Principles and Practices of Management

Q.No.1 Principles and Practices of Management

How will you influence people to strive willingly for group objectives in your organization (target based industry)? Apply your interpersonal influence through communication process towards attaining your specialized goals?

Answer:

Influencing people in an organization is often about problem solving, working through perceived barriers to meet effective and sustainable outputs. Influencing people at workplace invariably involves managing change – changing perceptions, attitudes and in some cases work environments. Finally, influencing to achieve better employment outcomes from employees is about leadership and role modelling – demonstrating how to support people with inadequate knowledge of working culture towards attaining objectives thereby enabling themselves to leading their own organization. Once the people feel as one, they are more likely to work together for the common good of the company.

Key driver for achieving group objectives: Effective implementation of strategy is a key driver for achieving group objectives. Organizations that fail to fully engage their workforce in the business strategy will fail to produce reliable, sustainable business results. The link between employee engagement factors and successful strategy execution is vital.

Several organizational factors must be in place in order for a team to succeed:

* Common and consistent goals that are accepted by all team members. Organizational commitment to the team concept, including support from top management.

* Clear roles and well-defined responsibilities for members and leaders.

* Both real and perceived power delegated to the teams.

* Mutual accountability for team performance.

* Recognition and reward systems that support team performance.

Effective communication is essential to workplace effectiveness. The purpose of building communication skills is to achieve greater understanding and meaning between people and to...