...|Strength |Weakness | |One of the world's strongest brand names. |Cost of environmental hazards. | |Diverse and huge operations. |Legal issues. | |PETRONAS has grown to be an integrated international oil and gas |Employment scam. | |company with business interests in 50 countries. |Rising investment requirement. | |Sponsored education to Malaysian students. (PESP, PSIP) | | |Opportunity |Threats | |Increasing fuel/oil prices. |Government regulations. | |Increasing natural gas market. |High Competition. | |More oil well discoveries. |Long-term falls in domestic oil production. | |Expand export market. |Competition in regional...
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...The organization needs a shakeup, a change of culture that embraces change, innovates and is continuously looking for the next big idea. Describe the Situation Issue and Opportunity Identification (At least four issues and opportunities must be identified) During the last check the snack food industry has changed. Consumers now buy product based on price rather than banned loyalty, Best Snack has historically been the number 1 or 2 snack vendor in the industry. Sales have slipped and stock prices have fallen over the last 2 years. Several smaller companies are pushing Best Snack and the company is in danger of losing even more market share. Best Snack due to the companies long standing success has been slow to change or alter any research, development or marketing activities. The organization has become complacent. Best Snack did not anticipate or see the changing nature of the snack food market. The company became comfortable in the way the organization has always done business and as a result the culture lacks creativity and innovation. Creativity and innovation is the lifeblood for a company and can create a competitive advantage. It is human nature to resist change. Resistance to change can take many forms and finding the cause of resistance can be difficult. Fear is a major form of resistance to change. Resistance to change can be at...
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...Organizational structure and organizational culture have a dependent relationship with one another. In the business world, management structure determines the behaviors, attitudes, dispositions and ethics that create the work culture. If a company's organizational structure is strictly hierarchical, with decision-making power centralized at the top, the company's culture will likely reflect a lack of freedom and autonomy at the lower levels. If a company's management structure is decentralized, with shared power and authority at all levels, the culture is likely to be more independent, personalized and accountable. The way a company allocates power and authority determines how employees behave. These choices manifest in a company's organizational structure and organizational culture. Organizational structure is the way a company arranges its management and lines of authority. It determines roles, responsibilities and the flow of information within the company. Work culture results from those decisions. Most companies use a hierarchical structure that looks like a pyramid on paper. The chief executive or president sits at the very top of the pyramid. His direct reports, usually the vice-presidents, are on a line under him. Their direct reports are on a line under them. The pyramid stretches outward and downward based on the number of levels of management the company needs to operate according to its objectives. Upper management uses organizational structure to control who has power...
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...Thomas J. Vallely thomas_vallely@harvard.edu ASIA PRGRAMS 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: (617) 495-1134 | Fax: (617) 495-4948 Ben Wilkinson ben_wilkinson@harvard.edu VIETNAMESE HIGHER EDUCATION: CRISIS AND RESPONSE I. Overview This short paper seeks to provide the American members of the bilateral Higher Education Task Force with an opinionated analysis of the crisis in Vietnamese higher education. We begin by analyzing the magnitude of the crisis and its root causes. Next, we consider how key actors—the Vietnamese government, the Vietnamese people, and the international community—are responding to the situation. We conclude by stressing the importance of institutional innovation as a necessary component of an effective reform platform. A short essay on Vietnamese higher education and science by a prominent Vietnamese scientist is included as reference in an appendix. This memorandum is informed by Harvard’s experience building and operating the Fulbright Economics Teaching Program, a center of public policy teaching and research located in Ho Chi Minh City.1 At present the Ash Institute is a partner in a research project lead by The New School that is studying the institutional barriers to higher education reform in Vietnam. II. Dimensions of the Crisis It is difficult to overstate the seriousness of the challenges confronting Vietnam in higher education. We believe without urgent and fundamental reform to the higher education...
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...Marketing Nicole Duclos MKT 100 Professor Brannen Strayer University June 30 , 2013 Product Reassessment The Nook is a product that is not doing well in product and services and is on the verge of becoming obsolete. We have decided to reposition the product to improve its marketing abilities. It has been losing profits and struggling against its leading competitor Amazon, Apple and other tablet makers, which has decreased the value. The company Barnes and Nobles has been exploring ways to enhance the products. (Raval, 2013) The perception of “ The Nook “ needs to be can so that can find the product more appealing. Determining the Types of Research Needed This product needs to be repositioned and research needs to be conducted to target consumers more. Price and quality need to be re-evaluated to compare current price competitiveness. Product differentiation and positioning is very important should also be conducted prior to repositioning. There also need to be a study conducted to establish product differentiation, so that the product will be distinguished from any other product, and some new attributes are needed to enhance these products. A New Service Component New component should be definitely added. An example is, The NOOK Media LLC, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc., has launched its updated new product as of May 2013, NOOK for IOS app, making the most incredible reading experience for iPad...
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...NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE DISTINCT EFFECTS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ON FIRM ORGANIZATION Nicholas Bloom Luis Garicano Raffaella Sadun John Van Reenen Working Paper 14975 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14975 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2009 We would like to thank the ESRC for help with financing this research at the Centre for Economic Performance. We thank participants at the LSE Labor workshop, at the NBER Summer Institute in Labor and Personnel Economics, at the Harvard/MIT workshop in Organizational Economics and at the Microsoft Economics workshop for their useful comments. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peerreviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications. © 2009 by Nicholas Bloom, Luis Garicano, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission provided that full credit, including © notice, is given to the source. The distinct effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on firm organization Nicholas Bloom, Luis Garicano, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen NBER Working Paper No. 14975 May...
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...enjoys distinct status of being the largest democracy. Biggest middle class and secularism are considered and propagated as the binding forces in a land of diverse culture and ethnicity. Sheer geopolitics combined with the land and mass of the country places India in an advantageous position in the comity of nations. However, the short history of India, as a republic has exposed her “Cloak of Secularism”. The secular political philosophy of India, which sought to achieve unity through diversity, is now faced with challenges of rising communalism and caste-ism heralded by Hindu fundamentalism and socio-economic discrimination of the socially backward sections of society. There are strong movements and simmering aspirations seeking for greater autonomy and even independence. Analyze the socio-ethnic mosaic of India with a view to determine the causes of ethnic sub-nationalism/ conflicts and ascertain the future of these fissiparous tendencies and their impact on the national integration of India. SUB THEME – SEPARATIST MOVEMENTS IN INDIA India has a host of separatist movements fermenting on its outer fringes; from the freedom struggle of Kashmiris in the North West to the Naxal, Naga, Mizoram and Manipur Movements in the North and North eastern parts particularly the ‘Siliguri Corridor’. From the 1980’s onwards, virtually the entire North has been plagued by such activities with a large proportion of religious and ethnic groups in the region forming movements of their own. Analyze...
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...Voss 1 Long slender legs, tiny waists, chiseled face with high cheekbones, and the unrealistic urge to be “perfect” are struggles that some people struggle with in the world today. Everyday people are reminded, sometimes plagued, with the “ideal” look of a woman, or man. Adolescents whom are idolizing models in magazines, movies, and televisions that give them the false realization that every person, should look like they look, or should fit in clothing like they do. Seeing these unrealistic, usually photo shopped, beauties give an average person, or even overweight person, a notion that in some way they are less than beautiful or glamorous than they are. While most people can shrug off these kinds of stereotypes or feelings of looking like these models, others are haunted by the thought and are constantly obsessed with looking like and compromising their own view for society’s view of being “perfect”. This way of thinking not only affects how they feel about their looks, but also affects their outlook on the every aspect of their lives; whether it is academics, sports, or comparing to others in their family. High energy and fast paced lifestyles have made family interaction a minimal experience and leading kids towards the road of self destruction. Rumney (2009) states that, Anorexia Nervosa, is psychological disorder in which an individual deliberately and willfully starves themselves, engaging in “relentless pursuit of thinness” that can be fatal (p. 16). While...
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...Caroline Barnes and Simon Jackson This paper offers a critical reading of Robin Boyd’s narrative of the Australian nation created for Australia’s pavilion at Expo’70. The critique offered is from an environmental perspective, using this example to lead into a broader reflection on Australian design history’s ‘modernity problem’. We argue that although the examination of Australia as a socio-cultural context for the practice of design continues to engage scholars, the will to profess the existence of progressive Australian design has precluded significant examination of design’s regressive effects. The current environmental crisis is, as Arturo Escobar argues, ‘a crisis of modernity, to the extent that modernity has failed to enable sustainable worlds.’[1] Design is implicated here for its contribution to environmental degradation, as is design history for accounts that validate designers’ development of concepts, processes and products that impose the unsustainable on societies. The latter is pronounced in Australian design history. When modernity and its cultural manifestations are understood as European inventions, admitting limited scope for cultural exchange, claiming historical significance for Australian design inevitably involves the uncritical application of imported principles.[2] The halting attempts to write Australian design history are mostly bound up in proselytizing for the values and benefits of the modern and eulogising designers’ efforts to force change in the...
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...company. This case study takes a look at the company behind some of the most famous brands in the marketplace, including Post-it® Notes. It examines the company’s heritage and shows how it has arrived at this enviable position. Furthermore, the case study attempts to clarify what it is that makes 3M stand out from other organisations. Background Originally known as the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, with its headquarters in St Paul, Minnesota, 3M was established in 1902 to mine abrasive minerals for the production of a single product, sandpaper. From these inauspicious beginnings, the company has grown organically, concentrating on the internal development of new products in a variety of different industries. The latest review of the company’s position reveals that it manufactures over 60,000 products, has operations in 61 countries, employs 75,000 people and has achieved an average year-on-year growth in sales of 10 per cent (see Figure 16.10). Its products include Scotch adhesive tapes, fibre-optic connectors, abrasives, adhesives, floppy disks, aerosol inhalers, medical diagnostic products and Post-it Notes. 3M gave the world ‘wet or dry’ abrasives, which did so much to reduce the incidence of respiratory disease in the 1920s. It invented self-adhesive tape in 1925, light-reflective...
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...Organizational Ethics The Issue of Online Data Reselling In 1995 the percentage of the population that used Internet was 0.4 %, while in June 2012 that portion have grown with 30 %, amounting 34.4% of all human population. Current statistics are citing gigantic numbers of the quantity of data that users generate - 2 000 queries on Google and 48 hours of video uploaded every minute are just some of the examples of the humongous size of information created online. This data is valuable due to the increasing number of e-commerce businesses employing the Web as their main platform for exchanging goods for value. Moreover, online data has become a topic of interest for marketers, researches, advertisers and publishers trying to gather as much information as possible in order to improve target advertising and deliver tailored content to their clients. Hence the information of a single browsing user is highly demanded due to the fact that it can provide insights into different online behaviors and optimize online campaigns. In 2006, the EU calculated that the value of open data in Europe (i.e. releasing all government information for free) would be € 27 billion (Dekkers) that is € 55 per European citizen. With a valuation of around $ 100 billion, the value that Facebook holds in 2012 is roughly $ 120 (€ 90) per active member. (NY Times) Personal data online is tracked by cookies, which are small pieces of code placed on the browser that remember the user and its information with...
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...the crisis of credibility being faced because society perceived accountants to have lost their commitment to public service. The credibility of the profession is threatened when the ideals of integrity, independence, public service and ethical standards come under suspicion. Well-known scandals of one of the major leading accounting firms in the United States Arthur Andersen coupled with alleged unethical acts committed by Enron have arouse the conscious of the public and stakeholders as to the moral decline and unethical posture of public accountants unveiled a decline in moral reasoning and ethical standards of public accountants (Dellaportas, 2006; Esmond-Kiger, 2004). Over the last few years, the accounting profession has been beaten up badly in the media, somewhat justifiably. The forces at work were numerous and complex and a variety of phenomena created the entire profession had its reputation tarnished. Some forces were not new: delivering services that acted to impair independence; becoming too cozy with clients, active participation in finding ways to circumvent accounting standards, and even simple greed. The profession has paid dearly for failing to meet the expectations of investors, creditors, and other users of financial statements. Finally, the public lose their trust and confidence on the accounting profession and thus, the professional standing of accountant is jeopardized. There are several ethical issues faced...
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...becoming a parent, retirement, and one’s own death. One of the important things that a person needs to develop is his personality. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, personality is the set of qualities and behaviors that makes a person different from other people. From the definition, lots of questions arise. Some examples are “What makes them different from the other?”, “Why are they behaving like that?”, and “Who am I?” In order to answer those questions, Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development will help to understand the complexity of human personality. Erikson’s ‘psychosocial’ term is derived from two words – ‘psychological’ means mind and ‘social’ means external relationships (Chapman, 2013). According to Ramkumar (2002), Erik Erikson did most of his works during the 1930s to the 1950s as a psychologist. He was fascinated in child analysis. He was the student of Sigmund Freud and he was inspired by his works. From the article of Chapman (2013), Erikson’s psychosocial theory was drawn and was extended from the ideas of Sigmund Freud and his daughter, Anna Freud and the concepts within psychosexual theory of human development. Freud concepts are not however fundamental to Erikson’s theory which stands up well in its own right. Freud focused on the nature of human which includes the concepts of genitals, and sex which attract a lot of attention and criticisms. Compared to Freud, Erikson’s concepts focused more...
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...BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH MIS 5360 : Management of Information Systems Instructor: Dr. Yusun Jung (Spring 2016) Team Members: Anjanee Siriki Sanjana Putchala Loka Sowjanya Kurra Sneha Enugula Venkata Anusha Sapa 1 “All one has to do is put their mind to it, never give up and never lose hope.” -Lawrence Larry Page Born in Michigan in 1973, Lawrence Larry Page, an American computer scientist and internet business visionary(Biography, 2014) teamed up with his graduate school companion Sergey Brin to launch “Google”, a search engine and one of the most innovative startups in internet technology space, in 1998, which eventually became the most influential company in digital era (7).It is an unconventional company, set up benchmarks by attracting billions of users for applications like Chrome, Google Maps, Youtube and Android. The company started with a vision statement “To organize the world information, and make it universally accessible and useful” (14). Early years – Google as a startup As a research activity at Stanford University, Page and Brin created a search engine that recorded results according to the reputation of the pages, after concluding that the most reputed result would obviously be the most useful. They named the search engine as "Google" after the mathematical term "googol," which refers to the No. 1(Biography, 2014) followed by 100 zeros, to mirror their aim to organize the enormous amount of information accessible on the web. Both developed...
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...Workplace Employees By Warren Davis For Leadership and Organizational Behavior Instructor Dr. Howard Noor (MGMT 592) DeVry University, Keller Graduate School of Management June 5, 2013 Scholarly Resources: 1. Job design: A social network perspective. By: Kilduff, Martin; Brass, Daniel J. Journal of Organizational Behavior. Feb2010, Vol. 31 Issue 2/3, p309-318. 10p 2. Positive Job Response and Ethical Job Performance. By: Valentine, Sean; Varca, Philip; Godkin, Lynn; Barnett, Tim. Journal of Business Ethics. Jan2010, Vol. 91 Issue 2, p195-206. 12p. 2 Diagrams, 2 Charts. DOI: 10.1007/s10551-009-0077-1. 3. Emotional competence and work performance: The mediating effect of proactivity and the moderating effect of job autonomy. By: Kim, Tae-Yeol; Cable, Daniel M.; Kim, Sang-Pyo; Wang, Jie. Journal of Organizational Behavior. Oct2009, Vol. 30 Issue 7, p983-1000. 18p. 1 Diagram, 3 Charts, 3 Graphs. 4. High-quality relationships, psychological safety, and learning from failures in work organizations. By: Carmeli, Abraham; Gittell, Jody Hoffer. Journal of Organizational Behavior. Aug2009, Vol. 30 Issue 6, p709-729. 21p. 3 Diagrams, 4 Charts. 5. Does Reputation Contribute to Reducing Organizational Errors? A Learning Approach. By: Rhee, Mooweon. Journal of Management Studies. Jun2009, Vol. 46 Issue 4, p676-703. 28p. 3 Charts, 2 Graphs. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2009.00830.x. 6. An integrative model of managerial perceptions of employee commitment: antecedents...
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