Post Bureaucratic Era Case Study

The practices in MANAGING CULTURES have changed in the post-bureaucratic era.

With globalisation, Gen X to Gen Y in the 21st Century, cultural diversity has definitely changed the practices in managing cultures in today’s day. The post-bureaucratic era have shown an increase in cultural diversity in workplaces. This essay will explore the changes in managing culture in the post-bureaucratic era, as well as its impacts, through a variety of sources. Joanna Brewis’s (2007) article discusses the different approaches to organisational culture through two perspectives; the mainstream and the critical perspective. In addition to this, Michael Rosen’s (1988) article, You asked for it: Christmas at the bosses expense, demonstrates the influence the

However, in a reverse perspective to this, Emmanuel Ogbonna and Barry Wilkinson (2003) highlights the little attention given to impact of managers from these changes in their article The False Promise of Organizational Culture Change: A Case Study of Middle Managers in Grocery Retailing. Managing cultures in the post-bureaucratic era has, as Stella M. Nkomo, Myrtle P. Bell, Aparna Joshi, Laura Morgan Roberts, and Sherry Thatcher state “brought to the fore several uneasy tensions and challenges in the discourse on diversity-tensions that management scholars are uniquely positioned to address”. To add on, an article from AOM written by Ben Haimowitz (2014) analyses the issues and conflicts, which come with this growing diversity. These 6 articles will

Employees are now more spoken and persistent with what they believe their rights are as employees. Call for Papers, an article written by Stella M. Nkomo, Myrtle P. Bell, Aparna Joshi, Laura Morgan Roberts, and Sherry Thatcher on Academy of Management, states “cultural diversity and differences cause uneasy tensions and challenges that management are expected to address”. The article narrows all the issues down to difficulty in accepting cultural differences, which then leads to harassment and discrimination. To support this, another article by Academy of Management, Diversity Downside written by Ben Haimowitz (2014), claims teamwork with a group of mixed cultures can cause “potential for intercultural anxiety, tensions and conflict stemming from differences in worldview, values, and norms”. These two articles support each other to highlight the key challenges that cultural diversity causes within a workplace. Management are then expected to counteract these issues and implement new strategies in managing