...Almost every one of us works in an organization of some type, whether it is a small family business, large industry, a government agency, or educational or religious institution. The purpose of the organization and its operating policies are set by the people who control it. Whatever the size or kind of organization, it is made up of people working together toward a common goal. The needs of the organization and the needs of its people must be satisfied if the organization is to succeed and remain successful. Organizations are social systems with interpersonal relationships involved in innovating, planning, implementing, evaluating and producing goals utilizing human resources. The goal of any organization is to increase profitability, increase growth and innovation and introduce new values and culture into the organization. In order for an organization to remain competitive it must have maximum quality, minimum cost and maintain peak performance. The importance of organizational behavior theory and practice has become more important today than in previous years because of rapidly changing and competitive global economy. In order to understand the importance of organizational behavior, we must first define exactly what organizational behavior is and what it covers. The study of people within business is defined as organizational behavior. Organizational behavior is the influences that affect people, decision-making, empowerment, ethics, environmental and social issues...
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...Management Theories and Principles The Enthusiastic Employee: How Companies Profit by Giving Workers What They Want, by David Sirota, Louis A. Mischkind, and Michael I. Meltzer Worker motivation, morale, and performance are the main topic of the first two chapters of the text and the authors provide examples, quotations, and research data that explains what workers want from a job and what makes them enthusiastic about coming to work. The three primary sets of goals are; equity (the desire to be treated fairly and equally), achievement, and camaraderie. * Equity: or the desire to be treated fairly. Here, the authors discuss important concerns like job security, compensation, and respect. Everyone wants to be securing in his/her job, earn a decent wage, and be treated in a professional manner. This part of the literature investigates just how important compensation really is to job satisfaction and what level of trade-off employees are willing to accept in terms of income in order to gain more job security. * Achievement: The purpose and mission of a company, the annoyances caused by layers of management, the desire to have challenging work, and the importance of recognition for a job well done. The consensus among workers is clear: They not only want to be treated with respect and earn a decent living, they also want to work for a company they feel proud of and perform a task that is challenging and rewarding. * Camaraderie: Or employee relationships...
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...Business Attitudes In business communications, attitudes play a significant role in achieving business goals. Today the workplace can be a stressful due to the economy. Job cuts, layoffs, and even the threat of companies going out of business can put employees on edge. These stressful times can make it more difficult for employers to motivate their employees. Workers may take on negative attitudes as they fear for their jobs. Employee attitude problems have a very negative impact on the work environment as well as your company’s bottom line. An employee with an attitude problem may be careless, insensitive and inconsiderate of others. The negative effects of bad attitudes are widespread, and the morale of the entire company may lower due to employee’s attitudes. As managers and supervisors, their goal is to promote positive attitudes by motivating employees. Good attitudes can be taught, and the very best method is to lead by example. Every company’s goal should be that “attitudes are an important part of your success, both on the job and in your personal life.” According to Tubbs (2009), an attitude is a mental state that exerts influence over an individual’s behaviors. Typically attitudes have been considered along with two other elements – beliefs and behaviors. Beliefs represent what we have learned or come to know through experience. As such, they are either true or represent what a person may think is true (for example, that working on a challenging project would...
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...able to provide a hopeful message to a receptive market. The message helps business create an easy path to personal success. The fourth reason is an increased principle in commitment to proactive organizational change and a search for differentiating one’s approach. In order to find a book that is a good fit you must look at the pros and cons of each book. There are several areas the author wants you to review. A few includes author credentials, rationale, face validity and target organizations. Flawed Advice and the Management Trap Argyris talks about how people receive and accept advice that is basically flawed. He uses two modules to explain where the flaws exist. Module I behavior is focused on protecting oneself and having a biased view of everyone. Protectionism and defensiveness are the bases for the behavior. Module I behavior has incompetence because the advice represents espoused theories of effectiveness, contains evaluations that are not tested, self-referential logic that produces limited knowledge and advice doesn’t specify casual processes. Module II behaviors provide organizations with the opportunity to analyze advice directly to ensure that the advice adopted by the organization is not flawed....
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...Management: Ethics & Tactics Highlight the management theories or principles of each reading, submit 2 pages with your interpretations: This week, we learn that resonant managers zero in on employee emotions, feelings and attitudes. The “soft side” of management is important, it is important to manage both your emotions and the emotions of your subordinates. In Toxic Emotions at Work, the author recognizes that there are times when organizations and leaders cause pain. This pain can be either intentional or unintentional. Frost says, “organizations by their very nature create a regular supply of emotional pain” (p. 245). Compassionate managers need skills to be efficient toxin handlers. Paying attention to the types of questions and musing over how individuals or the organization would answer is a great start to acknowledging emotional toxicity and pain. Organizations need to strive to increase capacity for compassionate responses within the culture. Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson offer The One Minute Manager. They do not believe that good management takes a lot of time, they base this assumption on these underlying premises: “quality of time spent with subordinates is more important than quantity; and in the end, people should really be managing themselves” (p. 270). The three strategies they recommend are one-minute goals, one-minute praisings, and one-minute reprimands. The authors admit that managers have to sincerely care about the people under...
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...Leadership Model Paper Introduction Company A has been no stranger to the economic downturn these last ten years. As most of you know, we have seen shrinking profit margins, a shortening supply of material, growing operational costs as equipment ages to maturity, and increased transportation costs as fuel prices soar. Also, the last three years have brought significant amounts of competition to our area, where we were once the dominant player. Through all of this, Company A has persisted, and continues to work hard to provide excellent service to our customers, provide competitive pricing, work closely with suppliers, and provide the best working environment possible for our employees. However, though we have persisted, we have not done so profitably. The time has come for Company A to make some significant changes structurally. Surely everyone has heard rumors of downsizing, and unfortunately, those rumors are true. We have explored every avenue up to this point, but we cannot delay any further. The following letter describes the upcoming restructuring plan, including operational and managerial expectations. It saddens me that we were unable to find a better solution than downsizing, but it is my hope that our organization will pull through this obstacle with the same persistence and grace that it has hurtled them before. Responsible Restructure Unfortunately, throughout the last decade, Company A has seen a continuous fall in profit margins and ROA. This being said, we...
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...Final Paper The 5 Steps to a Successful Organization Jacob Dunnichay Indiana Tech University Table of Contents TOC \t "Heading, 1" Introduction PAGEREF _Toc \h 3 Value and Vision PAGEREF _Toc1 \h 4 Direction and Alignment PAGEREF _Toc2 \h 7 Motive and Empower PAGEREF _Toc3 \h 10 Learning and Change PAGEREF _Toc4 \h 13 Leading in Global and Multicultural Society PAGEREF _Toc5 \h 16 Summary PAGEREF _Toc6 \h 19 References PAGEREF _Toc7 \h 20 Introduction For the purposes of this paper, I have chosen to be the owner of a small hotel chain on the island of Put-In-Bay, Ohio. This organization currently has three hotels, two condos, a large house, two bars, and a fleet of approximately 250 golf carts for rent underneath the owners control. This is a business that has been built from the ground up around its two most successful businesses, Put-In-Bay Resort and Conference Center, which has the largest pool bar on the island, the Blue Marlin Bar and Grill, and Edgewater Golf Cart Rentals. By developing these two businesses in the last eight years, a competitive advantage has been built over competitors that were on the island long before our organization. Put-In-Bay, Ohio is a small vacation island located on Lake Erie. Considering the island is only accessible by boat or ferry, the main form of transportation on the island is golf carts. There are many attractions and family oriented activities that make this island a prime location for vacation...
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...A Leadership Model:Developing Rather Than Finding One That WorksIn this day in age, an organizations key to success is to “get to the top” and get there yesterday. In the past organizations might have taken pride in the attempts that they had made to become successful. Though they may have failed many times, they were on a mission to find what worked best for their employees, their managers and the organization as a whole. Fast forward to the 2000s and the bookshelves are filled with books upon books on how to get rich quick, how to succeed with cold calls, and how to find success through managing others. It is for this reason some of these books have reached the status of “best seller.” The question however is: are they “best sellers” or are they “Great practical advice that could truly make an organization succeed with easy methods to follow, understand, and keep going long term”? Among these books, one can find the latter mentioned, but the important part is taking the key concepts and molding them into what is needed for each individual organization. Even within the same vertical, different methods may work for one but bring another to its demise. These seekers should not be searching for a cookie cutter method, unless that is, their employees are cookie cutters.It is vital when learning how to manage a team and an organization to remember the beginning vision and the values to uphold. It is also important to determine one’s own dedication and align those around them...
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...Indiana Institute of Technology (Indiana Tech) Management Theories or Principles And How They Apply To My Organization Module Six Assignment Final Paper By William D. Inman Student ID# 1020398 Professor: Dr. Joe Flowers Executive Management MBA5000 September 05, 2015 Table of Contents Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………….…………………….………………………………………….3 Value and Vision…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..……………..4 Moral Intelligence: Enhancing Business Performance and Leadership Success The Ethics Recession: Reflections on the Moral Underpinnings of the Current Economic Crisis Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value Direction and Alignment…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………5 Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious Psychological Capital: Developing the Human Competitiveness Edge Fish!: A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results Motivate and Empower………………………………………………………………………………………………………….………….…..7 The One Minute Manager Why Pride Matters More Than Money: The Power of the World's Greatest Motivational Force The Enthusiastic Employee: How Companies Profit by Giving Workers What They Want Learning and Change………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..11 Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life Followership: How Followers Are Creating Change and Changing Building the Bridge as You Walk on It: A Guide for Leading...
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...MBA 5000 Executive Management Final Leadership Paper Alyssa Bailey Indiana Tech Table of Contents 1. Introduction……………………………………………………………….............................3 2. Value and Vision…………………………………………………………………………….4 3.1. Management By Objectives………………………………………………………………….4 3.2. Fourteen Step Transformation Process………………………………………………………5 3.3. Theory Y……………………………………………………………………………………...6 3. Direction and Alignment…………………………………………………………………….7 4.4. Competitive Advantage………………………………………………………………………8 4.5. The Fifth Discipline…………………………………………………………………………..9 4.6. Collaborative Work System…………………………………………………………………10 4. Motivate and Empower……………………………………………………………………..11 5.7. Psychological Capital………………………………………………………………………..11 5.8. Three-Factor Theory of Human Motivation………………………………………………..12 5.9. Institutional-Building Pride………………………………………………………………….13 5. Learning and Change……………………………………………………………………….14 6.10. Authentic Leadership………………………………………………………………………..14 6.11. Building the Bridge………………………………………………………………………….15 6.12. Built-to-Change……………………………………………………………………………...15 6. Leading in Global and Multicultural Society……………………………………………….16 7.13. Toxic Emotions………………………………………………………………………………17 7.14. One Minute Management……………………………………………………………………17 7.15. Seven Habits of Highly Effective People…………………………………………………..19 7. Summary……………………………………………………………………………………...
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...Introduction Whether you own your home or rent, chances are that at some point you will find yourself looking for something that will lead you to one of these two retail giants. The home improvement industry has evolved from small regional and locally owned hardware stores to these superstores. The top two in the industry are Home Depot and Lowe’s. Each has their eye on moving into international markets, each has superstores in all 50 states and each has evolved along different paths to reach their current positions. According to Fortune 500 Home Depot, Inc. is ranked at #25 and the second largest retailer in the US after Wal-Mart. Home Depot Inc. has its corporate headquarters in Atlanta Georgia. What began in 1979 as two 60,000-foot stores that resembled warehouses has grown to about 2,200 stores across North America, Puerto Rico, and China. Home Depot Inc. is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange as NYSE:HD. At the end of 2008 Home Depot Inc. employed 331,000 people. Home Depot sales recorded and posted in 2009 are $71,288.0 mil. Home Depot Inc. is the number one home improvement retailer with Lowe’s coming in second place with sales posted in 2009 at $48, 230.0 mil.. Founded in 1946 Lowe’s went from a small hardware store to the ninth largest retailer in the US. Lowe’s went public in 1961 and began trading on the New York Stock Exchange as NYSE:LOW in 1979. According to Fortune 500 Lowe’s Companies, Inc. is ranked at #47. Lowe’s Companies, Inc. are headquartered...
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