Discuss the key themes of 2-3 chosen topics covered weekly in MMM308 (including reference to the unit resources) and how they relate to the simulation ( what we did on zoom while i was in america) and...

Applied management capabilities
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Topic 4: Working with and managing others    3
Heroic management    3
Engaging management    3
Global business activity area    3
Cultural differences    3
Cultural competence    4
Cultural conflicts    4
Topic 7: Managing quality and productivity    4
Responsible operation management    4
Responsible supply chain management    5
Closed loop frameworks    6
Topic 8: Managing change    6
Organizational Development    6
Tasks Responsibility of Leaders in Organizations    6
Organizational Change    6
Impetus and target    7
Forces    7
Resistance    7
Application of Lewin’s model for Planned Change    7
Reference list    9
Topic 4: Working with and managing others
Applied management capabilities are a very important term that deals with managing and working with others. Through proper analysis of this topic, it can be easier to identify the contemporary issues that are present in various organizations where people work in collaboration (Braun et al., 2018). The managers face various difficulties in managing a diverse workforce inside the organization. Various leadership challenges are also faced by them for staying ethical. Below how the relations can be managed by the managers will be discussed in two ways such as heroic management and engaging management.
Heroic management
In the sphere of heroic management, it is said that managers are the most important people in any organization rather than those who are involved in developing products and services. While implementing change managers face various problems thus they need to efficiently allocate the resources with proper calculations.
Engaging management
The leaders must manage every hierarchy in the organization for implementing big initiatives and motivate the insiders by building trust for
inging effective changes. Rewarding should be promoted in the organization for getting better results.
Global business activity area
In global businesses, offshoring and outsourcing is the main problem that can be reduced by tracing the supply chain (Chen, 2020). Through fair and ethical trade the adverse impacts on logistics can be minimized. Moreover through FDI local development can be ensured by expanding in foreign markets. However, it is highly needed that businesses manage the cross-national diversity and global workforce effectively.
Cultural differences
Working with a global workforce can include various cultural dimensions. According to Hofstede, the main cultural differences are power distance, collectivism vs individualism, femininity vs. masculinity, constraints vs. indulgence, and avoiding any uncertainty in the workforce.
Cultural competence
Cultural competence describes the ability of any organization for coping with cultural differences which highly depends on the personal attributes, skills, and knowledge of the managers. This is highly needed by the managers of any organization so that they can work successfully and provide higher satisfaction to the stakeholders (Antwi et al., 2020). Managing the workforce a
oad and in the host country becomes easier with this cultural competency.
Cultural conflicts
This can be observed if the organization worlds with a cross-cultural workforce and they have to make decisions by keeping in mind the difference in cultural values. It can be seen that people from two cultures may have different conclusions as one standard may be justified for only one culture. In these situations, the managers can promote intensive communication for determining the causes of conflicts without random guessing and work on viable compromises.
Topic 7: Managing quality and productivity
Responsible operation management
This is a framework that deals with creating efficiency in the workforce without any consumption of resources for optimizing the value of the stakeholders. This can be done by the efficient analysis of the existing processes. To
ing efficiency lean management can be...