Management and Organisations in a Global Environment Tutorial Questions

Management and
organisations in a global
environment tutorial
questions

Table of Contents
Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Question 1 Week 3:..........................................................................................................................1
What are the downsides, if any, of building a diverse workforce?.............................................1
Question 2 Week 4:..........................................................................................................................2
What could the individual employees do to help manage their own stress more effectively?.. .2
Question 3 Week 6:..........................................................................................................................3
What are the essentials for team-based organisational success? What are the challenges of a
team based organisation, specifically in terms of virtual teams? What are the required
competencies for virtual leadership?...........................................................................................3
Question 4 Week 8...........................................................................................................................4
Explain the various things you can do to improve your effectiveness as a communicator in
organisations...............................................................................................................................4
Question 5 Week 9:..........................................................................................................................5
Describe the major types of individual power in organisations..................................................5
Question 6 Week 10:........................................................................................................................6
Distinguish between mechanistic organisations and organic organisations, as described by the
contingency approach to organisational design..........................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Management and operations are the basic fundamental that concerned with controlling
and designing of suitable process of redesigning as well as producing sustained goods and
services through which profitable ending is resulted in timely constrained. It is a process that is
used to plan, control, supervise the production capability through which possible changes and
modification is processed with support of effective implementation of various resources (Burritt
and el. at, 2019). In context to global environment it is essential as business working credibility
is improvising with support of various strategies. The report below is based on Debenhams that
is a British multinational organisation with having headquartered in UK. The report provides
suitable knowledge about the “management and operations in a global environment”.
MAIN BODY
Question 1 Week 3:
What are the downsides, if any, of building a diverse workforce?
The diversity management reflects a collective effort through which leaders of an
organisation hire talented and skilled workforce as in order to support inclusive working place.
In this all the working employee has been treated equally and they get learn to connect with
others as by accepting adequate differences from all the individuals. There is different downside
that is faced by Debenhams in order to build diverse workforce and it is as explained below as:
 Create too many options: As per hiring of new worker’s managers has to maintain focus
towards diversity in which different opinion candidates are hired. The sheered amount of
opinions creates suitable problems for Debenhams (Finnerty and et. al, 2017). In this
consensus of team is required in which different task is supervise with perfection that
somehow ignored perspective of employees to share adequate ideas and thinking.
 Difficulty in Transitioning: The management of business worked to recognise potential
of diversification and it create more challenges within working environment. The
entrenched prejudices and old way of thinking hinder the efforts through which more
conflicts and confusion is developed within working. For this management requires to
educate the employee about workforce diversity as it is the prior basis of success.
 Short-term cost outlay: The long term sustainability of business is dependent on learning
ability of employees as with this working efficiency and its effectiveness both get
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