MGT 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 67: Stress Management, Outsourcing

• School: Ball State University
• Department: Management
• Course: MGT 500
• Professor: Ronda Smith

Document Summary

You should strategically think about the career you choose and look to learn and create opportunities that can utilize your career skills, hard work ethic, and resilience/adaptation to handling stress. There isn"t a company that is in a stable environment. Almost every organization has to adjust to: multicultural environments, demographic changes. Organizations that are considered successful are: fast on their feet, capable of rapidly developing new products, getting product to the market quickly. Basically, these organizations are flexible and need equally responsive and flexible workforces. This means that organizations have to adjust product and marketing strategies on a continuous basis to be more sensitive to evolving social trends. Some organizations treat all changes as an accident. First, it looks to improve the organization"s ability to adapt to environmental changes. Second, it looks to change behavior in employees. Change agents are responsible for managing activities dealing with change.