...GM591 Leadership and Organizational Behavior Project Proposal The company that I will be focusing my project on is The Gidewon Group, inc .The Gidewon Group, inc is a marketing and promotions company that own and operate 4 major night clubs in the Atlanta area. The Gidewon Group is a family owned business managed by the three brothers and includes an office staff of 4. The Gidewon Group serves as the corporate office for all 4 night clubs and is located in midtown Atlanta behind one of the locations. The company was started as a way to manage all the locations form one centralized location. We handle all the finances, HR, events, and day to day operations of the locations. Prior to The Gidewon Group being formed in 2009 each location handled its own operations. The locations were not all successful and 1 location had to be closed in order to meet the financial obligations of the other three clubs. The main reason for this was lack of communication between the brothers. One brother serves as CEO, the other as CFO, and the third as General Manager. I started with the company in 2010 and I serve as the Business/HR manager . Since coming on board with the company I have implemented a payroll process, HR guidelines , and a day to day structure for the company to run by . I however still face the issue of communication between the brothers. We have recently been able to open the fourth location again and now...
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...| | |Project Proposal | |Review of Change Efforts Within 7Search.com | | | |Khalilah Burton | |Khalilahburton@yahoo.com | GM591 Leadership and Organizational Behavior Prof. Frank Readus 1/12/2012 GM 591: Leadership and Organizational Behavior Project Proposal Overview of Organization The organization that will be the topic of discussion in my final project paper is 7Search.com. 7/search.com is a privately owned company whose corporate headquarters are located in Des Plaines, Illinois. We are a pay per click advertising search engine and we cover approximately 26% percent of the online search traffic that the top three search engines Google, Yahoo, and Bing do not cover. The 7/search.com competitive advantage lies with...
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...Course Project Proposal GM591- Leadership and Organizational Behavior I. Overview of Organization and My Role in it The Emirates Airlines is the organization that will be the topic of discussion in my final project. “Emirates Airlines is the Emirates Group’s rapidly expanding and award winning international Airline. Emirates started in Dubai and flew out with only two aircrafts in 1985 on 25th October which involved just a leased Boeing 737 and an airbus 300 B4. Today the Airline has orders worth over US$ 68 billion for 200 more of the latest aircraft, with plans to operate in many more destinations in the months and years ahead. Emirates global network now sees it flying to over 110 destinations across 6 continents, operating a modern fleet of over 150 wide-bodied aircraft. Emirates airlines accounts to about 40% of the total movements of flights and aiming for at least 70% total flights coming in and going out of Dubai International Airport.” (http://www.emirates247.com/look-back-2010-onto-2011/the-most-popular-stories-of-2010) I am an accountant for Emirates Airlines and in charge of creating a project aiming to increase the company’s market share and gain more profit without sacrificing the company’s quality of services and reputation. I just recently began my employment in the company and now facing the big challenge of creating this project and attaining the goal of making it huge in international...
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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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...Course Project Horace Clarington 6215 Mathews Dr. Lithonia, GA, 30058 (404) 202-1710 Hclarington@hotmail.com GM591 Leadership and Organizational Behavior Mar11 Sec Ac Professor Jere Ferguson 4/8/11 Wal-Mart is an American public multinational corporation that runs a chain of large discount department stores and a chain of warehouse stores. In 2010 it was the world's largest public corporation by revenue, according to the Forbes Global 2000 for that year. 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. Wal-Mart, headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, is the largest majority private employer and 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, with 55 different names. The company operates under its own name in the United States, including the 50 states. It also operates under its own name in Puerto Rico. Wal-Mart itself has not produced the same results in different countries. With Wal-Mart's investments outside North America having mixed results its operations in the United Kingdom, South America and China have been highly successful, while it was forced to pull out of Germany and South Korea when ventures there were unsuccessful...
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...Course Project Horace Clarington 6215 Mathews Dr. Lithonia, GA, 30058 (404) 202-1710 Hclarington@hotmail.com GM591 Leadership and Organizational Behavior Mar11 Sec Ac Professor Jere Ferguson 4/8/11 Wal-Mart is an American public multinational corporation that runs a chain of large discount department stores and a chain of warehouse stores. In 2010 it was the world's largest public corporation by revenue, according to the Forbes Global 2000 for that year. 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. Wal-Mart, headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, is the largest majority private employer and 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, with 55 different names. The company operates under its own name in the United States, including the 50 states. It also operates under its own name in Puerto Rico. Wal-Mart itself has not produced the same results in different countries. With Wal-Mart's investments outside North America having mixed results its operations in the United Kingdom, South America and China have been highly successful, while it was forced to pull out of Germany and South Korea when ventures there were unsuccessful...
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...Improving Inner-Department Communication To Enhance Employee Engagement & Increase Job Satisfaction Professor Michael McCarthy Final Project December 2, 2012 Introduction Over the course of 10 years ##### has provided third party billing for fleet and insurance companies on all tow, roadside and glass services. When an insured or driver calls the 1-800 numbers on the back of the insurance card, they are redirected to our call center for further assistance. At this point our CSR’s (call center representatives) locate the nearest vendor to assist in whatever the distress call may be to get them back on the road and mobile selecting the vendor based on pricing and ETA (estimated time of arrival). Our CSR’s are trained to use Google maps for roadside claims to locate the nearest vendor with the fastest estimated arrival time (ETA) as well as call local vendors with the best appointment time if instead the call was regarding a glass claim. The original location of ###### had two separate units in a strip mall with one being dedicated to the admin office and the other to the call center. This separation provided the lack of communication between departments which has now trickled over to the new location where we are all in the same suite. Many call center reps feel the admin team is a relaxed setting with less management and no one to regulate their daily task. The admin team, on the other hand, see the call center as being inconsistent with call dictations...
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...Implementing Empowerment in an IT Organization By Student X GM591: Leadership and Organizational Behavior Dr. Ron Stone Keller Graduate School of Management Introduction 3 Problem Statement 5 Literature Review 5 Causes 14 Solutions 16 Reflection 19 Appendix 21 Introduction The organization I chose to study is Software Engineering (SE) in the Internal Information Services (IIS) unit of Defense Contractor X’s Information Technology (NGIT) Sector. The mission of the organization is to conceive, develop and maintain software engineering solutions for the IT Sector of Defense Contractor X. SE is comprised of a Director, Tens Level Managers, Unit Level Manager, Team Leads and Software Engineers. The Director and Tens Level Managers have three to eight people reporting to them. The Unit Level Managers have from fifteen to twenty people reporting to them. In order to manage such large numbers of people, the Unit Level Managers are encouraged to empower their employees to take ownership of their jobs. The Team Lead role is used as a substitute for a Unit Level Manager, with increased responsibilities, but there is no increase in pay or grade when someone assumes the job. Often managers use the Team Lead role to groom future managers of NGIT. Many of the Team Leads are motivated, self-directed individuals who have a certain amount of autonomy in their current roles, which pre-disposes them for managerial work in the organization. OCI...
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