Now employees will have to think outside the box. Following procedures in a stiff hierarchy will no longer cut it. Corporations will have to focus on results, and the most valued staff will be those who can produce them. But the speed of e-commerce will put pressure on firms to increase efficiency. A new breed of managers will be needed to see that it happens.
Modern management is all about winning hearts and minds.
The successful managers will be those people who can get other employees to work willingly rather than grudgingly. These trends are already evident in the U.S. Millions of cubicle-bound workers there have seen their careers cut short by new technology. The promise of lifetime employment has been snatched away along with the traditional notions of rigidly defined roles. Instead, what they look for are people with the ability to find a role for themselves that best suits the company. For the Asian worker of the future, this new paradigm entails embracing technology as a means to career advancement, not rejecting it as the cause of unemployment.