In the article by Luthans and Stajkovic, they quote a manager at Boise Cascade as saying, “Capital and Machinery make it possible, people make it happen”. (1999) What that manager was saying is people make the difference. The performance advantage of the future will be people, not technology or machines. The people doing the work have a greater effect on it being accomplished and expedited than do the machines they use to complete the tasks. However, those same people cannot even begin to reach their potential without additional instruction in the areas of organizational behavior (OB).

One of those most basic ideas behind OB is effective communication. As Cottringer

More and more people are telecommuting (working from home). Virtual offices have opened up and will continue to develop. As technology improves it will have effects on other areas of business as well. So far, the biggest improvements have been seen in communication, networking and computation power, but the best is yet to come. Training in Organizational behavior issues will continue to be a very important tool that every manager and employee will brandish, as if a sword, with greater confidence than any Nordic fighter.

alluded to in his article, managers who are not trained with effective communication skills will be able to fulfill the company needs, nor their employees. (2000) Managers will become a roadblock for communication between employees and upper management. This is just referring to verbal and written skills. The problem has been forced upon the manager by the constant downsizing of departments within organizations. (Keil, 1999) Reading people, a much more difficult undertaking, requires advanced training and skill. The key is to gain consistency in how the managers relate to their employees and managers, so a relationship develops. This will become an important task for the manager as his role to share the company vision is called upon by his management. A manager who is a poor communicator is not going to get the message across to his employees, and hence, will doom his employees incapable of aiding the company to reach its goal when that goal was not clearly defined. This could have catastrophic results to a company, depending on the size or criticality of that manager’s department to the overall success of the business. Nilson hits the nail on head in her article when she qoated James Baxter as saying, “Middle managers also need to do a lot more in the areas of staff training and development, relationship building, and change management.”

Employee empowerment can be one of the single most effective OB tools in the manager’s toolbox. Giving employees the tra

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