Administration and Management
Week 2 home work
Chapter 4
What, in your opinion, is the viewpoint of the authors on working ethically?
Working ethically according to the reading means; using the inner guiding moral principles, values, and beliefs you have to analyze or interpret a situation and then decide what is the right or appropriate way to behave. In my opinion, the authors viewpoint on working ethically is, when a person have to act in a certain way to help another person or a group for the sake of their job even when it is against his/her self-interest.
Chapter 5
Prepare a written response for one of the “Topics for Discussion and Action” at the end of Chapter 5.
Why do workers who test positive for HIV sometimes get discriminated against?
Discrimination is based on a person’s perception about the other party and it also depends on the level or condition of the person affected. There are so many ways HIV virus can be transferred from one person to the other and everyone wants to be extra careful not to acquire any virus. In the course of working with employees who are detected HIV positive, all other employee want to be careful so they don’t receive the virus from them. In other ways some people have prejudice against them based on other experiences.
Chapter 6 1. What are the components of global environment?
There are external and internal factors of global environment
1. Internal factor , these involve (5M's) * Management * Manpower * machine * material and * Money. 1. External factors, these include macro factor and micro factors.
Macro factors are the one that affect the organization indirectly, these are (pestle) * Political * Environment * Social-cultural * Technological and * Ecological
While micro factors are those which affect the organization directly it involves * Customers * Competitors * Suppliers and * Public
2. Explain why the ability to