Contemporary Workplace Case Study

Challenges of the Contemporary Workplace

Exploring modern challenges and ways managers can overcome them.

Introduction

The steady march of time heralds many changes to what we perceive as the traditional workplace. steady roles and reliable traditions and behaviours of management too must change so that their workplace remains effective and competitive. This essay details two significant changes that most workplaces are, or will, face and the challenges they bring. These challenges are the effects of increasing job mobility, and the diversification of the workforce. This essay also suggests ways that these challenges can be met by modern theories of management detailed below.

Decreasing Mean Job Tenure

Thorough analyses of comparable labour

By ensuring that workers are selected based on competencies and trained for their role, without any bias or prejudice, a manager can foster a meritocratic environment, where colleagues can recognise everyone’s value to the organization.

Conclusion

Changing workplaces clearly require managers to adapt and blend management techniques to best deal with different challenges - no one management technique can accurately address existing challenges and adapt to meet new ones. Questions of job turnover may be addressed with behavioural techniques that attack loss of job satisfaction as a cause for voluntary cease of tenure, but their are other causes for job turnover, that may be addressed more properly by other management techniques. Some issues arising in a diverse workforce can be mitigated with classical methods, but classical management methods are certainly not appropriate for all challenges in a diverse workplace

A manager that is aware of, and practiced in a range of management techniques including Classical Management theories and Behavioural Management approaches may develop an individual and sophisticated management borrowing ideas and knowledge from their learnings to address their unique