Chapter 28. Achieving Best Fit

Judith M. Bardwick, Ph.D.

At the dawn of the 21st century, we find a much broader range of organizational characteristics, a wider range of people's attributes, and a greater insistence on individuality than we have seen before. As a result, the tasks of management in the 21st century will be much more complicated and customized than they were in the 20th.

While many fundamental economic conditions are changing, they are changing at different rates in different places and in different industries. The result is a range of basic economic circumstances. Because of the diversity of fundamental conditions, there is also a broad range of basic practices, values, and expectations among different organizations. This broadened ...

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