...rigorously throughout strategic plan can lead into remarkable results. Ethics and social responsibility play a critical role in developing a strategic plan. Values, standards, norms, and rules to accomplish an accurate avenue in attaining strategic objectives are based on ethics. Social accountability is associated to the social norms and policy that if measured through the strategic planning, can outline the foundation of reliability. Ethics participate in an essential role in gathering the diverse requirements of internal and external stakeholders (Sims, 2003). These two key aspects execute a basic role in establishing a workable strategic plan. Ethics and social responsibility support in ensuring an agreement with the special requirements of stakeholders. These are as follows : • Ethical code of conduct: Ethical codes of conduct acknowledge all through strategic plan help in ensuring right and moral activities. This aid the organization in fulfilling the desires of employees, customers, communities, shareholders, and governmental bodies (Duckworth & Moore, 2010). • Ethical guidelines: Ethical guidelines correlated to rules, regulation, and norms also take on an important role in actualizing a strategic plan. Activities like environmental examination, strength weakness opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis, aim market selection, demographic study, and marketplace segmentation are...
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...environment? it permits the organization to be seen as a whole In doing so, the strengths and weaknesses within the firm can be examined. This is done because as stated in the Hunger & Wheelen (2006, 106) text, "scanning and analyzing the external environment for opportunities and threats is not enough to provide an organization a competitive advantage." five-step, resource-based approach to strategy analysis: 1) Identify and classify the firm's resources in terms of strengths and weaknesses. 2) Combine the firm's strengths into specific capabilities and core competencies. 3) Appraise the profit potential of these capabilities and competencies in terms of their potential for sustainable competitive advantage and the ability to harvest the profits resulting from their use. 4) Select the strategy that best exploits the firm's capabilities and competencies relative to external opportunities. 5) Identify resource gaps and invest in upgrading weaknesses. How can value-chain analysis help identify a company’s strengths and weaknesses? You can use value chain analysis to ensure that each business activity you are involved in creates value for your customers and to help identify your company’s strengths and weaknesses. The value chain analysis process begins with examining each of the activities you and your employees do to create a positive experience for your customer. In what ways can a corporation’s structure and culture be internal strengths or weaknesses? In most organizations...
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...FRANK SCHIMMELFENNING AND ULRICH SEDELMEIER In this theoretical disposition we will account for Sedelmeier and Schimmelfennig’s understanding of europeanization theory. In the book ‘The Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe’ they define three models that each explain a different perspective of the incentives to adopt EU legislation. In the analysis there will be made use of two models; ‘The External Incentives Model’ and ‘The Social Learning Model’. There will be an account of the models below. The models allow for different perspectives and explanations, which creates a wider framework for us to conduct an analysis within. What makes this europeanization theory especially relevant for us, is its methodical...
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...Name: Hasham Tariq Reg no: 12882 Subject: Research Proposal 1 (Rp1) Class: Tuesday 6 to 9 Assignment: Abstract/References of 10 research papers (Motivation/Discrimination) Submitted to: Dr Akif Hussain / Dr Imtiaz Subhani 1. When Searching Hurts: The Role of Information Search in Reactions to Gender Discrimination Abstract Two laboratory studies conducted with Dutch students explored women’s motivation to search for evidence of gender discrimination and its effects on psychological well-being. Study 1 (N = 161) considered situational self-relevance of one’s personal outcomes (personal failure or success) on women’s motivation to collect information about gender discrimination. Study 2 (N = 106) manipulated information search and studied its effects on well-being when information contains evidence of gender discrimination or personal failure. Results revealed that women are motivated to search for evidence of discrimination when outcomes are highly self-relevant (Study 1) or the need to search is high (Study 2). Furthermore women suffer from evidence of prejudice, but only when they are personally affected by this prejudice and evidence suggests it is pervasive. References -When Searching Hurts: The Role of Information Search in Reactions to Gender Discrimination Katherine Stroebe, Manuela Barreto and Naomi Ellemers SEX ROLES, Volume 62, Numbers 1-2 (2010), 60-76, DOI: 10.1007/s11199-009-9700-y Published online: 24 September 2009 # Springer Science...
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...4.2ORGANIZATION-LEVEL DIAGNOSIS The organization level of analysis is the broadest systems perspective typically taken in diagnostic activities. Figure 4.1 Organisational level analysis The Figure proposes that an organization's transformation processes, or design components, represent the way the organization positions and organizes itself within an environment (inputs) to achieve specific outputs. The combination of design component elements is called a "strategic orientation." 4.2.1 Organization Environments and Inputs At the organization level of analysis, the external environment is the key input. Different types and dimensions of environment influence organisational responses to external forces. 4.2.1.1 Environmental Types There are two classes of environments: the general environment and the task environment. 4.2.1.1.1 General environment It consists of all external forces and elements that can influence an organization and affect its effectiveness. The environment can be described in terms of the amount of uncertainty present in social, technological, economic, ecological, and political/regulatory forces. Each of these forces can affect the organization in both direct and indirect ways. The general environment also can affect organizations indirectly by virtue of the linkages between external agents. 4.2.1.1.2 Task environment Michael Porter defines an organization's task environment by five forces: supplier power, buyer power, threats of substitutes, threats...
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...the former Duke oncologist, was found out that he engaged in scientific misconduct when he was a cancer researcher at both Duke University's Medical Center and School of Medicine. He and his team was accused of falsifying data about the use of microarray genetic analysis for personalized cancer treatment. And those researches were published in various prestigious scientific journals. It was a big shock, not only in the field of healthcare, but also in the field of statistics. As a scientist, Potti didn’t conform to the ethical norms when he conducted statistical research. Finally he paid his price for it. It became the huge scandal in Duke University. Such irresponsible behavior would have brought so many tragedies if it had not been stopped. So when researchers conduct statistical analysis, conforming to the ethical norms of statistical research is very important. Researchers should be honest, objective and careful to do their jobs. The reason why conforming to the ethical code of statistical research is important is because: first, ethics is the foundation of statistical research; second, conducting research ethically is also a form of social responsibility implementation; and finally, conforming to the ethical norms can promote collaborative work. First, ethics is one of the most important bases of statistical research. Without ethics, any research will be meaningless. Conducting statistical research can make people know about the world, also help people solve realistic...
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...Has strategy contributed to BMW’s success in UK’s premium car market? (Word count: 3000) Executive Summary Owing to the ever increasing competition in today’s business environment, strategy plays a very critical role in ensuring the success of a company. This report gives a limelight on the extent to which strategy has contributed to the superiority of BMW in the UK automobile industry. In analysing this, the report will begin with an evaluation of BMW as a premium car manufacturer. The report then employed the use of PESTEL and Porters five forces to analyse the external car industry environment. The internal environment are analysed by use of value chain analysis. Bowman’s Strategy Clock is also explored in understanding the marketing strategy used by BMW Company. Finally, Resource/ competence framework has also been explored in understanding the key competencies and resource capabilities that has enabled the BMW to maintain market leadership position. In compiling this report, major sources of information used were journals, empirical literature and the internet. The findings of this report show that strategy has played a pivot point in BMW’s overall performance. Generally, the report shows that unstable political environment in the UK and the global market is greatly affecting the industry. Moreover, socio-cultural environment greatly affect the industry as consumers are becoming more environment conscious....
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...S Strategic Plan II: SWOTT Analysis Annette Bauer BUS/475 Heike Soeffker-Culicerto August 29, 2011 A SWOTT analysis a tool used to measure the Tiny-Tots Daycare Center’s strengths, weakness, opportunities, threats and trends. By doing a SWOTT analysis the daycare can become a better and more efficient center. Strengths for a daycare center is a positive quality, they can be the training of the staff, financial stability, and a modern facility. Weaknesses are aspects that need to be improved like low cliental, untrained staff, and out dated equipment or facility. Opportunities are things that help the make a future for the center like growth in the number of children attending or more grant money. Threats can lead in the drop of business or loss of efficiency, these threats could come from the loss of employment within the community and parents may not be able to afford daycare (Cooper). For the Tiny-Tots Daycare Center to conduct a SWOTT analysis, the company will need to answer some questions about their strengths; what advantages do they have, what are their resources, what do they do better than their competitors. Once they have company views their strengths, they will need to see both the external and internal viewpoints, and then make sure they evaluate the customer’s views, as well as the competitor’s views. Once this is done they then need to view their weaknesses, and ask questions like what can be done to improve and avoid these weaknesses. ...
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...are few reviews in the literature about the comparison of IT adoption models at the individual level, and to the best of our knowledge there are even fewer at the firm level. This review will fill this gap. In this study, we review theories for adoption models at the firm level used in information systems literature and discuss two prominent models: diffusion on innovation (DOI) theory, and the technology, organization, and environment (TOE) framework. The DOI found that individual characteristics, internal characteristics of organizational structure, and external characteristics of the organization are important antecedents to organizational innovativeness. The TOE framework identifies three aspects of an enterprise's context that influence the process by which it adopts and implements a technological innovation: technological context, organizational context, and environmental context. We made a thorough analysis of the TOE framework, analysing the studies that used only this theory and the studies that combine the TOE framework with other theories such as: DOI, institutional theory, and the Iacovou, Benbasat, and Dexter model. The institutional theory helps us to understand the factors that influence the...
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...measure. To better understand how this is achieved this paper will examine the principles of psychometric theory and how they are used to develop a psychological measure. To achieve this one must look at norm-referenced and criterion-referenced measures, the process used to develop a psychological measure, and the principles of reliability and validity. Norms When attempting to examine and understand what goes in to developing a psychological measure, one must first understand why psychological measures are used. In psychology psychological measures are used to measure characteristics of an individual, or a group of individuals, and compare them to others. However, when trying to measure an individual’s characteristics and compare them to others, one must first understand that there are different tests used to compare the results of these tests. These are referred to as norm-referenced tests and criterion-referenced tests. As Roodt explains, “with norm referenced measures each test-takers performance is interpreted with reference to a relevant standardisation sample or norm group. Criterion referenced measures, on the other hand, compare the test-takers performance to the attainment of a defined skill or content” (pg38). The first measure the will be examined is the norm-referenced tests. Once the test-taker has finished with the...
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...directions for future TAM research. The paper presents a comprehensive concept-centric literature review of the TAM, from 1986 onwards. According to a designed methodology, 85 scientific publications have been selected and classified according to their aim and content into three categories such as (i) TAM literature reviews, (ii) development and extension of TAM, and (iii) modification and application of TAM. Despite a continuous progress in revealing new factors with significant influence on TAM’s core variables, there are still many unexplored areas of model potential application that could contribute to its predictive validity. Consequently, four possible future directions for TAM research based on the conducted literature review and analysis are identified and...
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...supports an organization moving from a monocultural – or exclusive – organization to a multicultural – or inclusive, diverse and equitable – organization. The approach requires an initial assessment of where the organization is and a commitment to a vision of where it wants to be in the future. From an analysis of the gap between where the organization is and where it wants to be, specific interventions are then designed to accomplish the identified change goals. The MCOD model, based on earlier work by Jackson and Holvino, provides a useful way for an organization to: 1. frame an initial assessment of where it is on the path to multiculturalism, 2. decide on a vision of multiculturalism it wants, and 3. select appropriate goals and interventions to support its desired vision. THE MULTICULTURAL ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT MODEL MONOCULTURAL Exclusionary Committed to the dominance, values and norms of one group. Actively excludes in its mission and practices those who are not members of the dominant group. Passive Club Actively or passively excludes those who are not members of the dominant group. Includes other members only if they “fit” the dominant norm. Values and promotes the dominant perspective of one group, culture or style. TRANSITIONAL MULTICULTURAL Compliance Positive Action Redefining Passively committed to including others without making major changes. Includes only a few members of other groups. Committed...
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...systematic recognition that law is always fluid, pluralistic, contested and subject to often contradictory pressures from both inside and outside its jurisdiction; that it reflects an always unstable diversity of traditions, interests, allegiances, and ultimate values and beliefs. If the comparative perspective on law was once a view of the exotic ‘legal other’ or of the ‘external relations’ of one’s own law with the law of other peoples in other lands, now it is a view of transnational legal patterns and of the cultural complexities of law at home. We live in conditions where the law of the nation-state must respond to a great plurality of demands from different population groups within its jurisdiction. At the same time, it must respond to powerful external pressures. Legal thought in national contexts is being fragmented from within in a new ‘jurisprudence of difference’…and globalized from without in demands for transnational harmonization or uniformity. (“Culture, Comparison, Community” by Roger Cotterrell) Kindly react to this statement, supporting your personal views and conclusions with research, analysis, examples and well-reasoned argumentation. I. Introduction 1 The phenomenon of ‘globalisation’, exemplified by the growing interconnectedness between nations, leads to inevitable interactions between legal systems. Roger Cotterell’s statement illuminates the myriad of overlapping concepts in comparative law that facilitates our understanding of these interactions. ...
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...Susan Colaiacovo Student ID: 21918458 Part A 1. What is required to implement an organizations commitment to social responsibility? What are the main obstacles to implementing socially responsible policies? Name specifications that can be taken toward increased social responsibility. Managers can use the social audit to assess corporate social responsibility. The social audit allows management to evaluate the success or lack of success of programs resulting in the improvement of social performance. The information attained with a social audit can be used to plan and implement socially responsible practices and policies. The essence of the challenge is balancing a company’s bottom line against social responsibilities and effective approaches to environmental protection. Organizations should also examine their values to make sure they are in tune with society value. The obstacles in implementing social responsible policies includes the pressure from financial analysts and stock holders who push for steady increases in earnings on a quarterly basis. An example of social responsibility is increased diversity in the work place. As well as contributions of time and money to charitable, cultural, and civic organizations. Environmental awareness is another way companies demonstrate their sense of social responsibility by limiting the damage their operations...
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...experts. Therefore, to design e-commerce system, a communication pattern is needed either between system developers and business owner, or between customers and the online business system. Moreover, e-commerce system should be adapted with the whole business environment such as business norms and behavior, customer practice, business rules and government policy. However, Semiotic that is ‘the science of signs’ has brought many approaches to facilitate the process of understand signs’ meaning. The approach of organizational semiotic defied the organization as a group of social norms and emphasizes on the people and their role and responsibility in order to merge them when analyzing and designing information system (Stamper et al, 2004). For e-commerce systems, there is a necessity of clear meaning for each symbol, icon and image because almost all transactions done through the web system without human agent involvement. Therefore, semiotic methodologies have been improved to obtain effective communication and interpretation between e-commerce system and user, and to be compatible with the sophisticated information system. This paper aims to apply semiotic method and organizational analysis on the design of online shopping website after giving background information about semiotic concepts and the new business generation...
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