ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR (MGT502) FALL 2013
ASSIGNMENT NO. 1
NON GRADED ACTIVITY
DUE DATE: NOVEMBER 22, 2013
MARKS: 20 Lesson: 01 – 08
Topic: Diverse Workforce
Learning Objectives:
The prime objective of this assignment is to know about diversity and diverse workforce.
Learning Outcome
- After attempting this activity, you will be able to know diverse workforce and organisational culture.
- You will be able to know challenges faced by organisation in diverse workforce.
- You will be able to know diverse workforce bring creativity and innovation in the organisation.
The Background
Workforce has diversified work place all over the world as well as in Pakistan due to globalization, emerging minorities, multi-generation and multi-culturism. People from different countries and cities with different culture, race and religion combine and work together which creates differences among employees in terms of thinking, norms, values and religion. Managing workforce diversity is to handle the diversified workforce. Due to diversified workforce the differences like age, culture, disabilities, race, religion, and gender has emerged in Pakistani organisations. Pakistan is multi cultural, religion, sects, and races country including four provinces, Gilgit Baltistan and Azad Jammu Kashmir. Due to it, diverse workforce is in public and private sector organisations of Pakistan. The state laws protect employees from job discrimination, meaning employers are generally prohibited from considering factors like race, gender and nationality when making hiring decisions. Instead, organisations must hire candidates based on relevant skills, education, experience and aptitude.
The Requirements:
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Look around your organisation. In what ways does it reflect diversity in the workforce? | 10 marks |
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Describe the organisational culture that seems to exist in your organisation. What are some of the | |
| implicit or explicit norms and values exist in your organisation? | 10 marks | |
IMPORTANT:
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IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS/ SOLUTION GUIDELINES/ SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS
IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS
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DEADLINE:
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FORMATTING GUIDELINES:
- Use the font style “Times New Roman” or “Arial” and font size “12”.
- It is advised to compose your document in MS-Word format.
- You may also compose your assignment in Open Office format.
- Use black and blue font colors only.
REFERENCING GuIDELINES:
- Use APA style for referencing and citation. For guidance search “APA reference style” in Google and read various website containing information for better understanding or visit http://linguistics.byu.edu/faculty/henrichsenl/apa/APA01.html
RULES FOR MARKING
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- It is submitted after the due date.
- The file you uploaded does not open or is corrupt.
- It is in any format other than MS-Word or Open Office; e.g. Excel, PowerPoint, PDF etc.
- It is cheated or copied from other students, internet, books, journals etc.