Organisational Issues: Collaborative Overload and Algorithms Need Managers

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In the constantly changing global economy and technology there is a drastic change in
the workplace culture. Be it at the western countries or in the far east. The workplace culture
has been changing as there is a high demand for collaboration among the employees which is
the main reason why the managers are encouraging the employees to increase engagement
with their colleagues and indulge in the teamwork. The chief idea of collaborative work
culture is to increase productivity among the employees. through collaboration, the creativity
increases and knowledge gap is reduced. The people who indulge in the teamwork needs
strong sense of connection with the organization but often the top collaborators feel detached
with their organizations. There are many reasons of employee turnover but when the most
experienced employees leave the firms, it hampers the organization it its core.
In the article ‘Collaborative overload’ by Cross, Rebele and Grant, suggests that there
remains huge gap among the employees which is purely based on the knowledge gap among
them. Some employees possess better and more resources, some do not. This is the reason
they visit to the former and request for guiding them in a particular task. However, the
employees who possess more resources may or may not be willing to help. In their case the
mangers encourage the employees of the firm to share knowledge and respond the request of
others. However, this collaborative method of working becomes overload for the
collaborators. They gradually become the bottleneck of the firms which prevents the fir to
grow progressively. In this article, the authors have discussed the issues emerging from
teamwork and collaboration and recommended the ideas what must the managers of current
situation may do when such problems emerge in their organizations. Therefore, it can be said
that everything what happens in the firm can be controlled by the managers.
Similarly, in the article ‘Algorithms need managers, too’, Luca, Kleinberg and
Mullainathan have suggested that in this technological world, when each and every work
performed in a company relates with technology. Due to globalization, the technological

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advancement has supported the firms to increase their revenue through increasing their
production and for increasing production, these firms are constantly replacing their human
workers and employing machines. This technical advancement has made it possible that they
can predict in every department thus help the mangers or leaders to understand the deficit
then work to limit the gap. “companies today are turning more and more to
computer algorithms, which perform step-by-step analytical operations at
incredible speed and scale” (Luca, Kleinberg and Mullainathan 2016). However, there
are numerous bans and boons of computer algorithms The prediction by the computer
algorithms, help the companies to set the perfect goal then measure their progress. Based on
the perfect predictions, the companies can make decisions needed immediately. However, the
over dependence on the algorithms, the firms often fail to maintain these complicacies and
the fundamental problems emerge. The authors of this particular article have also
recommended these issues to avoid which mainly advice the managers to me become more
engaging with the technologies, know what the organization needs to flourish and then
humanize these algorithms. This is because, if one elements proved wrong, the entire
prediction will be wrong. hence the algorithms need the supervision of the mangers just like
the human employees.
Why is there a wide knowledge gap among the employees?
In the current setting of the organization, the employees need various types of
resources as the consumption of most valuable resources. In the industries like
manufacturing, IT, retail, automobile and contraction industries have been flourishing due to
globalization and doing business in the farthest of the countries. In this aspect the employees
are needed to be empowered with different of resources so that they can complete the tasks
perfectly. In some cases, one particular task may not be performed by the employees as they
do not have any prior experience about the task or no training on that particular subject.