Contemporary Management Issues in the 21st Century

Contemporary
Management Issues In
the 21st Century

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Management Issues refers to the problems which can be faced by the managers of the
organizations which can create an impact on them and therefore affect by the functioning of the
organizations (Bambi, Iozzo and Lucchini, 2020). This report is based on MD Solutions. It is a
company which is facing Management Issues related to Work From Home. In this report, a
detailed and specific focus will be made on the Work From Home Model.
MAIN BODY
Challenges of leading and managing staff working remotely from the office-
Work from home: It is the concept in which human resources do their official job from
home rather than getting work done from office. Work from home offers pliable hours to the
manpower to get their official work done easily. During Covid19 crisis work from home was
important to alleviate the spread of virus as large number of employees were not able to shuttle
to work (Capodaglio and Olsson, 2020). The situation creates challenges for employers of MD
Solution in leading and managing their working staff that are performing their job from their
homes. Some of the challenges faced by employers of MD Solution are described as follows:
 Lack of coordination: During Covid19 employers of MD Solutions were facing
problems in coordinating their human resources and because of which their productivity
starts declining (Di Beneditto, Moreira and Siciliano, 2021). Lack of coordination
between employers and its employees causes troubles in making business decision. It also
results in less productivity of company which brings negative impact on its brand image.
 Unable to track performance: In pandemic situation, administrators of MD Solutions
were not able to track the performance of their employees (Ellafi and et.al., 2020). They
were also not having any type of software by which they can track the performance and
hence were facing problem. Absence of tracking performance makes employees lenient
and because of which they were not contributing their performance properly. This creates
a problem for employers of company as they have to solve their problems alone without
support of their employees.
 Improper communication: While working from home during economic lockdown,
employees belong to rural areas had sometimes network connection problem. Because of
which managers of MD Solutions were not able to communicate with them properly and
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