Management has changed due to society, technology, and consumers during Toffler’s three waves of social change. These three waves are actually ages of time, which include the age of agriculture, the age of industrialization and through the age of information. The drastic change’s of management has effected the way we operate businesses and change the types of businesses that are more successful.
The United States started off as an agricultural society with predominantly farmland covering the country. This agricultural society was based on hard labor and long hours. Working on a farm for years myself I know that no matter the size of the farm there is always work to be done. These days usually begin when it is dark and when it is dark with physically demanding chores. The U.S was mostly blue collar. Population increase increased the number of consumers for agriculture and inevitably forced technology to move forward. Early
agriculture started with the use of hand tools and then as the need for more increased they used animals to drag large farm equipment. These technologies helped to increase the number of food they could produce. Eventually tractors were invented so more could be harvested and technology kept evolving with all sorts of attachments for the tractor to cut down on time, money, and labor. For example an attachment that will cut corn stalks and then separate the cob from the stalk. Before farmers would have to cut the corn by hand and then remove the cobs by hand as well. This shows how consumers and society can trigger technology and vice versa.
The age of Industrialization brought a new way to look at business. People in the agriculture business for the first time saw trouble as industries took off. The production of textiles could not only be sold in the U.S. but they could be exported to other countries, which widens the market. Textiles cou
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