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Assignment
1. How do you feel about having management responsibilities in today's world, characterized by uncertainty, ambiguity, and sudden changes or threats from the environment? Describe some specific skills and competencies that you think are important to managers working in such conditions.
2. How can managers improve both efficiency and effectiveness simultaneously? Provide specific examples from work experiences or research.
How would you integrate what you learned in this unit to enhance your effectiveness as a manager?
3. Why are inter-organizational partnerships so important for today's organizations? What elements in the internal and/or external environment might contribute to either an increase or a decrease in inter-organizational collaboration?
4. From the perspective of your assigned industry, what strategic issues have the potential to create environmental uncertainty?
5. Select the industry in which you work, worked or would like to work, or simply have an interest in. Which companies are the leaders in that particular industry? What practices have made them become a leader? What are the risks those companies face?
6. What are some personal traits that you believe would be essential to organizational leaders today? How are these traits more valuable in some situations than in others? Include all references to resources used to defend your position.
7. What skills and abilities would a manager need to lead effectively in a virtual environment? Describe any experience working in a virtual environment or an interview with someone who works in that environment.
Discuss the challenges of working in a virtual environment and how an effective manager could address these challenges.
8. How does HR play a strategic role in driving organizational performance? Consider strategies such as recruiting, training, performance management, compensation, etc. Debate how some employees see HR as an administrative role versus a value-added function to the organization?
9. Many managers wear HR hats. As a non-HR manager, how would you be able to utilize core HR strategies in your role? Provide personal examples if possible.
How would you see your role growing in an organization to include HR strategies?
10. Psychologists have identified multiple pathways to happiness including pleasure, engagement, and meaning. Why is it the manager's responsibility to help people find these elements in their work? How would you personally achieve this?
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