New world of work

Abstract

We live in an age of change, unbalanced change. One computer generation succeeds another at the virtual drop of a hat. No sooner have we digested the silicon‐chip than our appetites are whetted with bio‐technology. The rate of technological progress, in the industrialised world is quite shattering. By comparison organisational change is proceeding at a snail's pace. A thousand years ago organisations, that is the church, the government and the army, were formed on hierarchical lines. In other words, there were those who ruled and those who were ruled. Things have changed but slowly since. Our major organizations are still run along largely hierarchical lines. But there are changes in the wind.

Citation

LESSEM, R. (1982), "New world of work", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 14 No. 10, pp. 332-337. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb003909