Culture Management Workshop: Conscious Cultures and Management in Global Corporations

This paper discusses the design of a workshop on conscious cultures and management in global corporations. It includes activities based on the four tenets of conscious business, changing views of global business in corporate social responsibility, and identification of barriers. The paper also assesses the lessons of the 10th week and provides a summary of the activities.

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Introduction:
The paper is focused in the designing of the workshop based on the topic of the week
10 which is Conscious cultures and management in global corporations. The paper includes
the relevant and the interesting activities of the week. Along with that, the paper elaborates
the changing views of the global business in the corporate social responsibility. In addition to
this, the activities of the paper are based on the four tenets of the conscious business. The
paper also elaborates the appropriate timing for the activities and shows the integration of the
topics. Apart from that, the paper also identifies barriers which have the potential to cause
considerable amount of difficulty to the successful implementation of the activities. Along
with that, the paper also includes description of my objectives from the successful
accomplishment of the workshop.
Assessment of the lessons of the 10th week:
The week’s lesson is significant for me in understanding the variation or the change in
the role of the business. The conceptual briefing of the role of the business is observed to
have two different viewpoints. The first one defines the social responsibility of the business
to be only the generation of the profit. However the other one confirms that social
responsibility of the business is much more than just generating profit. The role of the
business in the second approach is seen to be beyond the legal and governing requirements
and responsibilities. The increased responsibility of the modern day business operations is
observe to cover various aspects like the human rights, labour, environment and anti-
corruption. The week’s lesson had great significance for me in the identification of the needs
to align the business operations in accordance to the human rights. The business operation
needs to eradicate the human right abuses in order to provide the much needed sustainability.
The lesson helped me in the understanding of the effective form of the business operation

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where the elimination of all sorts of forced labour or the compulsory labour, abolition of the
child labour and the elimination of the discrimination on the basis of the employment and
occupation will be achieved. In addition to this, an effective business operation will certainly
produce the freedom of association and the right to bargain. The business operations need to
make sure that it supports the precautionary approaches for the management of the
environmental challenges and undertake the initiative to promote the environmental
responsibility. The business operation needs to be cleared from all sorts of corruption.
Activity 1:
Inclusion of Activities:
The inclusion of the activity will be conducted through the consultation where each of
the groups will be responsible for answering the questions regarding the emotional
intelligence, cultural intelligence and the diversity.
Timing:
The allocated time for the activity will be two hours as the proper understanding of
the principles of the UN global compact will take an hour at least.
Integration of the topic and the activity:
The topic educates us regarding the labour and the human rights inside the
organization. The labour rights are significant in describing their stand against the forced
labour from the employees. The emotional intelligence will certainly help in understanding
the emotions of the other person and in the evaluation of the tasks which can be allocated to a
particular employee under such situation. The labour rights also supports the protection of the
employees against the discrimination on the basis of the race and the culture. The required

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intelligence to understand the cultural preferences is of great significance in reducing the
impact of the discrimination among the members of the organization.
Instructions:
The instruction for ensuring the well facilitation of the activities is to better
understand the linking between the cultural intelligence, emotional intelligence and the
human, labour rights.
Potential Barriers:
The potential barrier in the successful implementation of the activities is considered to
be the lack of understanding of the culture and the cultural differences and apart from that,
the technique for the alignment of the business operation with the human and the labour
rights. Diversification of Activities:
The answering of the different questions regarding the cultural and emotional
intelligence will certainly suit the diversified personalities of the participants.
Activity 2:
Inclusion of Activities:
In the second activity, the idea was to evaluate the higher purpose. In the activity, a
shirt of a renowned company was placed in front of a table and members were asked to
evaluate whether the brand of the shirt has the higher purpose or not. The company of the
shirt was observed to conduct only one socially responsible campaign where the organization
was observed to gift one shirt to the people of Uganda who were suffering from significant
poverty and needed them a lot. The gifting of the shirts to the needy people of Uganda was on
the basis of one purchases of the company’s customers. So it was a buy 1 gift 1 policy where
the company gifted one shirt on the basis of consumption of 1 by the customers.

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Timing:
The appropriate timing of the activity is considered to be 4 hours.
Integration of the topic and the activity:
The evaluation of the company’s policy whether they are socially responsible or not,
are notably in alignment with the evaluation of the higher purpose.
Instructions:
The instruction is this case is to evaluate the company’s records of the business policy
from the beginning of it.
Potential Barriers:
The barrier in this case was the confusion regarding the fact that whether the policy of
the company is in alignment with the generation of the profit or it is a socially responsible
approach from the part of the company for the higher purpose.
Diversification of Activities:
The activity was in place in significant manner for the participants with the diversified
personalities for their varied evaluation of the case and the higher purpose.
Activity 3:
Inclusion of Activities:
In the 3rd activity, the evaluation of the stakeholder orientation is to be conducted. The
activity is designed for the same brand chosen in the last activity. Now the activity is
designed to make a list of all the stakeholders of the brand within 60 minutes and evaluate
whether any of the stakeholders are missed or not. If any of the real life stakeholders are

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missed, then the evaluation of the real life impact that stakeholder’s exclusion will have on
the company, needs to be conducted.
Timing:
The timing for the activity is considered to be 3 minutes.
Integration of the topic and the activity:
The topic is based on the situation of the conflict between the stakeholders and trade
off and the activity identifies the impact of the exclusion of the stakeholder.
Instructions:
The instruction in this case is to be check all the parties associated with the production
and business operations of the company before forming the list of the stakeholders.
Potential Barriers:
The barrier in this case is expected to be the difficulties related with the identification
of the suppliers as the company might not express notable information regarding the
suppliers.
Activity 4:
Inclusion of Activities:
The 4th activity is the last activity. The activity is designed for the same company that
is used in the last 2 activities. The activity is based on the evaluation of the stakeholder
orientation, conscious leadership and culture of the company. Along with that, the activity is
designed for categorizing the selected company on the basis of four different categories
which are Profitable/Virtuous, Not profitable/Virtuous, Profitable/ Not Virtuous and Non
profitable/Non Virtuous.

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Timing:
The timing for the activity is 20 minutes.
Integration of the topic and the activity:
The activity is linked to the evaluation of the conscious capitalism for the company.
Instructions:
The instruction for the case is to search for the existence of the financial information
of the company.
Potential Barriers:
The barrier in this case can be the access to the financial statement of the
organization.
Final Comments:
With the designing of the workshop, I hoped to transfer a proper understanding of the
cultural intelligence, emotional intelligence and the sense of the diversity to the ones
undertaking the workshop. Along with that, I chose to place the shirt of such a company
which has significant brand value and has the record of conducting socially responsible
campaigns for the society. I intentionally chose the brand to make sure that the individuals
undertaking the activities feel ease to find out the higher purpose for the company. Along
with that, I wanted to make sure that the individuals have the idea regarding the stakeholders,
the orientation of the stakeholders and the impact of the trade off or the exclusion of a
particular stakeholder group. Hence my choice of the brand for the shirt was influenced by
this and I made the choice of such a company which has notable amount of information

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regarding the stakeholders. However I knew that the individuals will have to face difficulty in
finding the information regarding the suppliers of the company as the company expresses
considerably limited amount of information on their suppliers. The chosen company had
published the financial statement of it in irregular manner and the choice of the company was
conducted with specific focus to provide the ease to the individuals in confirming the
category of it.
Conclusion:
On a concluding note, the activities are notably in alignment with the four important
parts of the topic featured in the week’s lesson for the 10th week. The lesson is seen to be
significantly important for providing in depth information regarding the ten principles of the
UN global compact and at the same time, it produced notable amount of information
regarding the four tenets of the conscious capitalism.