Case Study Lyric is a wholesale and retail clothing business which was born from the passion of two High School friends called Mary and Rachel. The business idea was already doing great within their...

1. From the CASE STUDY - Workplace collaboration, identify five processes or procedures that should be developed from the Human Resource department’s roles.
    
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Staff well-being program.
    
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Overseeing the disciplinary action of the employees.
    
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    Managing the employees and employee relationship in the organization.
    
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    Creating a rewarding culture in the organization.
    
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    Onboarding and ongoing training and development of the employees in the organization.
    
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    Performance Management, Recruitment and Hiring of the organization.
2. As a leader, you should establish parameters for collaborating with your team, including the frequency of meetings, how people work together, how information is shared and who is responsible for which tasks.
What exactly is collaboration? Identify five factors of workplace collaboration.
    
Example
    
Support and assistance from team members when needed
    
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    Collaboration is the working practice where the individuals work together for a definite and the common purpose in order to achieve the organisation objectives and enables the individuals to work as a whole for a common and the defined purpose of the business. It is effective with in the work spaces and enhances the performance of the employees by auditing their capabilities and enhances the performance. Awareness and motivation is a collaboration that is a part of the working entity with a shared purpose. It also ensures the aspect of self synchronization that makes all the individuals in the organisation aware about the aspects that are going on with a relevant reflection and engagement. It also includes relevant actions and reciprocity with an effective participation for negotiation and achieving the central theme of the contractual collaborative effort.
Example: Motivating and making the team members aware about the present condition of the organization and ways to work for the company.
    
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    Making the employees realize about their personal goals and aligning them with the goals of the organization.
    
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    Making them aware about the collaborative award of the employees in the organization.
    
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    Recognizing the strength of the employees and directing them towards the purpose of the organization.
    
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    Encourage the risk taking to realize the windfall gains in the organizational outcomes.
3. The scenario for the following questions is that you have met with staff and worked together to clearly set out the processes that are managed by the Human Resource department. You now describe how ongoing consultation and collaboration sessions for managers and employees could be facilitated. You want employees to know their input matters and you want them to continue to contribute to their work roles.
    a. What would you do to ensure that employees interact with management in a collaborative or consultative way
ongoing?
    The collaboration with the employees is one of the critical aspects of the successful business. It is effective to ensure a collaborative practice in the workplace to witness the increase levels of trust and a more engaged workforce with an improved performance. It is effective that the employees must share the company’s vision over and over again to bring the people together under one common goal and what together to make it happen. The employees have a reason to show up each day and get passionate about their work. This ensures the collaborative approach of the workplace practices. It also enhances the communication within the organisation. An enhanced and improved communication without a gap and a proper facilitating of the flow...