Working in a Business Environment: Report for Goldsmiths University

This report examines the business environment, focusing on the roles and responsibilities of an assistant academic within an educational institution, specifically Goldsmiths, University of London. It delves into the educational sector and compares the roles of professors, deans, and managers with that of an assistant academic. The report further explores team dynamics, comparing the benefits of working in teams versus working alone, and includes a SWOT analysis. It highlights the importance of feedback, providing examples of how it improves performance and increases motivation. The report also addresses conflict resolution, identifying causes of miscommunication and offering strategies to prevent and resolve conflicts within a team environment. The report concludes by summarizing the key aspects of working in a business environment.

WORK WITH OTHER IN
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Environment in which business activity operates is known as Business environment.
Goldsmiths, University of london is a education institute based in london founded by Will Alsop
in the year 1891. Reports highlights the sector in which organisation deal and the roles and
responsibilities of Assistant academic and then reports goes on too show different aspect of team
and working alone. Report also highlights the importance of feedback and in the end shows how
conflict occur and way to resolve it.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
Sector in which organisation operate
Goldsmiths, University of London operates in a educational sector. Educational sector is a sector
in which institution provides education to the personal in a institutional body. Education sector
plays a vital part in development of countries economy as they are the initial learning providing
sector. Education sector includes school, University, training providing institution and ministry
of education (Nguyen, 2016).
Role and Responsibilities of Assistant Academic
Assistant Academic has variety of roles and responsbilities in the institution which include
providing instruction or assistant to a faculty member in the institutional, assitant academic assist
and help academic counselor in completing regular task and also provides support to the dean of
education by ensuring proper scheduling of a academic pogram in a institution. Assistant
academic also make sure of timely supply of study material and books to the faculty, Assistant
academic also assist teacher in keeping records of a student progress toward the educational
goal. In some institution responsiblities of assistant academic also include student work
evaluation, Conference of students and also supervises the performance of class room incharge
and section incharge (Siems and et.al.,2017). Assistant academic also provides feedback to the
professor about the perfrmance of the student in the institution. Assistant academic also schedule
the lesson as per the calendar to complete lesson on time.
Comparison of Roles and Responsibilities
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Professor/Teacher: They are having the roles of providing learning to the personal in the
institution but at the other hand Assistant academic helps the teacher by scheduling timely lesson
and evaluating the performance of student at regular interval (Lekberg and et.al., 2018).
Dean: Dean of the institution is responsible for taking the management decision and involves in
discussion with the faculty in deciding the upcoming step to take forward the academics in the
institution, on the other hand Assistant academic only assist the dean to schedule the academic
program on time.
Manager: Manager has a responsibilities to lead the institution by his leadership skill and make
sure of the quality assurance in the firm by regularly evaluating the performance of the
institution but on the other hand Assistant academic helps manager in doing that by providing
feedback of activities going in the institution.
TASK 2
Meaning of team dynamic: it helps to work in team rather than an individual. it provides the
nature of work provided by team. It affects the behaviour of an individual (Kozlowski, 2015).
Working with a team gives new ideas and innovation. Working with a team gives a healthy
enviornment. In team dynamic two or more people working together to achieve specific goal.it
influences the behaviour. It depends on nature and personalities within the team. Their working
relationship with other people and enviornment in which they work. Co-workers from different
fields work together they have different innovative and ideas (Team Dynamic, 2013).
Benefits of working alone : the plus point of working alone is the person need not to
answerable to someone else. The person has full credit. Individual can easy to focus on whatever
task assign to them. Individual has the right to decide what to do and when to do. Goldsmith
university of London work individually (Baillien and et.al.,2016). Individual become
independent. There is no outside pressure. The working is very fast. No distribution of work.
Benefits with working with others: Creativity arises when working with a team . Goldsmith
university of London maximize shared knowledge in the workplace. The Goldsmith helps to
learn new skills in the company. Being able to share thoughts with other members .working
together builds talent with their teamwork. Do not hesitate the abilities with the team by
observing the skills how to combine the skill and become a stronger team. Teamwork stablish
good relation with your co workers. Working with a team also provides safety. Teamwork helps
in developing new skill (Nguyen, 2016).
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Academics analysis of SWOT:
Strengths weakness opportunities threats
Learning
independently.
Internet dependence. Flexible learning.it is
easy to understand
It has a negative effect
on achieving the goal.
Provide instant result
in exact time.
Resources are
expensive
Shortage of faculty. Chart and other
distraction.
It has positive
feedback.
It is stressful when
time limitation is
provided.
For international
student it is easy to
understand content.
The person don want
to do the things which
are assign to them
TASK 3
Benefits of Feedback
Better Performance: Feedback helps to improve the performance of the individual or group as
it help them to known the current scenerio of their work, by taking help of feedback individual or
group can evaluate their work and try to better the performance (Siems and et.al.,2017).
Increases Motivation: Regular monitoring of performance and providing feedback sometime
helps in increasing motivation of the individual or group and which eventually result in increase
in effeciency level of employee.
Providing other Feedback
Motivate: On achievment of goal one can apraisal the individual for their performance as it will
result in increase in the motivation level of the employee which can result in increase in the
effeciency level of the employee which will be benefitial for institution also (Lekberg and et.al.,
2018).
Development of skill: On achievement of goal one can taught about the skill by which
individual can achieve the goal easily and in less time comparatability, which will help in
developing skill of a Individual.
Letter to Manager
Mr. Manager,
Today I have received the feedback that company has given on the performance of
my last few mounth. Letter of feedback has given me and my work a boost. It really feel great
to known that my work is helping organisation to suceed the organisation goal and also make
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me feel good that someone is apreciating my work.
I must say feedback policy is really good policy of company as feedback negative
or positive always help individual to work better in achieving the goal. I am very obliged to
hear what company has to say about me.
Thanking you,
Your sincerely
Poins to improve team performance
Distribution of work: Proper distribution of work amoung the team member always help in
improving the team performance as it makes employee mind clear about the work to be done to
achieve the goal and it eventually result in increase in efficiency level of the employee (Baillien
and et.al.,2016).
Room for view shareing: There should be a room for innovative idea in the team environment,
every one should be allowed to share their view on the work irrespective of their title and
responsbilities.
Feedback: Every employee in the team environment should be provided with proper feedback
on their work as Feedback always help in improving the work performance.
TASK 4
Miscommunication or unclear team roles: There should be a poor management. The treatment
is unfair. The job roles are not clear. lack of training process . The communication between them
was very poor. The enviornment is poor. The opportunity are not clear. The personality matters
if the other suddenly falls off. Individual may also manage a difficult situation in an
unproductive way (Siems and et.al.,2017). They have a clear idea about what they think in
helpful an unproductive way. Most of the people have clear ideas about what they think. The
employees must ask to move to another team. Due to lack of training of managers. Sometimes
people may pushed if they feel they cannot manage work.
Communication problem: there is a communication problem among a team. Be aware that a
conflict do not arises. There is a conflict arises when you work with a team. When we ignore a
issue. Response with a passive action. It is a part of life and part of life and part of a day today
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business. But, you develop more time on productivity (Lekberg and et.al., 2018).The lack of
communication problem effect the enviornment. There should be a mutual understanding. It is a
part of life wherever we run a business a conflict may arrives due to some or other reasons.
Ways of preventing conflict from occurring : arguing with family member or co-workers must
be harmful . Conflict is very uncomfortable (Kozlowski, 2015). The enviornment is not proper.
If you wanna avoid conflict the immediate things you wanna do to stop fighting.if the fight start
off heated or quickly move yourself from a situation. Give the other person chance to speak.
Make a other person feel respected. Talk in a respectful manner.
Specific methods of resolving a conflict:It shows strengths and resolve It is not a long term
relationship. Persuaing someone to do something that they not want to do carefully listen what
they are saying.if you do something for me I do something for you. For example if u do
something for me I do something for you (Baillien and et.al.,2016).
CONCLUSION
Report summarised about the roles and responsbilities of assistant academics and then
goes on to explain about the different aspect of team and also shows the SWOT analysis of the
individual in the organisation and shows benefit of feedback in progress of organisation. Report
then shows a plan to improve team performance and report also shows different aspect of
working alone and in team environment.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Siems, A. and et.al.,2017. Improving pediatric rapid response team performance through crew
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Lekberg, Y. and et.al., 2018. Relative importance of competition and plant–soil feedback, their
synergy, context dependency and implications for coexistence. Ecology letters. 21(8).
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Kozlowski, S.W., 2015. Advancing research on team process dynamics: Theoretical,
methodological, and measurement considerations. Organizational Psychology
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Baillien, E.and et.al.,2016. An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind: Conflict
escalation into workplace bullying and the role of distributive conflict behavior. Journal of
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Team Dynamic, 2013: https://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/team/dynamics/definition/
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