are behind the multiples and the significant role they play in arriving at multiples. Alongside the paper also details how these value drivers are systematically aligned in producing results. It emphasizes largely on enterprise valuation, and the different methods used in Enterprise valuation, formulas and application. The basic conclusion is that multiples nearly always have broad dispersion, which is why valuations performed using multiples may be highly debatable. 1. Introduction Valuation
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Chapter 1 What Is Organizational Behavior? Learning Objectives After studying this chapter, students should be able to: 1. Demonstrate the importance of interpersonal skills in the workplace. 2. Describe the manager’s functions, roles, and skills. 3. Define organizational behavior (OB). 4. Show the value to OB of systematic study. 5. Identify the major behavioral science disciplines that contribute to OB. 6. Demonstrate why few absolutes apply to OB. 7. Identify
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not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever." (Douglas Adams) The chain of command, most commonly defined as the formal line of authority, communication, and responsibility within an organization is a principle used globally to ensure structure and clear assignment of duties and responsibilities to all employees within such aggregation. After all, the chain of command principle has worked for centuries. It is efficient; unity becomes maintained, productivity does not stray, and the role
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Organizational Behavior - MGT502 VU MGT - 502 ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR Lesson 1 OVERVIEW OF COURSE This subject/course is designed to teach the basic language of organizational behavior to diverse audience/students, including those who are studying this as a supporting subject for their bachelor degree program. This course is designed to provide you the foundations of organizational behavior whether you intend to work in any field of interest. Organizational behavior offers both challenges
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(a) --- Diagnostic control systems, serving mainly as management by exception tools, are used to monitor organizational outputs and compare them to the preset standards, in order to correct possible deviations and keep the intended strategy on track. --- Beliefs systems: the explicit set of organizational definitions that senior managers communicate formally and reinforce systematically to provide basic values, purpose and direction for the organization; --- Boundary Systems: they delineate the acceptable
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working group by contrast, consists of people who learn from one another and share ideas but are not interdependent in an important fashion and are not working towards a shared goal. Help others but maintain the goal of achieving independent goals. 4 Challenges proving importance of teams: 1. Customer Service- Transactional models of teamwork are characterized by discrete exchanges, are short term in nature and contain little interactions between customer and the vendor. In contrast relational
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CHANGE MANAGEMENT (MGMT625) Table of Contents Lecture # 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. Topic Page # Course Orientation ................................................................................................. 1 Benefits and Significance of Change Management ............................................... 5 Kurt Lewin Model: Assumptions and Implications
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apprasials to increase the perception that employees are treated fairly. Due process Which of the following is true with reguard to leadership? It focuses on downward influence of followers. ____is the only tactic effective across organizational levels. Rational persuation to avoid poiticking during peroformance evaluations, and orginazation should_____ use objective criteria reactive and protective behavions to avoid action, blame, orcahge are termed____ Defensive bahaviors
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GAMES: A TRIFOCAL VIEW OF ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICS* PATRICIA BRADSHAW-CAMBALL AND VICTOR V. MURRAY York University, 4700 Keele Street, North York, Ontario, Canada Despite recent and growing interest in organizational politics, conceptual thought in this area tends to be dominated by a single theoretical perspective. In this paper we describe and contrast three views of organizational politics (functionalist, interpretive and radical) according to their differing structures, processes and outcomes
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effect on workers’ motivational needs, their support of users’ cognitive and sociocultural processes, and their effectiveness in supporting interface design. We note that the major approaches have focused on very different levels of analysis, and call for greater integration of these different levels in task analysis theory. Keywords Task analysis, cognitive modeling, activity theory. INTRODUCTION Practitioners and researchers routinely advocate building user-centered systems which enable
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