Modernios organizacijos bruožai

Most researchers are unanimous when stating that the only organizations able to successfully function and compete in the nearest future are those that will manage to solve two main economic tasks: optimize production costs and ensure high production quality. These two tasks are dialectically connected ““ they seem to contradict each other, but have to be solved as a complex. In the context of fierce competition and prevailing sophisticated processes of customers“™ needs satisfaction, production has to be flexible, mobile and constantly changing. Therefore, based on theoretical research, the article has as its aims to analyze the conditions of modern organization functioning and to define the tendencies of their changes, to evaluate the influence of organizational change tendencies on their development and to formulate the main characteristics of a modern organization, as well as to define the essence and content of individual features of a modern organization. The following characteristics of a modern organization have been distinguished as a result of a thorough theoretical research: an organization has to constantly increase its potential on the basis of inner resources and improve all activity parameters, i.e. it has to develop;  in order to progress successfully, necessary knowledge has to be accumulated and used optimally ““ an organization has to be in a continuous learning process, an organization has to be an active member of social processes and thus be socially responsible and influencing changes in the community; an organization has to create conditions for the expression of employees“™ innovative, creative, managerial ideas ““ it has to be entrepreneurial, the products of an organization activity have to be beneficial for the community members, their needs have to be met; an organization has to represent social environment integrating and adapting the relations between an individual and society and thus to ensure social security; the inner managerial mechanism of an organization has to be able to promptly react to external influences and changing contexts ““ it has to be structurally mobile. The research led to several conclusions. Firstly, it has to be noted that complex economic and social processes condition changes in organizations. In the context of these changes new organizational features, defining their adaptability in the changed environment, are formed. The identification and detailed definition of these features is a relevant theoretical and practical issue. Secondly, the theoretical research and analysis of practical experience showed that a modern organization has to be developing, learning, socially responsible, entrepreneurial, ensuring social security and structurally mobile. The formation of a modern organization is a complex process, requiring multiple effort of management and all members; therefore, an organization that employs educated and constantly developing people has better opportunities to become a modern organization.