Career Readiness Challenges Faced by Managers

There are so many career readiness challenges that are faced by managers. The textbook states that some challenges are technological advances, ethical concerns, a diversified workforce, and globalization (Uhl-Bien & Piccolo, 2021). Each of these can affect someone in a different way, and some may find one challenge heftier than another.

Technology has advanced rapidly during our life, I remember being a child and having the colourful Mac computers to play math games on and Oregon Trail whilst at school, the dial-up tones and just being in awe of the capabilities of this weird machine. Not even twenty years from that, there are computers that run databases, APIs that companies rely on, and so much more. Keeping up with technology can be a difficult thing, especially in a generation that didn’t grow up with the growth of technology. As a manager, a challenge I face every day is making sure that through technological advances my employees still have a role and jobs that cannot be easily taken over by a computer program. Being someone who can keep up with constant changes, adapting my life around new systems and programs has been a pride in my adaptability to change and new knowledge. The challenge I face is ensuring my employees have a resource to go to if they cannot be the same and ramp up just as easily, and if someone isn’t able to keep up with the technology of a workplace starts the difficult conversation of if they’re able to stay and do their job both effectively and efficiently.

Outside of just dealing with technology, another challenge is ethical concerns and keeping up a diverse workforce. I believe the majority can agree that the events of the past few years have really put a spotlight on the importance of work ethics and diversity in an organization. This is something I strive for as a manager, and though it sounds easy can sometimes be very challenging to keep up on. Not only are you focused on being a fair and good person in the eyes of my co-workers, but I need to make sure they’re also being fair and good to each other in the process. Depending on the situation, it can feel a bit like babysitting an adult and making sure their following our ethics vision and policy, but it’s for the better of the team and employees’ interest. Diversity is also such an important role, being fair to all co-workers and potential candidates is important. With the fast growth of technology, it may be easy to judge a diverse characteristic hastily or look at someone and go off of your internal first impression. Making sure everyone has an equal standing is always a great way to maintain a healthy work environment, it’s just challenging to maintain. Especially during an onboarding process.

Globalization is a phrase that I learned about during my coursework at GCU. I knew what it was, just not that it had its own name and definition attached to it. I do work for a global company, so as the textbook says about large corporations not using the word ‘overseas’ is the same in my workplace as well. We have ‘outsourced’ some of our department’s roles to different countries that would be better on our budget, and doing that can be scary for our current employees who think their job might be taken away to lessen company costs. This is always a tough conversation and situation to have and explain, especially when we’re not outsourcing to a different company, just opening branches elsewhere.

All of these things are a readiness challenge, but being ready for a challenge makes for a good manager.

References

Uhl-Bien, M., Piccolo, R.F., Schermerhorn, J. R. & Bachrach, D.G. (2021). MGT-420 organizational behaviour and management with WileyPLUS. Wiley & Sons.

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Career Readiness Challenges Faced by Managers

According to the textbook, what are the career readiness challenges faced by managers? Discuss the major challenges and how it affects the behaviour of people within organizations.