ADMS 1000 Chapter : ADMS 1000 10 - changing contexts.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 1000
• Professor: Sung Kwon

Document Summary

Forces for change: economic changes, downsizing during economic downturns, changes in employer employee relationship shift from long term employment to temporary and part time to improve performance and bottom line results, change in pattern of career movement shift from vertical to lateral (horizontal movement) flattening of hierarchies, competitive changes, competition evolves from fragmented and fast growing to concentrated and declining, domestic and foreign competition accelerated innovation among firms, organizations must continually create new and better methods of serving customers, technological changes, technology is a continuously changing variable and both permits and demands organizational change, can create new industries and destroy old ones, contributed to more flexibility in work arrangements, labour force changes, increasingly diverse workforce designated groups, aging workers, changing purpose of unions, global changes, globalization gave rise to borderless corporations, globalization has also influenced profound changes in the relationship of business to its external stakeholders (society or community)