...To whom should you delegate? Delegation is the assigning of authority to others to carry out tasks, functions and decisions with the set goals of an organization. Delegation of authority is important to an organization in that managers are able to focus on direct or specific goals of the organization. In any organization today, big or small, the work assigned to managers to accomplish in a given time might be too much. The organization main goal is to be productive and efficient in producing goods and services. In order for production to be at it maximum, manager cannot do all work assigned to them, thus delegation of task is passed to sub ordinates within the organization. The sub ordinates and managers are all striving for a common goal within the organization. In many organizations managers do not have to do all of the work the company assigned to them, there will be many employees that are knowledgeable and capable of completing the task effectively. In delegating task to sub ordinates managers have to consider the following. Who do managers delegate the task too? Many managers are afraid to delegate responsibilities to sub ordinates due to the fact that they think sub ordinates will not get the work done right. Managers can spot effective sub ordinate, based on their interest in the organization and their capability to do a great job. The individual that is chosen should be a respectful person that shows commands and deserve the respect of others. The individual chosen...
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...GOOD 3 = POOR Evaluators Name: Date: Group Member #1 1. Did this group member complete his/her assigned tasks for the group?.............. Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No 2. Participated in group discussions or meetings…………………………………………………… 3. Helped keep the group focused on the task………………………………………………………. 4. Contributed useful ideas……………………………………………………….…………………………… 5. Quantity of work done……………………………………………………….……………………………… 6. Quality of work done……………………………………………………….………………………………… 7. Would you want to work with this person again?................................................... Group Member #2 1. Did this group member complete his/her assigned tasks for the group?.............. 2. Participated in group discussions or meetings…………………………………………………… 3. Helped keep the group focused on the task………………………………………………………. 4. Contributed useful ideas……………………………………………………….…………………………… 5. Quantity of work done……………………………………………………….……………………………… 6. Quality of work done……………………………………………………….………………………………… 7. Would you want to work with this person again?................................................... Group Member #3 1. Did this group member complete his/her assigned tasks for the group?.............. 2. Participated in group discussions or meetings…………………………………………………… 3. Helped keep the group focused on the task………………………………………………………. 4. Contributed useful ideas……………………………………………………….…………………………… 5. Quantity of work...
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...GOOD 3 = POOR Evaluators Name: Date: Group Member #1 1. Did this group member complete his/her assigned tasks for the group?.............. Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No 2. Participated in group discussions or meetings…………………………………………………… 3. Helped keep the group focused on the task………………………………………………………. 4. Contributed useful ideas……………………………………………………….…………………………… 5. Quantity of work done……………………………………………………….……………………………… 6. Quality of work done……………………………………………………….………………………………… 7. Would you want to work with this person again?................................................... Group Member #2 1. Did this group member complete his/her assigned tasks for the group?.............. 2. Participated in group discussions or meetings…………………………………………………… 3. Helped keep the group focused on the task………………………………………………………. 4. Contributed useful ideas……………………………………………………….…………………………… 5. Quantity of work done……………………………………………………….……………………………… 6. Quality of work done……………………………………………………….………………………………… 7. Would you want to work with this person again?................................................... Group Member #3 1. Did this group member complete his/her assigned tasks for the group?.............. 2. Participated in group discussions or meetings…………………………………………………… 3. Helped keep the group focused on the task………………………………………………………. 4. Contributed useful ideas……………………………………………………….…………………………… 5. Quantity of work...
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...individuals remain focused on an assigned role. Introduction 1. Definition of the no late work accepted policy 2. Applications of the policy Body 1. Primary intention of the No Late Work Accepted Policy 2. Situations when the No Late Work Accepted Policy may not be applicable 3. Advantages and disadvantages of the No Late Work Accepted Policy Conclusion 1. Current status of the No Late Work Accepted Policy in organizations No Late Work Accepted Policy ‘No Late Work Accepted Policy’ is a plan of action adopted by an institution or an individual in order to make firm the manner in which individuals manage their roles (Jha 22). The major aim of the policy is to ensure that individuals complete a task assigned within a given deadline. The policy has many merits. Primarily, it ensures that an individual keeps time. Thus, time management forms an essential ingredient of the No Late Work Accepted Policy and is particularly crucial in managing an individual’s career, and the improving an individual’s life (Jha 24). The No Late Work Accepted Policy seeks to ensure that individuals remain focused on an assigned role. The primary intention of the No Late Work Accepted Policy is to prohibit individuals from misusing the leniency previously accorded to submission of assigned tasks. Many people treat late tasks as an exceptional occurrence, as a result, many people have developed the habit of procrastination until the assigned task is overdue and the consequences...
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...units without hindering currently scheduled training events. 2. RECOMMENDATION. Course of Action 3. Inactive Duty Training (IDT). Excess equipment will be turned-in utilizing Soldiers from the assigned to the unit, during the scheduled IDT period. The unit will make changes to the current training plan to incorporate completion of the mission and assigned training. 3. BACKGROUND. The Massachusetts Army National Guard has prioritized units that need to have all equipment shortages filled over the next 45 days. To accomplish this, units with changes to the assigned Modified...
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...Campbell for Professor David Gebhardt My position pays what? How does my job rank among other jobs in the area? Responsibilities which encompass a job determines compensation, from which, a company will pay an employee’s for their time, skills or services used to complete assigned work. Job evaluation consists of factors which describe the responsibilities required of a particular job and the value the company has assigned to factors the employee accomplishes. As an employer and an employee understanding the factors associated with job evaluation are important to determine if the responsibilities and pay are associated with services provided are fair. For simplicity we will use the following factors to compare two evaluation methods: skill, effort, responsibility and working condition. (U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 2010). The way a company choses their pay scales vary; however we will compare the Hay Method and the Factor Evaluation System. Job evaluation encompasses numerous areas of a job and the skills factor is a starting point for a company to determine importance of skills possessed by the employee. Skills refer to required abilities to accomplish assigned tasks. Skills are “measured by factors such as the experience, ability, education, and training required to perform a job.” (U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 2010). Skills required can vary from heart surgery to mopping the floor to reprogramming a computer and are determined...
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...decision rights in firms has received considerable attention from different streams of economists and strategy scholars over the last couple of decades. The information processing stream ( see Radner & Marschak, 1972; Harris & Raviv, 2002; Sah & Stiglitz, 1986) contends that hierarchical organizations that centralize the decision-making function can suffer from organizational failures, consisting in leaks that arise in transmitting information from the top to the bottom of the hierarchy and vice versa. Benefits of delegation than arise because of inefficiencies in intra-firm communication (Keren, Levhari, & Kerent, 1979) implementation delays (Radner, 1993), fully exploitation of economies arising from local capabilities and specialization tasks (Bolton & Dewatripont, 1994) and high opportunity costs of highrank managers (Harris & Raviv, 2002). Conversely to the information processing stream, which emphasizes the costs of information processing and transmission, the decentralization of incentives stream (Aghion & Tirole, 1997; Dessein, 2002; Rajan & Zingales, 1998) focuses attention on the incentive costs that arise with decentralized decision-making (Colombo & Delmastro, 2008). Aghion and Tirole (1997)...
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...Objectives - Microsoft 2010 * Create a list of resources * Assign resources to tasks * Enter resource information * Assign costs to resources and tasks * Assign variable resource pay rates and costs rate tables Resources are the people, equipment, and materials necessary to complete a task. MS Project focuses on two aspects of resources: availability and cost. Availability determines when a specific resource can work on a task and how much work they can do and cost refers to how much money will be required to pay for that resource. MS Project works with two types of resources: work resources and material resources. Work resources are the people and equipment that do the work of the project. These can be a single individual, a group of people who have common skills (such as electrician), or equipment (such as a truck or diagnostic tool). Equipment resources need not be portable; they can be fixed, such as a conference room or lab. Material resources are consumables that you use up during the project, such as cabling or bricks. We will be creating our resources and assigning them to tasks. Please follow all instructions carefully! Adding Resources 1. Log onto Windows. 2. Open your completed file MyLab1b_XXX.mpp (or download the MyLab1b_XXX.mpp file from Doc Sharing.) Check the addendum at the end of this lesson to make sure that your beginning file is correct. If it is not, then correct your file as needed or download...
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...Quotes) Business owners, such as the owner of a Chick-fil-A restaurant located in Marlton, NJ, have to be willing to delegate tasks to their employees and trust that the assigned employee is going to complete the tasks adequately so he can be freed up to take care of other things associated with their business and to avoid unnecessary stress. What is Delegation? A Latin term originating sometime between 1605 and 1615, the term “delegation” is the act of giving control, authority, a job, a duty, etc., to another person. There are three basic elements of delegation: the assignment of duties, granting of authority to enable the subordinates to perform the duties assigned, and the creation of obligation on the part of subordinate to perform duties in an orderly manner. The process of delegation involves four steps. The first step is the assignment of duties to subordinates which entails the owner to decide exactly what duties he wants the subordinate to complete. The second step is the transfer of authority to perform the duty which entails giving the subordinate the power to complete the assigned tasks. The third step is the acceptance of the assignment which entails the subordinate agreeing to complete the assigned tasks. The final step is to create obligation which entails the owner making the subordinate responsible for the completion of the assigned duties. Pros of...
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...OPTIMIZING PERFORMANCE OF CLOUD BY LOAD BALANCING (Research Proposal) Literature Review Recent days, cloud computing is an improving area in research and industry, which includes virtualization, distributed computing, internet, and web services. A cloud contains elements such as data centers, clients, distributed servers, internet which includes fault tolerance, high accessibility, efficiency, scalability, flexibility, reduced overhead for users, less cost of ownership, on demand services and etc. The main objectives of cloud are to reduce cost, enhance response time, and provide better performance. There are three types of cloud computing based on the service they provide. 1. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Infrastructure as a service contains the basic building blocks for cloud and typically provide access to networking features, computers and data storage space. 2. Platform as a Service (PaaS) Platforms as a service provides the feature to manage the infrastructure and allow to focus on the deployment and management of applications. 3. Software as a Service (SaaS) Software as a service provides with a completed product that is run and managed by the service provider. Cloud has many benefits all along with some fundamental problems to be resolved in order to improve Performance of cloud environment. These problems are associated with load management, tolerance and different security issues in cloud environment. Load balancing Load balancing is an important...
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...LAB 1 EXPLORING THE WINDOWS SERVER 2008 INTERFACE THIS LAB CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES: |PROJECT 1.1 |Modifying Basic Server Settings | |Project 1.2 |Configuring TCP/IP Settings | |Project 1.3 |Configuring a Second Windows Server 2008 Computer (optional) | |Project 1.4 |Configuring a Windows Server 2008 Server Core Computer (optional) | |Lab Review Questions | | |Lab Challenge 1.1 |Verifying Active Directory SRV Records | Before You Begin Lab 1 assumes that setup has been completed as specified in the setup document and that your computer has connectivity to other lab computers and the Internet. To perform all projects in Lab 1, you will need: • Two (2) full installations of Windows Server 2008 • One (1) Server Core installation of Windows Server 2008 For subsequent labs, optional projects are provided that involve a second server running the full GUI version of Windows Server 2008 to be configured as a Read-Only Domain Controller and a third...
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...LAB 1 EXPLORING THE WINDOWS SERVER 2008 INTERFACE THIS LAB CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES: |PROJECT 1.1 |Modifying Basic Server Settings | |Project 1.2 |Configuring TCP/IP Settings | |Project 1.3 |Configuring a Second Windows Server 2008 Computer (optional) | |Project 1.4 |Configuring a Windows Server 2008 Server Core Computer (optional) | |Lab Review Questions | | |Lab Challenge 1.1 |Verifying Active Directory SRV Records | Before You Begin Lab 1 assumes that setup has been completed as specified in the setup document and that your computer has connectivity to other lab computers and the Internet. To perform all projects in Lab 1, you will need: • Two (2) full installations of Windows Server 2008 • One (1) Server Core installation of Windows Server 2008 For subsequent labs, optional projects are provided that involve a second server running the full GUI version of Windows Server 2008 to be configured as a Read-Only Domain Controller and a third...
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...Laboratory Exercise No 1 | Introduction to Application Domain Modelling | | 1. Objective(s): | The activity aims to develop their design and concept skills using application domain model using: * information input and formatting * effective layout using different tools available in Adobe Photoshop | 2. Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs): | The students shall be able to: * Examine Adobe Photoshop and manipulate colour schemes. 2.2 Insert and manipulate shapes and graphics | 3. Discussion: | There are different types of application domain models and can be distinguished according to the objective of the model. There are many types of projects that doesn’t have any particular requirement, the used of a good user interface will bridge between man and machine. It is a translator that both the user and the computer can understand. The extreme differences in the way people think and the way computers operate dictate the need for well-designed user interfaces. Productivity is often proportional to the quality of the user interface and time is wasted when communication deteriorates.Sections of Application DomainBiologyBookmarksBusiness/StocksComputer SystemsDemographicsGeographicsGovernment/PoliticsKnowledge NetworksNewsRepresentationsSocial NetworksTransportation NetworksWorld Wide Web. | 4. Resources: | Adobe Photoshop Software CS5 | 5. Procedure: | Explore and use the basic functionality /features of Photoshop in relation to graphics...
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...automatically; tips on those actions are included in this guideline as well. | |Our thanks to Management Strategies Inc. for contributing Section 2, detailed guidelines for how to use MS Project’s resource leveling | |features. | |Why It’s Useful | |The ability to get the project done in the desired timeframe is obviously tied to the true availability of the resources to work for the | |expected amount of time on each assigned task at the scheduled times. First pass scheduling work very often produces...
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...students are assigned during their education at Ghent University virtually none of them use project management tools to plan, execute and control their group assignments. The following question arises: is this due to the fact that few students are familiar with these kinds of tools or are there other reasons why they are not widely used among students. In this case part of the answer more or less resides within the question. It is a fact that these tools are anything but well known among students, only students who took a project management course of some sort are acquainted with these types of tools. Now the question still remains why are they not used by students that are accustomed to them. This is perhaps due to the fact that from a student point of view these tools have certain drawbacks. The most important drawback is most likely the cost. Most of these tools are free only for a limited trial period, often even with limited features. After this period users have to pay a fee to continue to use the tool, this constitutes an obstacle for student users. It is on this level that the project management tools cannot compete with the free application that is most commonly used among students to communicate, share documents… when executing a group work namely facebook. Yet the cost does not constitute the only drawback, there are several others. At first there is the fact that, contrary to our example case, most of the time students do not receive an overview of all tasks that must...
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