Workplace and Managers Role

A Manager’s Responsibilities

A manager is responsible for a wide variety of tasks in the workplace, many of which are directed at enhancing the organization’s efficiency and competitiveness. Hiring professional workers is one of these obligations. Managers are in charge of an organization’s sourcing, screening, and selection of new hires (Blomme, 2012). A manager is also responsible for achieving good success improvement by establishing and categorizing the organization’s priorities and objectives, as well as monitoring, coaching, and mentoring employees’ jobs. Managers can also accomplish good performance improvement by providing input, solving different performance issues, and developing teams, and conducting performance reviews. Another role of a manager is to set the overall direction of the organization, which includes the organization’s goals, mission, vision, and objectives (Blomme, 2012). Organization managers also have the responsibilities of being essential and supportive team members, as well as performing unique duties from the rest of the employees. Additionally, it is the primary role of an organization’s manager to ensure effective management of the organization’s resources, improvement of performance processes and quality, as well as communication within the workplace (Blomme, 2012).

The Importance of Social Responsibility

Having an understanding of the concepts of social responsibility, ethics, and cultural differences is of great importance for managers in the creation of a meaningful workplace. Managers should remain committed to ensuring effective implementation of corporate social responsibility since it enhances the organization’s overall reputation and gives a powerful statement regarding the organization’s position in today’s cynical business world (Tuan, 2012). Besides, understanding corporate social responsibility helps managers in putting in place various policies and procedures that integrate social, ethical, environmental consumer concerns or human rights into organizational core strategies and operations, in active collaboration with all the relevant stakeholders. Besides, having a better understanding of social responsibility in an organization helps managers in achieving a higher employee engagement level, as well as assist in the provision of better customer service standards (Tuan, 2012).

The Significance of Ethics

Understanding ethics in organizations help organization managers in ensuring that the actions and activities of all employees in the workplace are in line with the organization’s set code of conduct and moral guidelines (Tuan, 2012). Besides, ensuring ethical behavior within the work environment assist managers in improving the organizations’ ability to retain existing clients and attract new customers, as well as improve the companies’ abilities to maintain and form new business partnerships. Also, understanding the concept of ethics in organizations helps managers in hiring individuals who can deliver by giving their best in every assigned task (Tuan, 2012).

The Value of Cultural Differences

By understanding the cultural differences in the workplace, managers can make employees of diverse socio-economic backgrounds feel comfortable and free when performing various tasks within the organizations. Embracing cultural differences also enables managers to promote fairness and equal opportunities for prospect employees, as well as enhance the promotion of employees based on merit, as opposed to an individual’s creed, gender, or race (Bond & Hynes, 2014). Besides, understanding the concept of cultural diversity in an organization allows managers to maintain non-discrimination standards and impose various penalties for individuals who fail to comply with such standards. Managers can also benefit from understanding cultural differences by encouraging tolerance among employees and opening new horizons with new performance methods, business partners, and customer demographics (Bond & Hynes, 2014).

Guiding Leadership for Managers

As a manager, the concepts of social responsibility, ethics, and cultural differences might, therefore, guide me in improving the overall organizational performance and productivity through gaining the loyalty of employees and winning the consumers’ trust. Besides, the concepts of social responsibility, ethics, and cultural differences might guide me in aligning the employees’ efforts with the organization’s overall vision, mission, goals, and objectives.

Organizational Goals and Objectives

Organizations’ goals refer to those ends that organizations intend to achieve through their operations and existence. The organizations’ goals are usually predetermined and outline the future results or outcomes toward which the organizations’ current efforts are directed (Johnson, 2008). Organizational objectives, on the other hand, relate to various short-term and long-term goals that organizations intend to achieve for them to meet their overall strategic goals. Organizations’ objectives play pivotal roles in the organizations’ policy-setting and resource allocation processes (Johnson, 2008).

References

Blomme, R. (2012). Leadership, Complex Adaptive Systems, and Equivocality: The Role of Managers in Emergent Change. Organization Management Journal, 9(1), 4-19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15416518.2012.666946

Bond, M., & Haynes, M. (2014). Workplace Diversity: A Social-Ecological Framework and Policy Implications. Social Issues and Policy Review, 8(1), 167-201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sipr.12005

Johnson, S. (2008). Connecting Diversity Efforts in the Workplace with Business Mission, Goals, and Objectives. Performance Improvement Quarterly, 7(1), 31-39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1937-8327.1994.tb00615.x

Tuan, L. (2012). Corporate social responsibility, ethics, and corporate governance. Social Responsibility Journal, 8(4), 547-560. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17471111211272110