ORGANIZATIONAL POWER POLITICS This page intentionally left blank ORGANIZATIONAL POWER POLITICS Tactics in Organizational Leadership Second Edition GILBERT W. FAIRHOLM PRAEGER An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC Copyright © 2009 by Gilbert W. Fairholm All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, except for the inclusion of brief
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These results are in line with the theory: a more centralized hierarchy achieves better control over workers’ opportunistic behaviour, at the cost of depressing middle managers’initiative. Key Words: Authority, Organizational Structure, Incentives, Information, Action Distortion, Decision Bias, Media Bias JEL Classi…cations: D2 J5 L2 M5 Economics Department and Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK. Email: y.wu8@lse.ac.uk. I am extremely grateful
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several themes together. Like the Peruvian Indians who thought the sails of the Spanish invaders on the horizon were some phenomenon of the weather and did nothing to prepare themselves for attack (Handy 1990), marketers may ignore some important information in their environment simply because it is not consistent with their past experience. The purpose of this article is to outline both the intellectual and the pragmatic roots of changes that are occurring in marketing, especially marketing management
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A PROJECT REPORT ON Study of Customers Satisfaction towards the “ Pure it” (HUL) (With special reference to Cuttack city) For partial fulfillment of MBA degree course of Biju Pattnaik University of Technology Submitted By: Soumya Prakash Pani Roll No. B/10/01 Reg. No.1006281028 MBA 2010-12 External Guide: Internal Guide: Mr. Pratim Chatterjee
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A PROJECT REPORT ON Study of Customers Satisfaction towards the “ Pure it” (HUL) (With special reference to Cuttack city) For partial fulfillment of MBA degree course of Biju Pattnaik University of Technology Submitted By: Soumya Prakash Pani Roll No. B/10/01 Reg. No.1006281028 MBA 2010-12 External Guide: Internal Guide: Mr. Pratim Chatterjee
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Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production, with the goal of making a profit.[1][2][3] Central elements of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, and a price system.[4] There are, however, multiple variants of capitalism, including laissez-faire, welfare capitalism, and state capitalism. Capitalism is considered to have been applied in a variety of historical cases, varying in time, geography, politics, and culture. Discussing
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decision-making Situation of Certainty Structured Unstructured Situation of Uncertainty Top Middle Lower Benefits and Limitations of DSS: * The DSS is expected to extend the decision maker’s capacity to process information. * The DSS solves the time-consuming portions of a problem, saving time for the user. * Using the DSS can provide the user with alternatives that might go unnoticed. * It is constrained,
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Beirut Arab University faculty of commerce & and Bussiness Adminstration MBA Programme fall 2009-2010 Change in Management The Challenge of Working Effectively Across Organizational and International Boundaries in introducing modernizations Presented to: Dr. Ahmad Seleim Presented by: Roula Jannoun Date: January 20th 2010 Pages: (21) Including Cover |Contents
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theoretical foundations. In doing so it is following closely the precedents set by professions such as medicine, architecture and engineering, all of which have also been practised for thousands of years and have built up a wealth of descriptive information concerning the art which has both chronicled and advanced its evolution. At some juncture, however, continued progress demands a transition from description to analysis, such as that initiated by Harvey’s discovery of the circulation of the
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THE CONSEQUENCES OF MASS COMMUNICATION Cultural and Critical Perspectives on Mass Media and Society Kirk Hallahan ii For Jean and Jenna Copyright info to be set by McGraw-Hill. iii Foreward This book is a brief survey of contemporary ideas about the cultural impact of mass media on society. The use of consequences in the title reflects the fact that most cultural researchers prefer this term (instead of media effects) to describe media's influence on human experience. During
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