Competition and Globalization with 2 GIFs

Competition

Competition could be seen in every society within the groups, societies, and individuals. It is a form of struggle to achieve a certain goal, status, and position. Competition could be culturally conditioned. It’s a universal, impersonal, and a form of social interaction. An individual engages in competition to get the benefit. Competition is less violent compared to conflict. An individual focused on reward goal attainment.

People everywhere compete for the property, status possession for mates, and wealth. Competition and Co-operation often exist in reciprocal form. The modern capitalistic world has been running its activities in a competitive way to generate the economy. From a positive point of view, the competition process serves as a form of recreation and gives the new production in a non-hostile form.

In the negative point of view, competition may cause hostile injury and destruction in the day-to-day activities of a human being. In fact, competition is a driving force of social change that gives satisfaction and fulfills the need and expectations. Social Darwinists state that competition serves as a mechanism for determining the best suited-group economically and politically. The competition within the group not only struggles but also produces a positive result within the people. It often initiates under the systematic rules and regulations of society.

Definitions

According to Horton and Hunt, “Competition is a struggle for possession of reward which are limited supply money, goods, status, power, love anything”.

According to Park and Burger; “Competition is interaction without social contact".

Characteristics

It has been a curse between two or more groups for the same goal, the achievement will not be shared among them all. Some characteristics of the competition are:

1. Competition is continuous: An individual engages in competition to achieve something i.e. status, fame, wealth, and position. Competition between two or more than two individuals or groups.
2. Competition is a universal process: Competition can occur in any society, place, and culture. Conflict covers all areas of social life. For example, competition between businessmen occurred to achieve maximum benefit, a lawyer for the clients, students to achieve better grades, players for trophies, and politicians to achieve power.
3. Competition brings change: Competition within people brings social transformation. They adopt new ideas, technologies, views, and knowledge to achieve new ends in their everyday life. The competition process enhances the capacity of both an individual as well as a group that brings a change in the structure of the society.
4. Competition is governed by norms: The competition process often governed by certain norms and values of the society. Norms of social control and mobilize the people towards the achievement of goals. The norms always force to perform roles and responsibilities as per rules and regulations of the society. The moral laws always govern individual activities with decent order.
5. Competition is impersonal and personal: Competition would be both personal and impersonal. In impersonal competition occurs in a social world where competitors do not know about the identity of their competitors for instance when you are attending a public service examination may not have knowledge about your competitors. In personal competition, two or more than two competitors know each other while contest for the particular goals i.e. intra-party election for president in the personal conflict there would be rival relation and conflict type of competition.
6. Competition may be constructive and destructive: The constructive competition always stimulating and supportive. The healthy competition obviously gives a good result. Sometimes competition might be unhealthy, fraud, and corrupt which neither creative nor productive.

Lastly, there are advantages of competition in society. The competition also helps to provide better service to the consumers in terms of better production and quality of goods. The competition process not only brings the change within the social structure but also provides the service to the people. Conflict is also a fundamental aspect to ensure rights and responsibility. Conflict within the organization aware of the people about the exploitation through the process of surplus generation. Conflict aware of lower-class people particularly investments, time, income, labor, and wages. Conflict within an organization inspires the market to bring information and structural change.

Globalization

Globalization is normally associated with a history of capitalism. Globalization itself concerns the global networks of a commodity, production, labor relation, the flow of technology, the flow of ideas, and the flow of media. The globalization process changes the economic organization, institution, and social process. Globalization looks at the impact of industrialization, the global economy, and transnationalism of finance besides the flow of trade, finance, culture, and idea.

The theory of globalization always impacts of multinational companies, aid agencies, and neo-liberal policies at a local level. This is also based on interconnectedness, the flow of technologies, finance, and transnational connections. This process encompasses the transformation of culture, power, economy, and politics not only global to local but local to global. Globalization process itself an exchange process of technology, idea, and knowledge. The impact of globalization transforms the social structure, social value, and ethos of a culture.

The transnational migration project builds the cross broader relationships. It shows the mobility of capital and labor. In the globalization process, we should look at the circulation of productive items found from one place to another. This process not only transfers the productive items but also their ideas, knowledge, and practices. The globalization process tends to intensify the global and local networks even they are living many miles away from one another. The globalization process promotes the displacement mainly from the center to the periphery or from its own specific territories to global spaces that decay the local value system.

Globalization is mediated by the migration, communication, technology, finance, it shows the core and periphery relationships. The globalization project is only initiated after the decolonization process. Global theories always encompass economic production, trade, colonialism, and imperialism—which depend on investment and profit-making. The globalization processes detach the local space through its policies of production, consumption, and investment. In the globalization, the role of media seems to be prominent that helps to flow the art, dance, knowledge, ideas, and ideology of the people that transform the identity of people.

The social structure and culture deteriorated by the globalization process. The globalization process increases the refugee, displace the people largely makes the stateless people who form the diasporas communities. This process shifts the economic, social, political, and cultural relationships. The process of globalization integrates nations, religion, states, and societies together through the global process of capitalism.

The globalization process increases the interdependency and instability within the social system. Globalization is a micro-level project which impacts on the day-to-day life of the people. The political power determined the investment, production, market price, wages, and creation of a new market. In fact, globalization is an economic project which helps to create economic opportunities.

The globalization process fosters capitalism that creates new opportunities such as business employment, profit, and employment through the local and global networks. The local and global network process helps to mobilize the resources and creates employment at the local level. Globalization is not only bringing the flow of technologies, media, ideas, and knowledge but also bring the transformation in the multiple sectors.

The globalization process also provides many opportunities in the private sectors to inspire private organization in the sector of investment, production, and distribution. Third world countries like Nepal also sell their products in the international market. The globalization process makes the business environment for the industrialization. It also deterritorializes the business and breaks down the hegemony of certain peoples and their countries. An individual can earn more through the implication of new technologies and media. The Globalization process helps to integrate the entire world into one through the globalization.

Implications of social process in management and business administration

Social processes are important to enhance the business. This process teaches us how to learn, cope struggle, and adjust to run the business. These components are important for progress in everyday business. The social process depicts the social realities and social relationships that might be individual to individual, individual to the group.

The social process influences the business environment, action, and activities of the businessman, consumer behavior, personality development, choices, and interests. The socialization process develops the personality that affects the behavior of producers and consumers. The socialization process builds the different habits, attitudes, faith, and beliefs since the childhood period that guided production, transition, and management.

The more you have knowledge about society the more you promote your business scientifically and make appropriate strategies. Consumer habits often constructed within a social structure—which always influences their day-to-day activities. The nurturing process is culturally conditioned which assigns the rights and responsibility of the people.

The socialization process based on caste, class, ethnicity, and religion, thus we need to understand all of these social phenomena before initiating any business. The social process often guided by socio-cultural forces of the society, such as religion, language, values, attitudes, and beliefs.

The understanding social process helps to grow the profit from the client and other appropriate agencies. Social adaptation and co-operation often associated with the maintenance of society which builds the mutual relationships within the members of the society. These two processes promote to continue the existing practices or systems of organization. Adaptation and co-operation lead to better production and change the social system without disturbing the values of companies.

The collaborative and collective works within the concerned member improve the quality of commodities. The social process inspires the businessman to adopt new ideas, new knowledge, and new technologies for the change and enhance the business and services. It also concerns with the adaptive choices of the individuals. The implications of new ideas, innovations, and new knowledge help to give a decision at the right time.

The cooperation process often deals to work together and mutual interdependence within the members—which may foster peace and harmony. The cooperation process also highlights the significance of each member. Their effort for production, distribution, and transition process provides the service to the clients. Any organizations and business of the people unable to solve in isolation, thus they need support and co-ordinate of other members who can contribute through the various means and methods.

The collaborative effort helps to run the business system and mobilize the resources scientifically. Within social process competition and conflicts are reciprocal to adaptation and co-operation. The competition and conflicts both are fundamental for change that depends on individuals' struggle. If we look at competition and conflict a positive point of view, it will help to grow the production of new innovation and invention in the business companies, it leads the organization towards creativity. People will adopt different means, methods, and strategies.

To achieve social position and status, an individual can achieve certain goals and efforts through his own effort and can earn more than his rival companies. Competition with the business organization often culturally conditioned which may change across time and space, therefore; we need to understand the social processes.