Research Paper on:
Contemporary Organization and Collaborative Individualism

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and how to do it to a more humanistic approach where human relations became a focal point to a systems approach and then, to collaboration and participatory decision making. Corporations  as a whole have changed from being dominated by physical tasks and mechanical technology to being dominated by more complex intellectual tasks. The work environment has also changed dramatically over  these decades. Industrialization brought machinery and assembly lines where workers did their individual tasks all day but research and their resultant theories regarding productivity and quality of life led the  corporate world to establish work environments that empowered and validated the worker in any number of ways. Advanced technology has further changed the organization as well as the work  environment. Today, corporations are competing in a global marketplace, one that is dynamic and where what worked yesterday may not work tomorrow. Companies have been adopting new strategies and techniques  to achieve a competitive advantage in this fiercely competitive environment and how best to use their resources. What has come from the research is that it is the human element  that will create the greatest competitive advantage, in other words, the greatest and most powerful resource any company has is its employees. Until the global market took over as the  key factor in business, companies were organized in a variety of ways ranging from the traditional concepts to the systems model. The assumptions inherent in the systems model were: interdependence  within the organization; alignment between the organization and the environment; holism, which promotes the organization being perceived as a whole rather than as individual parts; rationality and logic; and teamwork  that promoted tightly coupled, interlocking groups of employees (Chorn, nd). While logic, rationality and analysis are essential in the well-run organization, if too much emphasis is placed on these