Organizational Management
Definition
Organizational management is referred to the process by which an organization is run to achieve its set purpose, goals, and objectives. It refers to the organization, planning, leadership, workforce management and how the resources of the organization are utilized to achieve set targets. It encapsulates the decision-making process which should ensure that effective policies are generated to run the organization and that the decisions made are beneficial to the organization (Machado & Davim, 2016).
Summary
The article titled, “The effects of globalization on the transformation of organizational management” was written by Alexandru Rizescu who is a faculty member at “Nicolae Balcescu” Land Foreces Academy in Sibiu, Romania and Cosmin Tileaga who is a faculty member at “Lucian Blaga” University in Sibiu, Romania.
In today’s world, companies can no longer survive by having a national outlook due to the increasing interconnectedness of the world. Companies must strive to cater to people from different cultural and political backgrounds. For companies to be successful in the international markets, the companies must move from a competition-based business model to that of cooperation and they should also be willing to change their mission and visions to reflect a global outlook.
Organizational culture must also change to reflect globalization, and thus organizations should be ready to change their structures, form of property, the types of technology they use and even their managerial strategy. All this is meant to adapt the company to survive in the global marketplace which is made up of people of different religions, political creeds, races and socioeconomic status.
Discussion
The article is relating how an organization should adapt itself to have a global outlook. In the global arena, every business is political since politics is part of the world. Global companies can be affected by political events occurring in any corner of the world. Hence it is essential for the management to be prepared as to what actions they will take based on different political circumstances.
Since the organizations are becoming global, it is essential to have a plan of action as to how the organization will satisfy different customers from different parts of the world. This forces an organization to reconsider and improve the services it provides or the goods that it manufactures (Cox & Blake, 1991).
Globalization also forces companies to rethink on how they hire their personnel. The management should ensure to hire people from different races and ethnic backgrounds and that there is a gender balance throughout the hiring and promotion processes. This enables the companies to reflect their global nature. The hiring of people from all over the world will also improve the flow of ideas at the organization and make the organization better adapted to navigating periods of economic downturns (Cox & Blake, 1991).
Globalization leads to the spread of technology and in instances such as multi-national companies, the spread of technology in 3rd world countries helps to change the organizational management in those countries. Organizations in third world countries get exposed to new technologies and methods of service delivery from their technologically advanced counterparts.
Biblical integration
Proverbs 15:22, “Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisors, they succeed.” This is in reference to the fact that globalization forces a company to have many outlooks from different individuals which has an overall effect of making the organization better adapted to achieving its goal while at the same time expanding its market share. The fact that plans fail without counsel should make the leaders of any organization draw a well thought out plan on how to develop the organization to the international front.
References
Cox, T. H., & Blake, S. (1991). Managing Cultural Diversity: Implications for Organizational Competitiveness. The Executive, 5(3), 45-56.
Machado, C., & Davim, J. (2016). Organizational Management: Policies and Practices. Palgrave Macmillan.
