Answer to Question #310648 in Management for elisa

Question

Explain the following transferable skills using relevant theory and apply them to an organisation which you are familiar with or one you can research. (If you do not have experience within an organisation, apply best practice from your learning materials to suggest how they should be implemented within a specific organisation). The skills to consider are as follows: • Supportive Communication; • Motivation; • Empowerment; • Conflict Management; • Team Effectiveness. 

Answer 1

According to the question instructions for this assignment, it would be important to note the best explanations and descriptions of the above given theory concepts and therefore, move ahead just to explain how they are relevant in organizations and companies, therefore, pick on any company of your choice and provide the relevance, nevertheless, the points I am providing here would be general points that can be applied to any organization of your choice.

To start with, Supportive Communication would refer to the style of organization communication that encompasses various specific goals and objectives to be achieved. This type of communication is geared towards solving conflicts and disputes among workers, management and the entire organization family. Therefore, in an industrial application, for instance, the ever having conflicts companies and organizations can embrace this type of communication, supporting each department, strengthening them and so on, hence this is important to take note of.

Secondly, motivation is an organizational concept, that entails appreciation and encouraging the workers, the staff in achieving the goals and objectives of the organization. This is done through appreciation, promotions, recognition and so on hence very important to take note. There are companies motivating their workers, for instance, Amazon does regular training, appreciations, gifts and awards, celebrations and so on, this is very important to note as well.

When it comes to the third case, it is important to realize the concept of empowerment, this is the process of making the workers, the employees, more stronger like before, by equipping them with relevant skills and capabilities to enable them be well braced for the daily duties and future upcoming responsibilities as well. Empowerment for instance, in organizations, would help the employees to be self-reliant in a number of ways; they can respond to duties and responsibilities when they call in absence of the boss or the manager/supervisor, able to make sound decisions and so on.

Conflict management on the other hand would be defined as the ability to contain and constrain any form of risk, dispute and hazard related conflict. This is also the process of taking the appropriate measures so that conflicts are contained in organizations and workplaces to avoid more issues exploding from the prevailing conflicts as well. Therefore, for organizations, this concepts is very important. It enables the organization to have a stable environment and workplace with no or controlled conflicts, hence enhancing a harmonious living as well.

Lastly, Team Effectiveness, is whereby the organization can be able hold and embrace effective teamwork. This is characterized by the ability of staff to work as a team, to be collaborative, responsible, sound mind and always ready to take up tasks when duty calls and so on. Therefore, this is very important to take note of as well. Therefore, organizations can embrace teamwork to realize quick results, enhance effective and easy working and also solving of problems, the need to have team effectiveness in organization, companies and generally, workplaces.