MGT364X: Best Practices Manual on Audit and Organizational Change

This report compiles several sections focusing on best practices within audit management, organizational culture, conflict management, and overall working mechanisms. The first section emphasizes strategies for enhancing audit management efficiency and tackling bureaucracy, including the importance of evaluating auditors, assessing individual performance, and utilizing reference documents. The second section delves into fostering a sustainable corporate culture, highlighting employee passion, incentives, ethical practices, and the importance of strong business ethics. The third section addresses conflict management and leadership styles, focusing on resolving conflicts, promoting effective communication, and understanding different power dynamics. The final section discusses optimizing working mechanisms and organizational culture, emphasizing employee retention, skill management, and the importance of integrating various activities to maximize organizational objectives. The report draws on several academic references to support its findings, providing a comprehensive overview of best practices in these interconnected areas of organizational management.

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Running head: AUDIT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
<Name of the student>
Dropbox 2.1 – Best practices Manual: Section One
MGT364X: Audit management system and organizational change
Instructor: <name of the instructor>
Best Practices for Audit Management System & Effective Bureaucracy
1. The best practices talks about the process that can enhance the efficiency of management
system and create effective measures for tackling bureaucracy.
2. Evaluating the auditors and understanding the competency levels helps to acquire
knowledge and implement them based on the auditing principles process as well as
methods that works as an instrument of enhancing the performance of the audit
management system (Furnham & Gunter, 2015).
3. Assessing the performance of the individuals in walls audit followed by their leadership
expects and determines that within the auditing program is able to improve the
competency level of the relevant activities that are essential for an organization (Hale et
al., 2017).
4. The best practices also incorporate the fact that there is necessity of utilizing effective
process of auditing so that insufficiency in effective accountability must not occur. This
due to the fact that implementation of training and facilitation of activities that improves
the skill level of people that works of the organization forces it to utilize is resources
personal segment as well as manage them to enhance the effectiveness of performance of
the business.
5. Implementation of skilled people and train them to utilize the available resources
necessitates the investigation of the management system from its operational prospective
as well as to measure the financial effectiveness it is important to verify the performance
of each and every management units.
6. Usage of reference documents should be utilized in the organizational context where the
applications and reports should be made based on the legal and contractual requirements
7. Various common mistakes in the process of auditing takes place due to insufficiency in
the following aspects of concern which are: integrity, evidence based approach,
independence, confidentiality, fair presentation and due professional care.
8. Establishing and managing the audit program requires the identification and mitigation of
the risks involved in the process and hence for performing audit activities are done
through undertaking certain measures like preparing, approving and distributing the audit
report followed by completing the audit and conducting the audit follow – up.
9. Bureaucracy is an excessively complicated procedure of administration that is
implemented in order to control and systematized the activities that are being executed
within any business process
10. Crunching work, writing codes, proof reading articles designing, making calls, etc. are
not so important as of meeting a client and signing him/her up
11. Complexity of time wasting effect of bureaucratic approach that are encountered in the
management process of any business organization can be simplified through
implementation of certain measures like knowing priorities, action oriented approach,

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empowering employees by training them and budgeting for emergencies along with
setting spending limits.
References
Furnham, A., & Gunter, B. (2015). Corporate Assessment (Routledge Revivals): Auditing a
Company's Personality. Routledge.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781317499589
Leadership tutorial: Fighting bureaucracy | lynda.com. (2019). Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcDderEn0Tc
Hale, A., Guldenmund, F., & Goossens, L. (2017). Auditing resilience in risk control and safety
management systems. In Resilience Engineering (pp. 289-314). CRC Press.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781317065296/chapters/10.1201/978131560568
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<Name of the student>
Discussion Forum 2.1 – Best practices Manual
MGT364X: Corporate culture
Instructor: <name of the instructor>
Best Practices for Corporate culture
1. To ensure that sustainable work culture previous it is important that the passion of
employees towards their work as well as the intensity to get motivated and enhance their
willingness based on the work environment is important.
2. Avoidance of productivity in a traditional way is accompanied by not only hard work but
in creating a strong plinth of discipline practice of work culture in a collaborative way.
3. Understanding what the employees want to execute providing incentives and rewards in
return if they achieve their expected productivity label will provide career growth options
as well as facility development opportunities through training and motivation which
should be created by the organization for the sake of the employees (Hodges, 2018).
4. To ensure that a strong ethical culture persist within the organization it is important to
intensify the optimization of work culture from the individual level to the organizational
level.
5. Raising strong moral as well as capitalizing human resources towards enhancing the
organizational performance is an endeavor that will inspire motivate as well as
systematize the temporary failure or success that may have affected the organization
(Hollinger-Smith & Groenwald, 2017).
6. It is important to build a strong work culture and business ethics in order to accomplish
objective of the organization and utilize all of its employees willingly towards the same
goal.
7. Ensuring effective corporate culture it is important to create a relationship that is
sustainable from the respect of the employees individually who rendered their food and
capabilities for maximizing the objective of the organization
8. Moreover it is also important that are strong business environment is created upon which
the employees contrast and practice the culture that is effective for the organization as a
whole
9. It is needless to say that optimization of the business practices is essential apart from
raising strong morale and boosting the employees towards maximization of the objective
of the business firm

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10. There is importance today's productivity as well as maximize the revenue generation is
this together in corporates in the profit of the organization but apart from that the
individual employees should feel that there is opportunities for career growth and
individually their development as a whole within that organization
References
Hodges, D. Z. (2018). Workplace culture is a hot topic. Dean and Provost, 20(2), 1-3.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/dap.30503
Hollinger-Smith, L. M., & Groenwald, S. L. (2017). The Importance of Meaningful Nursing
Faculty Recognition: Influencing and Advancing a Caring Workplace Culture.
https://www.nursingrepository.org/handle/10755/622930

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<Name of the student>
Dropbox 3.1 – Best practices Manual: Section One
MGT364X: Conflict management & Leadership style
Instructor: <name of the instructor>
Best Practices for Conflict management & Leadership style
1. It is important to understand the internal conflicts and manage them prioritizing objective
and lead them towards effective resolution that will be beneficial for the individual as
well as for the organization it is important that no such conflicts whether it be personal,
cultural, walk style differences or interdependency best conflicts (Dyer & Song, 2015).
2. Irrespective of this employees should come together and understand their rules for
enhancing the managerial operations game in a synchronized manner with the corporate
goals.
3. The policies that are implemented to avoid employee conflict should not be biased only
towards the organizational productivity but also should be able to promote effective
coordination and cooperation through interactive communication between the employee
hierarchy as well as the managerial hierarchy (Helms & Oliver, 2015).
4. This is due to the reason that efficiency affects the quality of the goods and services that
are being deployed by the organization into the market affects the entire organization as a
whole.
5. Root cause gets in employee blaming each other should be dedicated as well as
elimination of a motion while dealing with organization issues should be restricted.
6. Conversation should be goal oriented and the means that are used to resolve the issues
should be effective enough to avoid conflicts (Prause & Mujtaba, 2015).
7. It is important to focus on individual as well as organizational behavior rather than the
personality of the individual entities since this will create an engaging environment.
8. There are presence of various types of power as well as it is necessary to ensure that
appropriate power is been used
9. There is presence of legitimate power, referent power, expert power, coercive power,
reward power as well as information power in order to implement effective leadership
10. The leadership style should be accompanied by tracking the loopholes in the management
process and boosting the overall system towards leading it forward in the way of
maximizing the goals of a business organization that is both feasible and accountable

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References
Dyer, B., & Song, X. M. (2015). The relationship between strategy and conflict management: A
Japanese perspective. In Proceedings of the 1995 Academy of Marketing Science
(AMS) Annual Conference (pp. 126-132). Springer, Cham.
Helms, W. S., & Oliver, C. (2015). Radical settlements to conflict: Conflict management and its
implications for institutional change. Journal of Management &
Organization, 21(4), 471-494.
Prause, D., & Mujtaba, B. G. (2015). Conflict management practices for diverse
workplaces. Journal of Business Studies Quarterly, 6(3), 13.

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<Name of the student>
Dropbox 4.1 – Best practices Manual
MGT364X: Audit management system and organizational change
Instructor: <name of the instructor>
Best Practices for Working mechanism and organisational culture
1. Best practices comprise of the objective of every business is not only to maximize
profitability and minimize cost with also Institute employee retention skill management
followed by training and development of the organizational culture.
2. Integration of all the activities that any firm wants to accomplish should be established in
a way so that the bottom line on the top line of the organization have preference towards
each other in maximizing the organizational objective as well as capitalize the business
endeavor that have been failed or succeeded.
3. The hierarchical organization structure in amalgamation with the functional Matrix in
order to ensure that innovation is present within business that differs from the traditional
way of business progression because it will ensure that the strategic management
decisions is collaborating with the organizational situation and maximizing the objective
of improving financial, operational as well as managerial state of business coupled with
leadership style (Ivanov, 2015).
4. The authoritarian power in a hierarchical organization should utilize both the labor force
that are present in the bottom line as well as on the top line.
5. The notion of division of labor should be implemented in order to optimally utilize firms
human capital as well as other resources recreating the working structure based on the
expect is of the employees managers and the other labor forces (Ocasio & Joseph, 2017).
This is due to the fact that it will provide an opportunity for the organization to maximize
all the available entities of it and focus towards the objective for which it prevails in the
industry.
6. Boosting the organizational culture accompanied by optimizing the utilization of the
resources that is available to it but also ensuring that they are optimally utilized to
maximize the objective of the firm
7. In order to accomplish the purpose of the business only authoritarian leadership is not
everything but there is necessity to incorporate pragmatic measures that will create a just
friendly working culture and organizational practices will be supported by Business
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8. Notably the aspect of division of labor is important the work that each and every
individual employees can render at their best possible levels as well as they are able to
the goals that individually they possess
9. In order to integrate the networks that collectively leads to the avoidance of final goods
and services and ensure that the quality of goods and services that is being rendered to the
consumers are able to meet their anticipated demand of the demand of the goods and
services upon which they look for.
10. Organizational culture is the amalgamation of the individual culture that is been practiced
within the organization and hence due to that reason it is essential to delve into each and
every practices that are being done within the organization as a whole.
References
Hodges, D. Z. (2018). Workplace culture is a hot topic. Dean and Provost, 20(2), 1-3.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/dap.30503
Hollinger-Smith, L. M., & Groenwald, S. L. (2017). The Importance of Meaningful Nursing
Faculty Recognition: Influencing and Advancing a Caring Workplace Culture.
https://www.nursingrepository.org/handle/10755/622930

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<Name of the student>
Dropbox 5.1 – Best practices Manual
MGT364X: Workplace Power
Instructor: <name of the instructor>
Best Practices to use power in the most effective manner
The best practices can be incorporated on this respect as a whole in the following point:
1. To ensure that the managerial system is effective, there is need for creating tactical
Bureaucracy since it will help the operational managers to analyze the business and
allocate the funds in an optimized manner. This is due to the fact that implementation of
tactical bureaucracy will help in decision making regarding the business as involvement
of the officials are being done based on the experienced management that works for the
benefit of the organization while autocracy will shift the power in the hand of the
individual.
2. The workplace power is of various kinds that are determined based on position within the
organization, expertise level, trustworthiness, ability to obtain rewards, people ability to
penalize, etc.
3. Based upon the higher position within the organization in the managerial or employee
hierarchy any individual holds workplace power.
4. People who are skillful in particular fields of organizational interest possess power due to
their expertise in those respective fields.
5. From an organizational perspective it is being considered that an individual that possess
higher ability of negotiation skills are more trustworthy to the organization and hence
they also enjoys workplace power.
6. Individuals who possess to ability to earn rewards holds power, however, individuals who
possess the ability to punish individuals for their mistakes also holds significant
workplace power
7. When there is ability within individuals to make effective and interactive communication
with people of opposite sex, then they confer power in the workplace.
8. Passion as well as confidence over the beliefs that individuals keep within themselves
provides personal power within them.
9. Going against the rationality and behaving irrationally within the organization also helps
to gain tremendous amount of power
10. There is necessity for appropriate use of power which will become possible if and only if
the employee needs as well as the organizational needs gets optimized from the point of
view of the employees as well as from the perspective of the organization. It is important
to understand that organizational needs seek to be get fulfilled and in the same way
individual needs should also be valued. The use of power should be made in the
workplace with the sole objective of optimizing both the organizational as well as the
individual interests mutually in a Pareto Optimal manner where organizational interest
should not get better off by worsening off individual interest and vice-versa.

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References
Hodges, D. Z. (2018). Workplace culture is a hot topic. Dean and Provost, 20(2), 1-3.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/dap.30503
Hollinger-Smith, L. M., & Groenwald, S. L. (2017). The Importance of Meaningful Nursing
Faculty Recognition: Influencing and Advancing a Caring Workplace Culture.
https://www.nursingrepository.org/handle/10755/622930
Ivanov, S. (2015). The work of associations: A hidden dimension of all managerial hierarchies
(Bureaucracies). Journal of Leadership and Management, 2(4).
http://www.leadership.net.pl/index.php/JLM/article/view/66
Ocasio, W., & Joseph, J. (2017). The attention-based view of great strategies. Strategy
Science, 3(1), 289-294. https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/stsc.2017.0042

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<Name of the student>
Dropbox 5.2 – Best practices Manual
MGT364X: Audit & Effective Conflict management
Instructor: <name of the instructor>
Best Practices of Audit & effective Conflict management
The best practices can be incorporated on this respect as a whole in the following point:
1. In order to avoid common mistakes in the process of audit it is important to accomplish
activities in a simplified manner and reduce the risk involved in the complicated
procedure of Administration to the channelization of funds and effectively
communicating regarding how the funds are being utilized. Accountability is very
important on this respect as it prepare, approve as well as utilize the accountable
information in a process and reduce the wastage of effects followed by maximizing the
priorities and empowering the overall organization.
2. To ensure that effective conflict management is being done the balance between Internal
conflict and the employees grievances should be resolved by providing beneficial
opportunities to individuals as well as observing that it does not hamper the
organizational objectives as a whole.
3. The provisions of quality goods and services is also impacted by conflict that takes place
within the employees as well as the organization it may be within employees or within
organization or between the employees and the organization. The cause for which
employee blames the organization of the organization blames the employees should be
tackled effectively to restrict does that is not goal oriented what does not able to resolve
the issues related to the relationship between the employees and the organization.
4. Avoidance of conflict is the factorial output adjustment within employees as well as the
organization which can be synchronized to maximize the corporate goals. In order to
ensure that the or working mechanism of an organization is employee friendly it is
important to ensure the fact that organization doesn't run only to maximize profit but also
to minimize is cost. Apart from that the objective of the organization is also to maintain a
working environment for the employees as well as their objective or preference towards
organizational goals is effectively maximized.
5. Policies should be implemented to understand the needs of the employees based on their
feedbacks as well as from the hierarchical organizational scenario with the managerial
perspectives as well as the bottom line effectiveness of the employees should be taken
under consideration together. In order to create a strong working culture and business
ethics it is important to accomplish that organizations utilizes employee’s willingness.
This is due to the fact that the employee meaning this will enhance the productivity will
not charge an extra for giving an extra to for the organization and for maximizing the
output of the organization. The employees if we coroneted and Cooperated by the
organization then the development will not only take place literally but will have its
application in the field that the productivity of the organization releases due to the fact

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that the individual skills that their productivity raises since their collaboration with the
organization.
6. It is needless to say that there is crucial need for implementing leadership since it will be
able to understand the legitimacy of the power given to each and every individual within
the organization and the organizational prospective regarding rising dose power that is
directly proportional with the responsibility that are being undertaken.
References
Hodges, D. Z. (2018). Workplace culture is a hot topic. Dean and Provost, 20(2), 1-3.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/dap.30503
Hollinger-Smith, L. M., & Groenwald, S. L. (2017). The Importance of Meaningful Nursing
Faculty Recognition: Influencing and Advancing a Caring Workplace Culture.
https://www.nursingrepository.org/handle/10755/622930
Ivanov, S. (2015). The work of associations: A hidden dimension of all managerial hierarchies
(Bureaucracies). Journal of Leadership and Management, 2(4).
http://www.leadership.net.pl/index.php/JLM/article/view/66
Ocasio, W., & Joseph, J. (2017). The attention-based view of great strategies. Strategy
Science, 3(1), 289-294. https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/stsc.2017.0042