MODERN ORGANIZATION AND TRADITIONAL ORGANIZATION

Modern Organization VS Traditional

Today there are two main flows of organization run concurrently; One Traditional Organization, established in between 20th century another is Modern Organization emerged in this ongoing century. There are huge differences between these two trends. Why the traditional organization criticizes the modern as a misguided and vulnerable organization? What’s the real fact?

Generally the meaning of organization is an entity comprising multiple people, such as an institution or an association that has a collective goal and is linked to an external environment.

Traditional organization represent the organizational structure in a business is hierarchical, meaning power flows vertically and upward, and employees are departmentalized. All employees follow a chain of command. Such as a manager is the chief coordinator of all department. Each department has a head who report to the manager. Like the military system-very hierarchical, organized, disciplined. Every department has its own rules and regulations as well as and every employee has own job description and accountability to his superior. There’s strictly follow their own business strategy that’s set in annual economic year. All the goal achievement plan are set before and difficult to change. Always traditional organization is fixed and rigid.

Modern Organization means a boundaryless organization which are networking together and collaborating more than ever before. They are well-suited for rapid innovation and therefore ideal for companies in the growing technology industry. Its main concept is to diversify its activities and connectivity as a result it can accept new challenges and can set a goal frequently. Modern style of management largely depends on soft skills – consensus building, relationships, listening, and understanding, taking the team along with you willingly than dragging them along with you.

The main points of disagreement:

Stability: People believe that traditional organizations are stable in their activities and progress. On the other hand modern one is more dynamic with its multiple business strategy. They need multiple progress and constant changes.

Flexibility: Modern Organizations are always flexible to change their workflow, focuses as well as connectivity. There the organization is need to update their competitive advantages and the employees are required to upgrade their knowledge and skills. Traditional Organizations are fixed, inflexible and planned.

Hierarchy: Modern Organizations flow “Flat Hierarchy” and Traditional flow “Tall Hierarchy”

Teamwork: Team work is the main concept of modern organization. The organization who build more effective team can gain more. On the other hand a traditional one follows a chain of command where every employee should be obeyed to his superior.

Employee Morale: As an employee of a modern organization get more freedom and flexibility to exchange his or her assessment. Consequently in this type of organization you find high employee morale. Traditional is a job oriented organization so you are not sure about the matter of employee morale.

Risk Management: Traditional organization maintain a specific policy to protect any kind of risk that would be hampered for the organization or its employees. So employees are more educated about the matter thus can take any step. Modern organization are slightly brave in this matter. Though they are always ready to take new challenges so everyone here prepared to face any risk instantly.

Diversification: Moreover the main contradiction between the modern and traditional organization is their business policies. Traditional organizations are slightly conservative and they try to follow traditional rules and regulation. They always flow a static business strategy and make a workflow model maintaining a traditional marketing policy and employee management system. A modern organization is doi