Tuesday, March 6, 2012

New-Style Old-Style

Describe new-style and old-style organizations, and list three keys to managing geographically dispersed employees in virtual organizations.
New-Style or old-style, which do you vote for? New-style means learning is important for employee’s not just managers and the depth of learning can take place on a higher level not just work related but emotionally, physically and for some companies a spiritual or transformation level. The whole person is important and not the fact that the person shows up and is ready to work, but a whole another work dynamic is in place so people actually have fun at their jobs and that meaning comes from the work that person does. Product customer service oriented as opposed to old-style functional, team-oriented rather than focus just on the individual, skills oriented instead of job oriented and information can be found in many different ways especially since we have quick access to the web. We can look up what is going to be on TV, who is going to be running for President and find information on all types of business related topics from someone who has had the same experience as what we are learning. I was watching TV last night and I was amazed to hear that Mitt Romney is living in the town of Wolfeboro where I went to school when I was growing up, I knew there was a lot of money in that town but I had no idea it would draw someone who was going to be running for President. 

The three keys to managing geographically dispersed employees are sharing knowledge, building trust and maintaining connectedness (Kinicki & Kreitner, 2009).  I went online and found a power point by the authors of our textbook and I believe for me at least that when I see things in a different way I get the meaning more and it is really worth checking out if you still have questions to work on. Kinicki and Kreitner also suggest a few other things that are helpful which include hire people carefully, no matter where the person lives working remotely from home is more common now and communications skills is a must, conduct regular audits, use technology as a tool and not a weapon and lastly to achieve a workable balance between online and live training (Kinicki & Kreitner PowerPoint, 2012).
Kinicki, A., & Kreitner, R.  (2009). Organizational Behavior: Key Concepts, Skills &
            Best Practices (customized 4th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Irwin
Kinicki, A., & Kreitner, R. (2012, January 12). Chapter 15 PowerPoint. Retrieved
          from classes.bus.oregonstate.edu/summer-06/ba352/../Chapter 15.ppt

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