EDITORIAL

sjdm

Siddhant- A Journal of Decision Making

2231-06492231-0657

Regional College Of Management

Bhubaneswar, India

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Editorial

Mangaraj

Sujata

Prof. (Dr.)

2019

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EDITORIAL

Business has become more complex and competitive. Globalization and economic conditions has made work environments more challenging. Working environments has witnessed numerous changes from uniformity to diversity, individual work to team work, horizontal to vertical organization structure, external control to self control, supervision to motivational leadership, fixed time table to flexible hours of work, hard work to smart work and boundary less work. In this context, organizations are contingent upon developing ability to change and compete in the global market and to cope up with these changes, employees have to involve in sustainable psychological adoption of these changes, so that organizations can survive. This psychological adoption is possible, when employees get their mind and soul along with them to their workplace.

Employees with high engagement levels can become a strong competitive advantage for the organizations. Engaged employees are motivated to do more than the needed. Maintaining employee engagement at desirable standards has become a challenging task for the organizations. Organizations should put necessary efforts to develop conducive environment in which employees feel free and wholesome and get engaged fully in their work life. Organizations can become purpose driven and meaning based and shift in the work environments from resistance to acceptance based. Treating people in the organizations with dignity and respect rather considering them as mere resources is the sound transformation in the work environment and this can be observed in value based organizations. With this transformation, employees experience meaningfulness in their work and they get fully engaged.

This issue of the journal presents research papers, focused on different emerging issues in management research. The readers will find the inputs valuable and enriching. The editorial board of the journal looks forward to the valuable suggestions from the readers for improving its overall quality. The board sincerely acknowledges the contributions made by the learned authors and thanks the readers for their interest.

Prof. (Dr.) Sujata Mangaraj