GOOD MORNING CLASSMATES, GOOD MORNING MA’AM BERGADO.
SO BEFORE I DISCUSS TO YOU MY PRESENTATION, ALOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF I’M NIKKI JEAN D. SINGZON A 2ND YEAR BSBA HERE IN NWSSU. SO I’M HERE TO PRESENT TO YOU MY TOPIC ABOUT CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR OB.
BUT BEFORE THAT LETS HAVE A QUICK LOOK/OVERVIEW AT FEW DRAMATIC CHANGES NOW TAKING PLACE IN ORGANIZATION.
1. OLD EMPLOYEE GETTING OLD (permanent/regular employees)
2. CORPORATE DOWNSIZING (making the business smaller)
3. TEMPORARY WORKING EMPLOYEES
4. GLOBAL COMPETITION
5. WAR ON TERROR
AS WHAT I HAVE RESEARCH THERES A LOT OF CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES TODAY FOR MANAGERS TO OB CONCEPTS. 1ST IS THE GLOBALIZATION TO RESPOND- MEANING it’s not natural anymore to
Globalization affects a manager’s people skills in different ways:
- Increased foreign assignments.
-Working with different people.
-Overseeing Movement of jobs to countries with low cost labor.
-Managing people during the war on terror
Examples:
҉ Increased foreign assignment
- Transferred to your employer’s operating division in another country, once there, you’ll have to manage workforce, aspiration from employees, and attitudes from those you are used to back home. ҉ Working with different people
- Working with bosses, peers and other employees who were born and raised in different culture, to work effectively with them you’ve to understand how their culture, geographic and religion have shaped them. ҉ Overseeing Movement of jobs to countries with low cost labor
- In a global economy, jobs tend to flow to places where lower cost provide business firms with a comparative advantages ҉ Managing people during the war on terror
- An understanding of OB topics such as emotions, motivation, communication and leadership can help managers to deal more effectively with their employees’ fear about terrorism.
WHAT WOULD BE THE OPPORTUNITY HERE IN GLOBALIZATION TO RESPOND?