What is modern administration?

At the rate of change in the economy, companies must undertake changes that allow them to adapt and stay afloat, bear the differences that affect their operations and their market. The modern administration seeks to make the company more flexible.

As a tool, this administration is essential in organizations in times of transformation, since it focuses on current reviews to help society, seeking the proper development of new tactics applied to various contexts.

A contemporary company It will be the one that overcomes economic changes by making use of the necessary technology, techniques, and has the ideal personnel for development with a vision of the future. Administration is necessary in any social organism, the more complex the organisms, the more necessary is the administration, its success depends directly on good administration and the material and human elements with which the same count.

What is modern administration?

First of all we start by defining administration, such as the set of rules applied to the administrative process to plan and organize, direct and control work activities and all use of resources to achieve objectives and goals efficiently.

Therefore, the modern administration that administration that seeks to do the foregoing based on approaches and tactics current that allow you to adapt to changes in the economic and social environment. However, it is important to highlight that the theories and classical and yesterday's methods are transcendental for modern administration.

Modern management represents total quality management, based on:

• The importance of the client, staff, suppliers and any entity that interacts with the organization. serve other employees within the organization.
• Procure the continuous improvement, always looking for better quality, better performance, greater scope.
• Optimization of work, in order to improve all activities carried out in the company, giving importance not only to the production or the final product as such, but also to other aspects such as, attention nice, handling complaints and claims, quick and effective response to interests and needs.
• Objective measurement of the performance of the company, using statistics and comparisons against standards or actions of the competition.
• Employee participation in the entire improvement process.

Characteristics

• Universality: It occurs in any body or social entity, that is, it can be applied in a service company, industrial, a school, etc.
• Specificity: it has very specific characteristics that are different from the other branches that accompany it, which allow us to differentiate it from other sciences, disciplines or techniques.
• Temporal unit: Although various phases or stages are distinguished in the administrative process, these do not occur in isolation, they all work simultaneously.
• Hierarchical unit: All those who have the character of head in a social entity, participate in unequal degree and modality, without being some more important than the other, all constitute the administrative process, all have their participation and importance.
• Instrumental value: it is a means to an end, it is used in any social entity to achieve certain established objectives efficiently.
• Breadth of exercise: It is applied to all levels of a formal entity, that is, from the president, manager, supervisor, etc.
• Interdisciplinarity: It is noted in the application or use made by the administration of the principles, procedures, processes and methods of other sciences related to work efficiency, such as mathematics, statistics, is law, accounting, economics, sociology, psychology, philosophy, etc.
• Flexibility: It can be adapted to various needs of the company, entity or social group.

Modern management tools

Currently there are tools that are used in administration and modern companies such as:

• Continuous Improvement: Japanese work philosophy focused on processes, seeking to make them more efficient, effective and adaptable.
• Total quality: It is that management strategy that implies the collaboration of all workers, to obtain an improvement in the design, development, production, and maintenance of all products and services that offers.
• Empowerment: it is carried out through delegation of functions to subordinates to give them greater participation and involve them in decision-making, in order to get executives to focus on key business activities.
• Downsizing: it is a strategy used by companies to reduce the number of operations that it carries out, this implies the elimination of processes, tasks, business units, etc. Achieving in this way the optimal size of operation (rightsizing).
• Coaching: It is a method used to direct and train employees in order to develop certain useful skills to obtain and achieve objectives and goals.
• Outsourcing: Work method by subcontracting external suppliers, this implies setting aside certain activities in a company, to let it be carried out by a third party that is a specialist in that activity, with this the job specialization, cost reduction and quality improvement.
• E-commerce: It is part of electronic business, refers to those platforms that allow you to carry out purchase-sale transactions in order to implement more sales channels at lower cost and with greater speed.
• Benchmarking: Process to measure the impact of a service, product, procedure and / or result in counterpart to the strongest competitors or with those that are leaders in the field, in order to undertake improvements.
• Leadership: It is a powerful tool to influence behavior, response, development of workers working on the basis of positive emotions that allow motivation and increased levels of productivity and competitiveness.
• Reengineering: It is a tool that proposes radical changes in certain processes in order to achieve significant improvements in elements such as costs, quality, speed, among others.
• Kanban: It is the tool that acts as an information system and harmonious control of the manufacture of a certain amount of products in the time necessary for each process.
• Competitive advantage: Are those resources that are administratively important and must be generated by a company to build distinctive skills that allow it to achieve a cost effectiveness adequate.