PASSION FOR LEARNING CASE & CASE METHOD PGP Orientation 20/6/2015 Prof. Avinash Mulky Slides Courtesy Prof. Ganesh Prabhu Nature of Management Activity Management is the continuing process of organizing human, physical, technical and knowledge elements towards the achievement of a stated mission in line with a vision and a value system and under constrained resource conditions. Managerial Decision Making • Management decisions often involve the projection of consequences
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Connor Ferguson Admin 351 Jo-anne Goodpipe January 29, 2016 Full Case Analysis of Hallington Utilities Services Company Case Analysis: Case overview 1. Summary of the situation Hallington Utilities Services is first introduced as a utility that distributes electrical power to customers in the municipality of Hallington. In the mid-1990s, the Ontario government decided it should move to deregulate the electrical power market because residents and businesses in Ontario were drastically overpaying
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Cisco IT Case Study Organizational Change and Advanced Services for Operational Success How Cisco IT Implemented Organizational Change and Advanced Services for Operational Success New organizational framework greatly improves operations. Given today’s pressing need to optimize IT services and resources while reducing costs and improving organizationwide productivity, the Cisco lifecycle methodology offers the framework needed to make operations more efficient and responsive. Cisco IT Network
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Case study Chapter 8 Of course it is very difficult to work with the different generations, as sometimes they have extremely different way of thinking and style of working. However it is not very effective to work with only one generation and it is almost impossible. As we saw from the text there is a huge gap between these two. So the workers of older generation might think that she is nothing but a kid who don’t know the rules of their company. Yet Terry is the superior of McCullen so it is
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Performance Management Case Study Natalie Perry 1. How would you proceed with the task of modifying the performance management process? I would develop directives and competencies for all the different staff that are involved in the day to day processes and resident care. Since most of the issues arose from the lack of teamwork skills, I would focus educating on team building activities. I would also asking the nursing staff to separate the CNAs into team groups and rotate them every week
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Case Study: Adolph Coors Company Should Shirley Richard encourage or discourage the Coors brothers to go on “60 Minutes”. submit to an interview to booster Coors’ image. Public debate and media commentary can present new challenges for organizations that do not have a clear strategic response to those issues (Benn, Todd & Pendleton, 2010). It would be in the company’s best interest to get ahead of the negative press and defend itself against the allegations of racism, sexism, and other biases
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Case 2 Whitmore Products: Time Based Logistics at Work Overview From Whitmore’s perspective, the HomeHelp partnership offers substantial rewards, but at a price. This case demonstrates the all-encompassing change that is sometimes required for a firm to maintain long-term competitive success. Change is very difficult to achieve in organizations large and small. Laborers, managers and executives alike establish “comfort zones” that are difficult to break. The case follows John Smith as
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Case: Creative Jobs at W. L. Gore Professor Doyle Young Regarding the case of ‘Creative Jobs at W. L. Gore’, husband and wife Bill and Vieve Gore founded W. L. Gore & Associates; the basic principle for work at Gore is teamwork, there are no managers, there are just teams of employees assigned to work on opportunities. Once hired the employee is given a “sponsor”, the sponsor is someone who is committed to the sponsored employee success and provides the employee with learning opportunities
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Case Study #2 1. Abortion is murder, because murder is intentionally killing an innocent person. Therefore, abortion is wrong. Explicit premises: a. Abortion is Murder. b. Murder is intentionally killing an innocent person c. Abortion is wrong. Implicit premises: a. Abortion is a crime because it is murder b. Murder is wrong therefore abortion is wrong. 2. The rate of drowning increases with the rate of ice cream eating. Therefore, ice cream eating leads to drowning. Explicit
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-Experimental Descriptive (systematic observation) Three Types: 1) Case Study (oldest descriptive method) -Study one or more individuals in great depth -e.g.Sigmond Freud -studied people with psychological disorders in Vienna -extrapolated on personality in general using info. from these people -Problem: the person or people you select may be so abnormal that data based on them is misleading -Today: case studies are used with brain damage patients -e.g. how strake victims speak
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