...MGMB 223: Organizational Theory: Group Assignment. You are required to study a particular company. The requirements of the chosen company are: 1. It must have been established more than 20 years. 2. It must be a company that employs more than 10k employees 3. It must be a global company (doing businesses in multiple regions) 4. Diverse workforce. Your assignment is due 8th April 2016 You ought to be able to discuss the company’s establishment in your assignment. Here are some questions that could be your guideline for this assignment. 1. Historical background of the company. 2. Describe the way the company has grown and developed over the years since its establishment. 3. What are the company’s goals and objectives (short and long term?) 3. What does the company do? What kind of services and products that it produces? 4. Who are their stakeholders? Categorized and explain. 5. Prepare and explain the organizational design. In your opinion, what can be done with regards to the company’s design in order to make it more competitive and more dynamic? 6. Explain the line of authority and what kind of structure does the company adapt. Why it use this structure? 7. Describe the company’s general and specific environments/how do the environment affect its operations? 8. Describe briefly the company’s working culture and how it affects the way it operates? 9. Explain the company’s major competitive advantages. How does the company utilize its competitive advantages to maintain...
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...MGT 535 Kindred Todd Essay The Kindred Todd case illustrates many of the OD values and ethical situations that can arise when a consultation is performed as discussed in the Organization Development and Change text for the course. The ethical dilemmas include: misrepresentation, value and goal conflict, as well as technical ineptness. Professional values are also displayed in this case with opportunities. Stepchuck, Todd’s boss, misrepresented the firm’s situation to Todd when giving her the assignment. Todd was caught off guard when the firm’s entire senior management team was present at the initial meeting when Stepchuck told Todd it would be a meeting with the President of the firm to discuss the initial issues and next steps. Todd went to this meeting blind and was bombarded with direct questions about technical details of CQI, timeframes to expect results, plans to map key processes, steps to form quality improvement teams to identify and improve processes. The senior management team wanted her suggestions as an expert in continuous quality improvement (CQI) to increase efficiency and cut costs in their core business. Todd followed up with her boss and her concerns of being misrepresented to this firm as an expert in CQI. If CQI was the hot topic in the OD industry it should be something that Stepchuck’s firm and his associates were versed in to be in keeping with the ethical guidelines of responsibility for professional developoment and achievement...
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...MGT 535 Kindred Todd Essay The Kindred Todd case illustrates many of the OD values and ethical situations that can arise when a consultation is performed as discussed in the Organization Development and Change text for the course. The ethical dilemmas include: misrepresentation, value and goal conflict, as well as technical ineptness. Professional values are also displayed in this case with opportunities. Stepchuck, Todd’s boss, misrepresented the firm’s situation to Todd when giving her the assignment. Todd was caught off guard when the firm’s entire senior management team was present at the initial meeting when Stepchuck told Todd it would be a meeting with the President of the firm to discuss the initial issues and next steps. Todd went to this meeting blind and was bombarded with direct questions about technical details of CQI, timeframes to expect results, plans to map key processes, steps to form quality improvement teams to identify and improve processes. The senior management team wanted her suggestions as an expert in continuous quality improvement (CQI) to increase efficiency and cut costs in their core business. Todd followed up with her boss and her concerns of being misrepresented to this firm as an expert in CQI. If CQI was the hot topic in the OD industry it should be something that Stepchuck’s firm and his associates were versed in to be in keeping with the ethical guidelines of responsibility for professional developoment and achievement...
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...Discuss the Case from the Standpoint of OD Values and Ethics. The Kindred Todd case illustrates a realistic dilemma an Organization Development Practitioner (ODP) may face while properly performing his role of helping the client organization maximize humanistic benefits and achieve organizational effectiveness. The ODP is a qualified professional who facilitates change within the client organization that involves encouraging open communication, employee involvement and personal growth and development. Although some ODP’s may specialize in a specific technical area, all possess common skills in the social processes of organizations. The very nature of the ODP helping role lends itself to the potential for misconduct, intentional or unintentional, because the ODP wields significant power and influence over his client. He has gained the client’s trust, holds in his possession intimate knowledge about the organization’s culture and operations, and is positioned to guide the implementation of the program jointly developed with the client, thereby the client relies on his expertise and guidance at every step in the change process. Without professional values and ethics to guide the ODP’s every interaction, communication, and activity, he may find it difficult to navigate the client relationship as both client and ODP roles and goals may often come into conflict or become clouded by ambiguity. Values and ethics help the keep the ODP’s his role in focus and act to guide him...
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...iscuss the Case from the Standpoint of OD Values and Ethics. The Kindred Todd case illustrates a realistic dilemma an Organization Development Practitioner (ODP) may face while properly performing his role of helping the client organization maximize humanistic benefits and achieve organizational effectiveness. The ODP is a qualified professional who facilitates change within the client organization that involves encouraging open communication, employee involvement and personal growth and development. Although some ODP’s may specialize in a specific technical area, all possess common skills in the social processes of organizations. The very nature of the ODP helping role lends itself to the potential for misconduct, intentional or unintentional, because the ODP wields significant power and influence over his client. He has gained the client’s trust, holds in his possession intimate knowledge about the organization’s culture and operations, and is positioned to guide the implementation of the program jointly developed with the client, thereby the client relies on his expertise and guidance at every step in the change process. Without professional values and ethics to guide the ODP’s every interaction, communication, and activity, he may find it difficult to navigate the client relationship as both client and ODP roles and goals may often come into conflict or become clouded by ambiguity. Values and ethics help the keep the ODP’s his role in focus and act to guide...
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...1. What personality traits do leaders like Todd McFarlane possess that distinguish them from other individuals? Todd McFarlane has task orientation ability to assembly many different artists to leave Marvel Comics in 1992 at the peak of their careers. Todd McFarlane wanted royalties from the characters that he was creating for Marvel Comics but as an Artist you only received you monthly pay check. Todd McFarlane is credit for creating a Spider-Man villain called Venom. In 1992 he left Marvel Comics too alone with other artist to create Image Comics. Todd McFarlane had the following personality traits to be a successful leader he was honest to his fellow artists; he inspired them to leave their jobs from Marvel Comics to start their own company. He was also competent in his ability to lead other artists to leave Marvel Comics and to accomplish their goals of starting a new company. 2. How have global competition and technology advances changed business conditions and leadership challenges? Many business meeting was performed behind closed doors which prevent the everyday citizen from knowing what is going on in the world. Now with things like Facebook, twitter, and MySpace have changed business conditions and leadership challenges since whatever you do now is judged in the court of public opinion. Public Opinion can destroy a person. Would Barry Bonds, Mark McGuire, Sammy Sosa or Roger Clemens be in the Baseball Hall of Fame if not the public belief that they all used...
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...5. To what extent and in what ways does Romantic writing engage with gender politics? The study of Literature is inherently involved with a deconstruction of the complex and textured manner in which author’s attempt to express what it is to be human. To be human is a diverging experience between the sexes, both biological and socially, and consequently the extent of gender equitability within society has always been a prevalent and contended concern. An engagement with this contention will define gender politics for this essay. Jane Austen and Mary Shelley, writing at the beginning of the nineteenth-century, joined their female contemporaries in a growing generation of authoresses who forged careers in discipline of male authority. In this respect, they are inescapably engaging with gender politics. Margaret Kirkham comments that ‘this burgeoning of the female talent...was bound to have a profound effect upon any young woman beginning to write once it had occurred’, suggesting that, regardless of whether the female intended to represent female concerns within their work; a female, in becoming ‘an author, was, in itself, a feminist act’ (Kirkham 33). With the status of the authoress in mind whilst analysing Northanger Abbey and Frankenstein, this essay will focus how Austen and Shelley engage with gender politics through characterization and narrative form, and the female concerns they address, both implicitly and explicitly, throughout their texts. Austen predominately engages...
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...Abstract You are interested in buying a new car and Bob lets you borrow one of the new cars on his lot for a week to test drive. You decide you like the car and when you visit Bob to drop off the car, he hands you the following document and a pen May 1, 201x I promise to pay to the order of Bob's Auto Emporium $20,000 (Twenty thousand dollars) with interest at the rate of 7% per annum. What type of instrument is this? Does this instrument meet the requirements for negotiability under the UCC? INDIVIDUAL WORK The above example is a partial Promissory Note. The reason that it is a partial promissory note is because the document is missing key values to become a full legal document. The above example does not state all the requirements that need to be meant as the payments are being made. It also does not have the time frame for which the payments are to be received and the time frame to pay the balance in full. The example does not meet the requirements of the UCC due to it does not list what will happen if the payments are not made. The documents also does not state how the payments are to be made and how the payments will be broken down with the interest that is going to be paid for the purchase. The document also does not have the full date that the documents was created. The document would also need to be signed by the owner of the car company which will state that he agrees with the term of the promissory note. The way that the document is worded there is no...
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...What type of person becomes this type of risk taker? I have always been more on the cautious side, preferring to stand back, observe, listen and analyze a situation. I’ve always admired people who are not like me, people who are more daring, or willing to throw caution to the wind. An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it. What challenges did he or she face and overcome? In 1982, Mark Cuban moved to Dallas, Texas Cuban first found work as a bartender, then as a salesperson for Your Business Software, one of the first PC software retailers in Dallas. He was terminated less than a year later, after meeting with a client to procure new business instead of opening the store What failures did this person have? Got a job working for a carpenter laying carpet and quickly learned he was absolutely horrible at it How many companies have he or she started? Started AudioNet in 1995, The Company, despite its early critics, proved to be a smash success. Renamed Broadcast.com, the firm went public in 1998 and soon saw its stock reach $200 a share. A year later, Wagner and Cuban sold out to Yahoo! for nearly $6 billion Purchasing an NBA Team In 2000, Mark Cuban introduced himself to the NBA community when he purchased the Dallas Mavericks for $285 million from Ross Perot Jr. How successful is he or she? At the age of 32, Cuban was a millionaire who could afford to live in the big houses that he used to...
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...The role visual style plays in communicating the ideas, themes and issues raised by the film Before to the introduction of ‘auteur theory’ Douglas Sirk directed films that were illustrious for classical Hollywood narrative. However, he used his power as director to step outside of the Mainstream Hollywood narrative and stylistic conventions (Core 1994), using techniques such as mise-en-scene to communicate the ideas, themes and issues raised in his films. All That Heaven Allows directed by Sirk is a perfect example of his clever use of visual style to communicate themes of social status, repression and nature. The film was popular at its release as ‘critics were well aware that Sirk's films attracted a humorous popular reception’ (Philip Core p132) but was critically dismissed as a women’s weeping movie (Nick James, 1994). Told from a women's point of view and post WWII exposure gives a sense of context and what life was like for women of the time. As Carrie quotes from ‘walden’s book’ it becomes evident that mise-en-scene enriches the film and gets an insight into post WW2 life. Carrie is trapped, however it is not just the dialogue of the film that is used to expose her entrapment. Carrie is represented as a prisoner in her own home. The use of the TV double comments on what Carrie is going through. Sirk presents the television as a symbol of repression and defeat, a tiresome life. Sirk uses the television set to explore the theme of Carrie as an onlooker on life and...
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...Sweeney Todd The barber Sweeney Todd (aka the Demon Barber) was a character from a 19th Century penny dreadful1, made popular by Stephen Sondheim's musical, a razor-wielding barber who killed his customers for cash and turned them into meat pies. He first appeared in 1846 as a secondary character in a short story called The String of Pearls a Romance by Thomas Prest, which was published in The People's Periodical. A hack playwright by the name of George Dibdin Pitt, who commonly filched other people's stories, dramatised the story for the stage as The String of Pearls The Fiend on Fleet Street, and advertised it as 'founded on fact'. The play debuted at London's Hoxton Theatre on 1 March, 1847, and ever since then people have speculated as to whether Sweeney Todd really had existed, or if he was simply a fictional bogeyman invented to sate the appetite of the morbid Victorian imagination. Did Sweeney Todd really exist? Up until recently, nobody knew, A number of daily newspapers at the time had reported real-life horror stories that bore certain similarity to the ghastly tale of Sweeney Todd. Stories of fainting ladies aside, the Victorian community had an enormous, morbid appetite for all things ghastly. Shocking tales of crime like this would have been spread through word of mouth like wildfire, although they were also probably embellished along the way. ...
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...P.65 Toying with Success: The McFarlane Companies What personality traits do leaders like Todd McFarlane possess that distinguish them from other individuals? The McFarlane Toy Company Todd McFarlane, president and CEO of the McFarlane Companies, is an entrepreneur who understands the importance of product development. Comics, sports, toys, and rock-and-roll have all benefited from his creativity. While working many hours for low pay at Marvel Comics, he made a name for himself and became the highest paid comic book artist in the industry. But when his creativity was not been appreciated and differences arisen, not to mention his desire to own the rights to his characters, he quit and took six other artists with him and started his own company. McFarlane knew what he wanted and went for it. He knew where he wanted to be and through perseverance and hard work he stayed focused on his goal (Vision and ability). Although people predicted he would last less than a year, he kept going and first comic book sold 1.7 million copies. He had the confidence because he knew was he was good at and that drove his aspirations. He had the drive and determination to stick with his dream. He was determined to succeed. Even after he didn’t succeed as a major league baseball player he still was determined to be successful. He remained optimistic and believed he could become an entrepreneur (Self Confidence and Enthusiasm and Persistence). He had the courage to move forward and start his own...
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...Industrial/Organizational Psychology Paper PSY/435 December 12, 2011 Neva Wilson Industrial/Organizational Psychology Paper Evolution of Industrial/Organizational Psychology The history of industrial/organization psychology originated in the twentieth century. Experimental psychologists were the first to engage in I/O work. Their main purpose was applying the new principles of psychology to problems in organizations. Two of these experimental psychologists were Hugo Munsterberg and Walter Dill Scott. These two psychologists would be credited as being the main founds of I/O Psychology. Both of these experimental psychologists were university professors who became involved in applying psychology to problems of organizations. An engineer by the name of Frederick Winslow Taylor would have a major influence on the I/O field. Taylor studied employee productivity and developed an approach which he would later call "Scientific Management." Taylor used scientific management to handle production workers in factories. This approach included four principles which would guide organizational practices. Today, his same ideas are still used. Furthermore, two more individuals had an influence on the engineering side combined with psychology. A married couple, Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, studied how individuals perform tasks by combining engineering and psychology. The Gilbreths devised the time and motion study. This incorporated measuring and timing people’s motions in doing tasks...
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...Running head: Agency Report Agency Report Monica Romero University of Phoenix BHSH 411 Kristin Reynolds-Brada April 25, 2008 My agency report will be about Jesus Shack Of Bakersfield. My Contact person is Agency rep Mr. David Voss his contact number is 661-324-0638. Founded and concived in 1987 by Dave and Kathy Voss who had a heart's desire to reach the youth of Kern County with a life-changing message. Dave and Kathy saw the powerful attraction that music presented to each generation and believed that a music ministry would be an effective way to reach at-risk youth. As a result, Jesus Shack began as a grass roots concert Production Company exclusively staffed by dedicated volunteers. As the ministry grew God revealed the need to reach those in the community who are often overlooked. As a result, the Street Team Ministry began in June of 2003 and continues to meet the physical and spiritual needs of less fortunate residents. With the help and community support, Jesus Shack also offers annual events such as Hoops Xtreme, Hallopalooza, Thanksgiving Feed, and Kids' Christmas and are always looking for new ways to "Raise a Generation to Reach a Generation". Jesus Shack and their partner continue with dedicated volunteers from churches, businesses, and organizations in its mission to touch the lives of those in need and show God's grace to literally thousands of Bakersfield residents. The population that is being served is a needy population...
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...Week 1 Assignment (McFarlane Companies) 1. What personality traits do leaders like Todd McFarlane possess that distinguish them from other individuals? From what I read, I believe his major traits are leadership and dedication. He was dedicated to securing the rights to his creations, and diligently did so by leaving Marvel and starting his own company. His willingness to lead his coworkers into a new company with him and make it such a huge success speaks very highly for not only his leadership skills but also his dedication to the art he wanted to produce. 2. How have global competition and technology advances changed business conditions and leadership challenges? Everything is just seconds away. By sitting at a desk, logging on to a computer, engaging a conference call, or watching the news live via T.V. and internet, one can have all the information they are looking for in an instant; this in turn tends to make the world a faster place in general. On a business level, this means decisions can no longer be made over time, but tend to be made in an instant. Therefore technological advances have changed leadership practices profoundly. No longer is it the norm for a boss to say, “Have that on my desk by Monday”, it is usually, “I need a decision by lunch!” PERSONAL CONCLUSION Todd McFarlane had a dream initially to be a baseball star and it did not pan out. He then pursued a career that most view as risky or unstable, but persevered because it was a passion...
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