Subject: Diversity, Personality and Values Instructions Consider your business c
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Subject: Diversity, Personality and Values
Instructions
Consider your business career (actual or anticipated) and what you learned this week about how diversity, personality, and values influence organizational success. What values do you expect fellow employees to demonstrate in the workplace? What differences do you expect? What will you do to promote an ethical and diverse workforce? Why will this be helpful to you and your organization? How might the current political values climate influence the workplace and your role as manager? What role does personality play in your workplace?
---The values I would expect my fellow employees to have in the workforce includes a set of Strong Work Ethics, being Dependable and Responsible, they are Honest and have great Self Esteem. Employees with strong work ethics possess the quality of being dedicated and willing to work efficiently to complete tasks. They are dependable and have good sense of time management and they report to work on time. These employees value their jobs and always have a positive attitude. They are trustworthy and self-motivated to get the work done. They are able to understand their responsibilities and performed outstandingly with minimum supervision.
Some differences that can be expected are Gender Equality, Generation Gap, and Ethnic and Cultural differences. As stated in the text, “women are not just expertise but have valuable interpersonal skills and styles in the workplace, such as listening and abilities to multitask”. Yet they are stereotyped for “caretaking skills” and are seen as weak. This issue would have to be resolved within the organization to change the perception. The generation gap can be a big issue, as the newcomers are coming in; the old timers are feeling threatened. The new comers have a different mindset and are more technology advanced compared to the old timers which can be intimidating to the older group. They would not hesitate to move on to another job, if something doesn’t suit their skillset; and this can result in a high turnover for the company.
I would create an open communication policy to avoid any barriers between upper management and non-management employees. The pay scale would have to be fitting to the skillset of the employees as well as fair and unbiased promotions. Of course training would have to be done to enforce clear understanding on the different cultures and how to interact with each other. This training will heightened the level of awareness of ethical choices also.
The current political climate is one of partisanship. At the highest level our politicians hardly ever collaborate for the best interest of the country. It is always the democrats against the republicans instead of working together for the best country. The same environment crept into the workplace where the general populous are also divided along party lines. Generally the workplace consists of members of both parties and they themselves are divided along party lines. With such a division in the workplace creates friction and team members doesn’t work together thus reducing productivity. As a manager, I must first be aware of the environment that exist among the employees; and tend to alleviate it as much as possible by subduing political discussions and encourage more aggregable topics such as sports or family.
Personality is the center of how we interact on a daily basis. It spells out our creativeness, our ability to think and innovatively solve company issues. It determines our ability to work as a team, as not everyone works well in a team. Personality also determines if someone is an introvert or extrovert; if they are socially assertive and if they can interact easily with others. This is important in providing a friendly and supportive customer services and they can boost the attitudes of other employees. Thus in knowing someone’s personality enable everyone to network easier to work as a team and successfully accomplish tasks.
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Explanation / Answer
The way business organizations are growing and progressing in the industry makes it quite evident that organizations today prefer employees with soft skills and positive attitude towards work like proper values, ethics and positive temperament as well. This creates a positive environment in the organization and creates a positive impact as well and makes the efficiency and performance of the organization better. I personally believe that communication is the key and it will help organizations create a bridge between the upper management and the employees because the employees need to feel valued and secure it else they may not be loyal to the organization and this will have an effect on the performance and efficiency of the employee. Communication may seem to be a very simple concept but on a broader note this is something very much critical and difficult to execute effectively because the concept is broad and needs to be practiced in a proper way or else it may create negativity as well.
Organizations today are striving to have a global presence in the industry and hence diversity comes into play because diversity helps the organization to have various options regarding which they can use and apply as well. The leader is one of the most important role in an organization and the leader needs to play the most effective role so that they can create a positive working envrionment in the organization in order to make the organization sustain and successful in the industry and help them grow as well.