Introduction
Models are vital instruments in providing a clarification concerning the interaction and effectiveness of distinct management elements within an organization. They act as indicators of the impacts that are felt within organizational management as a result of transformations caused by either internal or external forces. Generally, models are frameworks that represent organizational or management reality in a dynamic manner in order to explain how distinct forces, whether from outside or inside, may revolutionize an organization.
For effectiveness in any organization, the management has to encompass some of these frameworks in order to have a clear outlook of matters concerning management (Harding and Long, 1998). This paper has the main aim of explaining what management models are, as well as their effects on competitive advantage. In addition, it will provide an overview of a few examples of the management models in literature.
Management models and their contribution in competitive advantage
The current world has become dynamic growth, development, and discoveries. Thus, every organization is out to acquire the best management and organizational skills with the main aim of shaping their competitiveness in the market. Additionally, many organizations, whether local or international, have emerged that produce and supply similar goods and services, a factor that highly contributes to increased competition.
However, the management models that an organization utilizes have great influence on competitive advantage. The fact that models are frameworks of representations of an organization’s management style, they help identify the effect of inside and outside forces that have or may influence an organization.
These frameworks therefore are crucial in identification of weakness, strengths, threats, and opportunities that an organization has (Raduan, et al, 2009). The analytical awareness created by these models helps the management of any organizations to come up with strategic decisions that would help sustain it in a competitive ground. Additionally, it is possible to come up with the best strategies that would counter the external forces that may cause a negative impact on the organization.
More over, the organizational management is able to perform valuation procedures about their products and implement new strategies that would help improve them. At the same time, these frameworks provide a basis for the best procedures that would help improve the CRM (customer relationship management) strategies, a key factor in competitive advantage (Alipour, et al, 2010).
Examples of management models in the literature
Management models are key components to organizational performance and productivity. Thus, researchers and scholars are out to come up with new models everyday that design management frameworks. A very crucial management model is that of performance management. This framework explains the characteristics of quality management in relation to employee performance.
It helps the organizational management to design appropriate strategies geared towards performance improvements. Additionally, there are customer relationship management models that provide effective frameworks on how an organization can improve its relationship with their available customers as well as analyzing the impacts that may be felt when the organization would design ways of reaching more target consumers.
More over, the management models encompass also change management models that are used to study change and how best it can be managed to produce expected results. Change management is an important aspect of an organization, since every new day comes with changes, whether positive or negative. It is therefore ample to involve the change management models in organizational management (Jonker and de Witte, 2006).
Conclusion
Management models are inclusive in organizational management as frameworks that study the interaction of distinct forces, which in turn lead to organizational change that needs to be managed. Thus, the success of an organization lies in the effectiveness of the utilization of different available model in the management. It is therefore important that management models that organizations use provide the best framework that can pave way for incremental competitive and advantage.
References
Alipour, H. et al. (2010). The role of knowledge management in the achievement of competitive advantage: A case study of Iran Alborze Insurance Company in Western Mazandaran. Islamic Azad University, Rash Branch, Rasht, Iran. Web.
Harding, S. and Long, T. (1998). Proven management models: CT: Gower Publishing, Ltd.
Jonker, J. and de Witte, M. (2006). Management models for corporate social responsibility. NY: Springer books series.
Raduan, C. R. et al. (2009). Management, Strategic Management Theories and the Linkage with Organizational Competitive Advantage from the Resource-Based View. European Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 11, No. 3. Web.