What steps are today’s organisations taking to promote diversity and are these efforts
management
Description
ASSIGNMENT
Tutorial
questions:
1. What steps
are today’s organisations taking to promote diversity and are these efforts
effective? Answer
this question in 300 words (support your arguments with key
research findings on diversity management)
2. How should the company’s supervisors behave
differently to get their subordinates
to experience less stress on the job, or
at least, get them to react less negatively?
Answer this question in 300 words
(support your claims/arguments with key
research findings on managing stress in
the workplace)
3. Mark Martin has just been appointed manager
of a production team operating the
11pm to 7am shift in a large
manufacturing firm. Mark is concerned that the team
members
really like and get along well with one another but they also appear to be
restricting their task outputs to the
minimum acceptable levels. What could Mark do
to improve things in this situation and
why should he do them? Answer this
question in 300 words (support your
claims/arguments with key research findings
on team performance factors).
4. What are some emerging issues in leadership?
Discuss some alternatives to
leadership. Answer this question in 300
words (support your claims/arguments with
key research findings on leadership in
contemporary organisations)
5. Describe when and where organisational
politics occur and the forms of such
behaviour takes. Answer this question in
300 words (support your
claims/arguments with key research
findings on organisational politics).
6. Intranets can reflect and influence an
organisational culture. Discuss the impact of
technology on organisational culture in
contemporary organisations and the
challenges involved in building and
maintaining culture with remote employees.
Answer this question in 300 words
(support your claims/arguments with key
research findings on the impact of
technology on organisational culture and virtual
employees).
