Motivation In A Changing Workplace

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supported one another in what were culturally defined rural settings, nuclear families found themselves alone in homogenous neighborhoods.” (p. 14). This new type of social environment created a demand for goods and services that were previously provided by extended family and community members, thus opening up new markets and creating new jobs. As these new jobs began to come into existence, it also became clear that there was a need to manage these new workers as a separate and formal discipline of its own; hence HRM was born as a fledgling discipline.
Moving into the 21st century we can trace our nation’s business growth over the last one-hundred years as we moved, as previously mentioned, from as agrarian based country to that of an industrialized nation. By the mid 1950’s the majority of work in this country was to be found in factories. During the 1960’s and early into the 1970’s the manufacturing industry suffered many heavy blows and became greatly displaced by t...