...Both internal forces and external forces influence the character of an organization’s design. An organizational design tends to be defined in terms of structure, processes, and size (Chatain & Zemsky, 2007; Knoll, 2007; Zismer, 2011). The findings of a description and an assessment of organizational design of a group practice family medicine clinic are presented in this paper. The description and assessment include the identification of the internal forces and the external forces that have influenced the nature of the organizational design of the clinic. The effects of these forces on organizational structure, organizational processes, and organizational size are addressed in the paper. Specific consideration is given in the discussion to the effects of accountability mandates on the organizational design of the clinic. The Internal Forces and the External Forces Affecting the Organizational Design of the Clinic The external forces that act on the organization in this case, a group practice family medical clinic, exerted a greater effect on reshaping the organizational design of the practice than has been true of the internal forces that also drive changes in organizational design. The two most important external forces, when considered in relation to effects on organizational design, have been, in the opinion of this writer, (a) technological innovations that directly affect the acquisition, presentation, interpretation, access, and storage of patient-related...
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...information systems managing the digital firm Part One. Organizations, Management, and the Networked Enterprise ....1 Chapter 1. Managing the Digital Firm ....2 Opening Case: DaimlerChrysler's Agile Supply Chain ....3 1.1 Why Information Systems? ....4 Why Information Systems Matter 4 • How Much Does IT Matter? 6 • Why IT Now? Digital Convergence and the Changing Business Environment ....7 1.2 Perspectives on Information Systems ....13 What Is an Information System? ....13 Windows on Organizations: Cemex: A Digital Firm in the Making ....14 Window on Technology: UPS Competes Globally with Information Technology ....17 It Isn't Just Technology: A Business Perspective on Information Systems 18 • Dimensions of Information Systems ....20 1.3 Contemporary Approaches to Information Systems ....25 Technical Approach 26 • Behavioral Approach 26 • Approach of This Text: Sociotechnical Systems ....27 1.4 Learning to Use Information Systems: New Opportunities with Technology ....27 The Challenge of Information Systems: Key Management Issues 28 • Integrating Text with Technology: New Opportunities for Learning ....30 Make IT Your Business ....31 Summary, 31 • Key Terms, 32 • Review Questions, 32 • Discussion Questions, 33 • Application Software Exercise: Database Exercise: Adding Value to Information for Management Decision Making, 33 • Dirt Bikes USA: Preparing a Management Overview of the Company, 33 • Electronic Commerce Project: Analyzing Shipping Costs, 34...
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...Management Information Systems MANAGING THE DIGITAL FIRM Kenneth C. Laudon New York University f Jane P. Laudon Azimuth Information Systems PEARSON feerttifie tall Pearson Education International Brief Contents Part One Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Part One Project Organizations, Management, and the Networked Enterprise 1 Information Systems in Global Business Today 2 Global E-Business: How Businesses Use Information Systems 38 Information Systems, Organizations, and Strategy 80 Ethical and Social Issues in Information Systems 124 Analyzing Business Processes for an Enterprise System 165 Part Two Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Part Two Project Information Technology Infrastructure 167 IT Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies 168 Foundations of Business Intelligence: Databases and Information Management 222 Telecommunications, the Internet, and Wireless Technology 260 Securing Information Systems 312 Creating a New Internet Business 351 Part Three Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Part Three Project Key System Applications for the Digital Age 353 Achieving Operational Excellence and Customer Intimacy: Enterprise Applications 354 E-Commerce: Digital Markets, Digital Goods 388 Managing Knowledge 428 Enhancing Decision Making 470 Designing an Enterprise Information Portal 508 Part Four Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Part Four Project Building and Managing Systems 509 Building Systems 510 Project Management:...
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...ISSUES IN ACCOUNTING EDUCATION Vol. 19, No. 4 November 2004 pp. 555–565 The ALLTEL Pavilion Case: Strategy and CVP Analysis Edward Blocher and Kung H. Chen ABSTRACT: The ALLTEL Pavilion case is intended for the undergraduate management accounting or cost accounting course and the M.B.A. management accounting course. It provides an excellent context in which to examine strategic issues in using cost volume profit (CVP) in a service business. Based on an actual entertainment pavilion, the case develops many factors unique to a service business and illustrates how pavilion management can use CVP analysis to determine which artists to attract and what kinds of contracts to have with these performers. The Pavilion has two types of customers (paying ticket holders and free ticket holders) and earns profits from three types of revenues (ticket revenues, concession revenues, and parking fees). The case requires you to identify the best strategy for different types of artists, conduct cost-volume-profit analyses, consider the strategic issues related to operating leverage and how this affects the choice of performer and contract, and assess pricing strategies. O ne day in early November, Pam Berg, Manager of the ALLTEL Pavilion, was reviewing the operating results for the year just completed in preparation for the executive board meeting the following Friday. While the year ended in the black, she was disappointed that the ALLTEL Pavilion failed to earn the budgeted...
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...LOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY INSTRUCTION PLAN (for Lectures) Term: 3rd Course No. COM604 Course Title: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT L: 4 T: 1 P: 0 Textbook: 1. Hunger J. D. and Wheelen T. L. , Strategic Management & Business Policy, Pearson Education, New Delhi, 8th Ed., 2006 Other Specific Books: 2. Kazmi, A. Business Policy and Strategic Management, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 2nd Ed. 2007 3. Jauch, R. Lawrence, R. Gupta and W.F.Glueck, Business Policy and Strategic Management, Frank Bros.&Co., 7th Ed.,2007 Other readings: |S. No |Journal articles as compulsory reading | |. |Camillus, J. C. Strategy as a wicked problem, Harvard Business Review, May 2008 | | |Hirotaka, The contradictions that Drive Toyota’s success, Harvard Business Review, June, 2008 | | |C.K. Prahalad’s Plan: India @75, Business Today, August 24, 2008 | | |McAfee, A. and Brynjolfsson, E., Investing in IT that makes a competitive Difference, Harvard Business Review, July-August, 2008, PP.98-107 | | |Collis, D.J. and Montgomery, C.A., Competing on Resource, Harvard Business Review, July-August, 1995 ...
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...Enjoy! Hedonic Consumption and Compliance with Assertive Messages ANN KRONROD AMIR GRINSTEIN LUC WATHIEU This paper examines the persuasiveness of assertive language (as in Nike’s slogan “Just do it”) as compared to nonassertive language (as in Microsoft’s slogan “Where do you want to go today?”). Previous research implies that assertive language should reduce consumer compliance. Two experiments show that assertiveness is more effective in communications involving hedonic products, as well as hedonically advertised utilitarian products. This prediction builds on sociolinguistic research addressing relationships between mood, communication expectations, and compliance to requests. A third experiment reaffirms the role of linguistic expectations by showing that an unknown product advertised using assertive language is more likely to be perceived as hedonic. C onsumers are often exposed to forceful messages and imperative slogans such as Nike’s “Just do it,” Sprite’s “Obey your thirst,” or U.S. Airways’ “Fly with US.” The frequent use of assertively phrased messages is puzzling, given the mounting research in consumer behavior (e.g., Dillard and Shen 2005; Fitzsimons and Lehman 2004; Lord 1994), communications (e.g., Kellerman and Shea 1996; Quick and Considine 2008; Quick and Stephenson 2007; Wilson and Kunkel 2000), and sociolinguistics (e.g., Levine and Boster 2001; Sanders and Fitch 2001), which suggests that these messages should lower consumer readiness to comply. To...
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...Harvard Business School 9-199-009 July 8, 1998 Quality Furniture Company In March 1992, Richard Allan, an assistant credit analyst for the Quality Furniture Company, was concerned about changes in two of Quality’s accounts in Minnesota—Lloyd’s, Inc., of Minneapolis and The Emporium department store in St. Paul. He therefore brought the credit folders of these two customers to the attention of Watt Ralphson, the credit manager of Quality Furniture. The Quality Furniture Company had its headquarters in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and manufactured a limited line of high-quality home furniture for distribution to department stores, independent home furnishing retailers, and regional chains. Lloyd’s retailed quality home furnishings from three locations—one in the downtown section of Minneapolis and the others in nearby suburban areas. Sales were somewhat seasonal, with a slight downturn in the midsummer months and a slight upturn during the December holiday season. Lloyd’s sales were approximately 75% for cash or credit cards and 25% on six-month installment terms. Installment terms called for 25% down and the balance in equal monthly payments over a sixmonth period. Lloyd’s had been established as a partnership and was later incorporated. In June 1991, two of the four original partners sold their shares in the company to the two remaining owners. Lloyd’s had been a customer of Quality Furniture for over 30 years and had previously handled its affairs in a most satisfactory manner...
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...of 10 top ranked Malaysian companies supported this proposition. Index Terms—Corporate social responsibility, corporate identity, content analysis. effort in integrating their stakeholders‟ social and environmental expectations and/or concerns into their daily operations and their interaction with the stakeholders. B. Corporate Identity Corporate identity (CI) has been used as the basis for other various corporate level concepts like image, reputation or corporate communications; and is even considered fundamental in corporate marketing field [1]-[2]. The traditional VI perspective sees CI being used at the early stage of organization‟s operation as it becomes the mean for CI transmission e.g. through logos, brand images and other visual manifestations representing them [3]. CI has evolved from this definition from focusing only on the minor elements of the organization to now emphasizing more on the core businesses, strategy, structure and culture [4], hence the popularity of CI definition usage from the CP and CC perspectives; as these perspectives believe that CI is made up of more than the name and corporate logo [5]. For instance, proponents of CP consider CI to derive from beliefs and shared values of the members of the organization, that it is defined as a means of expressing the...
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...Portland State University School of Business Administration FIN 565: Cases in Corporate Finance Case Descriptions and Suggestions Fall 2010 As you review the case descriptions and read the cases, develop a plan for your analysis. The case report and presentation should include, but not be limited to, the suggested questions I have provided. Do not submit or present the case a simply a numbered series of answers to the questions. The case analysis must be a narrative report that includes the information needed to answer the questions. Financial Statement Analysis Identify the Industry – 2007 Substantive Issues This case provides financial statement data for 10 companies from 10 different industries from Thomson Banker One – Analytics. Using knowledge of the industries’ financial characteristics and financial rations, you are asked to match each of the 10 financial statement data sets to an appropriate industry. You are provided with common-sized income statements (all items scaled by revenues), common-sized balance sheets (all items scaled by total assets) and selected financial ratios. All data are averaged over three years – 2004 – 2006 – to smooth out one-time items. Pedagogical Objectives This case illustrates the difficulty of identifying a company in an industry since do few companies operate in a single homogeneous industry. It also serves to get each class member engaged with team members in an effort to determine the strengths of each member...
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...Licensed to: iChapters User Eugene F. Brigham UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA Joel F. Houston UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA Copyright 2011 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part. Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed from the eBook and/or eChapter(s). Editorial review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect the overall learning experience. Cengage Learning reserves the right to remove additional content at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require it. Eugene F. Brigham UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA Joel F. Houston UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA Copyright 2011 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part. Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed from the eBook and/or eChapter(s). Editorial review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect the overall learning experience. Cengage Learning reserves the right to remove additional content at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require it. Licensed to: iChapters User This is an electronic version of the print textbook. Due to electronic rights restrictions, some third party content may be suppressed. Editorial review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect the overall learning experience. The publisher reserves the right to remove content from this title at any time...
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...International Journal of Market Research Vol. 54 Issue 4 Children’s attitudinal reactions to TV advertisements The African experience Ayantunji Gbadamosi Robert E. Hinson University of Ghana University of East London Eddy K. Tukamushaba Irene Ingunjiri Strathmore University Hong Kong Polytechnic University This paper is aimed at exploring African children’s attitudinal reactions to television advertisements . A total of 65 children from four African countries – Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda – participated in 12 focus group discussions on the subject matter . Findings suggest that they like television advertising in relation to its entertainment features – especially when the messages feature children characters, cartoons, music, celebrities and humour – and those promoting foods . They also derive excitement from advertising messages that are presented in Pidgin language and/or humorously integrated with local languages . However, they have an aversion to messages that terrify them and those they consider boring . This paper supplements the existing literature on the attitudes of children to advertising, but from Africa as a different contextual platform . It also suggests directions for the effective use of marketing communications strategies in relation to television advertising for marketers and other bodies with special roles in communicating with children such as government agencies and NGOs . Introduction Advertising to children as a topic has attracted...
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...Marketing Case Project: General Motors [pic] Zach Bauer Matt Biersdorf Matt Flinn Amy Oliver Danielle Provance Marketing Strategies Professor Paul 11/08/2006 Executive Summary General Motors is one of the largest motor vehicle manufacturers in the world and has been a market leader for over 75 years. The company itself has been going through changes especially in the way that they are creating products and on an internal basis, however, there are some changes that the company still needs to overcome. One of the changes that General Motors has promoted is its’ Flexible Fuel Vehicles which do not run on solely petroleum, rather Ethanol 85. These vehicles cost only $150 more than a normal vehicle, however, the lacking of E-85 fueling stations throughout the nation are making it harder for consumers to take advantage of this “greener” technology while also saving money. The company has also decided to implement a widespread corporate restructuring initiative to help alleviate company debt as a result of rising costs of employee healthcare, benefits, and pensions. Such a plan includes the closure of over a dozen North American plants and manufacturing lines, as well as making substantial job cuts. This three-year endeavor is necessary in keeping General Motors in line with competitors. General Motors is struggling to keep up with its competition in hybrid technology. In order to become a major competitor in the automotive market GM needs to penetrate...
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...Contents About the Authors Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition Acknowledgements Brief Contents 1. Introduction to Sales and Distribution Management Introduction 1 Evolution of Sales Management 1 What is Sales Management? 2 Nature and Importance of Sales Management 2 Relationship Selling 3 Varying Sales Responsibilities/Sales Positions 4 Importance of Personal Selling and Sales Management 4 Role and Skills of Modern Sales Managers 4 Skills of a Sales Manager 6 Types of Sales Managers/Sales Management Positions 6 Top-level (Strategic) Sales Managers 6 Middle-level (Tactical) Sales Managers 7 First-line (Operational) Sales Managers 7 Staff Sales Management Positions 8 Sales as a Career 8 Rewards in Sales Career 8 Salesperson to Sales Manager 9 Changing Role of a Salesforce 9 Women in Sales 11 Sales Objectives, Strategies and Tactics 12 Sales Objectives 12 Sales Strategies and Tactics 12 ii vii ix xiii xv 1 xviii Contents Emerging Trends in Sales Management 13 Global Perspective 13 Revolution in Technology 14 Customer Relationship Management (CRM) 14 Salesforce Diversity 14 Team Selling Approach 14 Managing Multi-channels 15 Ethical and Social Issues 15 Sales Professionalism 15 E-Selling 16 Linking Sales and Distribution Management 16 Distribution Channels 18 Maximising Customer Service 18 Sales Operations Planning 19 Summary 20 Glossary of Key Terms 21 Conceptual Questions 22 Objective Type Questions 23 Application Questions 24 Reference Notes 24...
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...QUALIFICATION HANDBOOK Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services (England) (3978-51/52/53/54/55/56) December 2011 Version 3.1 (February 2012) Qualification at a glance Subject area City & Guilds number Age group approved Entry requirements Assessment Fast track Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services (England) 3978 19+ There are no entry requirements Portfolio of Evidence, Practical Demonstration/Assignment. Automatic approval is available for centres offering the 3172 Level 4 NVQ in Health and Social Care – Adults 100/4794/3 and the 3078 Level 4 NVQ in Leadership and Management for Care Services 500/4105/8 Learner logbook and Smartscreen Consult the Walled Garden/Online Catalogue for last dates City & Guilds number 3978-51 Accreditation number 600/0573/7 Support materials Registration and certification Title and level Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services (Children and Young People’s Residential Management) Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services (Children and Young People’s Management) Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services (Children and Young People’s Advanced Practice) Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services (Adults’...
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...ijcrb.webs.com INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN BUSINESS JULY 2013 VOL 5, NO 3 The Halal brand personality and its effect on purchase intention Mahdi Borzooei and Maryam Asgari Business Management Faculty, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia Abstract Halal is not just a purely religious issue; it is also in the realm of business and trade. The purpose of this study is to propose a model to determine the Halal brand personality and then examine its effect on brand trust and purchase intention. In particular, religious commitment with intra-personal and inter-personal dimensions is presented as a moderator variable. A literature review was conducted to select an appropriate theoretical model based on the recognized variables. In addition, the paper provides insight into each variable of the proposed model. The practical implication of this study extends to the new window for marketers and businesses in different countries involved in the Halal business. Establishing a strong Halal brand assists corporations to achieve worldwide acknowledgement, credibility, and be a major player in this lucrative market. Shaping Halal in the lens of branding in the business environment enhances the image of Halal and also leads to more recognition among nonMuslims consumers. Finally, this is a pioneer study to propose implementing brand personality and brand trust on Halal. Keywords Halal, Brand personality, Brand trust, Purchase intention, Religious...
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