...1. How does the organization achieve “compliance” from its members? As our organisation is unionised, it is harder for managers to receive positive compliance from it’s employees as the reward power is minimized. Due to the unionization, decisions about promotions and giving raises are not allowed to be made by supervisors and managers. This restricts the amount of control the managers have over the compliance of its employees. However, I believe that my organization still exploits some power over the interest of my team members. One attempt of my supervisor’s to keep compliance amongst our ‘team’ is to reward hard work with a ‘party halfa’ once every month. This included half an hour out of one shift every month dedicated to “pigging out” on party food including lollies, chips, cake and coke etc. We did not receive the “party halfa” if we do not meet the packing standards. Everyone knew each individual had to perform to the standard and not have any one team member let the rest down and therefore increasing productivity and establishing compliance. As shown above, my fellow employees are referred to by our supervisors and managers not as employees or staff, but a ‘team’ which symbolises this reality that we should operate not only for our own individual gain, but also the gain of the individuals in that team. Another act of compliance can be implemented by coercive power. This example is a more subtle version of coercive power; the threat from the supervisor to stay back...
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...maximizing the largest profits of useful creativity (Dundon, 2002). As a result, knowledge-based organizations invest a lot to facilitate innovation. Lee (2002) suggests that knowledge-based organizations are not able to compete in the current global markets without hiring flexible knowledge workers or applying latest information technology to management. Recently, with blindly investing in innovation, efficiency seems to be neglected by many organizations. Efficiency, not only refer to lower cost, but also how to use the existing knowledge, expertise and resource effectively. Without efficiency, organizations cannot plan all the working processes properly. Therefore, in order to survive, even gain profits, a firm cannot ignore either innovation or efficiency (Tushman & O’Reilly 1996). Nevertheless, it is not easy to achieve balance between the two aspects. In the following session, this paper will illustrate from four aspects to present the reasons why some organizations can do well in terms of innovation while having a low efficiency. Since knowledge workers are the fundamental element of knowledge-based organizations, management style of people and teams seems to influence the overall efficiency to some extent. Besides, choosing what kind of ways to encourage information flows among the employees is...
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...Robert Ambrose Small Business Management October 9, 2015 Professor S. Turner Final Paper The Dilemma The gentlemen of “Three Guys Garage” all have the best interest of the organization in mind. However, they have differing outlooks on the best approach to expand “Three Guys Garage” and reach the level of success they all aspire for. Karl is very interested in turning the company into a national chain, but the other members of the team have some concerns. For an example, Ben is concerned about control losing control of the brand. Rick on the other hand has voiced that he is worried about losing his profits. The Strategy After evaluating the different Growth strategies the best strategy for the team is to continue on as a privately owned company. As a privately owned company while growth may be slower than the other options it is still possible. On the other hand, if the gentleman where to try and franchise the organization there is a very good chance they would lose control of the day to day operations of some units, which is an issue for Ben. While it is required for franchise owners to follow company-operating procedure developed by the parent company, ultimately the unit is owned by the franchisee and he or she going to make decisions for his or her shop that best fits their goals (Joseph, 2015). If the team decide to take the offer of the investor and start a joint venture, they will have to further split their profits which does not go over well with Rick. Other...
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...8956860531 Am I speaking to .... ? Hi I'm calling from Is it right time to start interview? can we start? ur resume is in front of me u r from ... right? but we are based in pune, r u ready to move here how many companies u have worked in till now? then why would u like to switch? so far u have worked in (number) projects were they all in core php? if not then in what other framework? then ask about that framework so u have experiance in oop then ask oop questions then go to php questions then go to my sql then js I think thats all we need our hr will get back to u with the decision/result but before that may i know ur current ctc and expected ctc? and is it negotiable? PHP: 1) What is use of header() function in php ? The header() function sends a raw HTTP header to a client.We can use herder() function for redirection of pages. It is important to notice that header() must be called before any actual output is seen.. 2) what does the error message "header already sent" mean? Ques: 10 How we can upload videos using PHP? Ans: When want to upload videos using PHP we should follow these steps: 1.first you have to encrypt the the file which you want to upload by using "multipart-form-data" to get the $_FILES in the form submition. 2.After getting the $_FILES['tmp_name'] in the submition 3.By using move_uploaded_file (tmp_location,destination) function in PHP we can move the file from original location. 3) What is the difference...
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...HCBA 3221: International Business Management Group 1 Topic 2: International Business Research Peter Chege HD 333-1080/2015 Peninah Nyutu HD 333-1088/2015 Submitted to Dr. Oloko October 2015 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS RESEARCH What is international Business? * Is a business where transactions occur across the borders What is research? * Research - is a process of inquiring. It is a systematic search for information. It also means carrying out a diligent enquiry or critical examination of a given phenomena * Research remains the most efficient and reliable source of knowledge. What is International business research? * International business research has been described as the objective, systematic, testable process for obtaining knowledge about our world. * International market research is a particular discipline of Market research that focuses on marketing across the borders. It is mainly concerned with consumer goods, resources or services within a business value, which is commercially utilized and further processed. * International market research covers cross-country issues. * International business has existed as a distinct field and a unique discipline. * Research in international business shows a clear dichotomy between focus on activities that cross open national boundaries and activities that are aimed at surmounting the barriers imposed by Governments. Why conduct international business research? (a) Concept...
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...Travel Poster Betty Kapasa Nur/408 Professor: Jacqueline Paik June 8, 2011 University of Phoenix This writer’s country of choice is Zambia located in the southern part of Africa. Zambia’s history goes back to the debut of Homo sapiens: evidence of human habitation going back 100,000 years has been found at Kabwe, north of Lusaka. Beginning around 1000 AD, Swahili-Arab slave-traders gradually penetrated the region from their city-states on the eastern coast of Africa. Between the 14th and 16th centuries a Bantu-speaking group known as the Maravi migrated from present-day Congo (Zaïre) and established kingdoms in eastern and southeastern Zambia. In the 18th century, Portuguese explorers following the routes of Swahili-Arab slavers from the coast into the interior became the first known European visitors. After the Zulu nation to the south began scattering its neighbors, victims of the Difaqane (forced migration) began arriving in Zambia in the early 19th century. Squeezed out of Zimbabwe, the Makalolo people moved into southern Zambia, pushing the Tonga out of the way and grabbing Lozi territory on the upper Zambezi River. Zambia is a land locked country with a population 12,935,368. Kenneth Kaunda, a militant former schoolteacher, took over the leadership of the Africans from the more moderate Nkumbula and in 1959 formed a new party, the United National Independence Party (UNIP). Following a massive civil disobedience campaign in 1962, Africans were given...
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...Please write an essay where you analyze “The importance of BPM for businesses” where you briefly describe the BPM Technology and its benefits for customers that use it. La idea es poder ver un documento escrito por ti, tras una investigación, que tenga componente técnico y una parte de negocio. THE IMPORTANCE OF BPM FOR BUSINESSES Introduction The purpose of this document is to find and analyze the elements of BPM that can create value to the businesses and show how to see that value can get reflected in better performance inside the organization also, explain how it can drive the organization to succeed in complex environments. What is BPM? BPM is more than a practice, it’s actually a discipline where software and services are exposed to the entire organization, starting a process of discovery and documentation, which will help to automate and continuously improve the business processes causing reductions in costs and increasing efficiency. A key element of adopting BPM is the fact that unifies every process with a single language across the organization this gives the possibility to every member inside of the company to understand and propose improvements from different point of view, which is called holistic view. Along with implementing a BPM, there are tools that are built to help an organization to document the process; those tools are repositories that are capable of managing the documentation, facilitating the maintainability and collaboration...
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...View Full Essay | Managing Activities to Achieve Results | Table of Contents Introduction 1 Body 2 Evaluate the importance of business processes in delivering outcomes based upon business goals and objectives. 2 Appendix 22 Bibliography 26 Body Evaluate the importance of business processes in delivering outcomes based upon business goals and objectives. Structure of an organisation is the way the people and different departments are set out. XXX School’s structure is shown in Appendix 1. It’s is widely split into Thai and foreign areas with different departments that interact daily to fulfil its processes and functions. There is evidence to suggest it uses the matrix model. For example XXXX the Head of English Kindergarten department is also responsible for undertaking the project of improving the schools website. Mullins (2005:a) notes culture as ‘the collection of traditions, values, policies, beliefs, and attitudes that constitute a pervasive context for everything we do and think in an organisation’. Due to the being both foreign native speakers and Thai teachers present in the school, a divide in beliefs, values, policies, traditions and processes is present. The two ‘sides’ maybe well undertake tasks in a different way, however there is one belief that is clearly paramount throughout the school. The most important belief is the service and relationship provided to the customer (customer being the student and their parents) is everyone’s number one...
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...commercial, defense, and aerospace industry. Located in Southern California, AS has a dedicated, trained workforce and maintains a large capacity plant and extensive equipment to meet customer requirements. Much of the equipment is automated to increase production while reducing costs. The company's workforce has a large skill base: design engineers, programmers, machinists, and assembly personnel to work its highly-automated production systems. The mission of AS is to provide customer success through machined products and related services, and to meet cost, quality, and schedule requirements. Aircraft Solution uses Business Process Management (BPM) to handle end to end processes that span multiple systems and organizations. BPM system is designed to connect customers, vendors, and suppliers to share information and maintain timely business dialogue. The system is capable of handling multiple projects simultaneously across every department of the company. The users at AS are employees, suppliers, and contractors who need to access the company’s network. Two...
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...In order to keep advantage in the competitive environment, organisations are seeking methods to improve their distinctive competencies. Business information systems (BIS) play a significant role in developing the competitive merits among other competitors. Through the contribution on the five competitive forces described by Porter (1980), information systems could assist an organization to achieve the strategic advantage (Greasley, Bocij, & Hickie, 2008). BIS is a complex process of converting data to information which facilitates the planning, operational activities and decision making (Hardcastle, 2008). People, computers, processes and communication interact in BIS, and thus it is more than technology. Llett (2006) claimed that the value of the system should be led by business need rather than technology. Facing the challenges from business change, managers are expecting the BIS could satisfy the desired purposes such as increasing revenue and reducing cost. As one of the BIS, enterprise resource planning (ERP) attracts the managers’ attention by standardized firm-wide transactions and central data management. By replacing the complex interfaces between the different systems, ERP provides a ‘standardized, cross- functional transaction automation’ and enables the organisation to collect data once through the initial transaction, data storage and process (Hendricks, Singhal, & Stratman, 2007, p. 68). However, whether these benefits could be realised is determined by the...
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...of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen TU Dortmund University, Germany Madhu Sudan Microsoft Research, Cambridge, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbruecken, Germany Richard Hull Jan Mendling Stefan Tai (Eds.) Business Process Management 8th International Conference, BPM 2010 Hoboken, NJ, USA, September 13-16, 2010 Proceedings 13 Volume Editors Richard Hull IBM Research, Thomas J. Watson Research Center 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532, USA E-mail: hull@us.ibm.com Jan Mendling Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany E-mail: contact@mendling.com Stefan Tai Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Englerstraße 11, Gebäude 11.40, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany E-mail: stefan.tai@kit.edu Library of Congress Control Number: 2010933361 CR Subject Classification (1998): D.2, F.3, D.3, D.1, D.2.4, F.2 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 3 – Information Systems and Application, incl. Internet/Web and HCI ISSN...
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...Changes in BPM[edit] Roughly speaking, the idea of business process is as traditional as concepts of tasks, department, production, and outputs..[citation needed] The management and improvement approach as of 2010, with formal definitions and technical modeling, has been around since the early 1990s (see business process modeling). Note that the IT community often uses the term "business process" as synonymous with the management of middleware processes; or as synonymous with integrating application software tasks. This viewpoint may be overly restrictive - a limitation to keep in mind when reading software engineering papers that refer to "business processes" or to "business process modeling". Although BPM initially focused on the automation of business processes with the use of information technology, it has since been extended[by whom?] to integrate human-driven processes in which human interaction takes place in series or parallel with the use of technology. For example (in workflow systems), when individual steps in the business process require deploying human intuition or judgment, these steps are assigned to appropriate members within the organization. More advanced forms such as "human interaction management"[6][7] are in the complex interaction between human workers in performing a workgroup task. In this case, many people and systems interact in structured, ad hoc, and sometimes completely dynamic ways to complete one to many transactions. BPM can be used to understand...
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...between costs and benefits from the customer’s perspective. This strategy will be utilized for Logistics’ pricing discussion, but will incorporate the perceived value of competitors’ products as well. FileNET FileNET’s product offerings include three brands: Panangon, Acenza, and Brightspire. Panangon serves as the infrastructure and application development platform for content management, and it is currently being targeted towards finance, insurance, government, telecommunications, utilities, and manufacturing industries.(VARbusiness) Acenza permits linkage to customers, partners, and employees through a variety of applications. Brightspire provides the business integration framework. (Delphi) More extensive research on Brightspire may be of value because FileNET’s description of the product, in its press release cited by Business Wire, makes it sound similar to Logistics. Specifically, “…Brightspire was developed to address the need for a standard, re-usable software framework for eBusiness that is designed to be quick to deploy and requires little or no custom software development.” (Business Wire2) Perceived benefits Value in relative use FileNET’s product line offers several benefits in terms of functional use. First of all, faster process development is attainable through the use of process templates. Another benefit is synchronization of multiple processes, which allows a process to wait for another to be completed. FileNET’s product offerings also provide Web...
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...------------------------------------------------- Business Process Management BPM Prepared for: Professor Palmer Prepared by: Vardly E. St.Preux Date: 02 December 2012 ------------------------------------------------- Course: SBE-430 E-Commerce for Small Business Table of Contents The Evolution of Business Process Since The 1990s 3 Benefits of BPM 3 The Evolution of Business Process Since The 1990s After reading this article, there isn’t any direct suggestion of the evolution business processes from the 1990's. However, it can be said that the article suggests that business thinking and practice has changed tremendously over the last decade or so. Many businesses are using more technological software to improve their business practice. The methods of the past are not as successful in today’s e-business dominated world. Almost every organization is now based on technology. A business therefore needs the appropriate software to make them competitive in today's market, or face extinction. BPM allows companies to be more agile and more efficient. Efficiency is key to keeping customers happy. Furthermore, government regulations are constantly changing. In many organizations this constant change is difficult to grasp and incorporate without the appropriate technology in order to make a business efficient. Benefits of BPM The article addresses many benefits for BPM; some of the benefits are: * BPM helps organizations streamline their processes into...
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...Report for 2005 Jackie Fenn, Alexander Linden This year, we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Gartner's Hype Cycles. More than 1,600 information technologies and trends across 68 markets, regions and industries are evaluated in the most comprehensive assessment of technology maturity in the IT industry. © 2005 Gartner, Inc. and/or its Affiliates. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction of this publication in any form without prior written permission is forbidden. The information contained herein has been obtained from sources believed to be reliable. Gartner disclaims all warranties as to the accuracy, completeness or adequacy of such information. Although Gartner's research may discuss legal issues related to the information technology business, Gartner does not provide legal advice or services and its research should not be construed or used as such. Gartner shall have no liability for errors, omissions or inadequacies in the information contained herein or for interpretations thereof. The opinions expressed herein are subject to change without notice. ANALYSIS Gartner's Hype Cycles highlight the relative maturity of technologies across a wide range of IT domains, targeting different IT roles and responsibilities. Each Hype Cycle provides a snapshot of the position of technologies relative to a market, region or industry, identifying which technologies are hyped, which are suffering the inevitable disillusionment and which are stable enough to allow for a reasonable understanding...
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