Chapter 1 - Organizational Behaviour Theory X & Y (9‚ McGregor‚ 1960) X - dislike work‚ require close supervision‚ interest in security |Y - self-directed‚ seek responsibility‚ creative Human V.S. Social Capital (13‚ Fig 1-2) Human - productive potential of knowledge & actions Social - productive potential of relationships‚ goodwill‚ trust and cooperative effort. Wilson’s Skills Profile of Effective Managers (16‚ Shipper‚ 1995) Clarifies goals & objectives |Encourage participation |Plans
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ALVIN TOFFLER Alvin Toffler literally invented the role of the futurist with the publication of his seminal work‚ Future Shock‚ creating an all new discipline around the study of change and its impact on business and culture. Throughout his long career‚ Alvin Toffler has remained one of the world’s most prescient‚ insightful and influential voices in business and intellectual life. He has continued to produce creative ideas that define how we think about our world. Time magazine wrote that he has
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The Fall and Rise of Strategic Planning by Henry Mintzberg Harvard Business Review Reprint 94107 HarvardBusinessReview JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1994 Reprint Number ROBERT H. HAYES AND GARY P. PISANO BEYOND WORLD CLASS: THE NEW MANUFACTURING STRATEGY 94104 NANCY A. NICHOLS SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT AT MERCK: AN INTERVIEW WITH CFO JUDY LEWENT 94106 REBECCA HENDERSON MANAGING INNOVATION IN THE INFORMATION AGE 94105 HENRY MINTZBERG THE FALL AND RISE OF STRATEGIC PLANNING
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School of Management and Economics Business Administration (FE3101/IB3101) FE3101:1/IB3101:1 Basic Organization Theories Module Paper – Fall 2009 Structural Perspective: British Airways André Costa Choi Sin Man Jiyun Baek 0 1 – Introduction In different working fields‚ companies face the pressure of globalization‚ and they must find new ways to overcome this challenge. The following example‚ introduces the case of British Airways‚ which needs to deal with the globalization issue trying to
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Some management and organisational theories you could possibly use in a dissertation (and in practise). There are a number of theories and a mass of contradictory information about how firms should improve investment in funds‚ improve quality of the product or the organisation‚ improve its marketing‚ how to align the quality system with strategic objectives set‚ how to motivate workers and managers. Successful firms deal with it from the contingency perspective: choosing the approach that makes
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PROF. DR. OLAF PASSENHEIM CHANGE MANAGEMENT Prof. Dr. Olaf Passenheim Change Management Change Management © 2010 Prof. Dr. Olaf Passenheim & Ventus Publishing ApS ISBN 978-87-7681-705-3 To Till Jakob and Jan Malte Contents 1. 1.1 1.2 1.3 2. 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 3. 3.1 3.2 3.2.1 3.2.2 3.2.3 3.2.4 4. 4.1 Change Management Introduction Reasons for Change Origins of Change Management Concepts of Change Management Lewin´s Change Theory Chin & Benne´s “Effecting Changes in Human System”
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Cornell University ILR School DigitalCommons@ILR CAHRS Working Paper Series Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS) 10-14-1993 Human Resources as a Source of Competitive Advantage Lee Dyer Cornell University Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cahrswp This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS) at DigitalCommons@ILR. It has been accepted for inclusion in CAHRS Working
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ST. PAUL’S UNIVERSITY HRM ASSIGNMENTS QUESTIONS 1. Explain the meaning of the term “Management” There are several definitions among them; Management is a set of activities directed at the efficient and effective utilization of resources in order to achieve organizational objectives. Management focuses on the entire organization from both a short and a long-term perspective. Management is the managerial process of forming a strategic vision‚ setting objectives‚ crafting a strategy and them
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Peter Michael Senge (born 1947) is an American systems scientist who is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management‚ co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute‚ and the founder of the Society for Organizational Learning. He is known as author of the book The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization from 1990 (new edition 2006). Peter Senge was born in Stanford‚ California. He received a B.S. in Aerospace engineeringfrom Stanford University. While
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Chapter 2 Global E-business and Collaboration VIDEO CASES Case 1: Walmart’s Retail Link Supply Chain Case 2: Salesforce.com: The Emerging Social Enterprise Case 3: How FedEx Works: Inside the Memphis Hub Instructional Video 1: US Foodservice Grows Market with Oracle CRM on Demand Management Information Systems Chapter 2: Global E-business and Collaboration Learning Objectives • Define and describe business processes and their relationship to information systems. • Evaluate the
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