GMS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pest Analysis, Natural Environment, Knowledge Worker

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Deborah De Lange

Document Summary

The path to academic success and career development is to be open to changing and improving yourself. Smart people create their own futures take responsibility for your own success. Respect, empowerment, paricipaion, involvement, teamwork must emulate this in your ime here at ryerson. Develop your talent(s) knowing what they are is key. Workforce diversity gender, age, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientaion, able- bodiedness. Prejudice, discriminaion, glass-ceiling leads to under-uilized human capital and other negaive efects on the workplace, society, and the world. Globalizaion: worldwide interdependence of resource lows, markets, and business economy. Many other views of globalizaion muli-dimensional and not just economic as the text suggests. Technology is a strong factor (thomas friedman"s the world is flat is commonly cited) Enron (bankrupt) is a classic example of what not to do. Ethics is key to leadership success and for the organizaion. Figure 1. 5 muliple stakeholders in the environment of an organizaion.