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Rethinking the Role of Organizational Reflex in Maintaining a Company’s Sustainability

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  • Sigitas Vaitkevicius

    (Bioeconomy Research Institute, Vytautas Magnus University Agriculture Academy, Universiteto St. 11, LT-53361 Akademija, Lithuania)

  • Ojaras Purvinis

    (Panevezys Faculty of Technology and Business, Kaunas University of Technology, Nemuno St. 33, LT-37164 Panevezys, Lithuania)

  • Leonidas Sakalauskas

    (Department of Applied Informatics, Faculty of Informatics, Vytautas Magnus University, Vileikos St. 8, LT-44404 Kaunas, Lithuania)

  • Palmira Papsiene

    (Department of Business and Rural Development Management, Faculty of Bioeconomy Development, Vytautas Magnus University Agriculture Academy, Universiteto St. 10, LT-53361 Akademija, Lithuania)

Abstract

The organizational reflex in relation to the company is considered to be an instinctive reaction of its employees to an external stimulus that has arisen or, in other words, the ability of the employee to spontaneously generate a competitive response of the company based on the information received from the global environment. It is an intentional algorithm that enables employees to know how and when to react as quickly as possible, according to the signal from the global environment received, within the limits of their area of expertise. This response phenomenon comes forth in the context of the functioning of a sustainable organization and highlights the coherence of the performance of a human resource. In order to maintain its competitiveness, each organization learns to react to the ongoing changes in the dynamic environment as quickly as possible and, in this process, develops action algorithms similar to human reflexes in structure. Modern science makes a great contribution to the longevity of the company by creating activity models for the organization and performing simulations in the digital space. In this paper, the simulation model of a company’s competitive human resource response to global changes, which is used for the description of organizational reflex, is present. The model reflects the human reflex arc in a company’s decision-making process, whose effectiveness depends on the coherence of its human resources and its ability to sustain an effective organizational reflex. The purpose of the developed model is to simulate the employee’s response to the signals incoming from the global environment and to describe the development process of the organizational reflex that is leading to the longevity of the company and the sustainability of its market leadership.

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  • Sigitas Vaitkevicius & Ojaras Purvinis & Leonidas Sakalauskas & Palmira Papsiene, 2023. "Rethinking the Role of Organizational Reflex in Maintaining a Company’s Sustainability," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 11(10), pages 1-13, May.
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