Jobs Ideally Suited for Virtual Workplaces
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Jobs Ideally Suited for Virtual Workplaces
Innovations and technological advancements are sparking radical changes in organizations and corporations. The 21st Century Corporation offers a whole turn of image or an organization incomparable to those of the 20th century. According to Cascio (2013), these changes in organizations are as a result of several factors arising from changes in operations technological shifts. These factors presents in several ways with the emergence of the internet giving an open space to every individual at workplace irrespective of the position with the ability to access different information as they may feel like as seen in Savage (2014).
The internet has presented organizations and their employees advancements which are applicable in the operations for the success of the organization and the improvement of performance. This has then brought several changes in human resource management and the structure and organization of the whole corporate and corporate world. Companies now should be able to understand the sophisticated employees and the unique roles they present to the groups and provide them with an environment favorable for them to perform their functions.
The companies should also however understand the need for change, in the organization, staffing, operations among different functions and realize the realities that the century shifts present. There are of late different organizations coming up with an example being virtual organization where members come together for a particular course as in Nolapro (2014), conduct their business and disband the organizations. The advancements have been made possible by the internet that allows for the transfer of bulky files, emailing and instant messaging, teleconferencing and videoconferencing without necessarily undertaking physical meetings.
Areas such consultancy, legal operations, sales, marketing, human resource, project engineering and sponsored researches are ideally suited for virtual workplaces. In these cases, a person doesn’t need to travel from one point to another in order to accomplish tasks. A law fellow can grant injunctions and petitions through teleconference facilities of email services. Sales and marketing are also ideal in exploiting internet advantage to suit in virtual workplaces as seen in Casio (2013). E-commerce has come up in the recent past offering platforms for traders and businesses to provide for their services online and avail their products to the consumers without the consumers necessarily travelling to acquire them.
With these advancements, managers need to provide flexibility for the employees in order for them to enjoy what they are doing and embrace the corporate other than the past rigid systems as explained by Savage (2010). Satellite branches, work from home and online transfer of events and transactions are some of the advantages that are exploited. Therefore, place, people and processes are integrated with order to achieve a perfect organization in this changing time.
Human resource functions such as that of knowledge sharing to improve coordination and reduce the cost of team works can be formed in virtual environment. Multilevel communication across the organizations enhanced with result oriented environment for the employees can also be virtualized. This is done so as the delivery of quality by the employees outweigh the traditional physical presence mentality other than quality duty. The human resource can also virtualize the team work competence programs that will facilitate efficiency in the project virtual teams. The traditional organizations on the other hand need to evolve their objectives from short term to long term and strategic. The form of organizational coordination should also be restructure into a multiphase as opposed to top down system as strategic thinking and goal setting techniques are implemented.