The Challenges Of Managers Face Today

With the rise of the modern age economic survival has become difficult for families based on a single income. This economic need along with modern attitudes toward gender equality has resulted in women being represented in the workforce in greater numbers. However, until the 1960’s women faced severe discrimination when trying to enter and maintain a position in the workforce. Often qualified women would be passed over for men with less experience and education. Employers were fearful that women were too emotional and were not equipped to handle the stress of the work environment. Also driving the decision to not hire or promote women was the concern over the additional health care expenses and leave time pregnant

The biggest problem to a manager is managing employees. This is because employers often do not know how to handle their employees. An effective manager knows that motivation is a difficult skill to acquire. So over the years, many theorist have studied motivation in order to

With the four principal management functions CEO Greg Steinhafel exhibited that of leadership. "Leadership is defines as motivating, directing, and otherwise influencing people to work hard to achieve the organization's goals." ( Kinicki & Williams, 2016, p.10). Mr. Steinhafel had to make decisions of how to handle the issues of what has just happened to their company and motivate and assure them that they will come out a more stronger and reliable company because of this breach. Of the seven managerial challenges Target is facing, challenge # 5 which is Managing for Ethical Standards. Hackers were able to get into Target's computers and gain access to consumers personal information. Target is handling this challenge by assuring the

Motivation is defined as, “the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior.” Motivation is key in personal life as well as the career world. Motivation in the work place is highly dependent on employers being able to understand the needs and wants of their employees. When employers can understand and satisfy an employee’s needs, the employee is more inclined to perform well in his position. “The ranked order of motivating factors were: (a) interesting work, (b) good wages, (c) full appreciation of work done, (d) job security, (e) good working conditions, (f) promotions and growth in the organization, (g) feeling of being in on things, (h) personal loyalty to employees, (i) tactful discipline, and (j)

Changes in workplace norms and developmental opportunity for women. The culture of many organizations is changing, the assumptions that used to be made such as the male model of work, the notion of full-time careers and separation of work and family are being challenged (Cooper& Lewis 1999; Williams 2010).

Women’s role in the workplace has been changing over the course of history. Not too long ago there was a time where women weren’t seen as “workers”. Women working has been on a serious uprise. In an article by Wendy Wang, Kim Parker, and Paul Taylor,

The workplace has relatively been the realm of men for the last two centuries and a place where they could affirm their traditional gender role as the economic provider (Kimmel, 2000, p.184). In this sense, climbing the success latter would involve learning to navigate pathways in a homogender environment. Maintaining the existing system of ideals could offer a familiar means in which to affect this ascent and the implementation of discriminatory means to fend off a non-traditional gender influence could preserve male-dominated ideologies. An example of a practice that effectively discriminates against women can be found in the gender-based division of labor that exists within our workforce. With

The generation now has made it easier to equalize men and women but there is still a substantial amount of places where gender inequality is still happening in the workplace and where females still face discrimination. Women are often discriminated in the workplace and are usually not promoted as quickly as men are and they also receive less pay. History shows that women have not always been defined as property and thought of as second class citizens. But in the 21st century many have seen a drastic change in the so called “traditional” family ways where women are suppose to stay home and take care of the household chores, food, and children and men are suppose to work to support their family and provide financial stability. Many assume that in the workplace women are more vulnerable and less competent than men because women 's instincts are to put their family before work or anything else. Whereas men are the ones who will usually stay the late hours to work. People on both sides of the political spectrum and everywhere in between seem to be fearful of what is to come and more fearful of others than they are often willing to admit.

It seems that women workers have reached a plateau in society. In order for women to be respected (as men are) in the workplace there needs to be a redistribution of domestic and family work. It’s acceptable now for women to work; but this acceptance into the workforce has not drastically changed what they, women, are expected to perform at home. There is no way for women to move forward to equality in pay if they are not recognized as contributers to their job (i.e. women are still expected to perform outside of work in the family setting as well in a way that men are only expected to perform at work and not at home).

Bill Copeland once said, "Not only is women 's job never done, the definition keeps changing." This couldn 't be any truer; women play many different roles from wives to mothers to professionals. In today’s society women has moved farther away from their traditional role as homemaker or housewife and more towards the role of a modern, self-sustaining person. This role is still not accepted in society and prejudice is prevalent in the workplace. Many companies still discriminate against women in various job rolls, even when there is a woman at the helm. Toiling women are every now and then exposed to inequality because of sex, in spite of several laws and code of practice that forbid employment prejudice affecting women.

Due to the preconception that women are supposed to be submissive, society continues to prevent them from being dominant in the workplace. Traditionally women are supposed to be housewives and nurture their children, overtime these views have changed. In todays society not only are women able to be mothers but they can also work outside of their homes. Women, who are considered single mothers, do every job whether at home or at the workplace. Men see women as inferior because until the about the twentieth century women began to gain just a tad bit of independence. This ties into gender roles, there has been many studies on how children are brought up, when a girl is little, parents give them a doll to nurture it; which means society outs

A review of previous research helped to understand what is studied about employee loyalty and the various measures of employee loyalty. For this research study, four main constructs were derived from the theoretical concepts and empirical findings on the topic related to employee loyalty. These four main constructs were job satisfaction, work culture, voluntary turnover and employee loyalty. Among these, the job satisfaction construct is quite complex to understand as it is a function of six interrelated components like supervisor support, coworker support, career development opportunities, pay, intellectual stimulation, rewards and recognition. Each of these sub components is measured independently for their influence on employee loyalty.

Micro-computer software was at a time revolutionary. At the forefront of the personal computer revolution was a company that bore the name of the revolution itself, Microsoft. Started in 1975 (Windows, 2016), steadily gained market share as its model for licensing software separate from hardware gained popularity. Peaking in 2011, Microsoft was unstoppable (Murphy, 2015). Starting in 2011 Microsoft began a sudden and unexpected fall from grace as Apple introduced the iPad and Google started giving competing software away for free (Murphy, 2015). The two drivers of growth for Microsoft had disappeared overnight, and Microsoft only shipped on about 14% of all

During my four years at USC, my course focus has mainly been on management. Initially, I began as a Sport and Entertainment Management major, and then transferred into the Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts major. The BAIS has allowed me the flexibility to expand my interest in management in general. My two areas of focus in the BAIS are Sport and Entertainment Management and Business Management. Accordingly, my paper will focus on a problem in management.

“Managerial economics applies the principals and methods of economics to analyze problems faced by the management of a business, or other types of organizations and to help and to help find solutions that advance the best interests of such organizations.”(Managerial Economics, 2015). In order to apply the principals and methods of economics to business it is important to first understand general economic principles and macroeconomic indicators. These indicators help managers to understand how the economy is performing and what the trends are here in the U.S. and across the world. An article titled “Kiplinger’s Economic Outlook” presents a current look at general economic principles and economic indicators. The article offers a look at last year (2014) and uses the indicators to anticipate the economic performance for the U.S. in 2015 taking into account the political setting, legal issues, global economic pressures, and even climate change. The article discusses Gross Domestic Product (GDP), employment, Consumer Price Index (CPI), inflation and interest rates, Balance of Payments (BoP), and. major macroeconomic indicators for the U.S economy. The article also discusses economic principles including money, inflation, trade, supply and demand, and economic growth and how these will affect the economy in 2015. This article will allow the reader to enhance his or her understanding of macroeconomic indices, get an explanation of these indices using economic principles,