The Need for an Interdisciplinary Approach in Human Relations

This paper supports the need of an interdisciplinary approach when it comes to human relations. Our world is constantly changing and increasingly interconnected and interdependent. In order to advance in today’s environment every individual and organization must remain flexible in dealing with the rapidly evolving world. Individuals today face an unprecedented range of social, scientific, economic, cultural, environmental, political, and technological issues and constant changes. These changes can bring about organizational changes within our society, our companies, and can also bring about impacts to individual behaviors that cannot be seen in a single discipline. These changes are constant and evolving and require a more modern approach to understanding and keeping up with these changes. Communications networks exchange information around the globe, creating new forms of collaboration and transforming the nature of work. This means that each organization must be against attempts to create a single framework when considering human relations. Though each of the disciplines by themselves can provide distinct contributions and conceptions of problems, it cannot be enough. Two hundred years ago industrialism was seen as the best and only course of managing. The best man for the job gave way to scientific and behavioral management movements. In today’s military environment we can see a requirement for unified purpose and relative perspective as well as the adaptability to modern times. This requires a multidisciplinary approach containing complementary contributions. The most important challenges faced by interdisciplinary activities in the past two decades can be divided into "professional", "organizational," and "cultural" obstacles. On a professional level managers are more accessible today than ever before in our history. The impact of today’s communications is staggering. On any given day I am able to ‘chat’ with any one or several of my