...dynamics, diversity, and communication. This summary will examine the characteristics of high-performance organizations. It will discuss how they differ from traditional organizations in terms of operational effectiveness, workplace stress, and organizational. The summary will also discuss strategies for managing stress in the workplace and evaluate some to the emerging trends in organizational behavior as they relate to high-performance workplaces and stress management techniques. Characteristics of High-Performance Organizations High-Performance Organizations (HPO) is an organization that concentrates on bringing out the best in individual employees. In order for the organization to emerge as a HPO the organization must implement the following characteristics: * Individuals are assets. With a High-Performance Organization employees are assets to the organization. * Mobilized teams. The heart of a HPO is cohesion and teamwork. Flat hierarchies were team members can work together is a strong characteristic of the HPO. * Integrate the newest technologies. Technology can greatly enhance productivity to free up employees to focus on other important task. This can be accomplished only with proper training. * Focus on growth and development. HPO thrives on learning and advancement with ongoing training and teaching seminars to empower employees. * Goal objectives. The goal of an HPO is to aim for growth my meeting and exceeding goals. Accomplished...
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...Becoming a High Performance Organization: A study of Alpha Newspaper Group. Introduction The subject of my course project is Alpha Newspaper Group. Alpha is a print media company that I worked for in 2009. They own regional newspapers throughout the country that are published on a weekly basis. Alpha operates two main headquarters; one in the north of the country, where the business was established and where the owners reside, and one in the midlands where I worked. Our office oversaw the publication of 5 newspapers in the local area with a staff of 30 or so journalists, editors, production designers, HR personnel and management. The print media industry is going through tough times. Technological advances and access to free information have had a negative effect on sales and revenue raised through advertising. It’s led to serious questions being posed about the future of the industry. The need to adapt like any other industry in today’s climate is present. Added to this the economic recession has not helped. Newspapers are a staple in people’s expenditure however value for money is still sought. There is plenty of competition and the product needs to maintain high standards. Whilst I was working for the company Alpha were looking down every avenue in order to reduce costs. Alpha had an organizational structure that placed a lot of power in the northern headquarters. The owners worked predominantly from there and had far less direct contact with the midland office. They...
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...4/24/2014 Paris Koutsougeras | S 1494155 | ict in business | Change Management | Chapter 3 – Organizational change This chapter provides a framework of organizational changes that occur even incrementally or radical within the organization and it tackles with some issues of organizational change such as how does the process of organizational change happen, must change be initiated and driven through by one strong personality or can it be planned collectively by a powerful group of people and also talks about the sheer momentum of change will happen. The main objective is to understand the multi-dimensional character of organizational change and analyze change in terms of its different approaches - metaphors. The opinion of Andre De Waal about organizational change and what is High Performance Organization are going to be presented. Organizational Metaphors According to Mr. Gareth Morgan Metaphor gives the opportunity to stretch our way of thinking and deepen our understanding, therefore giving us the opportunity to see things and act in new ways. Metaphor always creates distortions. We have to accept that any theory or perspective that we bring to organizational and management study, while capability of creating valuable insights, is also incomplete, biased, and potentially misleading. There are eight organizational Metaphors which are very good starting point for understanding of different assumptions of change. These are the following: * Machines ...
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...first attempt to describe what a high-performance workplace and organization is all about and what characteristics such workplaces have. Second, the paper will provide information on how high-performance workplaces are different from the traditional workplaces, including operational effectiveness, workplace stress, and organizational dynamics. Next, the paper will list strategies used in the management of stress in the workplace. Last, the authors will provide an evaluation of the trends in organizational behavior correlating to high-performance workplaces and the techniques used to manage stress. Organizational Trends In a high-performance workplace and within organizations there are many characteristics. Their characteristics are what make an organization different from their competitor. Because of different factors in an organization their operational effectiveness, workplace stress, and organizational dynamics will encounter different challenges. The strategies that organizations use to manage their employee’s stress are what will help employees not to become burned out or look for another job. The organizations that can evaluate emerging trends in organizational behavior related to high-performance workplaces and stress management technique will be the organizations that will be successful during change. Characteristics of High-Performance Organizations HPO is another way of saying high-performance organization that means nothing more than making the best...
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...Wal Mart A Proposal on How Wal-Mart Can Reduce High Employee Turnover Tiffanie Jenkins GM 591 Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. branded as Wal-Mart since 2008 and Wal-Mart before then, is an American public multinational corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. The company is the world's 18th largest public corporation, according to the Forbes Global 2000 list, and the largest public corporation when ranked by revenue. It is also the biggest private employer in the world with over 2 million employees. The company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962, incorporated on October 31, 1969, and publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange in 1972. It is headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas. Wal-Mart is also the largest grocery retailer in the United States. In 2009, it generated 51% of its US$258 billion sales in the U.S. from grocery business. It also owns and operates the Sam's Club retail warehouses in North America. Wal-Mart has 8,500 stores in 15 countries, under 55 different names. The company operates under its own name in the United States, including the 50 states and Puerto Rico. Walton was extremely successful in running the store in Newport, far exceeding expectations. However, when the lease came up for renewal, Walton could neither come to agreement on the existing store's lease renewal nor find a new location in Newport. Instead, he opened a new Ben Franklin franchise in Bentonville, Arkansas, but called it "Walton's Five...
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...Wal Mart A Proposal on How Wal-Mart Can Reduce High Employee Turnover Tiffanie Jenkins August 21, 2011 Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. branded as Wal-Mart since 2008 and Wal-Mart before then, is an American public multinational corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. The company is the world's 18th largest public corporation, according to the Forbes Global 2000 list, and the largest public corporation when ranked by revenue. It is also the biggest private employer in the world with over 2 million employees. The company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962, incorporated on October 31, 1969, and publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange in 1972. It is headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas. Wal-Mart is also the largest grocery retailer in the United States. In 2009, it generated 51% of its US$258 billion sales in the U.S. from grocery business. It also owns and operates the Sam's Club retail warehouses in North America. Wal-Mart has 8,500 stores in 15 countries, under 55 different names. The company operates under its own name in the United States, including the 50 states and Puerto Rico. Walton was extremely successful in running the store in Newport, far exceeding expectations. However, when the lease came up for renewal, Walton could neither come to agreement on the existing store's lease renewal nor find a new location in Newport. Instead, he opened a new Ben Franklin franchise in Bentonville, Arkansas, but called it "Walton's...
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...ABSTRACT Microorganisms are too small to be seen with the unaided eye, therefore, they must be observed with a microscope. Due to the fast innovations and advances in microscopy, we are now capable of examining, determining and observing them. This experiment, which utilized the hay infusion as the residing area of microorganisms, investigated the living organism in a drop of water, their manifestation of the different attributes in life. During the run of the experiment, paramecium and specie 1 were observed and were tested to determine the impact of different stimulus to microorganisms in three setups. At the end of the experiment, the variety of setups has been shown to affect the number and kinds of species seen, such as placing hay infusion in dark and the other one, exposed to sunlight, adding brine and sugar solution on the setups. The third section of this paper will deal with relative number of species observed and seen. This paper tackles how microorganism thrive and exemplify mechanisms for survival in the different setups for comparison Moreover, this proves that even in a small drop of water, still, life can exist and microorganisms prosper. I. INTRODUCTION Life on Earth was said to have begun 3.5 billions of years ago. Until now it is still dominating, counting and adding years to life’s age. For an organism to be considered living or possesses life, they must portray different attributes of life. This include mainly by movement, irritability...
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...INTRODUCTION ABC Telecommunications is a publicly traded, global, manufacturing telecommunications company who primarily sells copper and fiber products to customers like Verizon and AT&T/Cingular. Like many other telecommunication companies, ABC went thru a significant down-turn around 2000. Not only did offices and manufacturing plants get shut-down throughout the world, the morale and culture of ABC changed. ABC lost a lot of their highly skilled, highly valuable employees. They have consciously tried to hire “the best of the best” but yet they are not willing to provide the salaries and benefits to get those individuals. In fact, ABC has really been focusing on cost-cutting measures the last couple of years. Employee recognition and rewards are very rare, bonuses were not given last year, locations in the US continue to get shut down, and layoffs are frequent in order to get headcount and employee expenses down. Purchases of new computers and other technology equipment are considered an unnecessary expense. Understandably, turnover is high and those who stay tend not to be satisfied. Many leave quickly; others just complain and talk about how much better the company used to be. ABC was the organization reviewed in my OCI paper. ABC’s highest style rating was conventional and their second highest style was approval. Most employees feel the need to conform, to not get involved in any disagreements, and to have superficial relationships with their co-workers so...
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...Organizational Behavior – Gore-Tex case 1. What impresses you about this company? Is it well-managed? To what extent does the management style match what business schools tell you about 'how to manage'? High-performance organizations are categorized as businesses that constantly perform better than their competitors and they want to bring out the best in people. A flat lattice arrangement emphasizes on putting together groups of like-minded experts who work together on a common objective. What impressed us is how the Organizational cultures impact and affect the individual components of the processes and performance within Gore- Tex and also in Gore Tex all the employees are allow to be associates which in other word give incentives to work harder as they feel responsible for the company . Therefore, Gore-Tex has enhanced its organizational culture to be designed for high performance, in order to boost and execute the best possible strategy. 2. How successful was Bill Gore in defining the business, developing a strategic vision, and crafting a strategy to achieve performance objectives? The case states that Gore-Tex has been very creative and successful with due to its unusual organizational structure and management. Gore-Tex’s flat lattice arrangement allows direct communication among each other and accountability to members of the multi-disciplined teams. With such open channels of communication, employees (associates) are able to meet and discuss projects and other...
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...Rules for High Performance Organizations (graded) | This week our text discusses the definition of organizational behavior and in particular its applied focus, and our lecture focuses on high performance organizations (HPOs). Right at the intersection of those would be the “Ten Golden Rules of High Performance” listed below. What do you think should be added to the list? Is there anything on the list that you disagree with? Please support your opinion with evidence from our readings and also from your own work and life experience. Please also remember to respond to your classmates’ posts to stimulate further discussion. Ten Golden Rules of High Performance 1. Hire by committee – make sure recruits talk to their future colleagues. 2. Cater to every need – make it easy, not hard, for people to perform. 3. Pack them in – put people to work close to one another. 4. Make coordination easy – use technology to keep people talking together. 5. Eat your own dog food – make use of the company products. 6. Encourage creativity – allow freedom to come up with new ideas. 7. Strive for consensus – remember that “many are better than few.” 8. Don’t be evil – live tolerance and respect. 9. Data-driven decisions – do the analysis and stay on track. 10. Communicate effectively – hold many stay-in-touch meetings. Responses | | | Response | Author | Date/Time* | | | Ten Golden Rules of High Performance | Zachary Brechler | 9/2/2012 5:43:26 AM | | | I think...
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...INTRODUCTION ABC Telecommunications is a publicly traded, global, manufacturing telecommunications company who primarily sells copper and fiber products to customers like Verizon and AT&T/Cingular. Like many other telecommunication companies, ABC went thru a significant down-turn around 2000. Not only did offices and manufacturing plants get shut-down throughout the world, the morale and culture of ABC changed. ABC lost a lot of their highly skilled, highly valuable employees. They have consciously tried to hire “the best of the best” but yet they are not willing to provide the salaries and benefits to get those individuals. In fact, ABC has really been focusing on cost-cutting measures the last couple of years. Employee recognition and rewards are very rare, bonuses were not given last year, locations in the US continue to get shut down, and layoffs are frequent in order to get headcount and employee expenses down. Purchases of new computers and other technology equipment are considered an unnecessary expense. Understandably, turnover is high and those who stay tend not to be satisfied. Many leave quickly; others just complain and talk about how much better the company used to be. ABC was the organization reviewed in my OCI paper. ABC’s highest style rating was conventional and their second highest style was approval. Most employees feel the need to conform, to not get involved in any disagreements, and to have superficial relationships with their co-workers so...
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...HIGH PERFORMANCE ORGANIZATIONS By Jojo Sams A high-performance organization is one which has adopted a set of working practices deemed to change its context, focus, priorities and goals to allow for enhanced individual and organizational performance, an emphasis is placed on employee empowerment and teamwork in which workers are empowered to make decisions both at the point of production and at the point of customer contact, it also employs a more participative rather than authoritarian management style to build support systems that are designed to serve the servers and producers, not the management and the bureaucracy. I think people should work with you and not for you because this means that the people under you are not simply followers who blindly go where you go, but rather are a group of people who are supportive of collaboration in order to achieve a common goal, the organization's success. When people are empowered to take risks and encouraged to have a "say" and offer their input regardless of their official "status" in the company, there is a high level of human satisfaction and commitment to the success of the organization, this is vital to high performing organizations. High performance organizations are intentionally designed to bring out the best in their people, employees or consumers, with policies that bring about improvements in performance, focus on customer satisfaction and in enhancing the quality of working life. In essence...
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...BIOLOGY 10 Introduction to Biology Laboratory Manual Prepared by: KLLabrador Table of Contents |Exercise |Title |Page No. | |1 |Observation and Description |2 | |2 |Formulation, Testing of Hypothesis, |6 | | |and Experimental Design | | |3 |The Use of Models and Controls |9 | |4 |Plant and Animal Tissues |14 | |5 |Cellular Respiration |22 | |6 |Photosynthesis |27 | |7 |Phylogeny and Systematics: Survey of Plant and Animal Families |30 | | ...
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...Introduction Limited Brands is the organization that I have chosen to cover for my project. Headquartered in Columbus, OH, Limited Brands is a publicly traded company; with their New York Stock Exchange ticker being LTD. This company primarily sells women’s intimate apparel and beauty and personal care products. The stronger brands that this company is known for are Victoria’s Secret and Bath and Body Works. Limited Brands mainly markets their products in the United States and Canada. I was a sales associate and assistant manager for Bath and Body works from August of 2010 till December of 2011. I came at a time when Limited Brands was looking to build more of a presence internationally since there was so much success in the U. S and Canada. Limited Brands made over 10 million dollars when their fiscal year ended, according to the MarketLine’s overview of the company (Limited Brands 2). Taking a historical view Leslie H. Wexner is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Limited Brands, Inc. Wexner founded Limited Brands with one store—The Limited—in Columbus, Ohio with sales of $160,000 in it’s first year(About Limited Brands). Today, Limited Brands has expanded from apparel based specialty retailer to an approximately $10 billion segment leader with more than 90,000 associates focused on lingerie, beauty and personal care product categories that make customers feel sexy, sophisticated and forever young, according to limited brands.com(About Limited...
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...Keller Graduate University [2009] Final Project Proposal “How to make Natel Engineering become a High Performance Organization” GROUP MEMBERS: Anthony Gonzales (acgonzales@msn.com) Christopher Cerdon (ccerdon@gmail.com) Raymond Bucassas (raymond_bucassas@yahoo.com) Kathryn Weber (kweber777@gmail.com) Nancy Sanchez (nancysanchez1985@hotmail.com) [pomona, ca] INTRODUCTION Good employee relations are crucial to any work environment in order to perform at their maximum efficiency. Excellent work and ethical values are needed to ensure a high quality standard of treatment in all occupational situations. A company that does not know how to treat their employees as their number one asset is a company destined to falter. Target Company: Natel Engineering Co., Inc. Chatsworth, Ca Founded in 1975, a foremost, privately held, independent manufacturer of a wide variety of microelectronic products, providing mid to high volume production to defense, aerospace, fiber optics/optoelectronics, medical, space, RF microwave and telecommunication industries. According to Business Week magazine in 2007, Natel Engineering Co. has been ranked as the 9th largest aerospace manufacturer in the greater San Fernando Valley area based on the number of employees. Natel is founded and owned by Sudesh Arora, who has a very prestigious background in Electrical Engineering -- he developed an exceptionally complex sulfur analyzer which won him the popular IR-100 Award...
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