Leaders must be able to avoid the temptation to revert to the status quo when no clear best alternative surfaces during the evaluation process. As Peter Drucker et al. (2001) advise, an executive -- or anyone empowered with decision making authority Continue Reading...
The mixture of public and private endeavors and effects that many bureaucracies, especially those related directly or indirectly to various governments, has made this effect even more apparent, to the point that many bureaucracies can be seen as alm Continue Reading...
In this context, the learning curves followed by the collective of entrepreneurs place that collective of entrepreneurs within the still larger setting of the global marketplace. Taylor and Asheim refer to an economic geography that is more than me Continue Reading...
According to Weiss and Kolberg, "In the 1960s, a breakthrough in sharing the assessment results came from the Peace Corps when the psychologists who were working with the volunteers used surveys that were geared to expand the volunteer's self-knowl Continue Reading...
Over the past decade, 'culture' has become a common term used when thinking about and describing an organization's internal world, a way of differentiating one organization's personality from another. In fact, many researchers contend that an organ Continue Reading...
Fifteen questions used to measure willingness to AC were assembled into a questionnaire designed to examine the personality measures and items regarding employee response to various safety issues, adequacy of safety training, and attitudes toward oth Continue Reading...
Organization Development and Change Process Merger and acquisitions refer to the combinations of two or more companies forming a new company. In other words, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are the strategic move of corporate organizations dealin Continue Reading...
Leadership: Decision-Making Biases and Pitfalls Case PaperGlobalization and profuse technological infusion have created complexities in the business environment that have posed a major challenge for business managers. Decision-making has become intri Continue Reading...
Business Law Ethics Ethics in Action Common Characteristics of Poor Decision Making In order to make ethically sound decisions, it is necessary to acquire and secure all the pertinent facts; therefore, one of the most common characteristics of a p Continue Reading...
Team Decision Making -- Pitfalls and Solutions Anyone who has ever been a member of any type of team can likely readily testify concerning the difficulties involved in reaching a consensus on even minor and straightforward issues such as seating arr Continue Reading...
Ethics and Corporate Responsibility in the Workplace PharmaCARE's motto is "We CARE about YOUR health" -- and this assertion should be born out in the firm's actions and not just in its words. To understand the actual impact of the organization's ac Continue Reading...
Custom Woodworks, Inc. Overview of Small Business in America Finding a definition of what is meant by small business can be difficult. Even the small business administration has difficulty agreeing as to what is meant by a small business. Currentl Continue Reading...
students properly prepare for difficult examinations and long papers like theses and dissertations? Students will encounter levels of difficulty in their studies that they may be not used to or unprepared for during their first several years of uni Continue Reading...
" The patients in the study had "previously failed to lose weight in multiple medically supervised attempts, and were given a standardized form with instructions on the amylase-free diet (Jancin, 2001)." There was no exercise program provided, as the Continue Reading...
Internal capital markets refer to the financial resource allocation system that exists within a diversified or multi-divisional firm. Unlike external capital markets, internal capital markets deal with the distribution of resources amongst the variou Continue Reading...
" (Iyengar, 2001) Lastly, the manner of presentation of a news story "significantly affects its ability to set the public agenda." (Behr and Iyengark 1985; Dearing and Rogers, 1996) Concluded is that: "In the current regime, American politics is almo Continue Reading...
Human Resources Managing Organisational Culture The values and behaviors that contribute to the unique social and psychological environment of an organization make up the organizations culture. Organizational culture is the summation total of an or Continue Reading...
The business culture of the United Kingdom is characterized by the value of free economy and private property (Rendtorff, 2009). At another level, it is marked by a desire to manage work and life issues. The employees in British organizations have Continue Reading...
Total Awards Overview- There are a number of approaches to organizational behavior, maximization of groups, innovative working environments, and solution oriented models for business that are adaptive to the needs of the new workforce. Human resourc Continue Reading...
Creating Organizational Value through the Integration of Information Technology: A Management Perspective Change Management and the Construction of a Receptive Organization Transformational and Participative Leadership A Decentralized Organization Continue Reading...
AVON Calls on Foreign Markets Avon believed that having regionalized new product development centers, supply chain operations, marketing and sales divisions would make them more competitive in foreign markets. Ironically the exact opposite happened, Continue Reading...
Project Team PitfallsA project managers job is to ensure that a project is completed on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards. To do this, they must identify and avoid potential pitfalls that could cause the project to fail. One Continue Reading...
66). Furthermore, social software will only increase in importance in helping organizations maintain and manage their domains of knowledge and information. When networks are enabled and flourish, their value to all users and to the organization inc Continue Reading...
Moreover, it is unclear whether Jim has attempted to reestablish any meaningful contact with his children; rather, his entire focus has been on becoming a better person. While there is certainly nothing wrong with that goal in and of itself (it is, Continue Reading...
76). As automation increasingly assumes the more mundane and routine aspects of work of all types, Drucker was visionary in his assessment of how decisions would be made in the years to come. "In the future," said Drucker, "it was possible that all Continue Reading...
Indeed, effective problem solving in these circumstances often requires high levels of creative collaboration (Richards, 2007a, p. 34). In recognition of this reality, employers consistently name the ability to work together creatively as a primary Continue Reading...
Bouncken and Winker (2008) explain that challenges include global innovation teams being confronted with the team members' various national cultures. National cultures, Bouncken and Winker point out (2008), influence the behavior, cognitive models a Continue Reading...
The importance of workforce diversity is broadly appreciated in management and organizational behavior literature (Yang & Konrad, 2011). Nonetheless, reaping the benefits of diversity management may not be as straightforward as often thought. Emp Continue Reading...
other values Moral character, that is, having courage, being persistent, dismissing distractions and so on in pursuit of the goal. These are attempts to define ethics by describing actions, and fairly specific constellations of actions at that. Fr Continue Reading...
Conflict management and conflict resolution are integral parts of any given organization. The antecedents for conflict vary in nature, yet three desired outcomes can be defined. There are many reasons as to why conflict can arise within an organizati Continue Reading...
Western Religion In his book, "Western Ways of Being Religious," (Kessler, 1999) the author Gary E. Kessler identifies the theological, philosophical and societal ramifications of the evolution of religion in the West. Christianity, Judaism and Isla Continue Reading...
Although a regular Dimmeys shopper, he doubted that his purchasing habits would change, particularly since he did not know the price point at which the new cookware would be offered. He also questioned the value of having house brands, hinting that Continue Reading...
Pharmaceutical industries have to operate in an environment that is highly competitive and subject to a wide variety of internal and external constraints. In recent times, there has been an increasing trend to reduce the cost of operation while compe Continue Reading...
Marriage is a social institution with strong political overtones. The institution has created and enforced gender norms throughout every human society in all historical eras. Therefore, one of the reasons marriage works is because it is often strictl Continue Reading...
Autism is a developmental disorder as it is marked with pervasive and severe impairment revolving around areas of development such as communication, imagination, reciprocal interaction and behavior. The diagnostic criteria for autism as incorporated Continue Reading...
During this penultimate period of violence under Rojas, the violence that wracked Colombia assumed a number of different characteristics that included an economic quality as well as a political one with numerous assassinations taking place. These w Continue Reading...
g. politicians, movie and rock stars, etc.). Indeed, the combination of social networking sites and an abundance of cellular services and phones has even changed the socio-political landscape in countries that do not have an open or democratic regime Continue Reading...
Diversity of Aging Population -- Innovative Healthcare Over the past several decades there has been an avalanche of research and scholarly narratives focusing on the aging of millions of Americans -- among them the "baby boomers" that were born betw Continue Reading...
That the resulting product might have been all left shoes and no right shoes would have seemed inconsequential, just as long as lots of glue had been used up. De Pree suggested that the old Soviets needed to take a broader view of input measurement. Continue Reading...
Multicultural therapies like ethnic family therapy recognize the multiple worldviews and diversity of values among clientele. Moreover, multicultural therapies avoid problems associated with decontextualization and the ignorance of politics and power Continue Reading...
