Leading in a Changing World

  Theme 2 : The Challenge of Managing Diverse Teams The value within which members of the team vary in terms of abilities, knowledge, and viewpoints is characterized as diversity together within the team. Differences in understanding, expertise, and specializations are the three main elements of a diverse team, according to the concept of team diversity (Horwitz & Horwitz, 2007). Whenever a team is diverse in terms of character, sex, academic age, operational expertise, and experience, the team is more likely to obtain the qualities taken to accomplish its job efficiently.  Nowadays, in this modern era, in today’s highly competitive environment, workplace diversity thus becomes highly relevant. This is due to the fact that diversity is acknowledged as the basis of creativity and innovation, and it will have an influence on strategic orientation. Why Diverse team is very important towards an Organization An organization frequently places a premium on activities and ...

  1.1 Theme 1 : Leadership and Ethics In the business world, ethical leadership is one of the important concepts that need to be implemented and developed properly and correctly, in accordance with the organisation’s business related. Ethical Leadership is a term for emphasising someone to apply ethical considerations and make it as a theoretical base for taking a new solid decision or an action (Gea, 2014).  Ethical leadership has 2 important principle areas of ethics that have to be implemented when managing a business organisation. The Deontological (Rules) Principle and The Teleological (Consequentalist) Principle.  Deontological (Rules) Principle  Deontological Principle is an ethical system that does not measure whether an action is good or not based on its results, but solely based on the intention of the individual in doing the act. This system does not highlight the chosen goal for a person’s actions or decisions, but solely whether or not his actions ...