: Management and Organisations in a Global Environment Ass require
Please answer questions follow by the number of the activity’s video and answer questions which by below of the each week.

The essay type not really like the research paper, it should be like answer question type. Please choice the 2 topics which you more comfortable to write down for 500 words. Others for hundred words is ok.
Week 1 – Activity 1
Week2- Activity 1
Week3 – Activity 4
Week4- Activity 1
Week5- Activity 1
Week6- Activity 1
HI6005 Discussion Board –
In your blog, you should address the following two sections:
(1) Section 1: list the key ideas you have extracted from the prescribed e-learning activity.
(2) Section 2: apply those ideas to your own experience, to an organisation you know and to the topic(s) of this subject.

Visit the following URLs, and use ‘Questions to consider’ to guide your thinking.
 Week1
Activity 1: Ford and Taylorism
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PdmNbqtDdI
Questions to consider:
1. Would workers in Australia, America or Europe accept the Taylorism in this form today?
2. Consider the design of scripts for use in Call Centres, can you see Taylorism in that? Explain.
3. This ‘clip’ is showing history from 100 years ago. Some would say that ‘the world has moved on’ and these ideas are out of date. However, could there be parts of the world today for which these ideas might be just what they need? Explain.
 Week 2
Activity 1: Thomas Friedman on Globalisation; 3 Eras of Globalisation; World is flat
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp4znWHvsjU

Questions to consider:
1. What would be some of the key drawbacks or risks of living in the flat world of Globalisation 3.0 as Friedman describes it?
2. Do you agree with Friedman’s iron rule of the flat world? Explain.
3. Is the level of globalisation uniform across the world? Explain.
 Week3
Activity 4: Toyota’s corporate culture and the problem of spreading its culture
URL: ‘MIT’s Steven Spear Discusses Toyota’s Corporate Culture’ (Interview on Bloomberg TV) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCaKFPjfG7s
Question to consider:
1. How would you describe Toyota’s culture using the seven dimensions of organisational culture and/ or the Cultural Web?
 Week 4
Activity 1: Structure and strategy
URL: BCG’s Yves Morieux view on Organisation Designx http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm7d1dzOKmw
Questions to consider:
1. Yves Morieux claims that structure follows strategy. Is this always the case?
 Week 5
Visit the following URLs, and use ‘Questions to consider’ to guide your thinking.
Activity 1: The Milgram Experiment
URL:
(1) Milgram Experiment – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcvSNg0HZwk
(2) Milgram Experiment replicated in Australia (Psychology study by La Trobe University in the 1970s) – http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2012/s3489852.htm

Questions to consider:
1. To what extent would you be capable of inflicting real pain (physical, mental and/or emotional) on another human being?
2. Week 6
Activity 1: Linear Programming Word Problem
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ACJ9ewUC6U
Questions to consider:

What insights into rational decision making approach can you draw from this video?
1. What would be the limitations of linear programming?
2. In what kinds of situation could the linear programming be useful to decision making?