Globalization Challenges the World

A global economy has the ability to work as a unit in real time on a global scale.

The major features of globalization are:

synchronous competition in every market between several competitive companies from different states;

internationalization of manufacture that means elements, products and  services from several countries;

increasing interrelationship of different levels of globalization, such as commerce, technology, straight investment, etc.;

intra-industry structure of international commerce;

decreased role of trade.

Globalization includes trade, foreign investment and technology transfer. The changing working pattern is the result of global economy. Globalization challenges people to become more competitive changing the way company produce and sell and the way people work. Nowadays, labor market requires more sills and much knowledge of the subject creative a rigid competitive market of human resources. There are to be institutions that will help people get a benefit from the economic change. There can be distinguished several changes in the work organization as a result of globalization. They are: changes in employment models; change in employment conditions provided by companies and appearance of a new working pattern.

The first change means a shift in employment from technological industry to a service industry. Nowadays, a constantly growing service sector takes about 75-80% from the whole industry sector while manufacturing industry has a decline. The shift in today’s demands influence the employment structure in industries. The changing employment chart can be analyzed according to a classification of industry types. There are companies involved in production of goods, those involved in production and sale of goods, and those involved in service only.

Moreover, in a small company there is a working flow and the rate of work receipts and work losses is greater than in a larger company. Also, there is a 'core-periphery' pattern. This means the delimitation in salary of a highly knowledgeable worker and a marginally worker; number of hour per week (from 20 to 70 hours); full-time (mature employees) and part-time workers; increase in casual employment. In other words, the smaller part of workers is involved in a full-time work while the larger part is just a labor force.

Globalization has changed patterns for skill demand too. A person should have diverse skills to fit the modern requirements for obtaining good position in a globalized world. People with good knowledge-based skills are given more preference then other kinds of workers. This pattern is becoming more and more popular in many countries. The production and service industry is growing rapidly producing more working places for skillful specialists unlike other industry sectors. This industry needs specialists with financial, managerial skills, as well as design and communication skills in all industrial countries.

The thing is that the changes in work patterns and labor market structure must be achieved alone with the purpose of full employment. It is necessary to increase the economic growth of a country to guarantee more working places for people. However, there are problems that appear with the implementing the changes in industry. They are solved by focusing on the training and work-creation models and strengthening educational institutions. Rapid changes in production and sale assume the replacement of old production technology and methods by new ones which allow producing more goods at the same production run. This modification in the production methods influence industry sectors and is spreading quickly in developed countries. The movement from simple work tasks to complicated ones demands more responsibility from a worker, thereby, opening new challenging assignments and interesting jobs. However, the number of such jobs is relatively small.

The phenomenon of globalization changes the entire structure of the worker meaning and his/her contractual conditions. These changes are many-sided and complex which touch the state role too. So, an employee has many questions to solve with a new international environment emerge.