Who put forward the concept of flexible management?

In essence, gender management is a new strategy to manage "stability and change". The establishment of flexible management concept is based on the change of thinking mode from linear to nonlinear. Linear thinking is diachronic, while nonlinear thinking is temporary, that is, synchronous transformation. From the complex phenomenon of superficial chaos, we can see the natural order of things' development and evolution, understand the next direction, identify the potential unknown demand and open up the market, and then foresee the changes and respond automatically. This is the task of flexible management.

Flexible management is marked by "humanization", emphasizing jumping and change, speed and response, agility and flexibility. It pays attention to equality and respect, creativity and intuition, initiative and entrepreneurship, foresight and value control. Through information sharing, virtual integration, competition and cooperation, complementary differences and virtual communities of practice, it realizes the transformation of management and operation knowledge from recessive to dominant, thus creating competitive advantages.

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"Flexible management" is put forward relative to "rigid management". "Rigid management" takes "rules and regulations as the center" and manages employees with system constraints. And "flexible management" is "people-centered", which carries out personalized management for employees.

The biggest feature of "flexible management" is that it does not rely mainly on external forces? Such as giving orders, but relying on the liberation of human nature, equal rights and democratic management, we can inspire every employee's inner potential, initiative and creative spirit from the deep heart, make them really feel comfortable and spare no effort to develop excellent performance for the enterprise, and become the source of strength for the enterprise to gain competitive advantage in the fierce global market competition. The characteristics of "flexible management" are: internal is more important than external, psychology is more important than physics, example is more important than teaching, affirmation is more important than negation, motivation is more important than control, and pragmatism is more important than retreat. Obviously, after the flexible management of knowledge-based enterprises, managers pay more attention to the enthusiasm and creativity of employees, and pay more attention to the initiative and self-discipline of employees.

The role of "flexible management" in future enterprise management is as follows:

1. Stimulate people's creativity

The main wealth of industrial society comes from assets, while the main wealth of knowledge economy era comes from knowledge. According to the existing forms of knowledge, knowledge can be divided into explicit knowledge and tacit knowledge. The former mainly refers to the knowledge in the form of patents, scientific inventions and special technologies, while the latter refers to the embodiment of employees' creative knowledge and ideas. Explicit knowledge is well known, while tacit knowledge only exists in employees' minds, which is difficult to master and control. In order to make employees voluntarily dedicate their knowledge and ideas to the enterprise and realize "knowledge sharing", it is impossible to rely solely on "rigid management", but only through "flexible management".

2. Adapt to the changing external environment

The era of knowledge economy is an era of information explosion. On the one hand, the variability and complexity of the external environment require strategic decision makers to integrate the wisdom of various professionals; On the other hand, it requires that strategic decisions must be made quickly. This means that it is necessary to break the strict division of labor and reorganize functions, so that each employee or team can acquire the ability to deal with problems independently and the right to perform their duties independently without asking for instructions at different levels. Therefore, it is difficult to effectively manage such organizations only by rules and regulations. Only through "flexible management" can we provide a mechanism and environment for "giving full play to people's talents", make decisions quickly and accurately, and be invincible in the fierce competition.

3. Meet the needs of flexible production

In the era of knowledge economy, people's consumption concepts and habits are constantly changing to meet the needs of "personalized consumers", which is the inevitable trend of contemporary production and management. This great change in the production organization of knowledge-based enterprises is inevitably reflected in the management mode, which leads to the change of management mode and makes "flexible management" inevitable.

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