Management Assignment
Introduction
Recently, workplace flexibility has been an important issue in management. Flexibility is about an employee and an employer making changes to when, where and how a person will work to better meet individual and business needs (Workplace Flexibility 2011).
Flexible work arrangements are a broad concept that includes any work arrangements that digress from standard employment involving fixed daily hours on the employer’s premises (Gardiner and Tomlinson 2009). It involves flexible working hours, part-time work, variable year employment, part year employment, remote working, job sharing, and phased retirement.
With the entry of millions Generation Y into the workplace, organizations have to change their workplace according to the new generation. For these new 20-something workers, the line between work and home doesn’t really exist (Trunk 2007). With tremendous options instead of instant employment after graduation, the Gen Y is pressuring organizations to consider about work-life balance.
There are all kinds of organization today that have a structure between mechanistic and organic. However, they all slightly incline to a certain structure; from very organic organization like Zappos to a more mechanistic one like McDonald’s. This case study will look into mechanistic and organic organizations, how flexible work arrangements flourished, advantages of the flexibility and how to ensure productivity of working from home.
1. Explain the terms organic and mechanistic in relation to organisations.
Organic Organisation
Organic organisations are most often found in dynamic and uncertain environments. Nevertheless, they are more complex and harder to structure. Their rules and procedures tend to be few, are defined broadly, loosely, and are often informal.
The Salvation Army is an example of an organic structure. The organisation does not have a complex structure although its branches are located worldwide. It encourages
Recently, workplace flexibility has been an important issue in management. Flexibility is about an employee and an employer making changes to when, where and how a person will work to better meet individual and business needs (Workplace Flexibility 2011).
Flexible work arrangements are a broad concept that includes any work arrangements that digress from standard employment involving fixed daily hours on the employer’s premises (Gardiner and Tomlinson 2009). It involves flexible working hours, part-time work, variable year employment, part year employment, remote working, job sharing, and phased retirement.
With the entry of millions Generation Y into the workplace, organizations have to change their workplace according to the new generation. For these new 20-something workers, the line between work and home doesn’t really exist (Trunk 2007). With tremendous options instead of instant employment after graduation, the Gen Y is pressuring organizations to consider about work-life balance.
There are all kinds of organization today that have a structure between mechanistic and organic. However, they all slightly incline to a certain structure; from very organic organization like Zappos to a more mechanistic one like McDonald’s. This case study will look into mechanistic and organic organizations, how flexible work arrangements flourished, advantages of the flexibility and how to ensure productivity of working from home.
1. Explain the terms organic and mechanistic in relation to organisations.
Organic Organisation
Organic organisations are most often found in dynamic and uncertain environments. Nevertheless, they are more complex and harder to structure. Their rules and procedures tend to be few, are defined broadly, loosely, and are often informal.
The Salvation Army is an example of an organic structure. The organisation does not have a complex structure although its branches are located worldwide. It encourages