Examining Key Issues in the Work Environment: A Detailed Analysis

This essay explores several critical issues within the work environment. It begins by highlighting the importance of targets in evaluating organizational efforts and ensuring survival, while also acknowledging that targets can lead to restrictions. The essay then addresses the challenges of cultural differences in conflict resolution, emphasizing the need for cross-cultural policies and procedures to overcome language barriers and other cultural issues. Furthermore, the impact of cultural awareness, or the lack thereof, on workplace harmony is discussed, alongside the importance of unified communication platforms for scattered teams. The detrimental effects of bad leadership on organizational reputation, team outcomes, and employee motivation are also examined, stressing the need for proper leadership reinforcement. Finally, the essay underscores the crucial role of company policies and procedures in defining organizational rules, accountabilities, and worker behavior. This analysis provides a comprehensive overview of key factors influencing the work environment.

ISSUES LINKED TO THE
WORK ENVIRONMENT

TARGETS AND CONFLICT
RESOLUTION
• Targets are important in evaluating the effort of the organization
teams.
• Also, targets lead to the approvals of undertakings of the teams on
behalf of the organization while ensuring survival.
• Through targets, production quality can be interpreted and
restrictions given(Maddux,2016,p.55)
• Cultural differences might be problematic in resolving conflicts.
• Language barriers make it difficult to resolve communicate.
• For companies to overcome cultural based conflicts, policies and
procedures should be established in a cross-cultural work
environment

CULTURAL AWARENESS
• Lack of or presence of cultural awareness might cause disharmony at
the workplace.
• In the event of scattered teams, it is important that team leaders
guarantees a working communication platform for all the teams.
• The scattered teams need to be unified under one charter whereby
the leader of the team provides timely and suitable feedback to all
the team members(Zuofa, Ochieng ,2017,p.230)

BAD LEADERSHIP
• Bad leadership is detrimental to the organizations reputation.
• Also, bad leadership may diminish the outcomes of teams at
the workplace.
• Consequently, poor performance, low confidence and lack of
motivation can affect workplace teams.
• It is important for organizations to reinforce proper leadership
and analyze leadership risk (Pyc,Meltzer & Lius,2017,p.196).

COMPANY POLICIES/RULES
• Policies and procedures of an organization are crucial as
they describe the rules within which an organization
operates.
• Policies stipulate the accountabilities of both employer
and the employed.
• Policies, define behavior of workers, terms and conditions
of interaction at the organization(Pyc, Meltzer&
LIU,2017,p.52)