Beyond Glass Ceilings and Brick Walls - International Labour ...

knowledge and creativity. The only place where an organization will find
this resource is within its employees.
ii. The coming sellers market and the new competition for the best employees.
iii.The gradual diminishing of middle management. The computer will make
fewer people do many tasks and middle management will be made
redundant.
iv.The continuing entrepreneurial revolution.
v. The emergence of the new variegated workforce. The workforce is
becoming younger, better educated, and increasingly female.
vi.The demographic revolution of working women. Changes taking place
in society will mean that all women will work except for a few months
or years where they will take time off for child bearing and caring.
Women are reinventing career patterns and motherhood and lifestyles.
vii.The growing use of intuition and vision. The use of intuition in
management is now being recognized as a powerful management
tool. Leaders are drawing on their vision to guide the creation of new
structures.
viii.The mismatch between the education system and the needs of the
new information society. The need for differently skilled young
graduates is creating new alliances between business and education.
ix.The rising importance of corporate health issues.
x. The value of the baby boomers, those born between 1946 and 1964,
who are now populating the ranks of management. The values of this
generation of managers will influence the way in which organizations
are managed. They are more educated, socially liberal, and health
conscious than other generations. These values will have a bearing
on the corporate sector. (Naisbitt and Aburdene 1985)
Efficiency in organizations, especially in the private sector, has been decided
in the form of short term profits, specialization of functions for greater
effectiveness, and recognition of capital as the most important factors in
determining their success. But today these are looked at in a different manner.
Strategic management emerges as a holistic and rational approach that
considers all the factors required for effective organizational management and
the different time frames associated with achieving different organizational goals.
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