... Home Page » Business and Management The Global Integration of Diversity Management: a Longitudinal Case Study In: Business and Management The Global Integration of Diversity Management: a Longitudinal Case Study Int. J. of Human Resource Management 18:11 November 2007 1895– 1916 The global integration of diversity management: a longitudinal case study Aulikki Sippola and Adam Smale Abstract Whilst the extant diversity management literature has provided a comprehensive array of theoretical frameworks and empirical studies on how organizations can and have approached the management of a diverse workforce, the same cannot be said about the literature on diversity in an international setting. Indeed, from a diversity management perspective we know surprisingly little about how multinational firms are responding to the increasing globalization of their workforce. This study seeks to contribute to this underresearched area through an in-depth longitudinal case study of TRANSCO, a well-known European MNC, which has been attempting to integrate diversity management globally throughout its worldwide operations. Adopting a Finnish host-country perspective, the study investigates what TRANSCO has been integrating, how it has tried to facilitate this and the challenges that have arisen throughout the process. The results indicate that TRANSCO has committed a considerable amount of resources to the global diversity management integration process, reflected...
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...J. of Human Resource Management 18:11 November 2007 1895– 1916 The global integration of diversity management: a longitudinal case study Aulikki Sippola and Adam Smale Abstract Whilst the extant diversity management literature has provided a comprehensive array of theoretical frameworks and empirical studies on how organizations can and have approached the management of a diverse workforce, the same cannot be said about the literature on diversity in an international setting. Indeed, from a diversity management perspective we know surprisingly little about how multinational firms are responding to the increasing globalization of their workforce. This study seeks to contribute to this underresearched area through an in-depth longitudinal case study of TRANSCO, a well-known European MNC, which has been attempting to integrate diversity management globally throughout its worldwide operations. Adopting a Finnish host-country perspective, the study investigates what TRANSCO has been integrating, how it has tried to facilitate this and the challenges that have arisen throughout the process. The results indicate that TRANSCO has committed a considerable amount of resources to the global diversity management integration process, reflected in the myriad of integration mechanisms utilized. In terms of their integration strategy, it was evident that TRANSCO was able to achieve global consistency at the level of diversity philosophy, but was forced to rely on a more multi-domestic approach...
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...India Power Sector Reforms Update ____________________________________________________________ __________________________ India Power Sector Reforms Update Issue IV August 2002 (Updates in the period: June 2002 to August 2002) India power sector reforms update is a joint initiative of Prayas, an Indian NGO based in Pune, working on power sector issues for a decade and Public Services International (PSI) which is an international trade union federation, uniting public sector workers in more than 500 trade unions in over 140 countries. Our aim is to monitor the power sector developments in three Indian states of Orissa, Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. This is the fourth issue of the update covering three months period from June 2002 to August 2002. First issue was a detailed historical overview covering up to October 2001; second update covered the period from October 2001 to January 2002 while the third update covered February 2002 to May 2002. For better understanding it would be desirable if readers also read the earlier updates. Please direct your suggestions and comments to PSI at psiru@psiru.org. Contents Part I: Overview of the Indian Power Sector Part II: Orissa 1. 2. 3. 4. State Overview Regulatory Intervention Private Sector Generation Private Sector Distribution Part III: Andhra Pradesh 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. State Overview Regulatory Intervention State and Central Utilities Private sector Generation Employees and CSIs Part IV: Uttar Pradesh 1. State...
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...Part C: Case study of connection process at Abu Dhabi Distribution Company Abstract The construction projects and the demand on vital projects for water and power connections were increasing rapidly from the year 2008 until today’s date. Moreover, the whole world have face the global economic recession and it has affected a lot of companies and even some countries and put them on the verge of declaring bankruptcy. After that, the recovery of a lot of those who got their projects crippled due to the recession was almost done, and they got on the right track again. In order to start making use of their investments, they require getting their projects delivered to start benefiting from it as soon as possible. That being said, any delay in the process of delivering the power and water connections will relentlessly affect the reputation of the company provides it as well as will lead to unhappy customers. This is one of the reasons why Six-Sigma is becoming a part of the companies’ culture. Six-Sigma implementation would help us by statistical methods to measure the process in of a company’s procedure. Moreover, several additional points can be scored when we apply this framework such as the employees’ empowerment, leadership involvement and the satisfaction of the customers. This research attempts to study six sigma aspects in Abu Dhabi Distribution Company (ADDC) to improve the process of power connection procedures by using quality tools like Pareto chart, Control chart...
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...copyright holders. Copies are available from the authors. Innovation through Global Collaboration: A New Source of Competitive Advantage Date: August 14th 2007 Alan MacCormack* Harvard Business School, Soldiers Field, Boston, MA 02163 Theodore Forbath, Peter Brooks, Patrick Kalaher Wipro Technologies 75 Federal Street, Boston, MA 02110 * Corresponding Author Abstract Many recent studies highlight the need to rethink the way we manage innovation. Traditional approaches, based on the assumption that the creation and pursuit of new ideas is best accomplished by a centralized and collocated R&D team, are rapidly becoming outdated. Instead, innovations are increasingly brought to the market by networks of firms, selected for their unique capabilities, and operating in a coordinated manner. This new model demands that firms develop different skills, in particular, the ability to collaborate with partners to achieve superior innovation performance. Yet despite this need, there is little guidance on how to develop or deploy this ability. This article describes the results of a study to understand the strategies and practices used by firms that achieve greater success in...
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...Scope and Impact of Workplace Diversity in the United Arab Emirates – An Initial Study Badreya Al-Jenaibi (United Arab Emirates) 1,* 1 Department of Mass Communication, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates, P.O Box 15551 E-Mails: E-mail: aljenaibi@uaeu.ac.ae * Department of Mass Communication, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates, P.O Box 15551; Fax: +00971-37671706 Received: May 2011 / Accepted: Jun. 2011 / In Press: Jun. 2011 /Published: Jul. 2011 Abstract: Workplace diversity and multicultural teams have become a priority concern among organizations in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) today. The UAE has one of the world's largest net migration rates, and the number of workers from India, the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, the USA, among other countries, has increased significantly in recent decades (Burns, 2005). The UAE's cross border mobility has resulted in the interaction of people with diverse customs and diverse ethnic backgrounds. From a human resources perspective, diversity has been shown to have a number of benefits, including enhanced employee creativity and competence. Organizations that fail to employ people from different cultural and racial backgrounds detract from overall organizational performance. This study critically analyzes the benefits and challenges organizations face in the diverse workplaces of the United Arab Emirates. The study used a multimethod approach combining survey data from 250 surveys with qualitative...
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...HUMAN RESOURCES STRATEGIES – RESOURCING STRATEGY Marinaş Cristian Puia Ramona Ştefania Academia de Studii Economice Bucureşti, PiaŃa Romană nr.6, Sector 1, Bucureşti, +4021 319 19 00, Ramona.puia@man.ase.ro In this article the authors make an abstract of the main human resources strategies, presenting them in relation with the global strategy of the organisation. The accent falls on resourcing strategy, one of the main sources of competitive advantage. Resourcing strategy is not just about recruitment and selection. It is concerned with any means available to meet the needs of the firm for certain skills and behaviours. A strategy to enlarge the skill base may start with recruitment and selection but would also extend into learning and development programmes to enhance skills and methods of rewarding people for the aquisition of extra skills. These statements want to emphasise the strong links between different human resource strategies. Key words: strategic management, human resources, resoucing strategy, skills. The last years’ research proved that the main priority of organisation strategy and strategic management is to secure a long-term future of the company. It is certain that such a purpose you can not achieve by practicing a bad human resource management and not take into consideration the strategic role of human resources. The human factors are critical when implementing a different organisational strategy, as people are usually change resistant. The performance of...
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...Privatization, Regulation and Competition in South Asia T. N. Srinivasan* 1. Introduction It is a great honor to be invited to deliver the Mahbub Ul Haq Memorial Lecture. Mahbub finished his graduate studies in economics and left Yale in 1956, a year before I began my own graduate studies there. He had set an exemplary record that those of us from South Asia who followed him at Yale, such as Bashir Karamali, Parvez Hasan, Syed Nawab Hyder Naqvi, Syed Naseem, and myself included, could only envy. In the late seventies, I interacted with Mahbub at the World Bank, where I spent three years at the Development Research Center. I still recall our discussions at the Bank about the Basic Needs Approach to economic development. As the Special Adviser to the UNDP Administrator, he pioneered the concept of Human Development and developed the Human Development Index (HDI). We resumed our discussions, this time on the conceptual and measurement issues related to HDI. Our debates were always friendly, and even though we strongly differed on development strategies, we were united in our belief that eradication of abject poverty and enabling each individual to achieve a fuller and richer life according to his or her own lights have to be the overarching objectives of any development strategy. The world of economics, and we in South Asia, lost a beacon of light, and a source of fresh ideas and innovations, when he was snatched away from us. Let me take this opportunity to pay tribute to his wife...
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...presentations talk of a ``revolution in Notes that outsourcing is just one outsourcing''. The academic literature on the of the means by which the subject has grown in kind. boundary of the firm can be What is often lost in the hype surrounding adjusted. Considers various other means such as conglomeration the concept, however, is that outsourcing is and horizontal and vertical just one way in which the boundary of the integration. Focuses on firm can be adjusted in response to changing outsourcing and its place in this economic pressures. Indeed, any history of bigger picture and discusses the history of outsourcing. Outlines the concept should recognise this, as the concerns for managers and gives recent trends in its favour have very much case examples from Rank Zerox been set in the context of a general movement and BP. towards more ``focused'' business strategies. This article investigating the development of outsourcing is in three main sections. First, it sets outsourcing in the wider context of the boundary of the firm issue. Second, it then proceeds to discuss the history of outsourcing, and its place in this wider context. Finally, it concludes by outlining some of the concerns managers are increasingly expressing about the way in which outsourcing is being used by firms and public sector bodies. Keywords Outsourcing, Organizational structure, Organizational change, Work organization A firm's very existence is the result of a manager's (often implicit) decision that...
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...Hämäläinen and Esa Saarinen, eds. 2007. Systems Intelligence in Leadership and Everyday Life. Systems Analysis Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo. CHAPTER 11 Reasons of Systemic Collapse in Enron Matti Rantanen This article studies the moral development at Enron from the perspective of its long-term CEO and chairman Ken Lay. I focus on some critical decisions in the early years of Enron and speculate why Lay chose in favour of non-systems intelligent solutions in leading morale. According to the outlook developed it is plausible to think that immoral behaviour at Enron stemmed not so much from Lay’s immoral character but from his Christian values. Neglecting opportunities to change his value structure Lay avoided tough decisions that marked loss for others. Consequently, unable to make decisions objectively based on systemic rather than individual motives, he lost his opportunity in creating coherent corporate values promoting moral integrity. If the suggested causality is true, it underlines the importance of conscious moral leadership as an everyday discipline. Introduction This article discusses the story of Enron, the infamous American energy company that December 2, 2001 filed the largest bankruptcy case in US history, totalling losses around 66 billion US dollars,1 forcing 4,000 unemployed,2 and bringing down Arthur Andersen, 3 its auditing company. For many of the “bad” and publicly convicted Enron executives it has been the worst nightmare come...
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...United Kingdom The impact on employment in EU-25 of the opening of electricity and gas markets, and of key EU directives in the field of energy Case study country report - UNITED KINGDOM and Centrica C3126 / March 2007 ECOTEC Research & Consulting Pat Irving and Anne-Mari Nevala Priestley House 12-26 Albert Street Birmingham B4 7UD United Kingdom T +44 (0)121 616 3600 F +44 (0)121 616 3699 www.ecotec.com This report is available in English only. It was financed and prepared for the use of the European Commission, Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities. Its content reflects the opinions of its authors only and does not necessarily represent the official position of the European Commission. Contents 1.0 2.0 2.1 2.1.1 2.1.2 2.1.3 2.1.4 2.2 2.2.1 2.2.2 2.2.3 2.2.4 2.2.5 2.2.6 2.2.7 2.2.8 PAGE INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................... 3 KEY ENERGY MARKET FACTS............................................................. 4 Status and impact of gas market liberalisation .......................................................4 Market structure ...........................................................................................................5 Gas supply and demand ..............................................................................................6 Gas prices .........................................................................................
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...Assignment on Nescafe Course: MGT 480 Section: 5 Submitted To: Leo V Dewri Lecturer, Department of Business Administration East West University Submitted By: Date of Submission: 26.08.2013 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 25 August, 2013 LeoV Dewri Senior Lecturer Dept, of Business Administration East West University. Dhaka-1212 Subject: Submission of the Nescafe Tram paper Dear Sir, I am very pleased to submit my Tram paper on Nescafe. After finishing this research, we think that we had gathered some knowledge about the main point of view regarding this work. This research report helped us to extent our knowledge and may help us in future. Thank you very much for giving us such kind of opportunity to enrich our knowledge. We would like to thank you for your valuable guidance in every problem we found and the precious time that you gave us. We hope our work will come up to the level of your expectations. We will be available for any further clarification if required. Best Regards Sincerely yours, ------------------------------------------------- Aparna Biswas ID:2009-2-10-209 Md. Shahinur Hossain Chowdhury ID: 2009-2-10-054 Department of Business Administration ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Writing this tram paper has been very effective, Instructive and sometimes hard. Many hours have been spent during this semester working on this research and therefore it...
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...Solutions for the Biltrite Bicycles Inc. Case Module I - Assessment of Inherent Risk..............................................................3 Module II – PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF CONTROL RISK BASED ON AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE DESIGN OF CONTROLS ................17 Module III - Control Testing: Sales Processing................................................29 Module IV - PPS Sampling: Factory Equipment Additions............................31 Module V - Accounts Receivable Aging Analysis..............................................35 Module VI - Sales and Purchases Cutoff Tests..................................................42 Module VII - Search for Unrecorded Liabilities...............................................47 Module VIII - Dallas Dollar Bank Reconciliation.............................................49 Module IX- Analysis of Interbank Transfers....................................................52 Module X - Analysis of Marketable Securities..................................................54 Module XI - Plant Asset Additions and Disposals.............................................57 Module XII - Estimated Liability for Product Warranty.................................61 Module XIII - Mortgage Note Payable and Note Payable to Bank Two.........63 Module XIV - Working Trial Balance................................................................66 Module XV - Audit Report..................................................................................80 ...
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...Introduction Currently, the share of railways in carrying this load is around 70 per cent, followed by 25 per cent for pipelines and 5 per cent for roads. Railways and roads are inefficient modes of carrying petroleum products because they consume significantly more energy (320 BTU for railways and 1700 BTU for roads to move one tonne of petroleum products over one km) than pipelines for which the comparable figure is only 50-135 BTU. Clearly, pipeline transportation is the most efficient way of moving petroleum products and gases and, hence, is the preferred mode all over the world. In developed countries like the USA and the UK, almost all long distance transportation of petroleum products and gas takes place through pipelines. India is far behind these countries in realizing the full potential of pipelines because it does not have a well-developed pipeline network. A rapid development of pipelines, therefore, is essential to ensure that the share of this mode in the transportation of petroleum products and natural gas reaches the desired level. It is estimated that around Rs 30,000 crore are likely to be invested over the next 10-12 years in setting up pipeline networks for liquid petroleum products The efficient and effective movement of natural gas from producing regions to consumption regions requires an extensive and elaborate transportation system. In many instances, natural gas produced from a particular well will have to travel a great distance to reach its point...
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...RESPONSIBILITY A ROLE IN GOVERNMENT POLICY AND REGULATION? Constantina Bichta The University of Bath School of Management is one of the oldest established management schools in Britain. It enjoys an international reputation for the quality of its teaching and research. Its mission is to offer a balanced portfolio of undergraduate, postgraduate and post-experience programmes, research and external activities, which provide a quality of intellectual life for those involved in keeping with the best traditions of British universities. CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY A ROLE IN GOVERNMENT POLICY AND REGULATION? Constantina Bichta Desktop published by Jan Marchant © The University of Bath ISBN All rights reserved Centre for the study of Regulated Industries (CRI) The CRI is a research centre of the University of Bath School of Management. The CRI was founded in 1991 as part of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA). It transferred to the University of Bath School of Management in 1998. It is situated on the 8th floor of Wessex House (North), adjacent to West car park. The CRI is an interdisciplinary research centre investigating how regulation and competition are working in practice, both in the UK and abroad. It is independent and politically neutral. It aims to produce authoritative, practical contributions to regulatory policy and debate, which are put into the public domain. The CRI focuses on comparative analyses across the regulated...
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