...Ever since the beginning of time, Men have always been perceived as superior to men and society nowadays continues to treat women even in the workplace, The glass ceiling however is mostly used to describe the limitations imposed on qualified women in the workplace. Woman who is graduated from bachelor degree has less chance to apply the work due to the gender. It has conducted me the question about gender inequality at workplace is still in the society. B.The purpose of this paper is to show that women nowadays are afforded more opportunities than in the past and the role of women in the workplace. 1. Society has changed over time but a glass ceiling is still, The glass ceiling symbolises a variety of obstacles. C. There are 3 main...
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...Cross-cultural Influences on Workplace Behavior: A culture is defined as, “A way of life of a group of people--the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to the next”. (Sunniva Heggertveit, 2012). Or It is also defined as, “the values, attitudes, and ways of doing things a person learns during the socialization process in the particular place where they were brought up as a child”. (Paul Ecoggins, 2015) So, the culture has great influence on a particular individual or group behavior. In the age of globalization the world is getting smaller, companies have setup their offices around the world and people also have moved abroad as well. As a result of this, workplace is becoming increasingly cross-culturally integrated. So, the understanding and expertise in cross-cultural communication have become more crucial for executives, business leaders, workplace managers, and standard employees. If they don’t have expertise to understand the difference of the cultures then it would become very difficult for the managers to properly manage the employees and get maximum output from their performances, as the level of communication between them would be very poor because of lesser expertise regarding different cultures. After critically the articles related to the topics I think as an HR practitioner, we need to look at the factors that impact cross-cultural...
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...Student Name: Katie Greene - 08541876 Question: When work-place bullying takes place in an organization, it is because leadership and management of the organization allow it to happen. Do you agree? Introduction Bullying in the workplace has been defined as “harassing, offending, socially excluding someone or negatively affecting someone’s work tasks...repeatedly and regularly,” (Einarsen, 2003). By this we understand that bullying is a process that stems from a series of actions foregone. The forms of bullying which take place in an organisation are vast and range from verbal abuse to violence to sexual discrimination and harassment. While occurrences of bullying arise because management allow them to, literature suggests that there are various other factors which lead to it. The following sections attempt to explore these determinants. There is much evidence to suggest that workplace bullying is encouraged by management (O’Connell et al, 2007) and other evidence that suggests the opposite view (Einsaren, 2003). I will determine that one of the main responsibilities lies with management, but that other factors such as personalities, workplace ethic, policies, working culture, organizational behaviour and industrial nature have their own roles to play. Through my research I established that a knock-on effect exists within the concepts produced in the literature. We must firstly look at definitions of bullying and conflict to establish why it occurs from reviews of literature...
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...There are several types of mistreatment that employees endure in organizations including abusive supervision, bullying, incivility, and sexual harassment. Abusive supervision[edit] Main article: Abusive supervision Abusive supervision is the extent to which a supervisor engages in a pattern of behavior that harms subordinates.[14] Bullying[edit] Main article: Workplace bullying Although definitions of workplace bullying vary, it involves a repeated pattern of harmful behaviors directed towards an individual.[15] In order for a behavior to be termed bullying, the individual or individuals doing the harm have to have either singly or jointly more power than the victim. Incivility[edit] Main article: Workplace incivility Workplace incivility consists of low-intensity discourteous and rude behavior with ambiguous intent to harm that violates norms governing appropriate workplace behavior.[16] Sexual harassment[edit] Main article: Sexual harassment Sexual harassment is behavior that denigrates or mistreats an individual due to his or her gender, creates an offensive workplace, and interferes with an individual being able to do the job.[17] Teams[edit] Main article: Team Job-related attitudes and emotions[edit] Organizational behavior deals with employee attitudes and feelings. Job satisfaction is the feelings one has about the job or facets of the job, such as pay or supervision[18] Organizational commitment is the extent to which employees feel attachment...
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...appearance (News Ltd, 2014). This is just one of the many obstacles women face when striving for equality in the workplace. This paper will explore the disadvantages women face in the workplace, including the gender pay gap, the under representation of women in senior leadership roles and sexual harassment. A plan to address these disadvantages will be outlined and justification of why it will work will be provided. At the outbreak of world war one far fewer women than men participated in work, and they tended to be lower-paid domestic occupations, as the women’s main role was seen to be in the home. The withdrawal of approximately half a million men, most of who had been in the workforce, still did not result in their direct replacement with women. Women’s contribution to the workforce rose, but the increase was in traditional areas of women work, for example in the clothing and footwear industry. Unions were unwilling to let women join the workforce in greater numbers in traditional male roles as they feared it would lead to a lowering of wages (Adam-Smith, 1996). Since the early 1900’s the country has come a long way and developed at a rate faster than anyone expected, take for example technology, people are walking around with the computing power that put a man on the moon in their pocket, yet in 2014 there is still gender inequality in the workplace. Lack of pay equity and equal opportunities is an issue for every women in the Australian workforce, and sex inequality...
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...by every known society. The culture is seen as a huge determinant to the roles that each gender will play. Therefore, sexism will be defined as a social construct that promotes the discrimination of individuals based on an individual’s gender. Sexism arises from stereotypes that define the roles of both sexes, therefore having issues when the gender roles are performed by the opposite sex. This social construct mainly affects the minority group identified as women and girls. Sexism is recognized in all aspect of life, and it’s not strange to identify it in the technology industry. The male figure has always identified its gender role as the provider. This social construct originated from the nature of man been the hunter who provided his family with their daily meal. Therefore relegating the women to the role of caretaker and this aspect has kept its hold over the society. In the 21st century, sexism has been a covert and subtle process that tries to establish an environment that is less friendly and less accessible to women. It’s clear that sexism is evident in the Silicon Valley and beyond. We also identify that the technology aspect has always been associated with male perspective. Therefore, it has become common to hear a conversation about women who have suffered sexism and sexual harassment in their digital related jobs. Women have also been identified to facilitate this occurrence by been timid when it comes to technology in the workplaces. Therefore, the actions that...
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...Motivation and Organizational Culture Paper May 19, 2012 The role of management in the workplace is a significant part of ensuring the quality of service. The management team should try to help the employees to stay clear from negative issues within the workplace. When issues arise that involve negative issues they should be handled in a professional manner at once so that it does not turn in to something much bigger. The manager’s top responsibility is to ensure that the environment within the workplace is safe and neutral. Other responsibilities for the management team would be to resolve problems as they arise, he or she should not show favoritism, promote effective communication, and help to provide a workplace that is mentally safe for all employees. An effective leader will uphold authority and will have a great affect on others. An effective manager would encourage self-confidence within employees, the will to achieve in the task being done, honesty, and integrity. When the management teams focuses on promoting these positive ethics within the workplace the employees seem to come together as a team with the final result being an effective workplace. Ayame Nakamura, a Japanese immigrant works as a project manager for a pharmaceutical company in California. The management style for this pharmaceutical is confrontational, which interferes with Ayame’s cultural background. People from different cultures are subject to a variety of emotions and actions...
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...HCA-250 Motivation and Organizastional Culture Paper Motivation and Organizational Culture Paper Kimberly Y. Curry University of Phoenix (Axia College) HCA-250 Dennis Matricardi March 11, 2012 Motivation and Organizational Culture Paper Today’s topic of discussion is the role management should play in workplace psychology. In this discussion, I will be discussing a situation with Chinese immigrant by the name of Ayame Nakamaura. Ayame Nakamura is employed as a project manager for a pharmaceutical company. The management style for this pharmaceutical company is confrontational, and interferes with Ayame’s cultural beliefs. This particular style of management makes Ayame’s ability to receive feedback difficult to obtain, and affects her motivation to perform. In this discussion I will explain the role management Ayame should play in workplace psychology, how Ayame’s cultural beliefs might affect the way she receives feedback, and describe motivation techniques that could be implemented by management to increase Ayame’s motivation. As we know psychology is the study of human behavior. This includes the human thought process and human emotion. Psychology gives us an understanding of human nature and the way we interact with other people. When you combine psychology and the workplace together, it is basically the way an individual thinks and act in the workplace towards other employees. Management is an individual who supervises others work progress on the job...
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...Consensual Relationship Agreements Case Study In the article “Consensual Relationship Agreements” it is said that 72% of companies had no policy regarding workplace romance by referring to Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Workplace Romance Poll. In my opinion, this is an indication that CRAs are not essential instruments for arranging workplace behavior. Only a few companies implement CRAs. These companies apply for CRAs in different ways. Some companies may wish to recognize the relationship and to avoid negative consequences of it. However, some other companies concern about the maintenance of productivity and protection of the organization against any probable lawsuit. It can be considered that there is nothing to do with the ethics in applying CRAs when the companies pursue productivity and a legal self-protection. These agreements are not law and order because CRAs depend on leadership’s discretion. Making decision differs from culture to culture because of diversity and ethics. In such cases, moral intelligence plays a significant role. The leadership must observe the behavior of all the employees in regard to integrity, responsibility, compassion and forgiveness. Actually, there would not be need to implement CRAs for a successful leadership. For example, unlike the USA, in my country there are no similar examples. Instead, such problems are solved by the human resources management. In my last job, in Turkey, two of my coworkers developed a consensual relationship...
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...Workplace Flexibility as a Competitive Advantage Matthew R. Wilson GB520-01N: Strategic Human Resources Management Kaplan University February 28, 2012 Abstract Times are changing. Technological advances have launched radically new methods of communicating and working allowing tremendous expansion of business into a globalized marketplace. In turn, the workplace environment has become similarly complex and ever-changing bringing a vast number of challenges to the employee and employer. Workers are experiencing greater demand for their time both on the job and at home; and, this struggle to find work-life balance has quickly become a vital issue in the workforce. Thus, it falls upon the HR professional to bring viable solutions to these work-life issues while strategically working to align employee performance with corporate objectives. Workplace flexibility strategies seem to be the answer. However, developing strategies that produce measurable results and thus solicit the engagement of top-level executives as well as front line employees is not easy. This makes the role of the HR team even more critical to the success of businesses today. Workplace Flexibility as a Competitive Advantage As the business world becomes more diverse and global in nature, the necessity for workplace flexibility also grows. The generational diversity that exists today, as well as the shifting dynamics of industry in the United States, presents a greater importance on work-life balance...
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...Assignment Gender and Diversity in the Workplace A Research Proposal Overview The role of gender and ethnicity can shed light on how individuals react within a group. Greater social diversity implies a greater spread of experience, which could add to the collective knowledge of a group of office workers and makes the unit perform more effectively, research has shown and will show in the following information. Gender equality is achieved when people are able to access and enjoy the same rewards, resources and opportunities regardless of whether they are a woman or a man. Certain facilities that are located over sees have made tremendous effort and have achieve gender equality especially in education. Gender and Diversity in the workplace has always been a topic of sensitivity, this is because woman were thought of as caregivers and they put family first. In those times when a woman was pregnant it was always the assumption that they would not be returning back to work. Also, research has shown that now woman are returning to work and their careers and researchers are saying woman are putting family second and not first. This doesn’t mean that there is diversity in the workplace this means that we are on track. Now that a lot of men are taking the moms position when it was the women who had a hard time finding flexibility it seems that more men are having trouble with the flexibility that a lot of woman are granted...
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...Ethical Challenges in Latin American Cultures A Study of the Impacts of Culture in the Business Environment Warrington Thomas Edison State College International Management 372 Professor: Baker 06/16/2013 Elements Influencing Social Culture Culture is defined as a system of values and norms shared among a group of people and when taken together represent a system of living. Culture is not static but always evolving and it is important to take various factors into consideration when attempting to conduct business in international countries. Valuing cultural diversity in the workplace can boost morale and productivity. An effective employee who feels discriminated against because of cultural differences might get disconnected and leave the company. Values are the things that people believe to be right, good and desirable. Values are often reflected in the political and economic system of a country and includes society’s attitude towards things such as individual freedom, democracy, truth, honesty and loyalty among many other things. Ethics include the standards of moral behavior that are acceptable by a society as right or wrong. It includes basic moral values such as integrity, respect for human life, self-control, honesty, courage, cheating, cruelty and the list continues. Latin Americans are very proud of their culture individuals attempting to do business in this part of the world should be aware of the social conventions. ...
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...and quoted with acknowledgement. ISBN No: 0-9582233-4-3 Equal Employment Opportunities Trust PO Box 12929 Penrose Auckland New Zealand Phone: 64 9 525 3023 Fax: 64 9 525 7076 Table of Contents Preface 3 Executive summary 4 1.0 Introduction 6 2.0 Definitions and evidence of relationships 6 2.1 Work-life balance 6 2.1.1 Productivity 7 2.1.2 Relationship between work-life balance and productivity 8 2.2 Workplace/work-life culture 11 2.2.1 Relationship between work-life balance and workplace culture 12 2.3 Discretionary effort and employee engagement: going the extra mile 16 2.3.1 Relationship between discretionary effort/employee engagement and productivity/profitability 20 2.3.2 Relationship between work-life balance and discretionary effort 21 2.3.3 Relationship between workplace culture and discretionary effort 23 2.4 Summary of inter-relationships of key factors 24 3.0 Changing a workplace culture 26 3.1 Case studies of culture change 27 4.0 Conclusion 29 5.0 References 30 Preface Employee engagement has been identified as critical to competitive advantage in a labour market where skilled, committed people are increasingly hard to find and keep. Many of the factors that impact on employee engagement have been identified, or at least speculated on. In this exploratory research, the EEO Trust investigates whether supporting work-life balance results in a more engaged workforce...
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...The role of diversity and inclusion plays a major role in my workplace for achieving organizational goals. The managers at my workplace uses strategies for managing and leveraging diversity. One strategy used by managers at my workplace to manage and leverage diversity is a recruitment and selection strategy. When my workplace hire new employees they take the extra effort to recruit and select individuals that can not only complete the work required for the job but also those who will help with the diverse atmosphere. This strategy is used to "capitalize on diversity". (Judge, 2011, p.56) Having a diverse atmosphere at my workplace adds to the culture of the company. Also the diversity and inclusion at my workplace is important because the customers that are involved with my company are a diverse group. This diversity and inclusion of employees is important for my company because it provides comfort for the customer base. The comfort is in knowing that you can see and communicate with people that share the same race, culture and sometimes background. At my workplace, working in groups and teams is very common and essential. The managers at my workplace take the necessary steps to ensure the work groups or teams are diverse. For example, if the managers are creating a team or group to accomplish an important organizational assignment, then they will analyze what needs to be done and assign team members accordingly. Most of the time these teams or groups consist of members...
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...you agree with the results of your Work Culture Preferences activity? Does it match with what you considered your ideal work culture? Yes, I agree with the results of my Work Culture Preferences activity. The result matches with my considered ideal wok culture. My result was being High powered, and teamwork centered, and expert. I agree with being High powered because I like to try different jobs and learning new skills. These skills will help me become more competitive in a demanding job market. Most demanding jobs are teamwork centered and require being in the creative atmosphere. I’m glad that I received this result to see my strong points in the work culture. This will help me what to expect in a career that I’m looking forward to. • Do you think there is a relationship between effective study habits and techniques and being successful in those work cultures? Explain your answers. Yes, I think there is a relationship between effective study habits and techniques of being successful in those work cultures by being successful in those cultures. Study habits and techniques are all part of note taking; they are extremely helpful in remembering important detail about a particular subject. By using effective study habits and techniques, can tremendously help you when taking quiz or test. While taking a test, you can remember from the top of your head of what you had wrote down for studied to answer that question. In work culture, it will help you memorize your work procedure...
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