• Describe the stages of an established model of group formation • Explain how a manager could benefit from knowing team members preferred roles as defined in an established team role model Section 1 – Understand how to develop and maintain effective working relationships You should provide your own understanding of how to develop and maintain effective working relationships by providing responses to the assessment criteria using, whenever appropriate, examples from a team situation with which you are familiar. 1.1 Explain the benefits of effective working relationships in developing and maintaining the team (20 marks) Effective working relationships are paramount to developing and maintaining effective teams. Teams need time and space to progress and establish interpersonal working relationships. These relationships between peers and leaders have to be positive, trustworthy and communicative to be effective and enhance performance. Leaders have to set the standard by being empathic, supportive and use a range of different leadership styles to develop and maintain the team, they also have be fair and consistent, as workers that feel they are unfairly treated by a manager will not show loyalty and will do the minimum.
A mentor is there”. Danielle Carey Understanding the context for effective workplace mentoring * Describe and define the purpose of workplace mentoring (16 marks) Workplace mentoring is a learning partnership between employees for purposes of sharing technical information, institutional knowledge and insight with respect to a particular occupation, profession, organization or endeavour. Mentoring is perhaps best described as a developmental process - dynamic and unique to each person. Informal mentoring relationships may develop in the work setting when a more seasoned employee takes a new employee “under his/her wing.” Formal mentoring programs allow organizations to create and nurture those relationships by matching more experienced employees (mentors)
Concrete analysis was done through the use of ethnographic interviews, keen observations, and the obtaining of corporate documents. This essay will conclude with future suggestions for the betterment and preservation of organizational culture and its co-creation processes. KEY WORDS: Organizational culture, cultural co-creation, customer-service oriented “Management and executives are interested in organizational culture...because they believe their organizations culture is unique and can be an effective tool in attracting employees or distinguishing [them] from competitors (Keyton, 2005).” From the drafting of a business plan,
Employees should feel that the company they work for cares about their personal life as much as they care about them being at work and providing the employees with these particular benefits shows this. Create a strategy for ensuring that the Geico plan addresses all of the advantages. The first plan to the strategy would be to get a team together from different departments of the company to come up with ideas from the employees that would interest them. Once the ideas have been gathered, have a meeting with company members to see which ideas can be implemented into the company without causing a high financial strain. The second part of the strategy would be to gather information from other companies to see what made their programs successful and comparing those ideas with ideas the members of the team that have already been put into place.
What would you do to achieve this? Explain how you think coaching or mentoring can contribute to encouraging employees to participate in continuous improvement processes. Coaching and mentoring are centred on unlocking a person ´s potential to maximise his or her own performance. A focus on improving performance and the development of skills is the key to an effective coaching relationship. To achieve this, Coaching and mentoring should be applied to the area you want to develop, such as motivating staff, delegating, problem solving, relationship issues, team building, and staff development.
Why is mentoring and coaching of employees important in operational planning? First of all a coach and a mentor can help an employee adjust to the culture in an organisation. The coach can provide the new worker with information on the corporate culture, organisational structure and procedures that will help the younger professional settle into his role in the business. Companies can assign a mentor or coach to new employees during the adjustment period to help them get up to speed on company’s procedures and policies. Mentoring also provides the worker with a leader he can turn to with
Case Questions: 1. How do information systems projects get started in organizations? Information System projects start with a request which describes problems or desired changes in an information system or a business process. The request might propose enhancements for an existing system, the correction of problems, the replacement of an older system, or the development of an entirely new information system that is needed to support a company’s current and future business needs. In the Petrie Electronics a request from the executive team has decided that the number one priority is to not only survive but to thrive and prosper by developing closer relationships with their customers.
Also, organisations need to make sure that they provide possibility to develop certain managerial skills for people working within key positions. For a business to succeed leadership is vital. The leader is somebody who sets a direction and inspires other people in their work. The leader has the capacity to influence people. Some people are natural leaders other people can develop leadership skills through training and education.
After reviewing the Tanglewood case, we have come up with some suggestions pertaining to staffing quantity as well as quality. Our suggestions are as follows: Acquire or Develop Talent Tanglewood has a very unique strategy encouraging all of its employees to be self-sufficient and voice their opinions when they have ideas for improving the company. We believe developing talent from within will go hand-in-hand with this strategy. By training existing employees to be managers, Tanglewood will be able to teach them a style of management that they feel is in line with the its mission and vision. The company’s investment into the employee will also act as a motivator for the employee.
Question 1: - Based on the information given, in the passage, it is said by J.R.Mac Donald that the goal of IBM CSC is to help future leaders “understand how the world works, show them how to network, and how to collaborate with people who are far away” Training objectives: The program should help employees see how they can apply their new skills on the job, deliver rewards for performance, be tied to organizational policies and practices that value diversity, and include a way to measure the success of training. In my own word, the leaders want to have their management trainees to be versatile, so they put their trainees in the form of cultural immersion. It means sending employee directly into communities where they have to interact with people form different cultures. They want to let their trainees to be suffer from difficulties, diseases,… From this, trainees can able to manage in the most harsh situations. In addition,trainees will collaborate with each other, help to point out the weakness of comrades, feel more friendly – not to feel any discrimination between each others (even employees are gay, les, transexual; color skin…) - Based on the information given, the program help their trainees get new skills to apply to the job, deliver rewards for performance, be tied to organizational policies.