What can Managers do to help ease the psychological work-performance effects due to our growing autonomous, social media-driven society?
Is the increasingly popular contemporary management style effective given our changing society?
The contemporary management style has been increasingly growing more popular over the traditional management style.
At the same time, we have been experiencing a growing autonomous and social-media plugged-in society.
The vast benefits of contemporary management styles can clearly be seen. However, when you look at the concerns and potential negatives associated with our growing automation and social media use, we begin to see problems in contemporary management theory.
The movement to a contemporary management style that calls for employees to make decisions for themselves and be more innovative while working in cross-functional teams is arguably a good thing. Employees can now have a work-life balance and be free of the bureaucracy that comes with a hierarchy of management. Information is free-flowing and available readily at our fingertips. (The differences between traditional and contemporary…
