They cover some of the critical changes that have occurred in business such as a shift from mass marketing to target markets, from individual employees to work teams, from big companies with big bureaucracy to flat organizations with lean bureaucracy. The workforce is changing in race, age and education level. The changing nature of doing business Work and its methods are changing for workers. Employees have increased decision-making power and responsibility, which is an attribute of lean organizational structures. As stated in the beginning of this essay, technology and science are creeping further and further into the core of businesses causing their own outcomes.
Businesses are global now instead of national.
Goods sold are rarely from one country. Parts are often made in several different countries and assembled in another. These outcomes include increased expenditures on the technology but also increased quality of life and productivity. Couple this change with mergers and alliances and it is no wonder businesses are catapulting towards faster changes every year. Oblinger and Verville thought this pace of change is causing businesses to be more ambiguous to its workers with multiple management styles and reduced supervision of workers.