ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR ORGB 3201-05: Spring 2014 Instructor: Marla Baskerville Watkins Class Schedule: Tuesdays and Fridays(3:25-5:05) Dodge 140 Office: College of Business‚ 112 Hayden Hall‚Management and Organizational Development Office Hours: Office Hours: Tuesdays (11-1) E-Mail: m.baskerville@neu.edu REQUIRED READINGS You will be required to read a textbook‚ academic articles‚ news articles‚ and cases that can be retrieved from your coursepacket‚ the internet‚ and Blackboard
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The Challenge of Organizational Communication video… What does it all mean? It means that in recent years the world has been changing faster than ever before and becoming more complex than anyone could ever imagine. Katherine Miller points out 4 aspects of these changes that were barely on the radar 20 years ago‚ but today dominate much of our thinking. The first one is globalization. It has become a truism to say that we live in a global economy and participate in a global market. The emerge
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Outsourcing and offshoring Then I’d like to talk about offshoring. Offshoring is a type of outsourcing. Offshoring simply means having the outsourced business functions done in another country. Frequently‚ work is offshored in order to reduce labor expenses. Other times‚ the reasons for offshoring are strategic -- to enter new markets‚ to tap talent currently unavailable domestically or to overcome regulations that prevent specific activities domestically. The term is in use in several distinct
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markets and production. The world is moving away from a structure of national market divided by barriers‚ distance and cultures. Evidences of this shifting to a completely free trade market can be seen in the last decades history. Starting from the 1950’s the world economy has faced an important increase of the international trade. According to Bottini‚ Erns and Lubecker (2005)‚ the fall of transportation costs has pushed the trade in finished goods and the different countries have specialized in the
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Outsourcing and Offshoring Mr. Cronkite Offshoring is a kind of outsourcing. Offshoring merely means having the outsourced business functions done in another country. Frequently‚ work is offshored in order to reduce labor expenses. Other times‚ the reasons for offshoring are strategic to enter new markets‚ to tap talent currently unavailable domestically or to overcome regulations that prevent specific activities domestically. The term is in use in several distinct but closely related ways
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Offshoring at EDC BACKGROUND Education Development Center is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1958 to match up academic‚ business and technical expertise for projects to improve science and mathematics curricula for U.S. and foreign governments‚ private foundations‚ universities‚ and corporations. Today their self proclaimed mission is to “design‚ deliver and evaluate innovative programs to address some of the world’s most urgent challenges in education‚ health‚ and economic opportunity
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Consider the case: “Job satisfaction at Omega Technical Services Ltd” by D. Adam-Smith and L. Littlewood. In Adam-Smith‚ D. and Peacock‚ A. (Eds)‚ Cases in organisational behaviour (pp. 151-162). London: Pitman and Prepare a report that addresses (i.e.‚ explains) the situation in the case (i.e.‚ high job turnover among professional staff) taking the perspective of work motivation and employee attitudes. Word count: 3000 Module: Organizational Behavior Introduction to Omega Technical Services
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IntroductionCompanies of the United States are becoming more and more comfortable with off shoring jobs to other countries‚ especially India. Offshoring is relocating all or most of the work labor of a business to a foreign country. The primary reason for businesses to locate jobs offshore is because operating and resource costs are lower. This results in increased profitability. Companies are able to do this because workers from other foreign countries are able to perform the task needed but
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In a narrative format‚ discuss the key facts and critical issues presented in the case. In this case study‚ the regional claims manager‚ Christine Brooks‚ is tasked with reorganizing the Westchester zone in order to consolidate 4 offices into one office by the end of the year. She anticipates challenges because of this change and has a plan to work with the managers to make the transition as smooth as possible. There is background provided on the insurance industry’s history over the past years
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Case Study of Organizational Decline - RW Introduction This report is based on a case study of a large company with poor financial performance during the last few years and facing the falling of sales and profits and rising of employee turnover at the moment. The continuously worsening situation of sales and profits and employee turnover evidence the company is undergoing the organizational decline stage within the organizational life cycle. The layoff and hiring replacement of a top level
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