GMS 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Natural Environment, Dynamite Entertainment, Telecommuting

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

Document Summary

Intellectual capital: collective brainpower/shared knowledge of a workplace. The challenge is to combine the talents of many people to achieve unique and significant results. Knowledge workers: is someone whose mind is an official asset to employers. Workplace diversity: describes differences among workers in gender, race, age, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, and able-bodiedness. Diversity issues in employment is not always handled very well. Prejudice: display of negative, irrational opinions and attitudes towards members of diverse populations. Active discrimination: denies minority members of full benefits of. Glass ceiling effect: invisible barrier limiting career advancement of women organizational membership and minorities. Worldwide interdependence of resources flows, product markets, and business competition. Physical distance hardly matter anymore, flexibility to work arrangement, allowing people to telecommute work from home and maintain mobile offices while working in non-traditional ways and free form the constraints of the normal 9-5 schedules. Set moral standards of what is good" and right" in one"s behavior.