Abstract:

The study of management has been a series of sequential events contingent upon the exploration of multiple fields of study. Widely and broadly inclusive in the evolution of organizational management are sociologist (Max Weber), economist (Adams Smith), philosopher (Pluto) etc. This research has attempted analysis and classification of organizational management in three phases: Pre-industrial era, industrial era and post-industrial era. In a second fold, this research has compounded and formulated the theory of organizational disequilibrium or simply put the theory of disequilibrium. This theory has been adopted to emphatically, intrinsically and extrinsically elaborate to a comprehensive whole, the variance of imbalance of organizational management across the evolutional phases of management, in a highly complex digital transitioning and transformational era. A dashboard analysis of the theory exposed organizational management and leadership (internal environment) as a fundamental fracture impeding organizational growth from reaching the required complexity of the digital age. In furtherance, provided measures to mend the organizational fracture.

Keywords: management; evolution; organizational disequilibrium; imbalance; complexity; leadership.

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