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EMERGING TRENDS IN ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
A. Globalization
1. Definition
a. Occurs when an organization extends its activities to other parts of the world, actively participates in other markets, and competes against organizations located in other countries.
2. Implications for organizational behavior
a. Requires new structures and different forms of communication to assist the organization's global reach.
b. Creates new career opportunities and potentially brings in new knowledge to improve the organization's competitive advantage.
c. Emphasizes the need to recognize the contingencies of effective OB practices in different cultures.
B. The Changing Work Force
1. Trends
a. Increase of minorities in the workforce.
b. Increase of a multicultural workforce due to an increasing demographic diversity.
c. Greater difficulty in discussing ethic differences as inter-racial marriages increase.
d. Increasing representation of women in the workforce.
e. More job security expected by baby boomers-people born between 1946 and 1964.
f. Less loyalty to one organization expressed by Gen-Xers-people born between 1964 and 1977.
g. Impact of how Generation-Y employees -those born in the decade or so since 1979-affect the workplace.
2. How diversity impacts organizational behavior
a. Can lead to a competitive advantage by improving decision-ma ...