This document discusses challenges and opportunities for organizational behaviors. Some of the key challenges mentioned include globalization leading to increased competition, resistance to change from continuous innovation, and declining employee loyalty. However, the document also notes opportunities such as using advanced information technology to foster knowledge creation and sharing, stimulating creativity through new learning approaches, and designing workplaces and jobs to better balance work and life conflicts. Overall, the document examines how organizations can address diverse workforces, ethical dilemmas, and unpredictability while empowering employees and ensuring customer satisfaction.

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2. Challenges Opportunities
• Globalization
global competition
• Advanced Information
Technology
knowledge creation and
sharing
-need to understand
different cultures:
develop new behaviors
-impact on org’n
structure: how to
design individual jobs:
reengineering;
benchmarking

3. Challenges Opportunities
• Continuous innovation
and change
resistance to change
-change in what and
how we learn:
stimulating creativity;
retraining
• Customer satisfaction
quality products and
services
-including employees
in planning changes
• Time pressures: tough
competition
cutting corners: ethical
dilemmas
-helping employees
sort out ethical
ambiguous situations

4. Challenges Opportunities
• Employee
empowerment
-giving up and taking
responsibility
• Balancing work
life conflicts:
stress
-designing work places
and jobs
• Declining
employee loyalty
-motivating workers

5. Challenges Opportunities
• Temporariness:
short-term stability
-learning to live with
unpredictability
• Work diversity
background; gender;
age; inclination;
lifestyles; values;
ethnicity; culture; work
styles; family needs;
personal goals
-recognizing and
addressing individual
differences to ensure
productivity; creativity;
innovation and
retention