for employees, job
security, design workplace and jobs

10.Creating positive Work Environment

Human strength, vitality, right person appointed at right place, effort on what good
for organization.

11.Improving Ethical Behavior

Manager shouldn’t place an order on which subordinate don’t agree
Define clearly the right and wrong conduct
Fair policy and appropriate system
Increase confidence and trust over organization
Have some logic against order you place to employees