Report: Modern Management Complexity, Challenges, and Solutions

This report delves into the complexities of modern management, emphasizing the dynamic nature of the modern business environment driven by globalization, technological advancements, and evolving customer needs. It highlights the challenges faced by organizations in maintaining competitive advantage, including the need for innovation, quality, and effective stakeholder management. The report analyzes how modern management has become a complex system, creating paradoxical stresses and tensions for leaders. It also presents an email example discussing project timelines and negotiations. The paper underscores the importance of adapting to fast-paced changes and the critical role of managers in navigating these complexities for organizational success, supported by relevant references.

Week/Task One – Critical Thinking
Table of Contents
Complexity of modern management and why this is a problem today........................................................2
Challenges and complexities.......................................................................................................................3
Email...........................................................................................................................................................4

Complexity of modern management and why this is a problem today.
The modern era is dynamic in relation to business and commerce. There is consistent fast paced
changes all around, fast changes in industrial movements, globalization and new customer needs
which all sum up together to make business organizations bring new thought process while
performing their functions for achieving competitive advantage. The entire world is a single
global village today (Anonymous, 2015). For building up business organizations which will be
successful modern management needs to keep up to modern new trends, concepts methods and
principles which will cause high competition in the marketplace. The modern revolution of
“managerial” area requires every manger to use modern methods and means which will help
organizations prepare well to combat modern nature of challenges (Baum & Joel, 2012).It is only
those management systems which are always ready to face robust changes by suing modern
competitive methods which will bring continuous improvement which stands out ultimately.
One of the greatest challenges of leadership in the modern world is facing paradoxical stresses
and tensions. Business organizations today are driven by both the paradoxes of processes and
culture (Lavine, 2014).
However during such changing times the enormous pressure which is created on the
management for maintaining competitive advantage is never ending. The paper focuses on
analyzing how for the sake of competitive modern management has become a complex system
and it is actually a problem today. By definition there is no specific description that can be given
to modern management (Nevins, 2017). Management existing in every business organization is
responsible for developing the organization. In the modern commercial world management is a
tool every organization must have. Rivalry in between business enterprises has enhanced
dramatically over the last few decades in the world. The peer pressure given by organizations
located globally for ensuring better usage of resources and bringing better results and make
enhanced performances is high. Managers as a result today are learning fast how to cope with
such fast changes (Sharma, 2013). Instead of enterprise managers become innovative and

creative in their ideas they simply react and make prompt changes to face up to the high
competition levels. As a result many times organizations fail.
Challenges and complexities
 The fastness of change is accelerated in the modern world.
 Operations today are more globalized
 Information technology today is much more varied.
 Workforce is diverse
 Changing from industrial knowledge to social knowledge is complex.
 Market fluctuations
 Changes in the economy
 For organizations innovation and quality are of vital importance
 Stakeholder interest enhancement
 Managerial environment is much more complex in the modern world (Masic, 2001).
Such complexities are a problem today. Scholars are of the opinion that even transforming from
one century to another has caused a lot of complexity, paradox and ambiguity to leadership. This
is because the focus has shifted from only making good quality products and fulfilling consumer
needs to a system where everyone is running to be the number one leader in the global
marketplace (Jones & George, 2008). Building up of competitive advantages using ethical
means and at the same time using advanced technology and managing the entire human resource
and combating global economical crisis diligently management has become a complex set of
business practice. Instead of the management driving the company further up it is the various
external factors such as fast technological changes which are driving organizations.

Email
To
Colonel Williams, Date- 10.8.2017
Subject –Negotiating the due date for micronisation as per last meeting
Respected Sir,
This is Leonard and team from the research team. As per our last meeting Colonel the
mcirosination of the innovation was committed to be made in just 2 weeks by our team member.
We do understand that you require it to be less big than what we have showed you earlier. We
are aware that your team quoted you a four weeks time for the project and our reaction was to get
it done in two weeks time.
We wanted to inform you that we over estimated the duration and gave you a wrong quote. After
ding an internal research we did find our mistakes and would like to convey that to you Sir.
Given an opportunity our team would like to get the work done in four weeks of time. We would
match the work up to your level of expectations as well.
We hope that you will understand the inexperience we had in the commercial aspect of the
innovation’s application which made us wrongly quote you the time. Anything lesser than four
week, will be too much a work pressure for the team. Moreover the work needs to be made and
tested and retested to ensure that it is working as per the quality requirements. If needed, we can

schedule another meeting with you where we can discuss the intricate details of the subject. We
will be waiting to know further from you in this regard.
From
Leonard
References
Anonymous, (2015). Innovation Management. Retrieved from
http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2015/04/27/five-forces-of-complexity-and-change
Baum, H. G. & Joel, A. C. (2012). Management Challenges in a New Time. Academy of
Management Journal, 45(4), p961-1030.
Jones, G. R & George, J. M. (2008). Modern management, Global communications. (2nd ed.).
Russia: Skopje.
Lavine, M. (2014). Paradoxical Leadership and the Competing Values Framework. The Journal
of Applied Behavioral Science, 50(2), p189-.
Masic, B. (2001). Strategic management. (1st ed.). Belgrade: Routledge.
Nevins, M. .D. (2017). Strategy+business. Retrieved 10 August, 2017, from
https://www.strategy-business.com/article/19405?gko=3b347
Sharma, A. (2013). Management under Fire. Business Management Journal, 4(2), p1-50.