...Given the ongoing inconsistencies in monthly cash flow at the small business I am currently consulting for, an immediate analysis was needed on the organization’s operational and financial structures. Our small advisory team aimed to complete a corporate examination that would recognize deficiencies and recommend new practices that would ultimately lay the framework for future success and stability. In the end, discoveries were presented and discussed with the President of the firm and goals were established. The change principles were then relayed to the other members of the management group, who were invited to share their vision and views, however, these principles were met with conflict and friction. Previously, company wide decisions were made by these few individuals in senior management. Regrettably, these corporate leaders did not have the wherewithal to forecast the effects of their decisions, as they did not have an actual pulse on the company’s revenue streams or any firm idea of business management. They implemented frameworks, made hiring decisions and purchases that did not add to the bottom line nor prove to create any return on investment. To the growing detriment of the firm, these individuals were given free reign by the President to operate under lax structures. The subsequent recommendations of our analysis moved to create greater transparency, fostering increased accountability in decision making as well as a reworked pay scale allowing for a larger...
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...Objective As markets become more competitive many companies recognise the importance of retaining current customers and some have initiated a variety of activities to improve customer loyalty. Indeed, the benefits associated with customer loyalty are widely recognised within business. It is known that long-term customers are more likely to expand their relationship within the product range and so the rewards from this group are long term and cumulative. Another widely perceived benefit is that repeat or behaviourally loyal customers are also thought to act as information channels, informally linking networks of friends, relatives and other potential customers to the organisation. Much academic literature has sought to define customer loyalty and many of these reviews are discussed within this paper. However, consensus points to customer loyalty being characterised by the customer’s preference to purchase a product, service or from an organisation consistently when the need arises to purchase. The key issues of this characterisation are preference and consistency. The Discussion of Consumern Loyalty The most widely accepted definition of loyalty is by Jacoby and Kyner (1973), who describe loyalty as the biased, behavioural response, expressed over time, by some decision making unit, with respect to one or more alternative brands out of a set of such brands, and is a function of psychological processes. At a very general level, loyalty is something that consumers may exhibit...
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...[Type the company name] | Project Management Assignment | Research Paper and Presentation | Nathan Alexander 4/16/2016 | Contents Introduction 2 Traditional (Waterfall) 2 Agile Project Management 3 Rapid Application Development 3 What is PMBOK? 4 What is a project? 8 What is project management? 8 What does current literature have to say on this matter? 8 Conclusion 10 Bibliography 11 Introduction In our essay, we will be talking about the strategies that can offer advantages to an association through IT projects. We will be examining the current literature on the matter including diverse project management methods and additionally their qualities and shortcomings. PMBOK will be analyzed including the procedure groups that are included. We will be assessing and examining the learning regions and how the processing groups identify with each other. Traditional (Waterfall) According to Successful Projects, this is the oldest methodology it was practiced decades before the newer methodologies were introduced (Projects, S. 2016). This methodology can be used all industries, but it is most common in the construction industry. They call it the waterfall model because it defines the sequence of phases to be completed. This project management methodology is divided into 7 consecutive phases: 1. Requirements specification 2. Design 3. Coding 4. Integration 5. Validation 6. Installation 7. Maintenance You can only move...
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...Based on the case study titled Disney Design, we would like sharing how The Walt Disney Company can be so successful in till today in the entire world mainly due to its successful organizational management. Walt Disney was established in the year 1923. As each and everyone know Walt Disney is the 11th world most valuable brand with a market capital net-worth of USD 179.5 billion by May 2015, according to the Forbes Magazine. It was stating from 1923 at California and it is still so popular in movie, TV program, theme parks, resorts and destination, entertainment, and games. The Walt Disney Company is a diversifies worldwide entertainment company with operations in four major business parts which are studio entertainment, parks and resorts, media networks and consumer products. They have 11 theme parks around the world, cable television network like Disney channel and ESPN. After precisely doing several research and analysis towards the Walt Disney Company, we would like to discuss three major topic regarding about what environmental factors that influenced its management style, what type of organizational structure it is, and how and where might the informal organization be a real asset at Disney? Management style is particularly important during crisis. There are some significant environmental factors constantly affecting the management style of a business, including Disney. Disney has to operate in an extremely complex environment on account of the internationalization of...
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...A STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF TRAINING AND MOTIVATION ON THE PRODUCTIVITY OF EMPLOYEES IN A PUBLIC SECTOR BANK IN INDIA INTRODUCTION Human resources or the work force, is the key to any organization’s performance even in today’s highly automated environment. The output given by employees is dependent on many factors like training, motivation, technology and management behavior. This study aims to establish the impact of training and motivation on the employees productivity. Performance is normally measured in terms of the output given by the employees to a given amount of input; i.e., the performance can be defined as the ratio of the output to input. There are certain methods to measure the productivity of employees, the major one being the turnover per employee. However this may not be truly reflecting on the profitability of the firm. Performance is also said to be a process of continuous improvement in the production/output/services through efficient use of the inputs with emphasis on team work. Banks usually measure the productivity by the ratio Total Volume of business/ No of employees, which is also truly reflecting on the profitability of any bank if profitability is said to be a parameter for productivity. Training: Training is needed to improve the performance of the employees. Training is the learning process which provides knowledge required for the specified job, skills required for performing the job, and change in attitude and behavior to...
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...Introduction Organisational behavior is a subject that covers a wide variety of topics such as, such as motivation, leadership and organizational design- that relate to different aspects of behavior in organizations. Examining these topics has involved incorporating perspectives and insights from a number of disciplines including psychology, economics, sociology and politics.’ (Knights and Willmott, 2007:p.3) Numerous disciplines that explore the complexity and diversity of collective human activity have contributed to the formation and development of OB. Something of this complexity is apparent in the sometimes conflicting purposes and objective embraced by, or attributed to, management and organizations. Given the demanding nature of organizing and managing people, it is not surprising that OB is widely regarded as the foundation of management studies. (Knights and Willmott, 2007:p.3)Within the notion of behavior, including thinking and feeling as well as acting. OB aspires to have relevance for understanding the behavior of people working at all hierarchical levels- from the workers employed part-time or on a casual basis on the shop floor or in the office to the most senior executive. Each is involved in processes of organizing and being organized and managing and being managed. OB should be better to understand how and why people are organized; to identify and assess the likely consequences of making changes; and to introduce changes in ways that anticipate and minimize...
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...Prepared by Tiamo group Pham Duy- Shady- F03-041 Le Thi Minh Hang- Miley- F03-050 Hoang Tra Ly- Selena- F03- Do Bao Ngoc- Tracy-F03-118 Hoang Hong Nhung- Ken – F03- 124 Ha Noi, 25/6/2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Safety Chat is new instant messaging application in the world. It brings to the users private software from hackers so it focuses on the individual privacy. As marketing team members, reporters must evaluate the styles or impacts of leadership. Then analyze the works needed as well as development activities for each team member and showing how to empower the employees as well as setting suitable objectives to produce the best promotional activity plan. MAIN BODY 3a. Evaluate theories and styles of leadership: Leadership is the process of influencing others to work willingly towards goals, to the best of their capabilities, perhaps in a manner different to that which they would otherwise have chosen. (Education, 2004) There are so many styles of leadership, according to Huneryager and Heckman, leadership has four different styles which are dictatorial style, autocratic style, democratic style and laisser-faire style (Education, 2012). In this assignment, the reporter chooses dictatorial style and democratic style for evaluating. Dictatorial style is where the leader forces subordinates to work by threatening punishment and penalties. (Education, 2004) With a leader has dictatorial style, there is no opportunities for the employees to give their opinion...
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...Jaypee Institute of Information Technology QUALITY ISSUES IN ENGINEERING BATCH - B10 QUALITY CONTROL AT AJNARA CONSTRUCTION SITE Submitted to - Group Members - Mrs.Kanupriya Misra Monika Yadav (09503857) Chakshu Sharma (09503862) Ankita Goel (09503863) Akhil Gupta (09503867) Udit Hurria (09503855) Akul Dube (09503870) ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We express this opportunity to express our deep sense of gratitude and respect towards our project guide Mrs.Kanupriya Misra, Lecturer , Department of Humanities. We are very much indebted to her for her generosity, expertise and guidance we have received from her while working on this project and throughout our studies. Without her support and timely guidance , the completion of our project would have seemed a farfetched dream .In this respect we find ourselves lucky to have her as our guide. She has guided us not only with the subject matter , but taught us proper style and techniques of working. We are grateful to our friends for their constant encouragement and all those who helped us directly or indirectly in our endeavor. TABLES OF CONTENT 1. Executive Summary………………………………………………………………………………………………. .4 2. Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………………..................5 3. Quality Mangement…………………………………………………………………………………………………6 4. Quality...
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...[pic] IQRA UNIVERSITY “Comparative analysis of consumer preferences for women clothing brands in Pakistan” Foreign brands Vs Local brand Consumer Behavior Research Project Report Submitted to: Shahnawaz Adil PREPARED BY: Jawaria Vohra 4533 (javeria.vohra@hotmail.com) Komal Sarwar 4172 ( komi.sarwar@hotmail.com) Mehwish fareed 4266 (m4mehwish32@gmail.com ) Huma sohail (humasohail90@gmail.com) Mariam Shahid (mariam-marry@hotmail.com) CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction. The topic is being researched upon because the Pakistani women now play a vital role in the economy of Pakistan and now have a greater buying power and consumption pattern while purchasing clothes. Clothing is one of the most essential factors of one’s daily life, especially when it comes to women. Gone are the days when women used to sit back at home and their husbands used to shop and buy them a dress a month. Contrary to it the contemporary fashion market is being revolutionized and being known by the women clothing industry at its major part 1.2 Background Globalization has lead to a vast information and decision making set for everyone. Due to globalization, people are aware of product, their attributes, quality, prices and the number of substitutes they can refer for a certain product or service. As a result of globalization, a gap between nations and their culture have reduced, and people are adopting the trends of other countries...
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...A STUDY ON BARRIERS OF CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN ELECTRONICBASED COMPANIES 1 Bibi Noraini Bt Mohd Yusuf, 2Zurina Bt Zulkifli, 3Intan Maizura Bt Abd Rashid, 4Syahida Bt Kamil, 1,2,3,4 School of Business Innovation and Technopreneurship Universiti Malaysia Perlis 1 bibinoraini@unimap.edu.my, 2Zurina@yahoo.com, 3Intan Maizura@unimap.edu.my, 4syahida@unimap.edu.my, Abstract Rapid growths in economic development and trade globalization have necessitate the number of firms to expand and extend their businesses abroad. A sizeable number of firms have been opening new plants in other countries or hiring their employees from overseas, creating a diversity of workforce. A diversified workforce will create cross-cultural differences leading to cross-cultural communication. This research aims to analyze the barriers of cross-cultural communication in electronic-based companies. The subjects for this study, comprising company operators and middle to top management were randomly selected from electronic-based companies domiciled in Northern Peninsular Malaysia. This study adopted a quantitative approach method, where questionnaires were distributed among 200 employees. Analysis of data compiled was carried out using the SPSS version 20.0 mode. Through an in-depth analysis and application of this study, there is a bigger impact of multinational firm communication in the cross-cultural communication. In addition, the dimensions of national cultures, high and low context...
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...Exploring Excellence PGDM (GM) (GMP 2013–14) AN AICTE APPROVED FLAGSHIP FULL-TIME MBA PROGRAM FOR EXPERIENCED PROFESSIONALS E-brochure http://www.placementkloud.com/xlrigmp 01 02 03 04 05 06 08 10 12 14 16 MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR Learning and growth are vital for a healthy environment in organizations. We at XLRI have structured our programmes in such a manner as to equip the future managers of tomorrow with learning, competencies and skills that can significantly contribute to the growth of the organization. XLRI has always been proudly associated with academic excellence, personal values and social concern. It has been the crucible of leadership training for over 60 years and its banner is held high by a fine breed of alumni who serve as “change agents” thereby adding a new dimension to their corporate role. This integral and value based formation will greatly assist our students to be innovative, competent and creative leaders. They are groomed in a manner as to serve as agents of continuous improvement and change. It was in 1997 that XLRI recognized an unfulfilled need for formal management training at middle and senior levels of corporate strata. The result of that thought process was the General Management Programme, which has ever since, transformed several industry professionals into veritable leaders who reflect the standards and values of XLRI at various organizations. Recognized by AICTE, the programme places emphasis on stringent admission procedures...
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...Unit - 1 : Introduction to Human Resource Management Structure of Unit: 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 Objectives Introduction Opening Case What is Human Resource Management? Nature of HRM Scope of HRM Objectives of HRM Functions of HRM Role of HRM HRM in the New Millennium Summary Self Assessment Questions Reference Books 1.0 Objectives After studying this unit, you will be able to: 1.1 Understand the basic concepts of human resource management (HRM). Explain what human resource management is and how it relates to the management process. Provide an overview of functions of HRM. Describe how the major roles of HR management are being transformed. Explain the role of HRM in the present millennium. Introduction Human beings are social beings and hardly ever live and work in isolation. We always plan, develop and manage our relations both consciously and unconsciously. The relations are the outcome of our actions and depend to a great extent upon our ability to manage our actions. From childhood each and every individual acquire knowledge and experience on understanding others and how to behave in each and every situations in life. Later we carry forward this learning and understanding in carrying and managing relations at our workplace. The whole context of Human Resource Management revolves around this core matter of managing relations at work place. Since mid 1980’s Human Resource...
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...INNO NATOUR. Lesson learnt from Innovation in Nature Based Tourism Services Contact: Faculty of Economics and Public Administration „Stefan cel Mare” University of Suceava Universităţii str., no. 13, Building H 720229 SUCEAVA, ROMANIA Phone: (+40) 230 216147 ext. 294 Erasmus IP web site: www.innonatour.usv.ro Faculty web site: www.seap.usv.ro University web site: www.usv.ro 2012 Subject to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without written permission of the copyright owners. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................................ 5 DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT.............................................................................................................. 8 STUDENTS OF THE 20112012 ERASMUS IP ...................................................................................... 9 LECTURERS, TUTORS AND EXPERTS OF THE 20112012 ERASMUS IP ................................. 10 RESULTS OF THE ERASMUS IP INNO NATOUR 20112012......................................................... 19 FINAL REPORTS OF THE WORKING GROUPS .................................................................................. 20 INDIVIDUAL POST CASE STUDIES OF THE STUDENTS ................................................................. 44 CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS ......................................
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