Management and Organizations in a Global Environment

This report discusses the steps taken by organizations to promote diversity, ways to reduce stress for subordinates, emerging issues in leadership, and the impact of intranets on organizational culture.

Management and Organizations in a Global Environment
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TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................................2
MAIN BODY............................................................................................................................2
What steps are today’s organizations taking to promote diversity and are these efforts
effective?................................................................................................................................2
How should the company’s supervisors behave differently to get their subordinates to
experience less stress on the job, or at least, get them to react less negatively?....................3
What could Mark do to improve things in this situation and why should he do them?.........3
What are some emerging issues in leadership? Discuss some alternatives to leadership......4
Describe when and where organizational politics occur and the forms of such behavior
takes........................................................................................................................................5
Intranets can reflect an organizational culture and its impact in contemporary organizations
and the challenges faced in maintaining culture with remote employees..............................5
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
Management is considered as a process of monitoring and controlling different things
in an appropriate manner. The main purpose of business organization is to increase profit
margin in future period of time. This report is carried upon company named as Alloy
Computer products. It is well known Australian manufacturing company founded in the year
of 1979. They provide different variety of products such as networking and VoIP products to
its user in order to satisfy them. In this assignment, there are different steps taken for
promoting diversity and also explain how manager of company behave differently with its
staffs. Apart from this, they also provide explanation regarding various emerging issues in
leadership and how to minimize politics within business organization. And, internet imposes
direct impact on culture of organization (Adekol and Sergi, 2016).
MAIN BODY
What steps are today’s organizations taking to promote diversity and are these efforts
effective?
There are various steps taken by business organization to promote diversity at
workplace. In context of Alloy Computer products, there are different steps taken by manager
that is going to be mentioned below:
Educate manager towards benefits of diversity It is necessary to have a superior
relationship between manager as well as employee in order to bring diversity at workplace. It
is necessary to provide proper education to its manager regarding advantages of diversity
within business organization.
Communicate clearly and create employee- led task forces it is necessary to
communicate with its employees in an effective manner in order to bring diversity within
business organization. In addition to this, it is necessary for manager to provide equal
treatment to its employees in term of gender, sex, age and many more that help in increasing
their confidence level in order to bringing diversity within business organization (Bratton
and Gold, 2017).
Offer equal opportunity for employee’s engagement it is necessary for manager of
organization to give opportunity to an individual person to take part in decision making of
company that help in performing different activity and task in an appropriate manner. In
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context of Alloy computer product, the manager of company provides opportunity to take
participation in decision of organization that is helpful in future period of time.
Therefore, there are different steps which are taken by Alloy computer product in
order to promote diversity.
How should the company’s supervisors behave differently to get their subordinates to
experience less stress on the job, or at least, get them to react less negatively?
There are various methods which are used by manager to behave differently with its
staff member for reducing their stress on job that is going to be mentioned below:
Set clear goal for employees it is significant for business organization to clarify their
goal in order to reduce stress level of employee during particular phase of time period. If the
employee has understanding regarding goal then they can achieve it in timely manner.
Offer flexible work environment the organization must focuses on providing
flexible work atmosphere to its employees in order to motivate them to increase productivity
level in future period of time. They must provide a flexible environment to its individual
person for increasing their motivation level towards achieving goal and objective.
Discourage multitasking when an individual person performs different work at a
time that increases their stress level. Therefore, it is necessary for manager of organization to
reduce multitasking for performing their work in an appropriate manner (Hitt, Ireland and
Hoskisson, 2016).
Therefore, there are various things which are consider by manager to reduce stress
level of its subordinates and motivates them to achieve goal and objective in timely manner.
What could Mark do to improve things in this situation and why should he do them?
Due to decrease in productivity, the manager of organization focuses on doing
different things such as increase employees engagement , provide rewards to its employees
and many more that is going to be mentioned below:
Increase employee engagement: The manager of business organization focuses on
increasing engagement level of employees or motivating them to perform different task in an
appropriate manner. If there is enhancement in participation level of employees, it motivate
employees to perform task in an appropriate manner and it helps organization in increasing
productivity level in future period of time.
Provide reward Furthermore, the manager of business organization provides
rewards, appraisal or promotion to its employees for motivating them towards achieving goal
and objective in timely manner.
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Take regular feedback for increasing productivity of business organization, it is
necessary for manager to take regular feedback from its employees regarding their work that
help them in taking their opinion regarding work and achieve goal and objective in timely
manner.
Set small and measurable goal it is necessary for manager of company to set goal
and communicate objective to its employees in an appropriate manner so that they it increase
their understanding level to achieve objectives in timely manner.
There are various things which is considered by manager of company to motivate its
employees that help in increasing productivity level in future period of time (Kerzner, 2018).
What are some emerging issues in leadership? Discuss some alternatives to leadership.
There are different emerging issues which are involved in leadership such as
emotional intelligence, women leader, leading virtual team trust and many more which
imposes direct impact on business organization. Some of these emerging issues that are going
to be mentioned below:
Emotional intelligence is the capability to recognize and handle emotions both in
oneself as well as in others. It involve various competencies like empathy, self-confidence
self awareness which is necessary to control by an individual person within business
organization.
Trust is other emerging issues which are occur in the leadership. It is necessary for
leader of organization to have a trustworthy behavior with individual person that help them in
increasing their motivation level to perform work in an appropriate manner.
Leading virtual team it is necessary for leader of business organization to lead team
in an appropriate manner. It helps the leader in sharing their problems with its leader which is
faced by them while performing their work in an appropriate manner (Rebelo, Santos and
Silva, 2016).
In addition to this, there are various alternative to leadership that is mentioned below:
Collegiality herein, the member in collegiality system are connected with one another
for common purpose and respect capability of each other to perform different work towards
achieving goals and objective in timely manner.
Consensus it includes forming general agreement between the members of group and
providing equal treatment to every individual person within business organization.
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Describe when and where organizational politics occur and the forms of such behavior takes
Organizational politics signifies self interest of an individual person within company
without any concerns regarding impact on goal or objective of company. Therefore, there are
various reasons for organization politics occur within company and that imposes direct
impact on behavior of an individual person at workplace that is going to be mentioned below:
Cannot adjust to change is considered as a part of company and employee does not
always ready to accept changes that imposes negative impact on performance level of
business organization.
Lack of clarity increases inner politics within business organization and that enhance
rumors among different individual person that imposes direct impact on productivity of
organization in future period of time.
Lack of trust is the other reason for politics within company. It is considered as a
reason which destroys image or goodwill of company during particular phase of time period
(Welford, 2016).
Intranets can reflect an organizational culture and its impact in contemporary organizations
and the challenges faced in maintaining culture with remote employees.
Intranet plays an important role in defining or explaining workplace culture. But it is
necessary for business organization to use appropriately that help in bringing positive
ambience at workplace. The use of intranet can impose direct impact on culture of company
that is going to be mentioned below:
On boarding is considered as processes that help new recruit’s to see how individual
person interact or behave with one another while performing their work. The intranet helps in
increasing experience level to new recruit’s to see how to interact with one another.
Updates through intranet, the manager provide regular updates in respect of warp
and weft of company and also they provide information regarding office security,
subordinates night out and many more that help in increasing engagement level of workforce
and create a superior culture within an organization.
Two ways communication through intranet, the manager of organization can
communicate directly with its subordinates that help in exchanging necessary information
from one another. It helps the employees in performing their work in smarter way and
discusses its problem with its manager in an appropriate manner (Thomas and Peterson,
2016). There are different challenges faced by employees in order to maintain culture within
an organization that is given below:
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Accountability and visibility due to increase in the requirement to be visible as well
as show productivity that lead to over working and doing more work by its remote
employees in comparison to other one. Therefore, this is considered as one of the biggest
challenge which is faced by remote employees and increases turnover of its employees.
Security is considered as other reason which is faced by remote employee such as
physical terror attack, cyber terrorism and many more that is come in mind of an individual
person that increases turnover rate of its employees at workplace.
Time Zone Bingo and communication concern it is another challenge faced by the
employees such as they can communicate with top management by video calls, instant
messaging and many more that sometime create misunderstanding among them and that
increases turnover rate of employees at workplace.
CONCLUSION
On the basis of above mentioned report, it has been analyzed that management is
considered as a process of monitoring and controlling different things in an appropriate
manner. The main purpose of business organization is to increase profit margin in future
period of time. In this assignment, there are different steps taken for promoting diversity and
also explain how manager of company behave differently with its staffs. Apart from this, they
also provide explanation regarding various emerging issues in leadership and how to
minimize politics within business organization. And, internet imposes direct impact on
culture of organization.
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REFERENCES
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cases: Competitiveness and globalization. Cengage Learning.
Kerzner, H., 2018. Project management best practices: Achieving global excellence. John
Wiley & Sons.
Rebelo, M.F., Santos, G. and Silva, R., 2016. Integration of management systems: towards a
sustained success and development of organizations. Journal of Cleaner Production, 127,
pp.96-111.
Thomas, D.C. and Peterson, M.F., 2016. Cross-cultural management: Essential concepts.
Sage Publications.
Welford, R. ed., 2016. Corporate environmental management 2: Culture and organization.
Routledge.
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