...developing a humane work environment and supporting the work-life flexibility needs of all organizational members. She had faced several problems in the process of business. For instance, Bohm had faced troublesome when she looks for a loan from the bank. She also faced two partnering opportunities which are partnering with other small local firm in London, Ontario, or she could forge a link with a high-profile Toronto firm. She will need to make a choice between these two companies. Both companies can bring advantage and disadvantage to The Aspect Group. Question 1: What features that the Aspect Group organizational design CONTRIBUTES to the firm effectiveness? What features need to be changed to promote success? There are some features of The Aspect Group organizational design that contributes to the firm effectiveness. In this case, the organizational design derived from four elements such as structure, strategy, human resource management, and business processes. Firstly, the structure of Aspect Group is a home-based design. It is mainly purpose for achieving high flexibility to all Aspect Group members, and high quality to the business operations. Marie Bohm is a single mother who has a daughter and need flexibility time to take care of her daughter. Because of this, Marie Bohm was formed The Aspect Group with a team that consisting all home-based entrepreneurs to fulfill her needs and other Aspect Group members but high quality in the business...
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...Capella University MBA6010 – Professional Effectiveness: Strength, Impact, and Reposition Professor Pamela Solberg-Tapper Assignment u06a2 – Professional Challenge – Coaching Analysis Final Paper By Dawn Patterson October 1, 2010 I. Overview In summarizing my learning from this course about the coaching and feedback process, I learned the most about myself during the classmate phase of the coaching process. Many things were illuminated over the course of the coaching sessions with my classmates and coworker. Turns out that the concern I brought to the forefront to receive coaching and direction on was one of many symptoms related to a greater issue that wasn’t as easily identifiable as other indicators had suggested. What I believed to be a problem with managing a stressful work environment really was an issue with effective communication. The coaching process is comprised of three elements; planning, conducting the discussion(s), and evaluating. In the planning phase I developed a short-term plan to help the coachee achieve their expressed goal. The next phase of the process, conducting the discussion entailed the actual delivery of the feedback. Lastly, the evaluation phase provided an opportunity to track the progress and adoption of the prescribed approach to train and develop the coachee. The evaluation phase also created an opportunity for the coachee to share feedback with the coach on the effectiveness of the coach’s delivery. ...
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...and Development Health care of today continues to be the fastest growing industry in America and faces many challenges to its delivery systems. Training and education of health care professionals is important, training measures effectiveness and is a key objective for the development and training department. Training is skills and knowledge for each team member who will benefit personally. Training improves recruiting; job hunters are looking for training and personal development and growth. Training improves higher retention, when individuals know the company has their best in interest at heart they are more likely to stay for a longer period. Training gives better output, when the turnover rate is low, production, motivations and enthusiasms is among workers who produce a better service or product (Kelly Services, 2011). Health care education is vital; the need for properly educated and trained health care professionals is crucial. The need for health care professionals to keep us well is high. Health care professionals range from doctors to nurses to technicians. Our health depends on the accuracy and skill of these individuals. Without the training and education of the professional we would not be able to treat, diagnose, or care for ourselves. Health care education goes beyond the professional and people are beginning to recognize the need for concern about their health, ones health is the most important asset. Health care education is a specialized subject intended for those...
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...production, scheduling, order-entry, marketing, and sales data… into a comprehensive costing and profitability model that reports profitability by individual product, customer, and even by order. (Kaplan, 2009). Time-driven ABC has taken this methodology a step further and simplified the process to make an even more powerful tool to measure the financial effectiveness of a company. This paper is attempts to take a U.S. service company and map out an implementation of TDABC to prove the ease and effectiveness of this accounting tool. Company Description H&R Block is one of the oldest and largest tax service providers. It was founded in 1955 by brothers Henry and Richard Bloch. The company began franchising in 1956 and went public in 1962. It employs over 100,000 trained tax professional both within the U.S. and worldwide. According to their web-site, H&R Block prepares one in every 7 U.S. tax returns.(HRBlock.com, 2013) One key to their success is that they claim to have a retail office within 5 miles of most Americans. H & R Block offers their services both in person and on-line. The tax-payer can chose to walk into an office and work face-to-face with the tax specialist, they can work totally on their own using the online or packaged do-it-yourself tax prep tools, or they can utilize the do-it-yourself software with unlimited help from an online tax professional. H&R Block offers a wide range of tax consulting services. The most basic starts with the simple, straight...
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...Study: Lesotho Appeal Industry Fight AIDS Anne Menlove, Hugo Vera, Hannah Nielsen, & Moriah Martin Grand Canyon University: HLT 411 May 29, 2016 Lesotho is a small country in the Southern tip of Africa that has been burden by an epidemic of HIV. It is estimated that 22 percent of the population is infected, being 270,000 people in the country but only one-quarter of those infected has received antiretroviral treatment (ART) (Gilden, 2009). There is an apparel company, Precious garments, that has taken on the fight against AIDS by starting the Apparel Lesotho Alliance to Fight AIDS (ALAFA). ALAFA goals as an organization are to determine social and economic factors of the population with HIV, develop a peer education model, and find the cost-effectiveness (Gilden, 2009). Roles and Importance The overall role that ALAFA has to help to fight against HIV/AIDS by giving help to HIV positive Basotho women that work in the apparel and textile industry. The organization provides information on prevention, testing and treatment (antiretroviral therapy) services in factory based clinics (Gilden, 2009). The issue of HIV/AIDS is important to ALAFA because not only do they want to create a healthier and more stable work environment, but they also want to change the lives of the apparel workers and provide the necessary care that they need (Gilden, 2009). Social and Economic Factors The Apparel Lesotho Alliance to Fight AIDS launch did encounter some social and economic factors as...
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...Organizational Effectiveness To be effective and achieve its goals, an organization must successfully respond to environmental factors. How can the effectiveness of an organization be measured? Various models of determining organizational effectiveness exist because organizations face different environments, they produce different products, their organizational members are made up of different kinds of people, and the organizations are at different stages of development. Each model is most useful to an organization having a particular combination of these environmental and organizational attributes. Two different underlying dimensions may be considered to develop models of organizational effectiveness. The first is the organization’s internal versus external focus. The second dimension is the organization’s emphasis on flexibility versus control. Flexibility allows faster change, whereas control allows a firmer grasp on current operations. When these two dimensions are drawn at right angles to each other, the first four models of organizational effectiveness can be plotted. They are the rational goal, open system, internal process, and human relations models. According to the rational goal model of effectiveness, an organization is effective to the extent that it accomplishes its stated goals. For example, the formal goals of the Toronto Blue Jays are to win their division, the American League pennant, and the World Series. With an open system model an organization...
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...Dissertation Synopsis | Topic: To identify Leadership Style and its influence on Team Effectiveness | 11/15/2013 INTRODUCTION LEADERSHIP Leadership style is the manner and the approach of providing direction implementing plans and motivating people.Leadership is just more than science;it is an art as well. The art of leadership varies from leader to leader. Different situations call for different kind of leadership styles. Kurt Lewin led a group of researchers to identify three major styles of leadership. They are: * Authoritarian or Autocratic * Participative or Democratic * Delegative or Free Reign Although effective leaders use all three styles, with one of them normally dominant, most leaders tend to stick with a one style. Some leaders are very task- oriented; they simply want to get things done. Others are very people oriented; they want people to be happy. And others are a combination of two. If you prefer to lead by setting and enforcing tight schedules, you tend to be more production oriented(or task oriented). If you make people your priority and try to accommodate employee needs, then you are more people oriented. TEAM EFFECTIVENESS The other dimension to the study is team effectiveness. According to the team effectiveness model, the following are the factors that affect team effectiveness. Teams can continuously improve their effectiveness by focussing on improving their functioning in five key areas – goals, roles, procedures, relationships...
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...depth and quality of knowledge used by policy makers can influence the effectiveness of policies. According to Milakovich and Gordon, competitive political forces constantly push elected representatives to focus on immediate political decisions, rather than on long term professional-administrative values such as efficient use of resources and increased productivity (p.431). During President Bush’ election he used certain failures of the past administration to enhance his win to presidency as the public trust in the government was at a low. The use of performance data to make budgetary and programmatic decisions became the foundation of Bush’s Presidents Management Agenda (PMA). The PMA is the Bush administration’s effort to better manage federal agencies. Under the PMA, these agencies were required to show how public programs achieve results more efficiently than other methods. However, during the Obama campaign pledged to use information communication technology tools to include social media to make government less beholden to special interest groups and promote citizen involvement in decision-making (p.434). Another high tech approach includes the development of the technology, innovation and government reform (TIGR) working group which is a team of tech-industry professionals whose mission was to create a twenty-first century government that is more open and effective, leverage technology to grow the economy, create jobs, and solve pressing national problems (p.436). ...
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... Finding a new definition for academic success in university among first year or transferring students was the key question. The prevailing definition of success was distorted because only the students who completed their studies at initial universities regarded as academically successful. This study focused on broadening the definition of success by including any students who transferred and graduated in another university. The new definition of academic success consisted of students who graduated from the initial university and those who transferred and graduated from other institutions. Factors that helped to broaden the definition of success were analyzed implementing the Binary logit, multinomial logit and multinomial probit models. Dependent variables were three cohorts of students from the initial school of admission and tracking each one who transferred to another school within six years period. The independent variables were First GPA, 1st choice, Pell grant … gender, ethnicity and housing. The independent variables were measured on the dependent variable...
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...July 17, 2012 Collegial coaching thrives off the principles of grounded instruction, professional development, and learning communities. Curriculum content and the learning environment are the premise of effective coaching. Collegial coaching has proven to be an asset to many educational institutions. It is the foundation of a teacher’s professionalism and the success of state standards. Implementing a collegial coaching program in a school setting is beneficial when attempting to improve the school’s AYP, student mastery, and teacher effectiveness. The school and staff must have a shared vision and purpose so that the coach can develop a plan of action, workshop of strategies, and effective resources. Many factors mandate coaching; changes in curriculum, dynamics of the school culture, and approaches to teaching. Regardless of the geographic location of the school, the challenges are the same, however the approach may be different. Coaching is effective across the globe. The scope, sequence, pacing guides, and policies are often orchestrated by the teacher to establish or maintain their professional beliefs and objectives. Globally, the expectations of teachers are the same. Transforming the world begins with great teaching. Coaching is a significant global professional development strategy. The search for proficient, competent, and experience instructional coaching professional became prevalent when the federal government mandated that all school districts develop...
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...Professional Presence and Influence Western Governors University Professional Presence and Influence A1. Models of Health and Healing- The candidate provides a logical discussion, with substantial detail, of the differences between 2 models of health and healing as they relate to what it means to be human. Since the mid-19th century, there have been three distinct models of health and healing. The first era began in the mid-1960s and dealt primarily with the physical body. It is known as the mechanical model and focused solely on the anatomy and physiology of the body. It was physical in nature, and gave no consideration to the mind or spiritual side of the human being. In this section we will compare the differences between Era II, the Body/Mind model, which emerged around the 1950s, and Era III, the Body/Mind/Spirit or Bio/Psycho/Social model which emerged in the 1990s. During the mid-20th century, Health care providers began to understand that human consciousness played an important role in overall wellness. They recognized that patients with a positive mental attitude about their condition and care generally healed faster than those who did not. Doctors and nurses started to value and encourage input from the patients in their care. Health care professionals began to notice that emotional well-being, personal belief system and attitude all had a definite impact on health and for the first time became important in treating disease. This new phenomenon was considered...
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...intuitive to the social goal. Case: Who: (names and position): Andrew Macdonald and the Advisory Board (primary stakeholders) Eva’s initiatives What: (Key Issues): Whether or not to expand and if so how Why: (Root Causes): Funding Will the business side fund the social side? Need to help more at risk youth is pressing – growing problem When (Timeline): No, just as it works for the company Changing the funding has put some constraints on the economic business, BEP Analysis: (application of course concepts, models, theories): Performance: changing in funding formula away from government funding was made after 2005 strategic review – allowed Eva’s Phoenix …….. How did this impact its organizational design? Strategy: integration of its social and commercial elements of the enterprise – triple bottom line, includes environmental – uses Bullfrog Power Models: triple-bottom line effectiveness measures: goal approach – internal process model: how does the training side interact with the commercial...
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...Policy Brief: Are Principal evaluations a true assessments of their leadership abilities? EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Are principals’ evaluations a true assessment of their leadership abilities? Throughout this policy brief, justifications for principal evaluations are given, and the evaluation model is explained. Furthermore, a case is built to justify why the evaluation model needs to be reexamined to better represent a principal’s ability to positively lead a school. In addition, suggestions are given to adequately reflect principals’ abilities as leaders and to improve the overall effectiveness of the Tennessee evaluation process of administrators. Justifications for Evaluations Just as teachers should be rated by the performance of their students, principals should be rated by the performance of their schools. Quality school leaders can set high expectations for instructional practices and for creating positive learning environments. They can help improve instruction, and they can build a climate where teachers trust and find value in their own evaluations. In contrast, weak school leaders can wear away the overall school quality by not demanding or supporting excellence. “Principals exert indirect influences on student achievement through their effect on school climate”(Leeper, Tonneson & Xu, 2013). Assessing a school principal’s performance is both necessary and challenging. A principal’s impact is extremely significant because the actions a leader take creates...
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...publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. For permission requests, please contact ASTD, 1640 King Street, Box 1443, Alexandria, VA 22313-1443 (telephone: 703.683.8100, fax: 703.683.9203). Print edition ISBN: 978-1-56286-750-8 PDF e-book edition ISBN: 978-1-60728-862-6 Publisher: ASTD Press Writer: Jennifer J. Salopek Editor: Victoria DeVaux ABOUT ASTD ASTD (the American Society for Training & Development) is the world’s largest professional association dedicated to the training and development field. In more than 100 countries, ASTD’s members work in organizations of all sizes, in the private and public sectors, as independent consultants, and as suppliers. Members connect locally in 130 U.S. chapters and with 30 international partners. ASTD started in 1943 and in recent years has widened the profession’s focus to align learning and performance to organizational results, and is a sought-after voice on critical public policy issues. For more information, visit www.astd.org. The ASTD Sales Training Drivers segment develops standards, creates resources, and delivers research to help positively impact sales development and performance management. Resources provided by ASTD...
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...in not only providing evidence of effectiveness but keeping programs on course with objectives and goals. Evaluations examine and analyze programs to improve practices and make decisions. Evaluations also identify problems and implement changes through the theory of change. Furthermore, many types of evaluations are utilized to evaluate programs and each one chosen is based on the programs overall purpose. An evaluation also poses questions and hypothesizes outcomes of programs. For a quality evaluation, an evaluation must be open and transparent (Grinell, Gabor, & Unrau, 2016). Evaluations must also have an Understanding of agency or program goals and objectives Grinell, Gabor, &...
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