Questions and Answers of Staffing Organizations

> Idnetify similarities in experi e nces of native people in the United States and New Zealand.
> explain legislation related to em ployment experiences of Native Americans and multi-racial group members.
> make recommendations for inclusion of t!e groups in diversity efforts.
1a. If you are not American Indian or Alaska Native, what has your exposure to them been? Do you know any personally? If so, how do you know them? How well? What beliefs about Native Americans were
Ib. If you are Native American, how do your work experiences compare with those presented chapter?
2a. If you are not multi-racial, what has your exposure been to multi-racial people? Do you know anybody who is multi-racial? Have you talked with them about being multi-racial and about their
2b. If you are multi-racial, is being so have particular resonance for you?
3. Professional golfer Tiger Woods emphasizes his White, Asian, Black, and Native American heritage.Were Woods unknown as a professional golfer, what assumptions would likely be made about hi race by
4. The chapter listed several other fairly well-known multi-racial people. Are you familiar with any of them? If so, were you aware that they are multi-racial? Were you aware of their particular
1. Excluding American Indian schools, find a college or un i versity not identified in this chapter that is known for the diversity of its students. What are the demographic characteristics of the
2. Investigate the demographic characteristics of the student body at the university at which you are studying or once studied. Do you know of any AVAN students who attend or attended school with
3. Investigate the history of Native Americans in your state and their current status (including popula tion, workforce participation, education levels, income, and poverty rates).
4. Estimates suggest that 70% of Blacks in the United States are of multi-racial heritage. Were you a of this? Begin noticing the variation in skin color, features, and hair texture among Blacks.
5. Choose an indigenous people in a particular country (except the United States and New Zealand)Document their original and current population, education level, employment, and workforce
> compare women's and men racial and ethnic groups.education, participation rates, employme it, and income levels within and across
> discuss the role of gender role socialization in men’s and women's oc c upations and opportunities.
> explain the effects of sex segregation, sex discrimination, and sexual harassment on women's careers and discuss selected cases related to them.
> discuss glass barrie rs to women's organizational progress.
> discuss methods that can be used to improve organizational climates for gender equity.
1, What is the role of socialization in women’s and men’s “choic lationships affect sex segregation and the wage gap?
4, Prior to reading this chapter, had you heard of the “glass escalator”? Are you aware of a situation in which a man is the manager or supervisor of a group of women employees in a
5. What can individual women do to reduce the influence of sex and gender discrimination on their careers?What can parents do to reduce the influence of sex and gender on their daughters’ lives?
1. Interview a person who is employed in a sex-atypical occupation (e.g., a male dental hygienist or female professor of business in a tenure-track position). What factors affected their career
2. Conduct a survey of at least ten working professionals. How many men versus women negotiated their starting salary? How many were successful in their negotiations? How much was the increase in
3. Create an informal organization chart of the organization in which you work or for which you can gather information. Is there evidence of the glass ceiling, walls, and/or escalators in this
4, Begin observing women in organizations. What evidence do you observe of gender- and race-based segregation? Where are women clustered? Are women of color in di ions than White women?
Understand the importance of ethics for organizations
Outline current approaches to ethics
Debate ethical dilemmas concerning money and morals, and profits and principles
Grasp how ethics works in practice
Know what is corporate social responsibility (CSR)
Understand how to improve sustainability
What are the different approaches to ethics?
Why are rules a problematic way of ensuring good governance?
What are the key elements of the ‘ethics as practice’ approach?
Why did the ethical behavioural training in the New South Wales Police Service fail? From your perspective, how could the failure have been avoided?
To what extent is the term ‘business ethics’ a paradox?
How have criteria for measuring zoos as ‘good’ or ‘ethical’ evolved? How and why did Granby Zoo’s raison d’être evolve?
When did Granby Zoo become an ethical organization? What made it so?
Which factors contributed to the success of ethical initiatives in Granby Zoo? Which factors limited such progress?
How did certain individuals (the vets, zookeepers, environmental coordinator, or upper management)facilitate or hinder such change?
See that modern management is what makes possible much of what we take for granted today
Understand the relation between surveillance and management control
Appreciate why an increase in scale led to innovations in management
Describe the main approaches that developed in early management theory and continue to inform management today
Know how management ideas spread globally
Understand McDonaldization as the major force shaping much of the way we live
What kind of changes to management relations and learning among employees would need to occur when implementing such a model in an organization that had a more traditional design, more oriented to
Understand how bureaucratic organizations’ control over their members can be counterproductive
Understand how and why so many organizations are similar in their design and practices
Grasp how and why management action is always embedded in more or less implicit/explicit theories about what is to be done
Distinguish between (a) organizational exploitation and (b) organizational exploration of knowledge
Know what is a ‘failure trap’ and what is a ‘success trap’
How do different rules define different rationalities?
You have been appointed to a UN Development Agency charged with remedying the corruption in the Port of Douala. How would you analyse the problem and what would you recommend as a solution?
Define organizations in terms of structural contingency theory
Discuss size, technology, and environment as the key contingencies associated with organization structures
Link organizational contingencies to organizational design
Relate issues of organization structure to questions of organizational strategy
What enables creative designers in the Valley to be creative?
To what extent are changes in technology making the bureaucratic model redundant?
What are the sources of value in the new model and where, if anywhere, do the old structures of the record companies fit in?
Debate the impact of globalization, especially on organizations
Identify some key strategic issues involved in managing in a global economy
Explain why resistance to globalization occurs
Discuss the central role of knowledge workers in the global economy
Understand that globalization has both positive and negative effects on individuals, organizations, societies, and nations
What does work mean to you?
Why do you like it?
Why is work so important?
Why do we give it such a place in our lives?
What is it about work that makes us feel good?
How does globalization shape human consciousnesses?
Define what you think is the problem, as you see it, and explain to what extent you think the problem is local or global.
Thinking about the issues covered in this chapter, how might what you have learned be applied to the research and write-up of your report? Provide clear links between your report and this chapter.
What would you recommend should be done to deal with the global resource problem? To what extent will it satisfy all the interested parties involved, including local fisheries, governments, industry,
Recognize that organization culture is a more complex phenomenon than is often thought
Understand why managing culture within organizations can be a challenge
Understand why organizations typically have multiple cultures and subcultures, and that these are not easily managed by managers
Distinguish between integration, differentiation, and fragmentation accounts of organization culture
Describe how official conceptions of organization culture often function as a resource for managing, rather than a literal description of the state of affairs
Explain why the influential work of Geert Hofstede is subject to serious criticism
What is the difference between seeing a culture as strong or dominant?
What would postmodernists make of organization culture?
In what ways are contemporary managers the pastoralists of the modern age?
Should management academics prescribe organization cultures?
Can culture be managed, or is it just something that is there? Look at the students around you; think of your conversations with them, and discussions in class. To what extent can the variance
Is it possible to ‘manage culture’ at all, or is this a contradiction in terms?
Based on your own experience, discuss possible approaches to ‘managing culture’.
What does culture consist of in this case?
List the main resources proposed as bases of power
Understand how power and legitimacy are related
Know what power relations are
Recognize that power conflicts are normal and acceptable in organizations
Understand how management of power may form a normal part of management practice
Describe the ‘soft’ ways in which power operates
Use power positively
Discuss decision-making in organizations
Decide what your goals should be and what you are trying to accomplish in consultation with direct stakeholders in your organization.
Diagnose patterns of dependence and interdependence; which individuals both inside and outside the organization are influential and important to achieving these goals?

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