Management People and Teams : Reflective Learning

Running head: MANAGEMENT PEOPLE AND TEAMS
Management People and Teams
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1MANAGEMENT PEOPLE AND TEAMS
Reflective learning is an extremely effective tool to ensure that learners are able to
understand the importance and applications of the knowledge and skills that they are
gathering (Griggs, Holden, Lawless & Rae, 2018). This helps them assimilate the knowledge
and apply them for their future course of life and workplace. The purpose of this essay is to
reflect on the introductory module learning and understand the importance of them. Finally,
the future use and implication for those learnings are analyzed.
Through the module I learnt about the principles of people management and the role
of leaders in it. I learnt that while managing people in organization, managers and leaders
might face several challenges such as lack of communication, cross cultural issues, time
management, increasing performance of the employees or resistance to change (Gonçalves,
Reis, Sousa, Santos, Orgambídez-Ramos & Scott, 2016). Through the module I learnt that
leadership and management styles change according to the nature of organizational culture
and structure. Learning these topics is necessary for aspiring managers and leaders as these
concepts provides the basis on which managers would operate organizations.
From the module I learnt that managers have important role to play in changing
environment. Due to globalization change has become inevitable for organizational growth
and the managers have the responsibility to facilitate the change by managing the employees
and ensuring that they do not fall back to old habits. Managers use motivational tactics and
influence the employees to perform better. Power and politics are two aspects that are
ingrained into the organization and organizations use this aspect to control their members
ensure discipline (Arora & Rao, 2018). The kind of strategy the managers would take
depends largely on the kind of organization and people that they are working with.
Communication is key for managers as they must establish regular dialogues with the
executives as well as the employees that are working with them. In changing environments,