...have predicted that electronics manufacturer Samsung would offer stiff competition to GE in the appliance and lighting marketplaces? In the years ahead volatility and uncertainty will tyrannize markets, and companies will need leaders who are highly adaptive, continuous learners, able to lead diverse groups across functional disciplines, regions and cultures. They will also need to accomplish the difficult feat of driving results even where they do not have formal direct control or authority over resources. Achieving more growth through greater innovation, searching for new business opportunities across customer segments and leveraging best business practices to improve operational efficiency demand that leaders know how to work across organizational boundaries. Whether it’s across national boundaries or across teams, leaders will need to collaborate. This article will focus on the skills that leaders will need to develop if they are to collaborate successfully in the years ahead. GETTING TO THE ROOT OF COLLABORATION CHALLENGES The vast majority of participants in Hay Group’s recent global Best Companies for Leadership survey indicated that their organizations have become flatter and more matrixed. Individuals may be assigned to work on different project teams and report to multiple managers. The advantages can be huge — new innovations, increased sharing of information and better capacity to solve complex problems. And yet the more matrixed organizations become the greater...
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...are visiting our journal on regular basis. Ground Floor, Building No. 1041-C-1, Devi Bhawan Bazar, JAGADHRI – 135 003, Yamunanagar, Haryana, INDIA http://ijrcm.org.in/ VOLUME NO. 3 (2013), ISSUE N O. 12 (DECEMBER ) ISSN 2231-1009 CONTENTS Sr. No. TITLE & NAME OF THE AUTHOR (S) PALLAWI UNMESH BULAKH & DR. AJIT MORE ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE AMONG THE APPAREL MANUFACTURING AND EXPORTING ORGANISATIONS LOCATED IN TIRUPUR CLUSTER DR. J. SHANTHILAKSHMI & S. GANESAN INDIAN CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR ON BRAND LOYALTY: SUBSTANCE STILL SCORES OVER STYLE RIDDHI BISWAS ROLE OF TEACHERS IN QUALITY ASSURANCE IN INDIAN HIGHER EDUCATION DR. ANIL CHANDHOK THE ROLE OF ENTREPRENEURS IN THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF INDIA DR. SAMBHAVNA GUPTA, DR. M. K. GUPTA, DR. JASVEEN KAUR & DR. PRADEEP KUMAR AGGARWAL KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS TO EVALUATE SOFTWARE PROFESSIONALS U. JEYASUTHARSAN & DR. N. RAJASEKAR HIGHER EDUCATION AND DEMOCRATIC IDEALS: DISRUPTIONS AND DIRECTIONS DR. PAWAN KUMAR SHARMA BUYER BEHAVIOUR IN PURCHASING RESIDENTIAL FLATS IN CHENNAI CITY DR. A. MOHAMED SALI, DR. K. SALEEM KHAN & I.NASEEMA UNDERSTANDING EURO-CRISIS: HOW DID IT OCCUR? NEHA NAINWAL & ASHIS TARU DEB THE...
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...| Organizational Behaviour and Development (UDE 1123) Semester III, 2012/2013ASSIGNMENT 2Creation Of Sony | | For Review by Prof. Khurram Khan | Prepared by Dr. A. Prakashrao (MBA – HC MR 121210) | 7/27/2013 | ASSIGNMENT 2 CASE STUDY 2 - THE CREATION OF SONY 1. What leadership competencies do you recognize in Ibuka and Morita? Justify your answers. 2. How are Ibuka and Morita charismatic leaders? Justify your answers. 3. Can you recognize the elements of transformational leadership? Justify your answers. 1. Comprehension a. Summary of the facts The case study 2 is regarding the creation of Sony and mainly on its 2 founder that is Engineer Masaru Ibuka and physicist Akio Morita who invested the equivalent of Yen 190,000 to start a company with just 20 employees in May 1946 post World War II and how it has evolved into a leading global brand. This case study tells how these 2 talented and skilled visionaries wanted to bring Japan from its post war defeat to leading triumphing nation. Ibuka and Morita were both passionate about electronics, but Morita felt another burning desire to help change the image of Japan in the eyes of the world. He saw a defeated Japan and believed that thru their company, they could help restore Japan to a triumphant nation once again. This vision for their country Japan started being implanted into the vision of their new company which initially known as Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. which...
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...MANAGING CHANNEL MEMBER BEHAVIOUR A project for Sales and Distribution Management Submitted to Prof. Jaideep Mukherjee Submitted By: Group No. 19 Renuka Dabas (Roll No. 11PT2-59) Sonali Jethi (Roll No. 11PT2-65) TABLE OF CONTENTS S. No. | Title | Page No. | 1 | Introduction | 3 | 2 | Channel Conflicts | 3 | 3 | Causes of Channel Conflict | 4 | 4 | Effects of channel conflict | 5 | 5 | Types of Conflicts | 5 | 6 | Minimizing and Managing Channel Conflict | 7 | 7 | Channel conflict or Channel Choice | 8 | 8 | Distributor Sales Force Motivation/Channel Member motivation | 8 | 9 | Training of Distributor Sales Force | 10 | 10 | References | 13 | Introduction A distribution channel or 'route-to-market' is a 'path' or 'pipeline' through which goods and services flow in one direction (from vendor to the consumer), and the payments generated by them flow in the opposite direction (from consumer to the vendor). Most products are purchased from channel intermediaries whose main purpose is to deliver product from the manufacturers to the end users. The purpose of a channel intermediary is to move products to consumers, whether business or consumer. Channel intermediaries consist of wholesalers, agents or brokers, distributors, dealers, retailers. Channel members can have transactional function, logistical function, inventory storage function or a facilitating function. Channel intermediaries are extremely important in the chain of delivering...
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...operate other three elements which are land, workforce and capital, but they has duty to bear the possible risk of bankruptcy.”(Kuratko&Hodgetts,2007). With the times developing, the concepts of entrepreneur are more focus on modern concepts. The view of Akhouri point that “entrepreneur as a character who combines innovativeness, readiness to take risk, sensing opportunities, identifying and mobilizing potential resources, concern for excellence, and who is persistent in achieving the goal.”(Mohanty, 2005) Hence, successful entrepreneurs should have the following characteristics: leadership, originality ability and self-confidence, the traits are independents, individuality and optimism, innovate, creative, flexible and leadership behaviour, they always task-oriented and future-oriented, and play role of risk bearer. From these characteristics, I can find some of the characteristics which I have or not, so in order to impact my ability, I will critic and analysis those characteristics by two parts which are three areas sufficiently developed and three areas require further development. 1. Three areas sufficiently developed (1)High-achievement motivation For my personal view that the "desire" driven entrepreneurs to face all challenging, and supporting me decide the ways of do things. Sometimes, people often evade some problems and tasks which are they may think difficult to solution. But I always prefer to solve those difficult problems. Although sometimes the outcome...
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...Project Paper The Role of Cultural Values in Business Ethics: the case of ICT companies Muhammad Fikri Bin Ahmad (1022133) (Email:fikriahmad91@gmail.com) Mohamad Amali Bin Maulan (1013901) (Email: aku_amali@yahoo.com) Muhammad Muslim Bin Samsudin(1012545) (Email: aim_messi@yahoo.com) Tengku Muhammad Ihsan bin Tengku Hishamuddin (1027923) (Email: ihsan_libra@hotmail.com) MGT 3020 Business Ethics Section 1 IIUM Gombak 15th June 2011 The Role of Cultural Values in Business Ethics: the case of ICT companies Tengku Muhammad Ihsan Bin Tengku Hishamuddin, Mohamad Amali bin Maulan, Muhammad Muslim Bin Samsudin, Muhammad Fikri Bin Ahmad Kuliyyah of Economics And Management Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia, Gombak, Malaysia. ABSTRACT Purpose-This paper aims to obtain views in ICT company regarding the role of cultural values in company performance in terms of customer satisfaction, skills in solving problems and capability in adopting new technologies and its influence to people behavior in terms of innovativeness and motivation. This paper also contributes to the discussion of cultural values in business ethics. Methodology-Data are collected through one on one interviewing process with 15 managers. Findings-The two main findings are firstly identified the moderating effects association between cultures in Malaysia with ICT company performance in terms of profit, customer satisfaction and capability in solving problems and adopting...
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...Executive summary The organization information system is backbone of organizational operational and functional units, the malware can produce potential threat to organization image, the establishment of an effective security measures and reassessment of organizational risk management approaches in order to cater with latest implication trend in network security. This report is based on literature review, analytical analysis of case studies, news articles magazines to highlight vulnerability and implication of malware attack to an organization, highlights the salient features of malware attack, malware attacks that can significantly hurt an enterprise information system, leading to serious functional commotions, can result into destructing the basic IT security up to identity theft, leakage of data, stealing private information, corporate information system blue prints, industrial white papers and networks break down. The only constant in the world of technology is a change, report highlights the latest trends, dimension and implication of malware attack and new critical source of threats, within the perspective of constantly changing IT world (e.g. cloud services-integration) Enterprise may not effectively device and manage malware threat and 'risk assessment processes. This report highlight the malware propagation process, malware vulnerability, the types of malware, optimistic cost effective solution in order to minimize security risk for an Enterprise information...
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...that the research project “COMPARATIVE STUDY OF NOKIA MARKETING” titled is my own original work and this report has not been submitted to any university and institute for award of any professional degree/diploma. Date : Place: Signature of candidate Bhupinder Narang Roll No: 104142461752 Table of Contents 1. | Declaration | | 2. | Preface | | 3. | Acknowledgement | | 4. | Introduction to the Organization A brief history of Nokia | Nokia Introduction | SCOPE | PAKISTAN DRIVEN STRATEGY | S.W.O.T | Accessories and Features | | | 5. | Maketing Objectives | | 6. | Organization’s Network: | | 7. | List Of Nokia Products | | 8. | | | 9. | Consumer Buying Behaviour | | 10. | Customer Driven Market Stratety Market Segmentation | Market Targeting | Market Positioning | Market Mix 4P’s | Positioning Strategy (slogan, logo….) | | | 11. | Product life cycle- Mobile phones | | 12. | Competition in the Market | | 13. | Nokia Brand Personality | | 14. | Nokia Product Design | | 15. | Need Chart | | 16. |...
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...1. Globalization meaning components Globalization is that the shift toward a more integrated and interdependent world economy such as markets and production. Merging of historically distinct and separate national markets into one huge global marketplace is standardized by global products such as Coca-Cola, Sony PlayStation and so on. Companies hope to lower their overall cost structure and/or improve the quality or functionality of their product offering- increasing their competitiveness. Therefore, they seek for source of goods and services from locations around the globe to take advantage of national differences in the cost and quality of factors of production. Macro factors such as declining in trade barriers and technological changing are facilitating the globalization. Production dispersed to economical locations due to transportation and communication advances. New markets opened through WWW. Jet aircraft move people and goods. Global media is creating a worldwide culture. Furthermore, the word economy, trade, and FDI used to be dominated by the U.S., but the proportion of dominance has been dispersed globally and separate national economies merging into an interdependent global economic system. Consequently, these components are creating the globalization. 2. Characteristics of multinational firms MNEs have substantial direct investment in foreign countries, which is not just an import-export business. MNEs use the active management of these offshore assets rather...
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...1.0 INTRODUCTION With rapid changes in the global business scenario and intensified competition the MNCs are looking to adopt joint venture strategy to enter into new markets to gain competitive advantage through shared knowledge, resources and experience. Many companies have found it very comfortable to adopt IJV ahead of other entry strategies to enter into international market. There has been a wide range of researcher conducted in the area of international joint venture that highlights various factors and motives identified across the world. With larger companies adopting joint venture into international market it has become very critical to conduct research to identify the parent company motives to adopt this strategy and the benefits and challenges faced by the these companies. This dissertation is an effort to bring out the theoretical background of the concepts of international joint venture and its application in the industrial practices across the globe. The research will present the information and proceedings in systematic chapters that will explain the design, methods and analysis apart from its conclusion report. 1.1 Background of the Joint Venture: Summarizing the background of the research topic is very critical in understanding the research background. To start with we need to learn the meaning of joint venture. Beamish (1998) has defined the international joint venture as the venture between a foreign company and a domestic company from the place of...
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...leadership styles. Explain why they are different or similar.2007/2008 5. “Leadership is fundamentally the same irrespective of culture.” Do you agree/disagree? 2007/2008 6. How does culture influence the practice of leadership? 2006/2007 Objectives: 1. Describe the basic philosophic foundation and styles of managerial leadership 2. Examine the attitudes of European managers toward leadership practices 3. Compare and Contrast leadership styles in Japan with those in the US 4. Review leadership approaches in China, the Middle East, and developing countries 5. Examine recent research and findings regarding leadership across cultures 6. Discuss the relationship of culture clusters and leader behaviour to effective leadership practices, including increasing calls for more responsible global leadership US and Japan “Getting Americans and Japanese to work together is like mixing hamburger with sushi.” (Atsushi Kagayama, VP Panasonic Corp, Japan & President, American Kotobuki, USA) Carlos Ghosn Carlos Ghosn has become widely recognized as the quintessential global executive. the man who is credited with turning around major Japanese car maker...
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...in order to concentrate on becoming a global giant in telecommunications. This is the position that Nokia is attempting to retain as it continues to ride the technological wave of change, focusing on technological convergence in mobile phones, multimedia, and enterprise solutions. Although the reorientation of Nokia over time did not come without its difficulties in integrating acquisitions and developing a strong corporate culture to unite objectives, and the company acknowledges that significant challenges lie ahead, it is clearly the story of a dramatic and successful corporate evolution. Corporate pressure is relentless, however, and in February 2011 Nokia announced a change in strategy, a new leadership team, and a renewed organizational and operational structure. According to chief executive officer (CEO) Stephen Elop,...
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...Journal of Economic Geography Advance Access published June 22, 2005 Journal of Economic Geography (2005) Page 1 of 30 doi:10.1093/jeg/lbi001 Video games production networks: value capture, power relations and embeddedness Jennifer Johns* Abstract This paper has two main aims. Firstly to conceptualize the production networks of the video games industry through an examination of its evolution into a multi-million dollar industry. Secondly, to use the video games industry to demonstrate the utility of Global Production Network approaches to understanding the geographically uneven impacts of globalization processes. In particular, three key notions of value, power and embeddedness are used to reveal the most powerful actors in the production network, how they maintain and exercise their power, and how the organization of production is manipulated as a result. It is argued that while hardware production is organized by console manufacturers using truly global sourcing strategies, the production of software is far more complex. In fact, software production networks are bounded within three major economic regions: Western Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. This paper seeks to explain how and why this has occurred. Keywords: video games, global production networks, value, power, embeddedness JEL classifications: L14, L23, L82 Date submitted: 4 October 2004 Date accepted: 12 April 2005 1. Introduction The video games industry1 was born during the early 1960s and has rapidly...
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...The term “Organisational Change” implies and can be defined as the adoption of a new idea or behaviour within an organization (Robbins and Judge, 2010). It’s the adjustment made among people, technology and structural foundation which was being established within an organisation for period of time. The fundamental concept is for the employees to comprehend the business environment and its significance for the sustainability of the business organisations (Management of Organisation, 2013). For the assignment undertaken, we will be looking into MOTOROLA which was heralded as one of the global communication leaders at a point of time; we evaluate factors effecting its business environment over the past five years using PESTEL analysis which led the organisation to make specific strategies to remain competitive and relevant in the industry. Motorola was influenced by several changes in its business environment which led company to develop strategic planning to work and collaborate with diverse corporation in the industry in assisting the business to continually innovate and improve their products and gain significant market share. This can be observed through the milestones of changes, since its inception back in 1930 when it was known as Gavin Manufacturing Corporation (Motorola Solutions, 2013). * Motorola Inc. was an American corporation established in 1928, a multinational company in telecommunications located in Schaumburg, Illinois in Chicago Suburb (Motorola Website,...
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...1.0 Exclusive Summary The purpose of the strategic essay is to introduce a new white goods outlet at Sydney. In order to successfully enter the target market and launch the store, managers need to carefully manage, operate and design appropriate market strategies. With the development of economic globalization, the relationships between the enterprises are becoming closer. And the enterprises are facing increasingly intense competitions with each other. In this rapidly developing society, marketing is more important for enterprises than ever before. Using the appropriate marketing concept to settle the issues between enterprises and customers is the key to success. This paper chose Sydney as the target location to open a white goods outlet. As the largest city in Australia, Sydney has a population of about 4.4 million spread over 12,000 square kilometers. Sydney is a metropolitan and tourist attraction center which attracts lots of visitors and foreigners from all over the world. The consumer base of Sydney is huge and the demand for high quality appliance and facility large. This paper is a critical analysis which describes the existing market environment and industry information. The paper firstly gave a brief introduction about the local retailing industry. The following part of the paper defined the mission and the marketing objectives of the target white goods outlet and re-emphasis on the Five Forces model. Implementation plan is more explicit which describes the market...
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