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Details: 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 before he retired ten years ago. You both know how society has changed and you want to explain how that has changed management. Select two of the five topics listed below, and discuss how management has changed, with respect to both of the topics you selected. Use of real world examples would be appropriate.

Organizational culture
The outside environment
Globalization
Corporate responsibility and ethics
Society and trends (such as diversity)

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This solution discusses changes to your job due organizational culture and globalization in 785 words.

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Organizational Culture

The organizational culture is quite different today in comparison to even a short ten years ago. Organizations of the past were mainly bricks and mortar and many were located in the communities which provided the bulk of their employees. Today managers often have never met, face to face, some of the employees they manage. The managers of the past measured employee contribution by the number of hours they spent in the physical location which was the workplace. Now the work environment is defined differently. Managers today oversee the work of subordinates in different countries and only see those employees Online through video conferencing or hear them on conference calls. This means of remote management did not seem possible ten years ago.

Organizations of today unite their employees through a common vision. In the past, corporations cultivated organizational culture through activities which involved all the employees being in the same location at the same time, doing the same thing, such as play a softball game or have a staff picnic. These days employees speaking different languages and working from remote ...

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