...topic within industrial sociology—the terrain of music for meaning making on the factory floor. The article is based on ethnographic research undertaken in a blinds factory. Although contemporary popular music appears to speak only rarely to the arena of work, this article shows that workers reappropriated music to articulate their experience of working in the factory. Many workers independently created meaning systems through music, which displayed both a negative experience of the work and an active resistance and defiance. The way in which this functioned was through the process of avowal in which choruses of songs allowed deeply felt, but usually tacit, feelings to be given direct articulation. Social listening in the factory played a key role in shaping the way in which music was used to...
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...Guide for Business Applicants New Brunswick Provincial Nominee Program The Guide for Business Applicants explains how you may apply to the Business Applicant category of the New Brunswick Provincial Nominee Program. Forms and instructions for completing your application are included in this guide and available for download on our website at www.gnb.ca/immigration. Consult our web site to make sure you have the current version of this guide and application forms. The New Brunswick Provincial Nomination Program will consider your application based on criteria outlined in this guide. To determine if you meet the requirements as a Business Applicant, carefully review the information before submitting your application. Successful applicants must: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Meet eligibility criteria of the New Brunswick Provincial Nominee Program. Complete an exploratory visit, including an interview in New Brunswick. Have a business plan or proposal approved by an official from the Government of New Brunswick. Obtain a minimum score of 50 points in the selection factors. Make a CDN$75,000.00 conditionally refundable deposit. The Province of New Brunswick does not charge any fees for applications to the New Brunswick Provincial Nominee Program. The New Brunswick Provincial Nominee Program requires that the fees charged by Citizenship and Immigration Canada be included in the application. The Program has been designed to allow you to complete the application process without paid assistance...
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...investors and society, by creating fairness, transparency and accountability in business activities among employees, management and the board (Oman, 2001). Again, GCG increase public confidence in a corporation, and lowers the cost of capital for investment. According to a McKinsey study (2002), over 60% of investors cite Good Governance practices in a corporation as a key factor in their investment decisions. Today, GG becomes a slogan and a pride. Here, we can uses accounting as a mean for establishing and retaining corporate governance. Accounting is a process of compiling information for reporting the internal affairs of any entity to different stakeholders at the end of a certain interval. It is defined as the language of business and can play a vital role for ensuring and continuing with GCG. as a discipline, accounting practice is highly controlled by accounting standards in a global set up. As accounting becomes an international discipline and the practice of accounting is harmonized aligned with the varied needs of stakeholders, it can be used as a tool for ensuring good governance within a...
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...Anar Group 41 : GREGOIRE Guillaume THOMAS Bertrand ZABI Anar CHANGE MANAGEMENT PLAN CHANGE MANAGEMENT PLAN This change management plan has been elaborated for the attention of the Vinci Energies Academy Director, Mister Eddy VANDERSMISSEN and the International and Digital Learning Activity Manager, Mister Thomas DOEUVE. It will mainly cover the review of the internationalization and the digitalization of the Academy with the objective to help you to best roll out your change projects within the organisation. For purpose of clarity, our change management plan will be divided into five parts: 3 3 Part 1: Contextualization 1.1 Characterizing the existing influence system 1.2 Identifying the main stakeholders 1.3 Nomination of an intermediary person 13 13 Part 2: Problematization 15 15 Part 3: Enrolment 17 17 Part 4: Convergence 4.3 Continuous Communication 4.2 Continuous evaluation 4.1 Project management techniques 26 26 Part 5: Extension Part 1 : Contextualization Part 1 : Contextualization Before concretely designing a change management plan, it is important to understand the elements of the internal context of the Academy, which are likely to influence the course of the change process. The goal of this first phase of the project is to make sure that we understood well the way the company works as well as the challenges related to the projects. Before...
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...PROJECT REPORT ON HR PRACTICES IN TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Guided by: Submitted by Titiksha Patidar(HRF058) Acknowledgement This is to acknowledge the quality help that was provided by the Institute-ITM and the related faculty in successfully completing the HRSS project on “HR practices in TCS”. We highly obliged and thankful to the faculty,Prof Dr. Snigdharani Mishra for all her patient guidance and help in successfully completing the project. Our special thank to Mr. Mohhamad Javed (Manager HR, TCS) and Mr. Divya Prakash Purohit ( Software Engg.,TCS). TABLE OF CONTENT 1. Introduction..........................................................................................3 1.1. History of Company...................................................................3 1.2. About the Company...................................................................3 1. HR Group in TCS................................................................................4 2. Manpower Planning.............................................................................5 3. Recruitment Process............................................................................5 4. Training &...
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...Task 1 Tesco, the largest retailer in UK as well as the third biggest in the world in terms of revenue, originally specialising in food and drink, it has diversified into areas such as clothing, consumer electronics, financial services, telecoms, health and car insurance, dental plans, retailing and renting DVDs, CDs, music downloads, internet services and software. Tesco was founded in 1919 by Jack Cohen. In 1924 the brand Tesco was first started the journey and 1932 it became a private limited company. Now Tesco is operating in 14 countries all over the world. There are 4,331 Tesco stores and employ over 500,000 people and serve tens of millions of customers every week. Tesco’s well established and consistent business strategy has enabled it to strengthen the core UK business and expand into new markets successfully. Tesco’s business strategies are mainly focusing on huge domestic market of financial services, telecoms and non-food. One of the main objectives of Tesco’s business strategy is to create sustainable long term growth and according to the company this could be achieved by expanding into global market. The company initially focused on Asia and central Europe. Most recently it has made its entry into the US market. In 1997 Tesco first decided to diversify and according to the company itself this was the basis of its recent success. As a result of this strategy several new businesses have been created by Tesco for the last 12 years and most of these businesses are...
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...NIGERIAN TURKISH NILE UNIVERSITY, ABUJA DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION EXECUTIVE MBA HUMAN RESOURCE INFORMATION SYSTEM HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: MBA807 PREPARED BY ENEJO JOHN ID NUMBER: 151323006 Table of Contents INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................... 2 HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF HUMAN RESOURCES SOFTWARE ................................................... 3 Defining Different Types of HRIS Solutions..................................................................................... 5 What Are HR Systems Managing? .............................................................................................. 5 What Are the Main HR Software Solutions? .............................................................................. 5 HRIS Solutions ............................................................................................................................. 5 HCM Solutions............................................................................................................................. 6 HRMS Solutions ........................................................................................................................... 6 HUMAN RESOURCE INFORMATION SYSTEM-DEFINITION.............................................................. 7 HRIS – Why it is needed? .................................................................
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...Fundamentals of Business Process Management Marlon Dumas r Marcello La Rosa Jan Mendling r Hajo A. Reijers Fundamentals of Business Process Management r Marlon Dumas Institute of Computer Science University of Tartu Tartu, Estonia Marcello La Rosa Queensland University of Technology and NICTA Brisbane, Australia Jan Mendling Institute for Information Business Vienna University of Economics and Business Vienna, Austria Hajo A. Reijers Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Eindhoven University of Technology Eindhoven, The Netherlands ISBN 978-3-642-33142-8 ISBN 978-3-642-33143-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-33143-5 Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2013932467 ACM Computing Classification (1998): J.1, H.4, H.3.5, D.2 © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for...
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...administrative process such as decision making, he discovers this. Divergent approaches to the study of decision making show that there are conflicting conceptions of its nature and function. And these probably are symptoms of a more fundamental conflict in contemporary administrative theory. Administration and leadership as foci for study have traditionally been the concern of historians, occasional novelists, and students of management, public and private. A generation ago these people had articulated a consistent, rather comprehensive conception of leadership, and especially administration. The Papers of Gulick and Urwick, for example, were regarded by many of us as a major conceptual achievement setting forth a twentieth-century theory of organization. Even as these ideas were gaining acceptance, however, the concepts that would replace them were emerging. After World War I, even before the 'The authors wish to express their appreciation to Professor Paul Wasserman for access to Decision-Making: An Annotated Bibliography, published in 1958 by the Graduate School of Business and Public Administration, Cornell University, and to Dr. Martin Shubik for his helpful criticisms. 98 ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE QUARTERLY appearance of the Papers, industrial sociologists,...
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...Hello Mr. Johnson During the past few Christmas holiday weeks, we took the opportunity to interact with employees from five different departments. We are here to show you the problems and root causes that the resort faces. At this point in time, learning more about the root causes can help you overcome the problems faced by the resort now and to improve your management efficiency in the future.\ In the short term however, as the Christmas season is about to begin, the company should focus on trust building and improving team working. In the long run, attention should be placed on improving the communication and relationship between the resort and the headquarters in order to increase the overall efficiency of the organization. The first root cause is the cultural difference between the expatriate and local staff. (Incentive to work) 1. (employees will vote for expatriate mangers) although the local employees don’t value promotions but doesn’t means that the expatriate managers 2. For employees: It is also highly recommended that the local employees are encouraged to bring their family and friends, which is seen as a crucial part of their culture. In that way both the local employees and expatriate managers will have a brief, but better understanding for each other’s culture, which may result in mutual respect at least for the forthcoming holiday peak season. 3. Mentorship program (one expatriate and one employees) every new employees will be mentored...
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...| | |Vodafone Egypt Organization | |[pic] | | | | | | | |8/18/2012 | | Vodafone Egypt Organization | Table of contents Vodafone organization profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vodafone external environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Vodafone stakeholders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Vodafone...
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...(Hellriegel & Slocum, 2010). Management is the act or skill of controlling and making decisions about a business, department, sports team, etc. (Merriam-Webster, 2014). Many people confuse leadership with management and although they are usual inner twined they are not the same. Management is only the act of decision making, however leadership is a way of life. It requires one to understand, embrace, evaluate and work to improve upon though out one’s entire lifetime. It is a multifaceted, complex and constantly evolving vision that requires one to be competent in many different areas. As stated by Hellriegel and Slocum (2010) a competency is an interrelated cluster of knowledge, skills, and abilities needed by an individual, team, or organization for effective performance. Most competencies are learned behaviors that can positively or negatively affect a single person or an entire company. There are seven competencies that are found to be the most crucial for a person or company to be endowed with in order to obtain leadership success. The seven competencies are: Ethics, Self, Diversity, Across Cultures, Communication, Teams, and Change. In the following text, I will show how Carter Ham has demonstrated these competencies, allowing him to become one of very few who has risen from a private to a four star General in the United States Army over his 40 year career. First, Ethics Competency is the knowledge and aptitude to make...
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...A RESEARCH REPORT ON HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING A Study on Selected Organizations in Bangladesh Executive Summary This study investigates the various Human Resource Planning and Development activities and efforts that the telecom and banking industry of Bangladesh undergoes, to deal with the rapidly changing environment, which organizations face in the current globalize market place. It views differences in the strategic and coherent approach to the management of the under-covered bank and telecoms ’ most valued assets - the people working there who individually and collectively contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the business. Human resources management comprises several processes. Together, they are supposed to achieve the organization’s goal. These processes can be performed in an HR department, but some tasks can also be outsourced or performed by line-managers or other departments. The various HR activities which we focused on while doing this report have simply started from the range of Recruiting process, Training Process, Performance Appraisal, Transfer Process, Motivation Process, Employees Retention Programs and Respond to diversity. We surveyed two top telecom companies and one local private company altogether to prepare a high-quality research report. Our objective was to find out the strategic aspect of Human Resource Panning various HR issues that a bank and telecom company focuses for thriving in the market. The results of logistic...
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...Introduction 3.Process of Performance Management 4.Practical study of organization 5.Data Collection Methods. 6.SWOT Analysis 7.Conculsion 8.Recommendations 9.References INTRODUCTION: Performance management (PM) includes activities which ensure that goals are consistently being met in an effective and efficient manner. Performance management can focus on the performance of an organization, a department, employee, or even the processes to build a product or service, as well as many other areas. PM is also known as a process by which organizations align their resources, systems and employees to strategic objectives and priorities. This is used most often in the workplace, can apply wherever people interact — schools, churches, community meetings, sports teams, health setting, governmental agencies,social events and even political settings - anywhere in the world people interact with their environments to produce desired effects. Armstrong and Baron (1998) defined it as a “strategic and integrated approach to increase the effectiveness of companies by improving the performance of the people who work in them and by developing the capabilities of teams and individual contributors.” It may be possible to get all employees to reconcile personal goals with organizational goals and increase productivity and profitability of an organization using this process. It can be applied by organizations or a single department or...
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...economic, social and environmental performance Evolution of the main indicators 2011 Turnover (in millions of euros) Sales 2010 13,793 12,527 Results and cash flow (in millions of euros) Operating profit (EBITDA) Operating profit (EBIT) Net income Net income attributable to the parent company Cash flow 3,258 2,522 1,946 1,932 2,613 2,966 2,290 1,741 1,732 2,540 Financial and management ratios ROE ROCE 28% 37% 30% 39% Other relevant information Number of stores Net openings Number of markets with commercial presence Number of employees % men/women Overall energy consumtion (Tj) Number of suppliers Social investment (in millions of euros) 5,527 483 82 109,512 20.5/79.5% 3,381 1,398 14 5,044 437 77 100,138 19.5/80.5% 3,230 1,337 11 Highlights Sales 13,793 12,527 9,435 10,407 11,048 10,000 7,500 15,000 12,500 5,000 2,500 0 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Sales by geographical Rest of Europe 45% Spain 25% America Asia and the rest of the 12% world 18% Net profit 2,500 1,946 1,741 1,258 1,262 1,322 2,000 1,500 1,000 500 0 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Number of employees 0 20,000 40,000 60,000 80,000 100,000 120,000 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 79,517 109,512 100,138 92,301 89,112 Inditex´s Annual Report addresses its economic, social and environmental performance for the purposes of achieving the maximum transparency in its relationship with all...
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