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Running Head: WORK AND ORGANISATIONSWork and organisationsName of the StudentName of the University Author Note

1WORK AND ORGANISATIONSTopic- "The changing nature of workplace"IntroductionThe assignment deals with the changing nature of the workplace. The workplace waspredominantly stable in 1990 with many staff staying in the organisation. This trend has changeddrastically in compared to the present workplace culture. It will be discussed in the papercomprehensively. The paper discusses the implications of these changes specially the workplaceskills and for management, requires to sustain the change. As a manager evaluative conclusionswill be drawn. DiscussionIf the work life is compared today from what it was in 40 years ago clearly there will beno Starbucks everywhere or Smartphone in every pocket. The work culture was significantlydifferent. As per Worrall et al. (2016), the organisations today have work that is more team-based and collaborative. The work type is more dependent on technological competence, and ismore cognitive complex. The work place change is due to change in nature of work. The workpattern today is more dependent on mobile and less on geography. The organisation that peoplework in toady is likely to be different due to several other factors. Workplace today has morecognitive pressure and includes technological breakthroughs. Organisations today are morefocused on finding value from consumers and workers. Workplace are more agile and learner. One can find that organisations today are lesshierarchical in structure. Decision authority is quite prominent in today’s workplaces. It isobserved that they are more inclined towards dynamic competitive requirements and strategy.

2WORK AND ORGANISATIONSThe ultimate goal of the organisations is to maintain high profit market or win competitiveadvantage thus; they are less likely to provide job security. Due to competitive pressure there ischanges in job profile and thus no company provides life long careers (Alias et al. 2014). The are several key drivers pointed by the organisational theorists, which seems tocontribute to this changing nature of work. Two of the main drivers are- Firstly, the aim of anenterprise to become lean. Secondly, growth in mobile technologies, that separate work fromtime and space. The principles of the lean enterprise include eliminating the non-value addedactivities in the organisations. It also refers to eliminating the waste and inefficiencies in support.This model encouraged organisations to change rapidly as per the market. Thus, theorganisations reduced the cycle time, are developing the mass communication process. Theseprinciples help in supporting the continual change and innovation, thereby improving theefficiency of the internal processes (Grint and Woolgar 2013). There is a much strain on workers facing management and in response to the neworganisational models and technologies. The workers in organizations today experiencecognitive incompetence, social and interactive incompetence. From workers perspectives, theliterature evidence highlights that workers tend to choose jobs that fetch more money in lesstime. Workers tend to focus on what is easy instead of what is more important (Kraft & Grace,2016). Workers tend to lack well-developed social skills, which is required in today’sorganisations preferring more collaboration and collective activity. Workers face dilemma duringconflict resolution, relationship development and networking. In the collaborative settings, thefate of the workers is bound to collective success (Brewer et al., 2017). It might be discomfortingfor the workers not being recognised for the individual responsibility and individualachievement. Present organisations do not practice, respecting the workers’ participation,

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