OHSE2740: Based on MOM Data in 2015, the Total Country Population Stood at 5.5 million: Eohs Management Assignment, UoN, Singapore

ASSIGNMENT 1:    INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT

Based on MOM data in 2015, the total country population stood at 5.5 million, with 2 million being foreign nationals. Of these foreigners, 1.3 million work, including 750,000 foreign PMETs. Singapore, thus, has a high workforce diversity.

Workforce Diversity is part of Organisational Change which has several impacts, both positive and negative, to the organisation, community, and even, the respective industry.

1. Discuss 5 issues faced with having workforce diversity within your organisation.
2. Explain the issues you have identified using at least 2 of the Organisational Behaviour theories, concepts, and/or models that were covered from Lecture 1 through Lecture 4.
3. Make recommendations to resolve any 3 of these issues. Ensure you use adequate referencing to support your points.
4. With such diversity, conflicts are bound to occur in the workplace, explain how you will manage conflicts in your organization.
5. Discuss the 5 different types of individual leadership styles. Recommend one that best suits your organisation, justifies your recommendation.
6. The conclusion needs to be added.
7. Professionalism

ASSIGNMENT 2: GROUP ASSIGNMENT

You are required to provide an integrated analysis of an organization that has been in the news media for Employee Welfare Violations and sued by the employees, Workers’ Union or a Non-Government Organisation (NGO) and/or investigated by the respective government authorities, between 2000 and present-day (2018).

After your analysis of root causes is completed, you are to provide recommendations. Identify also the outcomes that affected the organisation based on your analyses and the outcomes that will affect the organisation based on your recommendations.

Your report should have the following: Title Page, Executive Summary, Introduction, Analyses, Recommendations, and Conclusion.

To complete the Content portion of your assignment, your group members should consider addressing as many of the following as possible:

Executive Summary (Half page recommended)

• Covers the overview of the background, analyses, and recommendations of your report.

Introduction (a brief highlight on what to expect in the report) (2 marks)

• Introduce the organisation which may include the industry it is in, the management hierarchy, structure, and practices.
• Briefly explain the violations that the organisation is accused of committing.

Analyses

• Utilise the factors of the MARS Model and the Motivational Theories to analyse the impact of these violations upon the behaviour of the employees, from an individual and from the group dynamics aspects.
• Is the corporate culture congruent with the organisation’s culture? Justify your answer.
• What is the relationship between leadership, power, and formal authority in this organisation?

Recommendations (items 4a and 4d are mandatory to be answered)

• I what ways should the organisation incorporate “new forms of practices” into its structure? What would be the effect of such implementation? Example:

What investments “in people” should the organisation make? Do workers function as individuals, groups, teams, or some mix of all three?

What level of “involvement” should employees have in the organisation’s decision-making? Justify your answer – provide actual reported scenarios, incidences, and/or internal policies & practices.

Improvements and/or “Out-Of-The-Box” practices for the management & leadership styles.

• What other motivational strategies can the organisation employ and why would they be appropriate? Justify your answer.
• What are the monitoring and control systems to be implemented by the organisation?
• Explain the outcome of any of your responses in the above items, 3a through 3c, in terms of how these change the 4 components of the Johari Window for both the individual and group performances within the organisation.

Conclusion (a brief highlight on key areas discussed in the report) (6 marks)

Your conclusion should include the following points:

• The issues identified from the violation case reports and their connection to the culture, the behaviour of the management and the employees and the organisation performance.
• The organisation policies & practices, the leadership, power, and formal authority practices that are in question.
• The key challenges identified being faced by the organisation to the management of human resources.
• The strategies employed to meet all the issues and challenges as identified by your team.
• Explanation of how and why these strategies would be beneficial.
• Include changes to the management system and to the monitoring and control of the implemented actions to ensure proper maintenance and improvements.