{"id":224,"date":"2017-07-26T22:28:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T22:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-principlesofmanagement\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=224"},"modified":"2017-08-14T22:06:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T22:06:46","slug":"introduction-to-current-trends-in-organization-and-job-design","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-principlesmanagement\/chapter\/introduction-to-current-trends-in-organization-and-job-design\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Current Trends in Organization and Job Design","rendered":"Introduction to Current Trends in Organization and Job Design"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you\u2019ll learn to do: describe current trends in organization and job design<\/h2>\r\nThe Industrial Revolution model of structure, which was largely modeled after military structure, has been fading in popularity and prevalence over the last twenty years. The move to flatter organizational structure with greater autonomy given to employees is highlighted by companies such as Apple and Microsoft. Ironically, the U.S. military is also moving to highly autonomous, self-organizing teams.","rendered":"<h2>What you\u2019ll learn to do: describe current trends in organization and job design<\/h2>\n<p>The Industrial Revolution model of structure, which was largely modeled after military structure, has been fading in popularity and prevalence over the last twenty years. The move to flatter organizational structure with greater autonomy given to employees is highlighted by companies such as Apple and Microsoft. Ironically, the U.S. military is also moving to highly autonomous, self-organizing teams.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-224\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Introduction to Current Trends in Organization and Job Design . <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: David J. Thompson, PhD, and Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":21046,"menu_order":8,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Introduction to Current Trends in Organization and Job Design \",\"author\":\"David J. Thompson, PhD, and Lumen Learning\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"aedf4b9b-1a5a-46cf-8307-4343e683cf89","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-224","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":44,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-principlesmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-principlesmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-principlesmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-principlesmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21046"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-principlesmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1438,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-principlesmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/224\/revisions\/1438"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-principlesmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/44"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-principlesmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/224\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-principlesmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-principlesmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-principlesmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-principlesmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}