...business conditions change. However, only recently corporations started integrating sustainability as the part of their business strategy as they came to recognize that it is an essential part in growing and establishing themselves as the leader in the competing environment. A well-executed sustainability strategy can enhance the company’s value and reinforce competitive advantage in the market while protecting the capital base. The balance of power has shifted between corporations and it is important to balance economic prosperity along with environmental and social dimensions. Sustainable business strategy represents a marked shift in traditional business practices and companies who do not adapt to the changes in these practices in order to achieve sustainable profitability will be more likely to face the brand value decline or even extinction in the future. For instance, the change represents the need to understand how all three dimensions affect each other and companies ought to consciously create new consumer preferences. However, a lot of companies still are missing guidelines to implementing a marketing strategy of sustainability as an essential part, which is at the core of ensuring organizational, social, economic and environment growth while managing overconsumption issues (White, 2011). Current researches tend to focus on developing a more sustainable approach on product design, pricing, promotion and distribution when it comes to the sustainable business strategy and companies...
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...Organizational Leadership and Interprofessional Team Development A. Organization Self Assessment Tool (See Appendix 1 A) 1. Description of practice setting The work environment for the practice of nursing has been known as one of the most demanding throughout all areas of nursing. In general, nurses provide the vast majority of patient- care in hospitals, nursing homes, ambulatory care sites, and other health care settings. Penant Hospital is 200- bed hospital located close to the inner city. We serve mainly people from low socio-economic backgrounds, average age 65years. There is a large migrant population in the area, with demography of blacks, whites and Hispanics. Penant hospital was established almost fifty years ago and is part of a large corporation. We are Joint Commission accredited and have over 400 medical staff. Our dedication to providing quality, compassionate, cost effective healthcare that is responsive to the needs of our patients, physicians and community is firmly established in our mission. We provide many services to our community. These services encompass emergency care, breast care, inpatient hospice care, behavioral health, laboratory services, wound care, orthopedics as well as pain management. Penant Hospital has an administrative team which comprises of Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Medical Officer(CMO), Chief Nursing Officer(CNO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO) , Chief Organizational Officer (COO) and Director...
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...Unit 03: Introduction to Marketing – Major Assignment 1 1: Situation Analysis and its Applications. Situation analysis can be divided into SWOT and PEST analysis. It is aimed at collecting and evaluating data which will help identify circumstances which may influence the organisation in a positive or negative way, and affect its choice of strategies. SWOT analysis examines the internal aspects of the organisation which characterize its strengths and weaknesses and also its external opportunities and threats. This analysis focuses on a business unit and will help researchers determine the best strategy an organisation should follow in order to be successful. Implementing SWOT analysis on PAVI, one sees that it has numerous strengths such as being a multi-purpose supermarket logically laid out onto one floor giving customers the advantage of finding everything they need easily and in one place. A weakness of PAVI might be that they only have a single outlet across Malta which will hinder their chances of attracting customers living further away from the centre. Its competitors’ weaknesses are PAVIs’ opportunities, thus PAVI took the opportunity to eliminate the problem of parking other supermarkets have by installing a car park on the supermarkets’ roof, increasing their appeal to customers using private transport. The most obvious threat for PAVI is having LIDL open an outlet practically in its’ backyard, therefore PAVI must focus on perfecting its strengths, improving its...
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...personnel management to strategic HRM 18 2.4 The impact of strategic HRM 21 2.5 The implementation of strategic HRM in the public sector 23 2.6 Key chapter findings 26 Chapter 3: The Developing Concept of Strategic HR in the Irish Civil Service 28 3.1 Introduction 28 3.2 Background to HR reform in the civil service 28 3.3 From policy to practice 31 3.4 Key chapter findings 33 Chapter 4: Strategic HR Practice in the Irish Civil Service 35 4.1 Introduction 35 4.2 Evidence of HR as a strategic partner 36 4.3 Evidence of HR as an administrative expert 45 4.4 Evidence of HR as an employee champion 49 4.5 Evidence of HR as a change agent 54 4.6 Key chapter findings 55 3 Chapter 5: Implementing Strategic HR Outside the Civil Service 57 5.1 Introduction 57 5.2 HR reform in Dublin City Council 57 5.3 HR...
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...(Shell), the world's second and third largest energy companies? Environmental analysis highlights the increasing volatility of the global energy market, which is driven by factors including demographics, urbanisation, income levels, market liberalisation and demand. What Does Macro Environment Mean? The conditions that exist in the economy as a whole, rather than in a particular sector or region. In general, the macro environment will include trends in gross domestic product (GDP), inflation, employment, spending, and monetary and fiscal policy. The macro environment is closely linked to the general business cycle, as opposed to the performance of an individual business sector. (www.investopedia.com ) Major external and uncontrollable factors that influence an organization's decision making, and affect its performance and strategies. These factors include the economic, demographics, legal, political, and social conditions, technological changes, and natural forces. Factors that influence a company's or product's development but that are outside of the company's control. For example, the macro environment could include competitors, changes in interest rates, changes in cultural tastes, or government regulations. (www.businessdictionary.com) To lead an organization efficiently we must know where our company is situated, what are the outside influences and the inside ones. Outer environment (macro environment) There are some factors in the lives of organizations that...
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...those of Combat Poverty Agency. 2 Community Development and Public Policy CONTENTS Acknowledgements Preface 4 5 Introduction Background to the publication Structure of the publication 6 6 Section 1: Defining public policy 1.1 What is public policy? 1.2 How is policy made? 1.3 The public policy cycle 1.4 Example of a community organisation’s impact on policy 7 7 8 13 16 Section 2: A community-development approach to policy making 2.1 Giving voice to excluded groups 2.2 Characteristics of a community-development approach 2.3 Value of adopting a community-development approach 18 18 19 21 Section 3: Influencing public policy making 3.1 Develop a policy agenda 3.2 Make it an integral part of the work 3.3 Be focused 3.4 Develop a strategy for the influence 3.5 Understand the process of policy implementation 3.6 Build operational and organisational capacity 24 24 25 25 27 31 31 Section 4: Issues and challenges 4.1 Challenges for the community sector 4.1 Challenges for the statutory sector 34 34 35 Section 5: References...
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...sustainable society is our internal wiring. Put simply, humans evolved in an environment of scarcity and our brains are poorly adapted to restrain our appetites in a climate of abundance even when our ‘executive’ brain warns us that our civilization has overextended the limits of the biosphere. The human mind is not used to dealing with novel global environmental threats such as pollution, plastic, chemicals, nuclear waste and greenhouse gases, because for millions of years these problems were not around. As citizens of the world, each of us is responsible for the health of our planet. Our choices and our actions contribute to the well-being or deterioration of the environment. ? While some countries have chosen to develop national-level strategies, Canada’s federal system of governance required an approach that acknowledged that many of the levers for promoting sustainable development are controlled by different levels of governments (e.g. municipalities, provinces, and territories). The FSDA (Federal Sustainable Development Act) articulates the Government of Canada’s long-term vision, goals, and targets, including its plans for reducing the federal government’s environmental footprint. Environmental sustainability and economic development can be considered contending imperatives. We are now seeing more and more concern for ‘sustainable development’ that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” While a consumerist...
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...Patrick Stoop Theodore Thomas BGD/04/002-Developing Civil Service Capacity for 21st Century Administration Contents Contents __________________________________________________________________ 2 Acronym and Abbreviations___________________________________________________ 5 1. Executive Summary: Aiming at Public Confidence and Sustained Transformation in the Civil Service ________________________________________________________ 6 1.1. 1.2. 1.3. 1.4. 1.5. 1.5.1. 1.5.2. 1.5.3. Objectives and Approaches of the Mission_________________________________ 6 Assessment___________________________________________________________ 6 Issues and Goal of a Civil Service Reform Program _________________________ 7 Overview of program components and strategies ___________________________ 9 Recommendations____________________________________________________ 10 Recommendations for immediate action ________________________________________ 10 Recommendations targeted to be implemented before the end of the first year of the civil service reform program _____________________________________________________ 11 Recommendations for a phased civil service reform process. ________________________ 12 2. Situation Analysis _____________________________________________________ 16 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. Background _________________________________________________________ 16 Evolving Public Administration around the World ________________________ 17 Reform Efforts in the Past _____________________________________________...
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...Restructuring and change management Toolkit for PSA organisers and delegates April 2009 To contribute resources or suggested changes contact the PSA Policy Team Restructuring and change management Toolkit for organisers and delegates This kit contains information and resources to help PSA organisers and delegates plan and organise around change. The first section of the kit provides guidance on the PSA approach to change and how we organise our activity. The second section brings together support materials to be used by organisers and delegates. Contents Our approach to change Planning our activity Sharing information Legal issues Collective agreement change clauses Members with grandparented terms and conditions Pregnant members and members on parental leave Redundancy tax credits 4 5 6 6 6 7 8 8 Support materials Organising checklist Flowchart of standard change process – consultation phase Flowchart of standard change process – implementation phase Advice from the legal team Examples of collective agreement change clauses Brief guidance on value for money and expenditure reviews Information sheet for members and delegates – role of the union in change processes Communications plan template Post-change de-brief sheet Submission tips and template for members Short change management development module Example of an additional engagement protocol 11 12 13 14 19 25 26 28 29 30 32 30 3 Our approach to change Change is a feature of modern organisations...
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...Innovation -strategies and finance- Index 1. Introduction 2. Tips for innovation 2.1 Increase Productivity 2.2 Implement a Continuous Improvement Culture 2.3 Create an Innovation Culture 2.4 Developing Talent and Ability to Innovate 2.5 Design and Build New-Growth 2.6 Collaboration 3. Innovation in the EU 3.1 Marco’s Programme. 3.2 Innovation Union 3.2.1 Conclusions innovation unión. 4. Conclusions 5. Biography 2 Introduction Innovation is the development of new customers value through solutions that meet new needs, inarticulate needs, or old customer and market needs in value adding new ways. This is accomplished through more effective products, processes, services, technologies, that are readily available to markets, governments, and society. Innovation differs from invention in that innovation refers to the use of a better and, as a result, novel idea or method, whereas invention refers more directly to the creation of the idea or method itself. Innovation differs from improvement in that innovation refers to the notion of doing something different rather than doing the same thing better. In business and economics, innovation is the catalyst to growth. With rapid advancements in transportation and communications over the past few decades, the old world concepts of factor endowments and comparative advantage which focused on an area’s unique inputs are outmoded for today’s global economy. Economist Joseph Schumpeter, who contributed greatly to the study of innovation...
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...generally accepted that sustainable development calls for a convergence between the three pillars of economic development, social equity, and environmental protection. Sustainable development is a visionary development paradigm; and over the past 20 years governments, businesses, and civil society have accepted sustainable development as a guiding principle, made progress on sustainable development metrics, and improved business and NGO participation in the sustainable development process. Yet the concept remains elusive and implementation has proven difficult. Unsustainable trends continue and sustainable development has not found the political entry points to make real progress. As a result, climate change has become the de facto proxy for implementation of the sustainable development agenda; but the...
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...competitive forces are seeking to retain and grow the share of business from profitable existing customers as a means of finding a way out of downward spiralling price pressures. While a lot has been written in academics about the importance of CVM, several gaps remain on understanding how a large company actually undertakes this journey. Crafting competitive value chains and focusing on streams of competition are also emerging as important agenda for supplier firms since, increasingly, the end customer is no longer willing to pay for inefficiencies in the value chains. In this context, the challenge for a supplier firm in business markets is no longer restricted to getting its own operations in order, but, additionally, it must ensure that multiple interfaces that exist across the entire value chain all the way until the end customer are streamlined so that the value chain is free of value drains and every meaningful opportunity to create value is exploited. In this paper, the authors present the experiences of the India-based Tata Steel in implementing CVM across 25 select customers. This has enabled it to successfully come out of the commodity trap that it found itself some four years ago. The paper begins with an overview of existing research in...
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...competitive forces are seeking to retain and grow the share of business from profitable existing customers as a means of finding a way out of downward spiralling price pressures. While a lot has been written in academics about the importance of CVM, several gaps remain on understanding how a large company actually undertakes this journey. Crafting competitive value chains and focusing on streams of competition are also emerging as important agenda for supplier firms since, increasingly, the end customer is no longer willing to pay for inefficiencies in the value chains. In this context, the challenge for a supplier firm in business markets is no longer restricted to getting its own operations in order, but, additionally, it must ensure that multiple interfaces that exist across the entire value chain all the way until the end customer are streamlined so that the value chain is free of value drains and every meaningful opportunity to create value is exploited. In this paper, the authors present the experiences of the India-based Tata Steel in implementing CVM across 25 select customers. This has enabled it to successfully come out of the commodity trap that it found itself some four years ago. The paper begins with an overview of existing research in...
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...and develop a framework or roadmap for firms wishing to become a high performing CSR organization. AT A GLANCE • Human resource professionals have a key role to play to help a company achieve its CSR objectives. Employee involvement is a critical success factor for CSR performance. Human resource managers have the tools and the opportunity to leverage employee commitment to, and engagement in, the firm’s CSR strategy. • High performing CSR organizations foster a culture of CSR and fully integrate CSR throughout their operations, rewarding and incentivizing CSR decisions and initiatives. • Employees prefer to work for organizations aligned with their values; thus, incorporating CSR into the employee brand can enhance recruitment and retention, particularly in tight labour markets. • CSR can be applied to the HR toolkit, resulting in a roadmap or pathway for human resource practitioners to follow who wish to contribute to the achievement of their organization’s sustainability and business aspirations, thereby improving social and environmental conditions locally and globally. CSR and HR Management Issue Brief and Roadmap 3 CSR and HR Management Issue Brief and Roadmap 4 CSR and HR Management Issue Brief and Roadmap 5 INTRODUCTION Human resource managers are well positioned to play an instrumental role in helping their organization achieve its goals of becoming a socially and environmentally responsible firm – one which reduces...
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...competitive forces are seeking to retain and grow the share of business from profitable existing customers as a means of finding a way out of downward spiralling price pressures. While a lot has been written in academics about the importance of CVM, several gaps remain on understanding how a large company actually undertakes this journey. Crafting competitive value chains and focusing on streams of competition are also emerging as important agenda for supplier firms since, increasingly, the end customer is no longer willing to pay for inefficiencies in the value chains. In this context, the challenge for a supplier firm in business markets is no longer restricted to getting its own operations in order, but, additionally, it must ensure that multiple interfaces that exist across the entire value chain all the way until the end customer are streamlined so that the value chain is free of value drains and every meaningful opportunity to create value is exploited. In this paper, the authors present the experiences of the India-based Tata Steel in implementing CVM across 25 select customers. This has enabled it to successfully come out of the commodity trap that it found itself some four years ago. The paper begins with an overview of existing research in...
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