Globalization and the Challenges of Managers (Gender, Work Experience, Education Level)

Certainly, the features of the present era, which is called information era, include rapid changes and evolutions in all aspects of human life. Globalization phenomenon is one of these changes in human life in realm of economy. Globalization gradually makes the organizations all over the world incur growing changes in their structure and content. However, lack of coordination with these changes and failure to properly predict them lead to failure of organizations in fulfilling their objectives. This has created new challenges for managers and made them provide proper organizational structure and behaviour with these situations. They always refer to the fact that the necessity for globalization is to have global behaviour in a new and modern structure and it is not possible to fight with new markets by previous and old behaviour. This issue leads to presence of various work forces, new technologies and more competition in markets. In the present era, managers should be ready to deal with new environmental and organizational situations by acquiring multifaceted skills and attraction of knowledge-oriented work force with high cultural diversity. Thus, leading companies and organizations are those who can predict these triple changes and revolution sooner and in optimum condition, the organizations of new era can establish these revolutions in their own benefit with the help of their managers. Thus, this paper seeks to investigate the conditions of new era for managers and organizations and study their challenges and problems to be able to achieve a proper solution for this era.