Discussion Board on Changes in Management: The outside environment and globalization
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You are a manager in a large, global manufacturing and services organization. You're trying to explain to your grandfather how different your job is from his. You both know how society has changed and and you want to explain how that has changed management. Go to the Discussion Board and post your thoughts on how management has changed with respect to one of the following areas:
? Organizational culture
? The outside environment
? Globalization
? Corporate responsibility and ethics
? Society and trends (such as diversity)
(In this solution, we address the outside environment as well as Globalization.)
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The world is a shrinking environment when it comes to business and interaction between individuals. 50 years ago there was relatively little in the way of high-speed air transportation that was not military in nature. Television was just on the verge of becoming widespread and of course there was no such thing as a personal computer or the internet.
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In society today, it is almost impractical for a medium to large size company not to consider globalization in one aspect or another. Even for the companies that do most of there product sales on a local level, parts, supplies, and other items are most likely produced and imported from places around the world. ...
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