How has management changed?

Question

Here is the senerio:
You are a manager in a large, global manufacturing and services organization. You're trying to explain to your grandfather how different your job is from his. You both know how society has changed and and you want to explain how that has changed management.
how management has changed with respect to one of the following areas:

Organizational culture
The outside environment
Globalization
Corporate responsibility and ethics
Society and trends (such as diversity)


I was just looking for a website that might give me an insight as to how management was then and how things have changed for us now.

Thanks in advanced.

Answer 1

Probably the biggest change is that visionary ideas decades ago are now commonplace. But really, in many respects things haven't changed as much as your question implies. 60+ years have brought a more diverse workplace, but recall that World War II left many women & minorities with a different view of their place in the world; now that view is largely reality.
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The text that follows is from the website below. Dr Deming's 14 Principles (see the website) will likely sound familiar to every modern corporate executive. Granted, his ideas developed in the 30s & 40s met no interest in the U.S., so he took them to Japan and made history.
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Dr. W. Edwards Deming is known as the father of the Japanese post-war industrial revival and was regarded by many as the leading quality guru in the United States. He passed on in 1993.

Trained as a statistician, his expertise was used during World War II to assist the United States in its effort to improve the quality of war materials.

He was invited to Japan at the end of World War II by Japanese industrial leaders and engineers. They asked Dr. Deming how long it would take to shift the perception of the world from the existing paradigm that Japan produced cheap, shoddy imitations to one of producing innovative quality products.

Dr. Deming told the group that if they would follow his directions, they could achieve the desired outcome in five years. Few of the leaders believed him. But they were ashamed to say so and would be embarrassed if they failed to follow his suggestions.
As Dr. Deming told it, "They surprised me and did it in four years."

Answer 2

Corporations which were well managed during my time ( grandfather) and those that are well managed today adhere to fulfilling their responsibilities to employees, customers, the community, their environment and their shareholders in an ethical manner. I'm not blowing smoke. Quality standards are much stricter, competition is global and profits are carefully monitored, civic responsibilities are more numerous and critics do not understand the contributions of corps.