org, 2010). The WTO oversees negotiations on the various agreements. The organization also provides a dispute resolution mechanism for member countries engaged in trade with one another.
The World Trade Organization is primarily good for the United States. As the world's largest economy, the U.S. has a high degree of bargaining power during WTO negotiations. As a result of this, the United States is able to tailor the trade agreements made under the WTO to the needs of the country. This has allowed U.S. trade to continually expand. The United States worked to bring China into the WTO in order to build stronger trade links with that country and works with other nations to get them into the WTO as well. The WTO provides a dispute resolution mechanism, which is one of the major reasons why the U.S. wanted to bring China into the organization. Having such mechanisms allows the U.S. To defend its own interests in world trade (Lynch, 2010).
5) One discipline that will contribute to the development of organizational management is going to be human resources. As we move towards an information-based society, it is more important to find ways to better use this critical resource. There are a lot of areas of where HR will contribute to management. By identifying, retaining and motivating key people, the organization will gain greater control over its information. Managing people equates to managing information, and this equates to managing the organization.
One technology that will contribute to the development of OM in the future is remote communications. Organizations will increasingly need to find ways to maintain strong communication links with their employees even as those employees are located remotely, all over the world.
At present, remote communications is often a patchwork of phone, Internet and text communications. In the future, technology will better integrate these different technologies into something that is more cohesive and immediate than any of them are at present. Such...
Organizations will need to become flatter, but they will also have more and stronger communication links in order to facilitate interaction. The transition period may also put organizations up against legal restrictions on the flow of workers and the use of remote workers, as the legal frameworks have not kept pace with the development of communications and the different opportunities that it affords. Organizations will also need to adjust faster to changes in their environment, and the flatter system and greater communication possibilities will drive greater change and demand the need for more flexible organizations.
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