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The Theories-
In the MBA401 module which was about people, culture and contemporary leadership,
the workshop week 1 dealt with driving the organizational performance through people. The aim
of the subject to detail the key concept in the management of the human resources in a particular
organizational system. The lectures explained how to evaluate and apply the human resource
considerations during making the business decisions with the strategic gals of an organization. It
provided an overview of talent management, the cultural change and the ethics of the people
management too. The contemporary approaches to leadership also provided the students along
with an opportunity to practice the leaders. The main focus of the week-1 workshop was
explaining the role of people in the organizations and relay the importance of measuring human
capital organizations. It also described the role of the HR having considered what the future role
of HR may be. I have come to learn after going through the week materials that people and
organization share a different relationship. The organizations rely solely on the availability and
the effectiveness of three types of resources such as finance, people and technology.
I have also known that the effective organization recognizes the values of the employees.
In my career in future I will use the metrics and the analytics for helping people to predict and
contribute in the organizational performance and managing the organizational talent. On the
other hand, the focus of week – 2 was the organizational culture. I have learnt that the
organizational culture is the shared values, the assumptions, beliefs and the patterns of behavior
in an organization. Moreover, it is the social glue which holds together the entire organization.
The culture triangle of Schein has given me an in-depth view of the concept. There are various
types of organ organizational culture such as the power culture, the role culture, the task culture
and the person culture. In future, if I come an HR of a company, I will be able to apply my own

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role in shaping the organizational culture. I will be able to recruit sensitively, do the performance
management, train and develop the employees and at the same time manage the cultural change.
In the week-3 I have learnt how to do the talent acquisition. The examples of Apple Westconnex
and Telstra has made me understand how to do the human resource planning and ensure how the
organizational objectives are fulfilled by utilizing the human resources.
It is an ongoing process which is focused on the long –term. The talent acquisition has
few parts such as the job creation, the job analysis, job design, the competency profiling, the
skills identification, the person specification and others. The week has made me aware of the
types of interviews. The topic of week -4 was the performance and reward. The week lectures
has taught me that performance management helps to improve the company productivity,
increases the sales, reduces the employee turnover, increases the organizational effectiveness. It
also ensures the internally consistent policies that are linked to the policies of the organization. I
found the week-5 topic and lectures the most interesting as it described the talent management
and leadership development. I have known that talent management is helping a person perform
their current role and enable advancement to the next role. It includes the on job training. In a
particular organization, there are three types of learning such as the formal, the informal and the
social. In order to retain the employees, the commitment and the loyalty is highly necessary. I
have got in-depth knowledge that in the knowledge economies, the employee expertise, the
organizational experience and the customer relationships are equally important. The lectures
have taught me the staffing processes which must be designed for ensuring the retention of the
employees by alignment of the personal and the organizational goals. In my future endeavors, I
can easily incorporate the theories learnt in the weeks.
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