Managers in the new millennium face new challenges. They need
to update themselves in multidimensional fields so that they can
accomplish the desired results in the competitive business environment.
Present day Managers face new
and different types of challenges
like increasing concern for social
good, information technology, ever
changing internal and external
environment, development of communication
tools, increasing competition
and awareness among the work
force about quality of work life.
The Quality of Working Life
(QWL) program, which is a system
approach to job design, is a promising
development in the broad area of
job enrichment. It is an interdisciplinary
field of enquiry and action combined
with the industrial and organizational
psychology/sociology, industrial
engineering, organization theory
and development, motivation and
leadership theory and industrial relations1.
Managers regard it as a promising
way of dealing with the challenges
of stagnating productivity.
The predictions about how managers
are going to handle and meet the
new millennium challenges are varied.
The negative critics state that social
institutions are entering into the
age of self-destruction, while the positive
predictors say that we are entering
into a new era in which people
and social institutions will not only
be happier, but will also create more
prosperity and productivity. Managers
need to work smarter (rather than
harder) at generating the type of performance
that will permit the organization
to survive and grow. For this,
they will need better insight and understanding
of human nature in the
existing global perspective, plus develop
fine skills and ability to get the
best out of their subordinates. In addition,
managers have to develop
positive vision, foresight, perseverance
and drive. They need to be creators
than mere managers. |
