GMS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Work Unit, Glass Ceiling, Brainpower

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Franklin Ramsoomair

Document Summary

Working today: talent: peoples talents are the ultimate foundation of organizational performance, intellectual capital: collective brainpower & knowledge of workforce used to create value. Knowledge workers mind is asset to employers: diversity: reflects differences with respect to gender, race, age. It can be bias because prejudice, discrimination, glass ceiling effect: globalization: national boundaries of world business disappeared. It"s world wide interdependence of resource flows, product markets & business competition, characterizes the economy: technology: continuing transformation of modern workplace through internet, web, technology. Increasing demand for knowledge workers with skills to fully use technology: ethics: code of moral principles that set standards of conduct of what"s good. Ethical expectations for modern businesses: integrity, sustainable development, natural environment protection, consumer protection, human rights: careers: people must make sure skills are portable & of value in employment markets. Environment supplies resource inputs, organization creates work, environment consumes: organizational performance: