Individual Report: Skills for Workplace Success in BUS201

This report analyzes the workplace skills required for success, focusing on interpersonal skills and their importance. It examines the case of Nick Philip, a financial services consulting firm facing challenges related to rapid growth, cultural diversity, and workplace culture issues. The report delves into organizational structure, suggesting the adoption of a clan culture to foster teamwork and employee engagement. It also addresses the need for strong leadership to manage the diverse workforce and implement strategies for creating a positive and ethical workplace culture. Furthermore, the report discusses workplace bullying prevention programs, outlining strategies to mitigate bullying and promote a respectful work environment. The conclusion summarizes the key findings and recommendations for Nick Philip to improve its workplace environment and achieve sustainable success. The report includes relevant references to support the analysis and recommendations.

Skills for workplace
success

Table of Contents
Skills for workplace success............................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Introduction of Nick Philip company..........................................................................................3
Organisational structure...............................................................................................................3
Organisation culture.....................................................................................................................4
Workplace bullying prevention programme................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
There are various skills are required for workplace success, that is called interpersonal skills.
Social skills are what everyone is used to interact with and need to be communicate with every
people. These are the skills that include both of the verbal skills as well as nonverbal skills that is
individual body language, gesture and eye contact (Bauman and Lucy 2019) Now, in the context
of the report, the company Nick Philips has requested the human resources consulting firm to
make the proposal to assist the company, where they are lacking and what things will be needed
to improve company culture will be further discussed.
MAIN BODY
Introduction of Nick Philip company
This is the medium sized financial service consulting firm, the Philip financial services. The
company is involved in its sole owner company and they are making all of the decisions. Apart
from these services they are offering is accounting tax, business advisory and self-management
funds. There are also few challenges company is facing some of the work culture issues. Because
founder of company has been hired staff in company in bulk in their past six months and
company growth is taking place too fast, this is the reason staffs are very much stressed and there
more is also low. Also, there are multicultural staff, they belong to the very different culture that
will create various issues within the organisation. however, Nick is always in favour of
promoting diversity but due to mix of culture they are unable to maintain the diversity.
Organisational structure
the growth of the organisation, first of all company have to be focused on company culture
as this is also called the organisational culture that is related from the share value of the
organisation, that is related from the several attitudes and practices. This represents personality
of company and this play an important role in the organisation. In order of development and
growth of company the corporate culture must reflect appropriately to align their values for
accomplishment of vision of organisation (Chen, 2021) The organisation Nick has to adopt clan
culture for doing primary focus on mentorship of staffs and teamwork, this will be helpful for
defining qualities. The clan culture is the people that has to be focused in the sense, that
company feels like one big family, this is highly collaborative thing for the working
environment, where every people will be going to be feel happy as well as empowered within the

organisation. although. Clan cultures helps to boost high rates of engagement of employment that
will makes them happy for its customers. This will be helpful in growth of company and will
improve productivity of company.
Organisation culture
As now, the culture of organisation is really Mix, there are very different types of staffs
will belong from the different culture.so they are facing various issue and conflicts in the
organisation due to different thinking and different working styles. There is no familiar culture
within the company so, the staffs will feel encouraged and empower in organisation. The
organisation Nick Philip is needed good leadership that helps to communicate well with staffs
and well motivate their team to handle all the responsibility within the organisation because a
good leader is focusing on everything id going within the organisation and provides flexibility to
resolve every problem in a changing and mix environment. As the effective leaders is able to
clearly explain the employee every problem and explain their employee everything that includes
one to one departmental conversation as well as well organised communication with employee
through, phone e-mail video chat and social media. Here are some strategies to implement and
create a positive and ethical workplace culture is as follows-
Clear expectations- the organizational culture should include some of the guidelines and
procedure about, interaction of employee a s well as what are the behaviours is not acceptable in
the workplace. This is referred as the codes of conduct. This is one of the first step towards
creating an ethical workplace to have clear and defined expectations to make sure these are the
expectation in the written form
From the top to down- one of the expectations that has been clearly will established and
communicated, this is one of the best methods for ensuring the employee of company and will
get motivate their employee to follow the guidelines through managers and executives to adopt
those behaviour. This also includes the ensuring behaviour that will be applied to find the
opportunities to discuss the ethical dilemmas in the enterprises.
Workplace bullying prevention programme
Workplace bullying is of many types, there are lots of causes of workplace bullying, if
some find that, that individual people is caring and collaborative, someone will starts bullying to
stop, individual growth of the peoples. The bullies within the workplace is always wants to be in
control by and to call the shots, so, the individual person may be get targeted by bullies to

because they are team players and they will stop their growth and development. Here are some of
the strategies to implement workplace bullying program is as follows-
A continuum of behaviours- The workplace bullying is related from the psychological
harassment is related to the fact of workplace violence. Therefore the, continuum behaviour can
is ranging from discourtesy and disrespect of behaviour.
Guidelines and legislations- This depends on the employer and jurisdiction which operates
jurisdictions and provides the guidelines for legislation in workplace. That regulates the essential
information that is repeatedly and intentionally failing to be received (Chen, R.H., 2021)
CONCLUSION
Form, the above report the conclusion of the topic is as follows- the organisation Nick Philip
is facing cultural issues. So, in order to resolving the issues, there are some of the strategies of
culture will be adopted by the organisation that includes the challenges of the workplace that is
related from the competition, deadlines finding staff and so on. Apart, from this, current culture
of the workplace as well as various strategies to implement an ethical workplace culture.

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