Impact of Globalization on Organizational Culture, Behavior, and Gender Roles

The "new" in new economy means a more stable and longer growth, with more jobs, lowerinflation and interest rates, explosion of free markets worldwide, the unparalleled access toknowledge through the Internet and new type of organization which affects organizationalchange.Organizational change is the adoption of an organizational environment for the sake of survival.Namely, the old principles no longer work in the age of Globalization. Businesses have reachedthe old model's limits with respect to complexity and speed. At the same time, the challengewhich new economy brings to small businesses managers is the use of new business approachand the strong will for organizational changes and adaptation to global market demands. Thereare several types of organizational changes that can occur- strategic changes, organizationalcultural changes; involve organizational structural change, a redesign of work tasks andtechnological changes. In line with these changes, there is strong expectation of employee to permanent improve their knowledge andbecome an integral part of successful business formula in order to respond to the challenges brought by the global economy. It means arequest for learning organization which is characterized as an organization creating, gaining and transferring the knowledge, and thusconstantly modifying the organizational behavior.Reader will refine their theoretical understanding of globalization by studying its concrete manifestations in three domains:organizational culture, behavior, and gender.