... 4 1.2 Organizational Culture 7 1.3 The Relationship between Organisational Culture and Structure 8 1.4 Individuals Behaviour in the Workplace 8 2.0 Leadership Styles 9 2.1 Organisational Theory and Management 11 1.0-Choosing a different Organizational Structure and Culture When considering changing an organizational structure and culture of a company it is best to first to consider the external environment that the business operates in. Insurance Group PLC (IGP) operates in the insurance market, so therefore it is needed to consider structures and cultures that will allow the business to be flexible to its climate. The insurance market is susceptible to change, for example in the last past 3 years we have seen changes in the law banning female drivers from being offered lower insurance premiums (King, 2012). Also changes to the Consumer Insurance Act which has made it harder for insurance companies to reject insurance claims on the grounds of non-disclosure of relevant...
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...Electronic Surveillance of Employees Dawn Cuffie Professor M. Best Law, Ethics and Corporate Goverance-LEG 500 January 22, 2012 1. Explain where an employee can reasonable expect to have privacy in the workplace. Employees are deemed not to have “a reasonable expectation of privacy”. Employees are expected to follow guidelines and regulations regarding usage of workplace computers, telephones, cell phones, pagers, email and internet. These are often times found in the employee handbook and manuals managed by HR. In the private sector, privacy law is determined by the variety of state and federal statutes and the common law of torts (Halbert and Ingulli, pg. 74). Employees may file a claim based on “intrusion” of privacy but must prove that the electronic surveillance was highly obnoxiousness and intrusive and that the reasons for retrieval was irrelevant to the employee’s job. Government employees may argue that electronic surveillance and monitoring violate their Fourth Amendment right to “reasonable expectations of privacy”. These cases are often time judged by the balance test which weighs the importance of the employee’s privacy against the employer’s interest. An example of this is correctional facilities performing body and bag checks on their employees before they enter the facility. The safety of the inmates and the employees at the correctional facilities is of more importance than that of an individual’s need for privacy. Social media such as Face...
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...into norms and values. Some are likely to be deviant. - Diversity of lifestyle and values. Different groups have their own subcultures with distinctive norms and values. Some may see deviant acts as normal. > Durkheim says in modern societies there is tendency towards anomie. The rules for behaviour become weaker and less clear-cut. This is because modern societies have a complex division of labour meaning individuals become more different from each other. Crime is more likely. Positive functions of crime – it also performs two positive functions Boundary maintenance - produces a reaction from society, uniting members in disapproval of criminals and reinforcing their commitment to shared norms and values. Adaptation and change – all change starts with an act of deviance. There must be scope to challenge existing norms and values and this will seem deviant in the short run. Criticisms - Durkheim says society requires deviance to function properly but states no way of knowing how much is the right amount. - Functionalists see crime in terms of its function. Crime may not exist to fulfill these functions. - Functionalists look at how functions of crime serve society as a whole and ignore how it might affect different groups or individuals within...
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...Virginia University of Lynchburg Academic Advisor for Athletics Strayer University-Professor Frankenhauser Bus 520 Virginia University of Lynchburg Academic Advisor for Athletics In this paper I will discuss and explain the variety of motivational theories and job design considerations. To include, how workplace stress contributes to individual performance along with how the communication process has an impact on an organization. I will use resources to research issues in organizational behavior. Lastly, I will clearly and concisely talk about the organizational behaviors. The mere definition of an Academic Advisor for Athletics is a professional who promotes the integrity of their profession by providing principles and quality servers to support one another as they share information, resources and expertise in their efforts to empower student-athletes to become more productive individuals through educational and personal development (nfoura.org, 2012). To include academic advising, based in the teaching and learning mission of higher education, is a series of intentional interactions with a curriculum, a pedagogy, and a set of student learning outcomes. Academic advising synthesizes and contextualizes students' educational experiences within the frameworks of their aspirations, abilities and lives to extend learning beyond campus boundaries and timeframes (wikipedia.org, 2012). Some of the duties of an Academic Advisor of Athletics are as follow develops academic...
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...Bostaca Geranimo Bostaca Table of content that are all making reference to Facebook and Google organisations: 1. Comparing and contrasting the differences in organisational structures and behaviours. 2. Explaining the impact on performance of the business regarding organisation structure and culture 3. Factors that are influencing the individual behaviour at work 4. The impact of different types of leadership in organisations 5. Explaining how organisational theory underpins the practice of management. 6. Evaluating the different approach to management used by different organisations. 7. Discussing the impact that different leadership style might have in organisations in periods of change. 8. Comparing the application of different motivational theories within the workplace. 9. Evaluating the usefulness of a motivation theory for managers. 10. Explaining the nature of groups and behaviour within organisations. 11. Discussing the factors that might promote or inhibit the development of effective teamwork in organisations. 12. Evaluating the impact of technology on team functioning within the organisation. Facebook and Google Organisational Structure One of the most important levels of the organization, are their organizational structure and culture. Although there isn’t enough information given in the organizational chart to determine Facebook’s specific type of structure, we can reasonably assume that...
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...Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction to Company 4 Organization Culture 5 IBMers – Values and Ethics 9 Value 9 Ethics & Business conduct 9 Culture @ IBM 10 About IBM Culture Traits 10 Diversity 10 People orientation and Team Orientation - Freedom & Responsibility 11 Outcome Orientation - Context, not Control 12 Knowledge sharing - High Collaboration using technology 12 Risk Averse to Risk Taking 12 Innovation - Learn from mistakes (or near Mistakes) 13 Aggressiveness for duties, goals, and assignments 14 Culture & Climate Survey 15 Culture impact Business Performance 16 IBM Leadership Framework 16 Online References 17 Executive Summary Our charter is to determine culture at IBM & how it impacts business performance. Corporate culture is significant in that it “influences the behavior of everyone within an organization and, if carefully crafted, can have a significant positive effect on organizational success”. Louis Gerstner (2002) comments “I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn’t just one aspect of the game-it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than collective capacity of its people to create value. Vision, strategy, marketing, financial management- any management system, in fact- can set you on right path and carry you for a while. But no enterprise- whether business, government, health care or any area of human endeavor – will succeed over the long haul if those element aren’t part of its DNA.” The culture...
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...Description Regional Program Manager Profile Source: Management Professional-Director of Program Operations Reports To: Executive Director Classification: Salaried-Exempt Department: Administration KEY ROLES (Essential Job Responsibilities): Oversees operations and programs with primary concern for services, program development, and implementation of policies and procedures developed by the DIDD Central Office; which are designed to ensure that there is consistent application of services and supports across the State of Tennessee. Monitor of Intermediate Care Facilities (ICF/MR), Supportive Living, and Residential and Day Services Facilities throughout the state. Monitor of Evaluations and Surveying. Supervision of assigned staff. WORK ENVIROMENT: Work is performed in an office setting with frequent interruptions. Requires excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously. Ability to provide effective supervision of assigned staff. Ability to make sound judgments. Occasional travel required across the region. ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: 1. Oversees the implementation of services and supports provided by DIDD. 2. Monitor of surveys, guidelines and assessments throughout facilities in the state. 3. Participates in the development of department goals, objectives, and programs. 4. Monitor of state funded programs that offer Community Based, Residential, ICF, and Day Services and Supports to Tennesseans with Intellectual...
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...It's hard for people to do things they don't want to do without an incentive. Most people, need to force themselves out of bed to go to school or to go to work. However, these incentives are clear. A student goes to work because they need to get an education to get a good job. And an employee goes to work because they have bills to pay. However, when your basic needs are being met, what motivates someone to, for example, cheat? Or for parents, how to make your child go to the bathroom on their own. A film based on the book, Freakonomics, economist, Steven D. Levitt, and, Stephen Dubner discuss how using an incentive to get what you want from someone can work in some situations and may not in another. They use examples from Sumo wrestlers and their own children. In addition, they conducted an experiment at a high school in Chicago Heights, Illinois to see if by giving students money in exchange for bringing their grades up. Because incentives is something that motivates one to do something; it sometimes could be used to illicit positive results. Daniel Pink wrote a book called, Drive, a title he used to as a synonym for motivation. Pink use to write speeches for vice president, Al Gore, while he was in office. Pink has done extensive research on motivation. He explains how there are two types of motivation, 1.0 and 2.0. Pink explains that motivation 1.0 was the primitive motivation that we had, when people were nomads and hunted and foraged for food, searched for security...
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...Generally, The external environment of an organization are those factors outside the company that affect the company's ability to function. Some external elements can be manipulated by company marketing, while others require the organization to make adjustments. Monitor the basic components of company's external environment, and keep a close watch at all times. Customers customers are among the external elements you can attempt to influence, via marketing and strategic release of corporate information. But ultimately, your relationship with company’s clients is based on finding ways to influence them to purchase company’s products. Market research is used to determine the effectiveness of company’s marketing messages, and to decide what changes can be made to future marketing programs to improve sales. Government Government regulations in product development, packaging and shipping play a significant role in the cost of doing business and company’s ability to expand into new markets. If the government places new regulations on how you must package company’s product for shipment, that can increase company’s unit costs and affect company’s profit margins. International laws create processes that company’s company must follow to get your product into foreign markets. Economy As with the majority of the elements of your organization's external environment, your company must be efficient at monitoring the economy and learning how to react to it, rather than trying to manipulate...
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...General Motors General Motors Corporation has failed to adequately respond to shifts in its general and competitive environments. We will argue that past success led to over-confident management and inertia, causing lack of foresight in anticipating change, and causing it to undertake obligations that now constrain its ability to react. We will first introduce GM’s traditional business strategy, and what its position is relative to its competitors. Then, we will describe GM’s global, economic, demographic, political/legal, sociocultural and technological environments, showing how GM has fallen behind in each. Each section will end with a discussion of how the environmental changes in question have impacted GM’s position in its competitive enviroment, ultimately leading to its current state of poor sales and near-bankruptcy. We believe GM’s management now needs to be proactive in rectifying its current situation, instead of adopting short-term, stop-gap measures. GM’s traditional strategy is to have a full array of cars, trucks and minivans for each of its brands[1]. It has particularly relied on big cars and trucks – like SUVs, the GMC Yukon and the Chevy Tahoe[2] - as opposed to direct competitors like Toyota, that are known for smaller, more fuel-efficient cars. Also, GM follows the core assumption that job satisfaction leads to profits[3]. This strategy worked well for GM in the past when it controlled the greatest share in the auto market. Between the 1930s and...
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...Background Lembaga Tabung Haji – TH (Pilgrims Fund Board) was established as a premiere economic-based Islamic financial institution inspired with a realization to help provide investment services and opportunities while managing pilgrimage activities for the Malaysian Muslim community. TH was meant to play a bigger social role, thus in addition to managing pilgrimage activities, it operates as an alternative institutional body providing investment opportunities for Islamic depositors to save and invest in accordance to Islamic principles. Depositors' money is invested in selected investment establishments spread across a diverse range of investment portfolios based strictly on Syariah principles to preserve the purity and integrity of profits derived which is free from "riba"elements and to avoid trading in prohibited ‘haram' products. The fund board was established in 1962 as a modest proposal to aid the Malayan rural economy and to enable the Muslims to perform 'Hajj', one of the tenets of their faith. Today TH is one of the greatest cooperative success stories in Malaysia. Its basic principles, structured by the Royal Professor Ungku Aziz who was then an economic lecturer and later became the Vice Chancellor of the University Malaya, remain unchanged, but the institution has developed beyond imagination. In the early days, Islamic community in Malaysia resorted to rather unsystematic and traditional methods when it comes to saving their money for the purpose of performing...
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...Alliances 3.9 Analysis of Financial Performance 4 RECOMMENDATIONS 5 APPENDICES 6 REFERENCES Analysis of Toyota Motor Corporation by Thembani Nkomo 1. TOYOTA CORPORATE OVERVIEW: Founded in 1937, Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese company that engages in the design, manufacture, assembly, and sale of passenger cars, minivans, commercial vehicles, and related parts and accessories primarily in Japan, North America, Europe, and Asia. Current brands include Toyota, Lexus, Daihatsu and Hino. Toyota Motor Corporation is the leading auto manufacturer and the eighth largest company in the world. As of March 31, 2013, Toyota Motor Corporation’s annual revenue was $213 billion and it employed 333,498 people. 1 2. EXTERNAL ENVIROMENT OF AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY: 2.1. Industry Overview and Analysis Toyota Motor Corporation competes in the automotive industry. The...
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...Alliances 3.9 Analysis of Financial Performance 4 RECOMMENDATIONS 5 APPENDICES 6 REFERENCES Analysis of Toyota Motor Corporation by Thembani Nkomo 1. TOYOTA CORPORATE OVERVIEW: Founded in 1937, Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese company that engages in the design, manufacture, assembly, and sale of passenger cars, minivans, commercial vehicles, and related parts and accessories primarily in Japan, North America, Europe, and Asia. Current brands include Toyota, Lexus, Daihatsu and Hino. Toyota Motor Corporation is the leading auto manufacturer and the eighth largest company in the world. As of March 31, 2013, Toyota Motor Corporation’s annual revenue was $213 billion and it employed 333,498 people. 1 2. EXTERNAL ENVIROMENT OF AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY: 2.1. Industry Overview and Analysis Toyota Motor Corporation competes in the automotive industry. The...
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...125 [pic]GHANA TRADES UNION CONGRESS MEDIUM TERM POLICIES FOR THE QUADRENNIAL 2008 -2012 [DRAFT] GHANA TRADES UNION CONGRESS Contents PART 1 3 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND 3 Challenges at the International Level 3 Challenges at the National Level 4 Challenges at the workplace 8 PART 2 10 GHANA TUC’S PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND DEMOCRACY 10 Human Development Objectives 12 Democratic Participation in Decision-Making 14 PART 3 17 POLICIES 17 POLICY ON LABOUR RELATIONS AND SOCIAL DIALOGUE 17 POLICY ON EDUCATION AND TRAINING 20 POLICY ON ORGANISATION, INTERNAL DEMOCRACY AND SOLIDARITY 22 POLICY ON EMPLOYMENT 28 POLICY ON INCOMES 30 POLICY ON INFORMAL ECONOMY 32 POLICY ON SOCIAL PROTECTION 35 POLICY ON HOUSING 38 POLICY ON GENDER EQUALITY 40 POLICY ON CHILD LABOUR 42 POLICY ON OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY, HEALTH AND ENVIROMENT 44 POLICY ON HIV/AIDS 46 POLICY ON ENERGY AND POWER 49 POLICY ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 52 POLICY ON THE YOUTH ……………………………………………………………… PART 1 _________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND The Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC) has gone through very difficult challenges since it was established in 1945. Nevertheless, it has maintained its identity and continues to grow stronger. Currently, Ghana TUC has seventeen affiliates with an estimated membership...
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...TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.1 Identify the purposes of different types of organisation pg.3,4 1.2 Describe the extent to which an organisation meet the objective different stakeholders pg.5 1.3 Explain the responsibilities of organisation and strategies employed to meet them pg.6,7 2.1 Explain how economic systems attempt to allocate resources effectively pg.7, 8 2.2 Assess the impact of fiscal and monetary policy on business organisations and their activities pg.8, 9 2.3 Evaluate the impact of competition policy and other regulatory mechanisms on the activities of a selected organisation pg.10 3.1 Explain how market structures determine the pricing and output decisions of businesses pg.11 3.2 Illustrate the way in which market forces shape organisational responses using a range of examples pg.12 3.3 Judge how the business and cultural environments shape the behaviour of a selected organisation pg.13 4.1 Discuss the significance of international trade to UK business organisations pg.14 4.2 Analyse the impact of global factors on UK business organisations pg.15 4.3 Evaluate the impact of policies of the European Union on UK business organisations pg.15, 16 INTRODUCTION IN THIS ASSIGNEMENT I WILL INDENTIFY AND DISCUSS THE TYPES OF ORGANISATION, I WILL EXPLAIN THE RESPONSABILITIES OF ORGANISATION THE ECONOMIC SYSTE. I WILL SHOW THE KEY OBJECTIVES COMPETITION POLICY AND HOW THE MARKET STRUCTURES DETERMINE THE PRICING OF THE...
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