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FUTURE TRENDS IN MANAGEMENT

20 November, 2015 - 17:25

(1) A shift from an ethnocentric or regiocentric viewpoint to a geocentric viewpoint

(2) A shift from sequential to synchronous operations

(3) A shift from a centralized or a decentralized approach to a strategy of unity-in-diversity

(4) A shift from a view of management as an economic activity to a view of management as a political activity

(5) A shift from cutthroat competition to cooperative competition

SOURCES: Patricia Sanders and Andrzej K. Kozminski, "Emerging Global Management Styles," Proceedings of the Second International Conference of the Eastern Academy of Management, Athens, Greece, June 14-18, 1987, 107-111; Kenichi Ohmae, Triad Power: The Coming Shape of Global Competition (New York: Macmillan, 1985).