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The shift to the information economy has changed the role of the manager in today's organization. Research has demonstrated that a majority of workers in this new knowledge economy are knowledge workers or workers whose work output is the result of thinking versus a physical process. Discuss what skills today's managers need in the knowledge economy that weren't required a decade ago?

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• discuss what you see as the role of ethics as it pertains to management and managers. Does management, in your view, help shape the values and ethics of an organization? Is employee behavior, ethical or not, a by-product of the organization's ethical climate? What ideally is the manager's role in helping to create and maintain organizational integrity?

• Using your professional experience as a backdrop, provide examples of managers who have demonstrated ethical behavior (or not) and discuss how this affected the organization, the employees, etc.

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One of the constant dilemmas being faced by organizations is dealing with employees' Conflicts of Interest. Some Conflicts of Interest (COI) are severe enough to require laws to deal with them, others are dealt with internally through organizational policies. COIs fall into certain categories including, financial, relational, and competitive/confidentiality and others depending on the nature of the organization.

Examples of COIs in the workplace:

• Rowan, K. (214, Apr 15). Conflict of Interest Examples: Avoiding Lawsuits in the Workplace. Udemy blog.

For this paper:

Pick an organization (public or private) and then choose a particular type of COI that is associated with this type of organization.

• Locate and describe any laws that are designed to discourage or prevent this type of COI in your country. If there are no laws particular to the type of COI you chose, discuss why this is the case.

• Locate examples of organizational policies used to also discourage the particular COI and discuss how the main features of the policy around the particular COI.

• Discuss ways that managers can use both policy and the existing laws in your home country to discourage employees seeking their own interests over that of the employer.

• In your estimation, do laws and policies help promote ethical behavior? Do you feel that the laws, as they are currently, are sufficient and effective?

• Finally, suggest ways that the laws and/or policies could be improved to both motivate employees to pursue the interests of their employers, as well as to minimize the costs of employers complying with or enforcing the laws.

Submit a written paper which is 3-4 pages in length exclusive of the reference page. The paper should cite sources to support your ideas.

Be sure to review the assessment criteria below before beginning your paper.

Be sure to use APA formatting in your paper.

Papers will be assessed on the following criteria:

• An organization is chosen and a particular conflict of interest is identified

• Laws pertaining to the particular COI have been located and described. If no laws are described, reasons are provided.

• Organizational policies pertaining to the COI are discussed, particularly the main features of the policy.

• Ways that managers can use both policy and the existing laws in your home country to discourage employees seeking their own interests over that of the employer are discussed

• The paper addresses the questions: do laws and policies help promote ethical behavior? Do you feel that the laws, as they are currently, are sufficient and effective?

• The paper suggests ways that the laws and/or policies could be improved to both motivate employees to pursue the interests of their employers, as well as to minimize the costs of employers complying with or enforcing the laws.

• Writing Organization and Clarity - the ideas are arranged logically to support the purpose or argument. Ideas presented flow smoothly from one to another and are clearly linked to each other. Writing is clear and it is of high-quality.

• Written Assignment conforms to the structural requirements including APA style guidelines for References.

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Building on the themes discussed in the paper from this week, discuss the following issue from your own personal perspective. Draw on your own experience and knowledge. Put yourself in the shoes of both an employer and employee.

• How can effective management provide a better business environment that benefits all parties, including employees, employers, and customers? How does this compare to situations in which self-employed individuals conduct business on their own without management policies?

assignments should be about 500 Words

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Read the Case Study: Zara International Case Bourgeois Chapter 1:

The case examined the differences between Zara and rival "The Gap". Once you have read through the case in Chapter 1 and respond to the following questions:

o Discuss how of Zara has been able to create a sustainable competitive advantage

o Identify and discuss the role that technology and information systems play in creating and maintaining Zara's competitive advantage

o Discuss where Zara has succeeded where others such as Gap have failed... consider what role, if any information systems paly in this success.

o Discuss how Zara creates and maintains a relationship with their customers. Consider the role that technology plays in facilitating the relationship with the customer. Discuss how other firms in other product groups or industries might use these same techniques to develop deeper relationships with their customers.