Managing And Organizations An Introduction To Theory And Practice 3rd Edition Stewart R Clegg, Tyrone S. Pitsis, Matthew Mount - Solutions

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> explain participation rates, employment, and income levels of Asians.
> examine research on the employment-related experiences of Asians.
> compare similarities and differences among Asian Americans and between Asians and other minority groups.
1. Prior to reading this chapter, were you aware of the Chinese Exclusion Act and the internment of Japanese Americans? If yes, how much did you know?
2. What are some potential negative individual and organizational consequences for Asian Americans being perceived as being highly successful and well-educated?
3. Prior to reading this chapter, were you aware of the wide variety in Asians’ education, earnings, and poverty?
4. If you are not Asian Americdao ny,ou know someone well who is Asian American? What is your relationship to this person (¢.g., personal friend, manager, classmate, or neighbor)? What are this person’s Asian roots (¢.g., Japan, China, or India)? How much time have you spent with this
1. Go to US. government websites (e.g., http://www.census.goy, http//vww.dol.gov, and others) to inigate the most current earnings, education level, and incidence of poverty for Asian Americans from five different backgrounds of your choice. Document your findings. What would be the result of
2. Search the EEOC website (http:/www.ccoc.gov) for recent discrimination charges and settlements involving Asian Americans. What are the details of the cases (e.and what was the outcome)?
3. Conduct an informalc ensus of employceisn several places: fast-food restaurant, sit-down restaurant,, Target and Walmart), department store, government office, bank, or other locations in which many employees are visible. Document the number of employees overall and the number of Asian American
4. Watch television for two nights for thirty minutes to one hour each night. Document the program, the type of commercial, and the numbers of Asian American characters on the programs and commercials.What similarities and differences are apparent among the people in Questions3 and 4?
5. Research from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) using paired testers indicates that at times Asian Americans experience housing discrimination (renting and home buying)that is similar to that experienced by Blacks, Hispanics, and American Indians. Search the HUD website for
6. Conduct research to find several Asian Americans in positions of power in corporations, politics, or universities. Describe their jobs, educational background, experience, and other relevant factors that have contributed to their success.
> discuss some of the history of W h i te ethnic groups in the United States.
> describe differences between Whites and other racial and ethnic groups.
> explain similarities and differences between employment experiences of White men and women.
> discuss waiyn wshic h social class and race affect Whites.
> discuss individual and organizational measures that can be employed to include Whites in the study of diver sity and to obtain their cc nmitment to diversity in org tions.
1. Many Whites argue that their resistance to affirmative action and diversity programs is due in part to their families’ history of not owning slaves or their not having personally practiced discrimination,
2. What are some ways in which Whites who have not done these things nonetheless benefited from and been advantaged by slavery and subsequent systemic discrimination?How does the visibility (identifiability) of groups such as Blacks and Asians contrast with the invisibility of White ethnics in
3. Many of the Whites who participated in Blacks’ struggle for civil rights were Jewish. How were the organizational experiences of Jews and Blacks in the United States similar and dissimilar?
4, Is the transition of Jews and Irish from the non-White to White category surprising to you? Brodkin also discusses the transformations of Mexicans to White then back again. Were you aware of these changes? In addition to those listed in this chapter, what other changes in race occurred within
5. What specific steps would you recommend to avoid performan‘eward disc r i mination?
6a. If you are not White, do you know someone well who is White? In what capacity do you know thi person (e.g., personal friend, manager, classmate, neighbor)? Do you know this person’s ethnic origi(e.g., Italian, Irish, German)? How much time have you spent with this person? Have you thought
6b. If you are White, do you know your ethnic origin? How much of a role does your ethnic origin play in your everyday life, experiences, and opportunities? Can outside observers discern your ethnic origin by looking at you?
6c. How does the ethnicity of Whites differ from visible ethnic differences in its effect on a person’s experiences and opportunities?
7. Individual Whites may report experiences with reverse discrimination despite little research evidence to support their claims. How do such experiences affect supporotf or resistance toward diversity efforts?What might help such individuals to be supportive of diversity efforts despite believing
1. Search the EEOC website (http://www.eeoc.gov) for the most recent three or six months for cases of discrimination charges and settlements against Whites. In any month that you find a case involving discrimination against Whites, document the events surrounding this case. What proportion of cases
2. The United States presidency is the highest elected office in the country. Aside from one man, Barack Obama, all presidents have been White. Investigate in what other ways have U.S. presidents brought diversity to the office.
3. Use a calculator to make a chart projecting the effects of performance-reward disparities (Castilla’s study, discussed in the chapter) in salary growth for White men, White women, and people of color.a. Make columns for starting salaries of $30,000 for the new employees. Use different annual
> explain the historical background and current status of Native Americans and multi-racial group members in the United States
> discuss education, workforce participation rates, employment, and income levels of Native Americans in the United States.
> explain the diversity among multi-racial group members and issues unique to them
> Idnetify similarities in experi e nces of native people in the United States and New Zealand.
> explain legislation related to em ployment experiences of Native Americans and multi-racial group members.
> make recommendations for inclusion of t!e groups in diversity efforts.
1a. If you are not American Indian or Alaska Native, what has your exposure to them been? Do you know any personally? If so, how do you know them? How well? What beliefs about Native Americans were you aware of prior to reading this chapter?
Ib. If you are Native American, how do your work experiences compare with those presented chapter?
2a. If you are not multi-racial, what has your exposure been to multi-racial people? Do you know anybody who is multi-racial? Have you talked with them about being multi-racial and about their diversity-related experiences?
2b. If you are multi-racial, is being so have particular resonance for you?
3. Professional golfer Tiger Woods emphasizes his White, Asian, Black, and Native American heritage.Were Woods unknown as a professional golfer, what assumptions would likely be made about hi race by (a) a police officer prone to racial profiling, or (b) a Black person, (c) an Asian person, (d)a
4. The chapter listed several other fairly well-known multi-racial people. Are you familiar with any of them? If so, were you aware that they are multi-racial? Were you aware of their particular multi-racial heritage? If not, what was your impression of the racial or ethnic group to which each
1. Excluding American Indian schools, find a college or un i versity not identified in this chapter that is known for the diversity of its students. What are the demographic characteristics of the student body(e.g.. race, ethnicity, sex, and age)? What are the characteristoif cthse school (c.g,,
2. Investigate the demographic characteristics of the student body at the university at which you are studying or once studied. Do you know of any AVAN students who attend or attended school with you? If so, is their AVAN background visible? Do they “pass” at times? If this person is a close
3. Investigate the history of Native Americans in your state and their current status (including popula tion, workforce participation, education levels, income, and poverty rates).
4. Estimates suggest that 70% of Blacks in the United States are of multi-racial heritage. Were you a of this? Begin noticing the variation in skin color, features, and hair texture among Blacks. Choose five Blacks whom you know, with whom you come in contact, or who are well-known people and
5. Choose an indigenous people in a particular country (except the United States and New Zealand)Document their original and current population, education level, employment, and workforce participation.How do their education, employment, and participation levels compare to those of the dominant
> compare women's and men racial and ethnic groups.education, participation rates, employme it, and income levels within and across
> discuss the role of gender role socialization in men’s and women's oc c upations and opportunities.
> explain the effects of sex segregation, sex discrimination, and sexual harassment on women's careers and discuss selected cases related to them.
> discuss glass barrie rs to women's organizational progress.
> discuss methods that can be used to improve organizational climates for gender equity.
1, What is the role of socialization in women’s and men’s “choic lationships affect sex segregation and the wage gap?
4, Prior to reading this chapter, had you heard of the “glass escalator”? Are you aware of a situation in which a man is the manager or supervisor of a group of women employees in a female-dominated group?
5. What can individual women do to reduce the influence of sex and gender discrimination on their careers?What can parents do to reduce the influence of sex and gender on their daughters’ lives?
1. Interview a person who is employed in a sex-atypical occupation (e.g., a male dental hygienist or female professor of business in a tenure-track position). What factors affected their career decision?What background experiences and/or educational requirements were needed to qualify for this
2. Conduct a survey of at least ten working professionals. How many men versus women negotiated their starting salary? How many were successful in their negotiations? How much was the increase in salary, if any, after the negotiations? Are any differences apparent after comparing the results for
3. Create an informal organization chart of the organization in which you work or for which you can gather information. Is there evidence of the glass ceiling, walls, and/or escalators in this organization?
4, Begin observing women in organizations. What evidence do you observe of gender- and race-based segregation? Where are women clustered? Are women of color in di ions than White women?
Understand the importance of ethics for organizations
Outline current approaches to ethics
Debate ethical dilemmas concerning money and morals, and profits and principles
Grasp how ethics works in practice
Know what is corporate social responsibility (CSR)
Understand how to improve sustainability
What are the different approaches to ethics?
Why are rules a problematic way of ensuring good governance?
What are the key elements of the ‘ethics as practice’ approach?
Why did the ethical behavioural training in the New South Wales Police Service fail? From your perspective, how could the failure have been avoided?
To what extent is the term ‘business ethics’ a paradox?
How have criteria for measuring zoos as ‘good’ or ‘ethical’ evolved? How and why did Granby Zoo’s raison d’être evolve?
When did Granby Zoo become an ethical organization? What made it so?
Which factors contributed to the success of ethical initiatives in Granby Zoo? Which factors limited such progress?
How did certain individuals (the vets, zookeepers, environmental coordinator, or upper management)facilitate or hinder such change?
See that modern management is what makes possible much of what we take for granted today
Understand the relation between surveillance and management control
Appreciate why an increase in scale led to innovations in management
Describe the main approaches that developed in early management theory and continue to inform management today
Know how management ideas spread globally
Understand McDonaldization as the major force shaping much of the way we live
What kind of changes to management relations and learning among employees would need to occur when implementing such a model in an organization that had a more traditional design, more oriented to command and control, rather than innovation and creativity?
Understand how bureaucratic organizations’ control over their members can be counterproductive
Understand how and why so many organizations are similar in their design and practices
Grasp how and why management action is always embedded in more or less implicit/explicit theories about what is to be done
Distinguish between (a) organizational exploitation and (b) organizational exploration of knowledge
Know what is a ‘failure trap’ and what is a ‘success trap’
How do different rules define different rationalities?
You have been appointed to a UN Development Agency charged with remedying the corruption in the Port of Douala. How would you analyse the problem and what would you recommend as a solution?
Define organizations in terms of structural contingency theory
Discuss size, technology, and environment as the key contingencies associated with organization structures
Link organizational contingencies to organizational design
Relate issues of organization structure to questions of organizational strategy
What enables creative designers in the Valley to be creative?
To what extent are changes in technology making the bureaucratic model redundant?
What are the sources of value in the new model and where, if anywhere, do the old structures of the record companies fit in?
Debate the impact of globalization, especially on organizations
Identify some key strategic issues involved in managing in a global economy
Explain why resistance to globalization occurs
Discuss the central role of knowledge workers in the global economy
Understand that globalization has both positive and negative effects on individuals, organizations, societies, and nations

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