Prerequisites

Organizational systems are not an end in itself, but a "medium" that has to effectively help the achievement of the company's objectives. This statement puts us online to understand the reasons why such radical changes are taking place in the organizational design of companies. We still have in our head and in our schemes, although it is difficult to recognize, the premises of the "traditional organization", based on three paradigmatic ones: the cult of the hierarchical structure, the domination of the bureaucracy and the rigidity of the job, all of them adorned by the "paternalistic" concept
How Mr. Raymond Carr says very well "The old industrial model of large organizational groups of people performing specialized tasks with a centralized coordination, made sense in the economy of most of this century. But today it has less and less meaning. It is too expensive and unwieldy »
It is necessary to discover new and daring approaches that meet the needs of the business and the aspirations of people. Where to find the key, the axis of these new approaches? The key is offered to us, as it happens whenever we think with simplicity and common sense, "the person" and the deep ethic in the management.
The versatile person, with due training, within their natural field of knowledge and experience, integrated into a work team and with an overall vision, is the only one that can offer flexibility to the organization and speed of response. The concrete formulas that propitiate this new conception are many and varied, but without losing sight of the fact that tools, however new and appropriate they may be, are "dependent" variables, that is, they have to be put at the service of the underlying scheme, of ideas, which are, in short, those that give meaning to all actions and those that really solve problems.
Consistently, there is a need to promote ethical coherence in and from business management, an indispensable condition to face the current social demand. That is why such ethical coherence hasto be a long-term strategic priority and must be planned and measured as such, not forgetting the existence of important obstacles for its promotion, the main thing being the split in the company between its ethical dimension and the economic dimension.

The subject will review -as it can not be otherwise- the functional departments at the time which proposes alternatives for a less "Taylorist" management, incrusting issues related to people and the ethical dimension, both within the situations analyzed and in a specific way.