What is flexible management?

Flexible management is proposed relative to rigid management. Rigid management takes rules and regulations as the center and manages employees with system constraints. Flexible management, on the other hand, is people-centered and personifies employees. The biggest feature of flexible management is that it does not mainly rely 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: internal is more important than external, psychology is more important than physics, words and deeds are more important than words and deeds, 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. Overview of flexible management: In essence, flexible 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 marked by humanization emphasizes jumping and changing, speed and response, sensitivity and flexibility. It pays attention to equality and respect, creativity and intuition, initiative and enterprise spirit, foresight and value control. Through information sharing, virtual integration, competition and cooperation, complementary differences and virtual practice societies, it realizes the transformation of management and operation knowledge from recessive to dominant, thus creating competitive advantages. When it comes to management, people often have two illusions: one is that words must be called western, and the other is that actions must be rigid. It seems that management is a patent of westerners and has nothing to do with the East. It seems that the management is giving orders, and I care what you listen to. However, since the 1960s, with the economic rise of Japan and the four Asian Little Dragons with deep cultural roots in China, scholars including the United States and Japan began to have a strong interest in the study of oriental management. People finally found that there is a broad field of flexible management behind the traditional management. Flexible management is relative to rigid management. On the basis of studying people's psychology and behavior laws, it produces a potential persuasion in people's minds in a non-mandatory way, thus transforming the will of the organization into people's conscious action. It is a deeper and more advanced management, and it is a management that fully embodies rationality. It has distinct characteristics: 1. The qualitative aspect is fuzziness, binary logic is invalid, there is no longer either/or, and most of them are in the middle state. 2. It is nonlinear in quantity, and the superposition principle doesn't work. 1+ 1 is no longer equal to 2 forever. 3. In terms of methods, induction is emphasized, the influence of power is ineffective, and the hierarchical concept is diluted. 4, the effect is often lagging behind, and the principle of immediate effect is invalid. Flexible management itself covers a series of thoughts such as rationality, psychology, thinking, education, passion, manager charm and inaction. Matters needing attention in flexible management Enterprises must pay attention to the following key elements in order to implement flexible management. 1, with the business orientation of meeting customers' needs and preferences. We should not only provide goods for customers, but also enrich the value of customers, so that customers can get more value-added feelings when they consume an item. The traditional concept of large-scale production enterprises is that supply creates demand. As long as it can be produced, customers will buy it, and the profit of the enterprise is determined by the market and production capacity. Flexible management puts customers' needs and preferences first, and profits are included in customers' demand for goods and satisfaction of customers' preferences. As long as customers' needs and preferences can be transformed into goods or services, profit is the natural result of this transformation. Therefore, the key to flexible management is to determine how to create a plan that enriches the customer's value, how to solve the customer's concerns, and how to transform the customer's perceived but not fully expressed wishes or needs into a plan that the customer can clearly indicate that this is exactly what I want. This customer-oriented management is a challenge to managers' ability. 2, to promote learning, motivation and insight into the future as the most basic function of management. The most basic function of management in the era of scientific management is decision-making, while the most basic function of management in the era of network is to seek the path and node of knowledge transformation. The uncertain market changes in the Internet age have turned the core role of management into a kind of entrustment: promoting learning, inspiring inspiration and insight into the future. Encourage, synthesize and coordinate the efforts and contributions of front-line personnel, consider the overall situation from a higher perspective, integrate the brand-new ideas of front-line personnel into the unified strategic framework of enterprise development, and make the development and evolution process of enterprises become an organism composed of developed components in an optimal way. 3. Take the virtual community of practice as the source of innovation. Identifying and discovering the potential demand and preference of the market and grasping the dynamic process of demand and preference require not only a lot of information, but also keen insight, wisdom and inspiration. In the network era when the market demand structure is changing rapidly, only by exerting innovations in all aspects can we build a smart enterprise and constantly gain new worries about competition. Therefore, the establishment of various virtual practice societies, efforts to provide innovative suggestions and programs for the development of enterprises, enhance the timely learning ability of enterprises, and make enterprises become real habit-oriented enterprises are the guarantee for enterprises to be invincible. Virtual practice community is a kind of strong cooperation, and its essential feature is an agreement based on customers, opportunities and a set of clear goals. 4. Replace hierarchical organization with network organization. The organization in the era of scientific management is a hierarchical structure of golden pagoda structure, with too many levels, single and too long channels for transmitting information and slow response; The functional departments are isolated from each other, the information flow is limited by the boundary, and the information transmission between the upper and lower levels is often distorted. Each part of the network organization is relatively independent, and the division of each part is a relationship between Taiwan and Taiwan, and there is no defined boundary. Replacing the pyramid-shaped organizational structure with the flat organizational structure of the network improves the efficiency of information transmission and work efficiency, strengthens the communication between departments, increases and encourages the tentacles of feedback between enterprises and the market, and improves the overall response sensitivity of enterprises, thus enabling enterprises to seize market opportunities more quickly. 5. Enterprise reengineering focuses on the adjustment of business model, which provides an opportunity for enterprises to realize flexible management. Because enterprise reengineering is to determine how to deal with the market, how to identify potential markets and create new markets at a higher level, and reposition the role of enterprises in the market in this identification and creation. Enterprise reengineering attaches importance to cultivating people's learning ability, aiming at turning enterprises into learning organizations and enhancing the adaptability of enterprises from individual employees to the whole organization to the rapidly changing environment. Enterprise reengineering includes enterprise strategy reengineering, enterprise culture reengineering, marketing reengineering, enterprise organization reengineering, enterprise production process reengineering and quality control system reengineering.