GMS 200 Lecture Notes - Work Unit, Critical Thinking, Intellectual Capital

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Bamidele Adekunle

Document Summary

Introduction to global management 5/9/12 introduction to business and the dynamic new. Control in management- feedback, planning, organizing: how do you learn the essential managerial skills and competencies. Organizations must adapt to rapidly changing society. Economy is global and driven by innovation and technology. High performing companies gain extraordinary results from people wokring for them. People are the ultimate foundations of organizational performance. A knowledge worker adds to the intellectual capital of an organization. Intellectual is the collective brainpower of a workforce that be used to create value. National boundaries of world business have largely disappeared. Globalization is the worldwide interdependance of resource flows, product markets, and business competition that characterize the new economy. Continuing transformation of the modern workplace through the internet, world wide web, computers, and information technology (it) Increasing demand for knowledge workers with skills to full utilize technology. Workforce diversity reflects difference with respect to gender, age, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, and able bodiedness.