MGT600: Strategic People Management & Innovation Challenges

This essay discusses the organizational challenges faced by managers, particularly within the context of Unilever, in maintaining effective organizational productivity. It emphasizes the importance of adhering to organizational ethics, fostering cultural diversity, employing strategic people management practices, and fostering innovation to gain a competitive advantage. The essay highlights that by adopting cultural diversity, organizations can employ a skilled workforce, while ethical behavior and strategic people management contribute to an effective organizational environment. The essay references academic sources to support its arguments and provides a comprehensive overview of the key considerations for successful people management and organizational development.

Organizational
Challenges
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Introduction
 Effective strategies help to maintain the
organizational functioning and support the
process of continuous growth
 Several factors that create turmoil within the
organizational scenario
 The managers of Unilever face challenges in
order to maintain effective organizational
productivity.

Organizational Ethics
 The managers as well as the leaders need to
abide by the organizational ethics
 Ensure long term sustenance
 Managers of the organization have often faced
difficulties in communicating

Organizational Ethics
 Managers need t practice organizational ethics
 Effective communication should be adopted

Cultural diversity
 Help in gaining competitive advantage
 Ensure organizational harmony
 Lack of cultural diversity in Unilever

Cultural diversity
 Effective strategies are to be taken up
 Better employment procedure
 Practice communication and team building

Employing Strategic people
Management to Gain Competitive
advantage
 Helps in increasing the organizational
efficiency and productivity
 Effective HRM practices
 The managers of Unilever have pointed out
the needs of organizational productivity

Fostering Innovation
 Helps in maintaining organizational growth
 Unilever needs to take up innovation
 Helpful in gaining competitive advantage

Conclusion
 To conclude, it can be said that by adopting
cultural diversity the organization will be able
to employ skilled and effective workforce. In
addition to this, by practicing ethical behavior
and employing strategic people management,
the managers will be able to create an
effective organizational environment.

Reference
Camisón, C., & Villar-López, A. (2014). Organizational innovation as an
enabler of technological innovation capabilities and firm
performance. Journal of business research, 67(1), 2891-2902.
Martin, G. C. (2014). The effects of cultural diversity in the workplace.
Journal of Diversity Management (Online), 9(2), 89.
Taylor, T., Doherty, A., & McGraw, P. (2015). Managing people in sport
organizations: A strategic human resource management perspective.
Routledge.