Management and Organization Dynamics in the Global Environment

This essay delves into the dynamics of management and organization within the global environment, focusing on Frederick Winslow Taylor's scientific management theory (Taylorism) and its application by Henry Ford at the Ford Motor Company to enhance labor productivity. It further examines Thomas Friedman's concept of globalization and the 'flat world,' analyzing the three distinct eras of globalization and the implications of increased global competition. The essay discusses the challenges and opportunities presented by these theories and concepts, particularly in the context of modern business operations, highlighting the need for adaptability and innovation in a rapidly evolving global landscape. It concludes by emphasizing the importance of individual initiative and strategic collaboration in navigating the complexities of the contemporary global business environment. Desklib offers a wealth of similar resources for students seeking to deepen their understanding.

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Executive Summary
Scientific management theory is a framework of Frederick Winslow Taylor to improve the
economic efficiency of the labor productivity. The Ford Motor Company founded by Henry Ford
and was incorporated in 1903. It is an American Multinational Automaker company
headquartered in Dearborn, United States and Michigan. Henry Ford adopted the Taylorism
theory to improve economic efficiency of the labor. The world is flat is a book by Thomas
Friedman where he analyzed the increase of globalization and many countries being part of the
large global complex. The world is flat in the sense the industrial and emerging market countries
are becoming leveled undergoing 3 era where the first starts from 1492-1800; era 2 from 1800-
2000 and the third era as from 2000 till now and even in the future.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Discussion........................................................................................................................................3
Week 1.........................................................................................................................................3
Week 2.........................................................................................................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
Reference.........................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
The Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford and he adapted the theory of
Taylorism created by Frederick Winslow Taylor to measure the workflow of his labor in order to
increase his profit and give out more salary to the efficient workmen (Urick, Adams and Smith
2017). Thomas Friedman states the three era of globalization where it reveals that the world is
flat in the sense the individuals are collaborating and competing with other individual on a global
basis (Ghemawat 2017). The discussion below in the report will discuss the activity of week 1
and week 2 in brief and throwing light on the concepts of the Ford and Taylorism theory and
Thomas Friedman on globalization and the three different era of the global world along with the
iron rule that states that the world is flat.
Discussion
Week 1
Scientific management theory was framed by Frederick Winslow Taylor. The theory is
sometimes also known as Taylorism. This theory analyses workflows of the labors productivity
in order to improve efficiency of productivity. The theory founded that individual workers are
more productive if the assigned task to them were according to their capabilities and strengths
which will increase productivity. Henry Ford with his visionary ideas formed a company which
manufactured cars incorporated in the year 1903 (Ford Corporate, 2018). The company was
named as the Ford Motor Company. Henry Ford was the first to use the theory in his
manufacturing company (Uddin and Hossain 2015). Therefore, Ford and Taylorism initiated the

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idea of massive production. In short, the theory focuses on both higher wages for the workmen
and higher productivity leading higher profits for the company.
The American and Australian or European employees would not accept the Taylorism
theory in their workplace because these countries are more towards the individualism in nature
resulting to the want of freedom and empowerment (Hoover and Nash 2016). In addition, with
change in time, technology and automation has changed which in turn creates less chances of
applying the theory. The call centers aim to make the maximum calls or increase the sales which
are somewhat similar for each of its employees. The theory Ford and Taylorism can be used in
this type organization to measure the productivity and performance of each of the employees
working (Waring 2016). Similarly, this theory can be used in any organization where the need to
analyze the performance of the employees according to their assigned job is required.
However, the theory used long years back but if applied in present business world, there
are chances of higher productivity or in some cases dissatisfaction among the employees
resulting into low production. In the present time, the employees are more inspire with a
challenging environment with raised salaries in their workplace which enhance to increase in
quantitative productivity. On the other hand, team work efforts are more emerging as an
important trend in global business environment. Hence, some of the aspects of the theory can be
implemented in the global business operations.
Week 2
Thomas Friedman analyzes three main eras of globalization as, era 1 from 1492-1800
which states that when the world was run by states and looked upon the conditions which their
country can offer; era 2 from 1800-2000 reveals that the countries in this globalization offered

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and looked upon to compete in the global level with their companies and the final third era as
from 2000 to present time and foresees the future as well where each individual competes for his
or her benefit with other individual (Huang 2015).
The flat world is a risk to the living in the present time considering the third era where the
individual are busy competing with each other. According to Thomas Friedman whatever is
about to be done it is done at any cost. In simple words, the idea to innovate will be
accomplished by any of the individual from whole world. Therefore the competitive advantage
has to be earned by each of the people with their own effort (Books 2017). The iron rule of
Thomas Friedman of the world being flat in the third era of globalization where it is found to be
uniform across the world but creates obstacle in the path of execution of any idea as each
individual think of their own benefit. In spite of standing individual and competing still each
individual works in a group to achieve the target but contribute the best among all.
However, the flat world makes it clear that the individual has to compete with each other on the
basis of their own idea and effort in order to collaborate and represent and implement his or her
idea successfully. Execution of idea will have risk while implementing it but some people who
overcome can innovate and implement it appropriately. Each individual has their own capability
to integrate and dynamically bring change and impact on the whole world. There is a global
competition where each one has to be a part of the possibility.

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Conclusion
From the above discourse, based on the Ford and Taylorism theory it can be concluded
that it analyses the labor’s productivity to improve efficiency. The organization in the present
world can use some aspects of the theory which focuses on to gain high salary for the workmen’s
work contribution and for the company’s profit. From the Friedman’s world is flat approach it is
concluded that the present century is the 3.0 era from among the three eras of globalization.
There are many risk associated with it. In this era if an individual does not analyze and progress
with his or her own idea then someone else will take the idea and will earn the benefit.

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Ghemawat, P., 2017. 11 Why managers still need to take account of comparative
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