BUSN113 Learning Journal: Reflecting on Organization and Leadership

This assignment is a reflective learning journal focusing on key topics from a workshop on managing organizations and leading people. The reflection covers three main areas: human resource practices, creating inspiring workplaces through high-performance teams, and management practices related to operations and technology. The author discusses their conceptual understanding of each topic, including the role of employee relations, business ethics, and employee motivation in human resources; the importance of team leadership, communication, and conflict management in creating high-performance teams; and the impact of digital management and advanced technology on organizational departments. Examples from companies like Google, Amazon, and BMW are used to illustrate these concepts. The journal emphasizes the importance of ethical practices, data science, and adapting to technological advancements for organizational sustainability and competitive advantage. It concludes with a reflection on the personal and professional growth gained from the workshop.

Running Head: MANAGING ORGANIZATIONS AND LEADING PEOPLE
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Managing Organizations and Leading People
Reflection
Student Name
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Introduction
This reflection is focused on the learning from the workshop which was organized in our
institute. This work was mainly based on three topics, one was human resource practice, another
was creating inspiring workplace through high-performance team and third was management
practice-operation and technology. These three workshops offered a lot of learning related to
organization management in terms of managing people connected them with technology and
develop an effective team which helps in fulfilling the goal of the organization. In addition, I also
learned the tactics of the corporate world which are essential and my professional growth in the
future.
Human resource practice
Concepts which are linked with the human resource management such as employee relations,
business ethics, employee motivation and opportunity offered to the employee to display their
performance on the base of their skills and talent helped me in gaining deep knowledge about
this topic. In addition to this, I also learned about the strategic framework which is being
operated by various high-level organizations in this competitive business world. Google is
considered as one of the successful innovative organizations in this business market (Anca-
Ioana, 2013). As per the study it has seen that the main important factors which are promoting
their growth are these human resource concepts which connect the employee with the
organization in the most effective manner. This topic helps me in understand the concept related
to important role played by human resource in the organization. In addition, I also learned
contribution of human resource in forming business strategy related to the growth and
development of the organization (Kumar et al., 2012). I also learned about the new issues which
are arising in the human resources related to the business operation of the organization and their
negative impact on the growth of both individuals as well as organization. It also helped me to
understand the way management of organization strategizes their workforce in the director of
organization purpose. In addition, I also learned the recruitment and selection process of the
organization. It also helped me to explore those factors which present organizations are looking
for in order to promote their employee as a brand in the eyes of the community in which they are
operating (Long, Perumal, and Ajagbe, 2012). This topic was very focus on the ethical practices
in the form of corporate governance which must be followed by the organization in their

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business operations along with forming an emotional bond with the society in the form of
employee care in terms of health benefit, better work environment and pays related to market
value (Scully-Russ, 2012). This corporate governance helps the organization in building a strong
network which ensures the long term sustainability of the organization in this dynamic business
world.
Creating an inspiring workplace through high performance
Concepts which are linked with the high performance of the organization such as team leadership
concept, effective team communication and one of the most important concepts which is conflict
management which is based on the different thinking capability of the individuals in organization
helped me in understanding the importance of this topic (Probert and Turnbull James, 2011). I
came to know that these concepts form the base of the business operation in terms of their high
performance because in present time organization performance is totally dependent on team
performance and conflict management helps them to resolve the possible conflict which can arise
due to dissimilar thinking of the employees working in the team (Bell et al., 2011). Almost all
tops business companies such as Amazon, Facebook, and IBM mainly work on these concepts in
order to remain sustainable in the business market. One of the most important learnings that I got
from this topic was knowledge about the team leadership and their importance in the
performance of the team as well as organization. In addition to this, I also got knowledge about
the strategies which is being used by the leaders to resolve the conflict within the organization. It
also highlights the negative impact of the conflict on the performance of the organization while
competing in a dynamic business environment (Johansen, 2012). It also offered me knowledge
about how to make better use of communication while working in the team because performance
of the team is totally dependent on the performance of all individuals instead of one individual.
This topic helped me in understanding the real gap between theoretical knowledge and practical
aspect connected with the organization performance. In addition to this, I also learned how team
leadership helps in solving a very complex problem in an effective and efficient way in order to
attain the overall objective of the team. I also learned various tactics and strategies related to
conflict management which will helps me in solving my personal conflicts in both personal as
well as professional context (Adeyemi and Ademilua, 2012). In this world of competition, an
organization can only remain sustainable if they are following ethical related to business which

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governance the performance. Offering a positive work environment must be the first option for
the organization in order to improve their performance in the market because it offers them
environment full creativity along with innovation.
Management practice- operations and technology
Concepts such as digital management and impact of advanced technology on departments of the
organization, especially HRM department helped me to understand this topic in a better way.
These concepts helped me in understand the impact of the digital world on the business
operations in both positive and negative way. In addition to this, these concepts helped me in
understand the tactics used by present organization to take advantage of this advanced
technology in the form of competitive advantage over other organizations (Baines and W.
Lightfoot, 2013). Currently, all organization has left their traditional mode of working and has
adopted advance mode of working by introducing technology in their all business operations.
One of the best examples is Amazon, BMW, Audi which has developed their business objective
on technology by connecting all the departments of the organization with the organization. This
topic taught me many lesion which otherwise was difficult for me to learn because it did not only
highlighted positives of the technology but it also highlighted the negatives linked with the
technology (Venkatesh and Zhang, 2010). I also learned the role of technology in HRM
department and various features offered by technology to make their function more effective and
efficient. In addition, I also learned how technology has developed a single node connection
between operations, finance, marketing and HRM department by offering them data science
platform which has increased their work efficiency (Erdoğmuş and Esen, 2011). This topic is
focusing more on growing need for data science in the business world. According to researchers
business world has not become number game and in this situation, their operating system must
be also linked with numbers. Use of data science will help the organization to remain sustainable
in this dynamic business environment (Zott and Amit, 2010). It is also focusing on the use of
ethics related to technology in order to eliminate chances of unethical practices in the business
environment.

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Conclusion
These workshops helped me in gaining the key knowledge of business world which are essential
for my personal as well as professional growth. With the help of these workshops, I was able to
understand the key role played by human resource management in the business world along with
their possible challenges. In addition to this, I was able to understand the strategy by which
advanced technology can be linked with employee performance in order to increase their
productivity. It also taught me the importance of an effective team in the organization which is
essential for efficiency of the business operation.

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