In an organisational world characterized by cutbacks, expectations of increasing worker productivity, and tough competition, many employees feel the stress at the workplace. Members of organisations are increasingly finding themselves facing uncertain future. Organisations have a responsibility to provide employees with jobs that are challenging and intrinsically rewarding, but what some are offering, is simply ‘uncertainty’ that leads into stressful atmosphere within the organisation that might result in mental and physical illness of employees. Examples of uncertainty in the office have been given different names and forms, such as the process of ‘re-shaping’, ‘re-designing’, ‘re-assigning tasks’ or ‘re-sizing’.
THE ASSESSMENT TOPIC:
It is inevitable that companies are going to make poor decisions. Such decisions can result in fatalities, economic loss, litigation, disgruntled customers, or hurt company reputation. Ivancevich, Konopaske and Matteson, (2014) posit that managers who might fall victim to any of the following decision-making traps are more likely to make poor or failed decisions: (i) failing to understand people’s concerns and competing claims, (ii) overlooking people’s interests and commitments, (iii) defining expectations in an unclear manner, (iv) limiting the search for alternatives and remedies, (v) misusing evaluations of possible alternatives, (vi) ignoring or downplaying ethical questions, and (vii) neglecting to analyse the results of the decision to understand what worked and did not work. Although decisions are usually made without the benefit of perfect information and unlimited time to search for and evaluate alternative solutions, managers should try to avoid the common decision-making traps that can lead to expensive and time-consuming failed decisions. In your capacity as a consultant appointed by the World Bank, you are required to write a report. For this report you need to conduct your research providing input on poor decisions by organisations that might have taken place between the years 2000-2013. You need to research two companies in five countries – i.e. a total of ten companies. While we cannot provide you with the names of the companies, but we can outline the five countries where you need to conduct your research (i) Australia, (ii) USA, (iii) India, (iv) UK, and, (v) Germany. This report needs to provide a background of the essential and key management and organisational behaviour theories as derived from the literature. In addition, you need to elaborate on the issue of ‘decision making’ in organisations (e.g. alternatives and outcomes, decision-making process, behavioural factors, individual vs group decisions). The main outcome of your assessment will be two frameworks, one to be used by individuals and the other by groups, which can be derived from the literature, but you need to add to these frameworks two steps each that will enhance those frameworks justifying how.
1. Introduction
2. Background and Literature (This relates to the literature review about the theories from management and organisational behaviour theories that you will use to support your arguments and report)
3. Methodology
4. Results
5. Analysis and discussion
6. Conclusion and recommendation
7. References
Please include the 10 poor decisions of the ten companies in a table.
Include some charts if possible.
Please use this textbook( Management and Organisational Behaviour 560 (MOB560) is:
Issa, Theodora ‘compiler’, 2013. Management and Organisational Behaviour, Australia McGraw-Hill Irwin.) to include theories of management. You can find a copy online.
References
At least 14 Peer journals articles.+ other 6 references.
In alphabetical order in line with the Chicago 16 Style Referencing
Common problems
• Some common problems with research report writing that you should take care to avoid are:
o the inclusion of careless, inaccurate, or conflicting
o the inclusion of outdated or irrelevant data
o facts and opinions that are not separated
o unsupported conclusions and recommendations
o careless presentation and proof-reading
o too much emphasis on appearance and not enough attention to solid content.
In addition, this URL has several reports by the Government:
http://australia.gov.au/topics/government-and-parliament/annual-reports
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