Critical Thinking Option #2: Morieux and a Self‐Reflection Essay

Organization Management
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Why Traditional Organizational Methods Are Obsolete
Morieux terms the hard and soft approaches of management to be obsolete. He further blames these approaches for the low production experienced in many companies (Morieux, 2013). According to Frans (2013), most structures in organizations have evolved under various executives. The structural adjustments have been used to accommodate new strategies, special projects, technologies, and services. Job descriptions and working relationships have been undergoing periodic changes due to pressures of centralization and decentralization. The arguments made by Morieux are thus valid. The hard and soft approaches were functional in the past, but now, the approaches are outdated and dysfunctional. This is because organizations are evolving to simpler approaches to management.
The changes that are happening to organizations call for speed and flexibility. An appropriate approach to these changes might be to break the organization into small business units. However, doing so makes an organization to be more complex, which Morieux is against. Another alternative might involve partitioning organizations into focused groups and expanding the management hierarchy to coordinate the groups, which would be expensive (Frans, 2013). Therefore, replacing the old techniques of hard and soft management will not be able to work. This calls for new reforms in management that deviate from the two traditional pillars of management. The new management approaches should promote high teamwork performance amongst specialists in an organization. The approaches should be able to adapt to the ever-changing business environment. The new approaches to management should be dynamic, responsive, and customer-oriented. Just like the way products are designed to evolve according to customer preferences, it is the same way management approaches should be changing.
The Role of Simplicity at Workplace
Simplicity in the workplace has several advantages to an employee. Such advantages include clarity, focus, elimination, effectiveness, and tranquility. Simplicity promotes focus by encouraging the directness of purpose and expression. This contributes to the capability of how an individual can achieve goals, accomplish ambitions, and how to realize the ambitions. Focus is hard to achieve for a long time. Keeping things simple at the workplace can make an individual focus for longer hours without difficulties. Eliminations involve stress and exhaustion at work, which often lead to complicated health conditions. A simple workplace benefits the employees by eradicating stress and exhaustion. Simplicity also promotes effectiveness in production. Having a simple workplace infuses an individual's life with tranquility, thereby focusing on actions with very clear goals (Sid, 2019).
The following are ways of simplifying the work environment. The first option is by the use of technology. Technology is well known to overwhelm employees. However, technology shouldn't just be used for its sake, but rather should be deployed to simplify work. The second method is by going green. The world has transformed into a new era where papers are n...