The personal values of the manager will affect his or her decisions and leadership style. Using a tool like the Williams Institute Ethics Awareness Inventory Assessment will give the manager an idea of his or her ethical profile and allow then to see if they match the ethics of the company. Using the profile the manager can better serve the company by applying his or her values in an area that may need their
Recommended approaches 7. Conclusion and reflection on learning 8. References 1. Identify a current or past situation in your career that has had a significant impact on your job satisfaction and that has involved a work stress challenge. Examples include a situation where there is a perceived or potentially unfair difference in pay, work schedule, assignments, permission to telework, access to training and development, opportunities for travel, opportunity for promotion, etc.
Managing Change Part II MGT/426 Managing Change At times organizations tend to take on their own culture and in doing so, they face different challenges and changes. For Citigroup to compete, stay financially fit, and adapt, the organizations has to change. Citigroup’s employees must understand how change can be beneficial to the organizational and to them as well. By implementing change will allow the organization grow, meet customers’ needs, challenge the employees to improve his or her skills. Change is imperative for Citigroup to remain relevant.
What does this mean and how can you, as a leader, promote ethical workplace behaviours? Submit your answer for assessment. Managers focus on operations, leaders work with people to encourage them to use their own initiative and improve their skills. Manager is a designated position - positional power. Leadership is a personal characteristic - personal power.
Level of Management: SMT: Senior Management Teams = Directors MM: Middle Management = Managers SM: Supervising Management= Supervisors Importance of organisation structure Structure serves as basis for maintaining and structuring organisational activities. Organisations shall understand importance of structure in carrying out business operations and its relation to strategy. Each structure has its advantages and disadvantages on how it contributes to its effectiveness, and organisation has to mull over the decision on what structures it follows, plus the autonomy organisations provide to its employees for purpose of decision making. Organisation can choose from variety of structure like, functional, divisional, project teams, holding companies and matrix structure. Failure to choose an effective structure has it consequences on organisation as it will not only affect health of the organisation it will also affect employees loyalty, motivation at work and job satisfaction, thus organisation when deciding for designing structure needs to take care of all aspects that relates to people and working of organisation.
Balanced Scorecard Organizations and upper-management often use a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats, and Trends (SWOTT) analysis model to concentrate on the company’s competitive advantages, their possibilities, evaluate how to improve susceptibilities, and avoid coercion. Organizations depend on SWOTT analysis to remain successful in their industries. For a business to be successful and sustain their performance, the entity is obligated by their external environment to generate strategic objectives and constantly evaluate its vision and mission. Organizations must reflect on their mission and vision frequently to assess each for validity, consistency, and making sure the objectives are components useful to the desired vision. Businesses require a tool to measure the execution of objectives.
The importance of effective conflict management in the workplace is something that a manager, supervisor, and executive have to the deal with employees. Introduction Conflict is unavoidable, but it is important to have a conflict resolution strategy in place to deal with these situations when they arise. Examining why the study of conflict is important will allow a manager, executive, or supervisor to unpack the skills and knowledge to see what brings on a destructive move, and builds more efficiency at work. It can involve incompatible differences between parties that result in interference or opposition. Such differences can serve as an influence for positive change, or lessen productivity in the work environment.
It is the relationship between organizational culture and ethics that can get businesses into significant trouble in the long term. An organizational culture that supports uncertain decisions and unethical behavior will need to change its culture. When changing business, organization culture is problematic, but
Motivational Methods HCS/325 October 10, 2011 Jamee Smith Motivational Methods There are many different motivational methods used in the workplace. One key player is inspiration, which is unavoidable in the workplace. For a future manager it’s important for them to know different ways of inspiring employees so that work is done more efficiently. Through this paper the different methods will be discussed and show the significance of inspiration. The inspirations of workers can a large problem for managers in business.
W. L. Gore & Associates – A Case Study Abstract One good way to gain the understanding of an organization is to examine its structure. Through this examination you can identify strengths and weaknesses within said structure and the organization as a whole. In this examination of W. L. Gore & Associates, it is noted that their structure is unique to say the very least. Their structure is far from a traditional organization’s structure. Many traditionalists feel that power, professional identity, visibility, and the facilitation of meaning-making processes are key factors in workplace productivity (Gluch, 2009).