Management and Organizations in a Global Environment E-Learning Activ

Question: Discuss about theManagement and Organizations in a Global Environmentfor E-Learning Activities. Answer: Introduction Behaviour and reaction of people in different situations differ depending on the characteristics of a person and their upbringing. In this report these very aspects of an individual will be discussed under certain situations. What happens when a person is put in various situations? How do they react and why they react in such ways are some of the questions that will be answered in this assignment. E-Learning Activities To what extent would you be capable of inflicting real pain (physical, mental and/or emotional) on another human being? Well, watching the video (Gearin,2012) really made me question my own ability to inflict pain on another human being or not. The fact that 65% of the people actually agreed to inflict pain as a result of obeying authorities makes chills travel down my vein. The answer to this question I believe lies in the fact that situations decide our reactions. Whether I will inflict pain on someone mentally, physically or emotionally depends on the person, on my emotional state and the level of torture I may go through before I can become someone who inflicts pain. In the case of physical pain I could still say a no, unless I am in the military and I am asked or expected to hurt someone for the safety of my nation. For that matter, any case of national security may cause me to inflict pain on someone so that I can extract as much information as I can so that I can protect the citizens of my country. However, in the case of emotional or mental pain, the chances of inflicting pain are higher than the former. For instance if I am an abused wife by my husband then I may try to hurt him emotionally by dating another man or hurl insults at him to hurt him emotionally or mentally. Similarly if I have a mother in law who makes my life miserable, chances are that I may say things equally bad or do things equally bad to inflict pain on her, I may not be someone who wants her to be happy and get revengeful. If I am a person who is of high conscience I may resist the urge to hurt someone, but how long? I believe as human beings we have learnt the art of de fending ourselves from the times of the early man. It is human instinct to attack when we are attacked, however, would I inflict physical, emotional and mental pain on someone who has not done anything to me or is not a threat to my country or anyone I know? The answer to that would be a clear, No. I am more likely to hurt someone who hurts me than hurt someone who didnt or who may not hurt me. (Whitbourn, 2013). E-Learning Activities Does your own personal decision-making always reflect an objective process? In an ideal world I would say that personal decisions should be made objectively and those are the ones that can be followed up and relied upon mostly than those that are taken depending on others or different situations. However, the world is not ideal always and neither are people. We are social animals and most of the times we want to be accepted in social settings and make decisions or choices based on how someone else would feel about it. We may not care about everyone, but we would definitely want to please that one person who is important to by taking a decision in their favour or according to their opinion. According to Myer Briggs research, there are 16 personality types, each behaving in their own capacity which is different from the other, be it in making decisions, their characteristics and the type of information they like. How people make decisions totally depends on the kind of person they are, the kind of environments they have been brought up in and the kind of peopl e they have lived and grown up with. (Faith, 2015). Does the desire to be accepted as a part of a group leave one susceptible to conforming to the groups norms? The answer to the above question cannot be in answered in perfect black and white. Again how a person reacts totally depends on their personality. The chances of conforming to the groups norms are higher in people who need constant affirmation on what they do or the decisions they take. People who have grown up wanting attention or lacked encouragement and love may feel the need to be accepted in the group they like and therefore might behave according to the preference of the group. They may do things the way the group likes or talk in a way that gives them the feeling of oneness with the group, they may also become a person they are not all because they need that acceptance and affirmation. However, there are a minority group of people who are not like the above. They are confident and secure, they believe in their instincts and have the courage to go against norms and challenge social groups. They may want to be accepted by the people they love but they will not compromise on who they are and would want to be accepted for who they are. A third category is more on the balanced side, who may accept that what the group is saying is wrong but may go with the groups decision sometimes just because they dont want to hurt the group. However they would categorically state that they dont agree with the groups decision but due to loyalty they would go with the decision of the group. (Lumen, n.d.) Identify and discuss situational factors that can enable a group to exert pressure strong enough to change a members attitude and behaviour. Different groups of people can exert pressure on a member to change their attitude or behaviour towards something according to what the group thinks is essential. For instance, any governmental authority can exert pressure on an official in the government fraternity in order to change their attitude and they are bound to accept such instructions. In a company a manager may exert pressure on his/her subordinates to change his mind on something that he feels is beneficial for the company and the employee is most likely to oblige as part of his job requirement unless it goes against his basic moral principle. Such pressure comes even within families that are closely knit. The oldest member of the family may deem it necessary that the members of the family obey his commands to change certain aspects of their behavior or attitude and in such a situation the members may have to follow the person out of sheer respect or in some cases out of fear too. Groups can also exert pressure only when the person on whom the pressure is exerted is someone who is not very strong in their opinions and is ready to follow their lead. Conclusion Our environment and the people we grow up with have a lot of influence on who we become. Those experiences shape us and make us react in ways we may not even imagine. It is these initial years of a persons life that decides who they will become and what will eventually come out of these experiences. References (Harvard) E. J. (2015). Do you decide issues objectively or subjectively? IDAHOSTATEJOURNAL. 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