Work and organisation

Question : Discuss about the Work and Organisation of Management ? Answer : Introduction There has been a drastic change in the nature of the workplace. The workplace had a stable environment earlier and the employees coordinated effectively with the business. However, in the recent times the working conditions in the organisations have changes to a great extent. Tesla Motors is an automaker in America that specializes in electric cars. The organisation has witnessed a number of changes in the work environment over the years. Tesla has been experiencing certain issues in the organisation due to the changing nature of work that affects the organisational productivity as whole. Identification of the changing nature of work Tesla Motors deals with the manufacturing of cars since 2003. There have been a number of changes that the stakeholders of the company have witnessed. The company now implements five different joining methods for giving shape to the car (Tesla 2016). The initial product of the company was to produce high performance electric sports car. However, the managers have a long-term plan to build a wide range of models that includes family cars at affordable price. The company yet believes that the human effort plays an important role in the organisation, as without the guidance of the engineers, the robots and its use will be ineffective. The visible changes in Tesla are as follows: Technology: The Company has implemented advanced technologies in the manufacturing process in order to increase the efficiency and the productivity level. There are about 160 total robots that work together in a coordinated manner on order to produce a car within 3 to 4 days span. Outsourcing: The managers of the company are now able to identify the activities that are important in the company and those that are not. Tesla has been reported to use few free agents who comes into the project in order to provide specific expertise that helps to improve the skills of the labours. Changing worker attitudes and values: In the earlier days, employees used to stay connected to one job all throughout their lives. The Bureau of Labour Statistics indicates that the organisational life expectancy is 3.5 years (Hershcovis and Reich 2013). The employees in Tesla have been following the trend. They are in constant search for the better jobs and thus the number of turnover in the organisation increases. Demographic and diversity: The worker in Tesla changes and so does the ideas and the techniques in working in the company. The managers of the company introduce new ideas into the workplaces depending upon the diversity present in the workplace (Stone and Arthurs 2013). Hence, the company undergoes noticeable changes in the work place frequently. Predicted changes in the upcoming years According to J. Cole, Oliver and Blaviesciunaite (2014), the pace at which Tesla Motor is experiencing change in the nature of workplace there are heavy chances for some innovation to come up in the organisation in the future days. The company predicts to create Environment Protection Agency (EPA) in the coming years. As per the consideration of Tesla, the future generation will be prioritising the new scientific discoveries apart from the war and thus EPA would play an important role. The company further aims toward cheap energy and management of natural resources in order to become the topmost contributor in the world. On the other hand, O'Neil (2014) mentioned that the introduction of innovative robots in the workplace will increase that will be capable of producing the products at a much faster rate and efficient manner. Thus, human effort will be almost replaced by the innovative technologies in the future days. The organisation however is likely to face a number of issues as a result of the change in the nature of the workplace. Thus, it is important for the managers of Tesla to consider strategies that will help them to deal with the change in the workplace nature in an effective manner. At the start of 2018, the company aims to produce 500,000 electric cars, which is 10 times the number of cars produced in 2015. Moreover, the company has certain odd predictions regarding the fuel-less passenger flying machines. Tesla witnessed change in the gender relation and considered it as one of the precursor for the coming matriarchy in future. Marsick and Watkins (2015) argue that this is a change in the organisation that cannot be considered to have a positive impact on the organisation. Although the owner of the company considered development to be inevitable, he argued that the society needs to continue suppressing and discriminating the women for the welfare of the organisation and the society (Yang et al. 2016). Implications of these changes The changes in the nature of the workplace of Tesla have both positive as well as negative impact on the employees and the managers working. The innovation and the use of the robots reduce the need for the labor force that de-motivates the employees. As opined by Harris (2015), this further causes the employees to seek for other job where the value for human skills and efforts are high. The managers thus have to consider implementation of effective strategies that help to retain the employees and maintain the productivity level. The change in the technology supports the management level and the employees of Tesla as they are able to obtain and share the knowledge that allows performing the organizational activities easily and at a faster rate. Additionally engagement of the employees throughout the transformation of the company increases the productivity level of the employees and the overall company (Palsdottir, Grahn and Persson 2014). There are new rules or the seven shifts in the age of opportunity within the organisation. The first shift is the change from mechanical to organic. The shift indicates that the people are not machines even though the new generation intends to create mechanistic fashion. The second shift is closed to open. Even though the industrial age created technological and social development, Harris (2015) argued that the environment could not be conductive to creativity despite protection being necessary. The third shift is siloing to meshing that infers that the landscape has become very complex and requires discipline to be merged in. There is a collision of information, domains, practices, ideas, philosophies and tools. The fourth shift is from linear to multiples, it states that success is defined by arranging our lives as per the work, family and education. The fifth shift is from data to patterns while the sixth shift is from scarcity to abundance. The final shift states the shift from p ast to the future according to which successful ideas and models will be playing an important role in future. Recommendation Tesla goes through a number of issues due to the change in the workplace nature that are capable of bringing down the organizational performance and hence cause sustainability risk for the company. The managers need to consider strategies that effectively address the behavioral issues in Tesla such as job satisfaction, engagement, equity, motivation, recognition and decision making. Tesla needs to operate the organizational activities based on the current cultural situation of the company. This will help the managers to manager and minimize few of the existing behavioral issues. The behavior pattern of the employees has to be changed by the managers so that there is scope for the mind-set of the employees to follow the direction of the changes (Brown, Barton and Gladwell 2013). The managers of Tesla thus needs to consider strategies such as effective education and training for the employees, introduce personal counseling, monitoring the implementation in order to improve manage the changes in the workplace in an effective manner. Furthermore, focusing on the critical behavior of the employees is another effective way to minimize the adverse impact of the behavioral issues in the organization. Conclusion Tesla Motors is one of the well-known organizations that have been working in the market at a stable pace for the past few years. However, in the recent years the company has experienced a number changes in the nature of workplace that have affected the organization to a significant extent. The managers of the company thus need to manage the changes effectively in order to achieve the best possible outcome for the organization. References Brown, D.K., Barton, J.L. and Gladwell, V.F., 2013. Viewing nature scenes positively affects recovery of autonomic function following acute-mental stress. Environmental science technology, 47(11), pp.5562-5569. Harris, R., 2015. The changing nature of the workplace and the future of office space. Journal of Property Investment Finance, 33(5), pp.424-435. 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