Strategies for focusing a broad research topic Are you overwhelmed with how much information you are finding? Try the suggestions below: * Develop a tentative focus List what you already know and questions you have about the topic and focus on those you find most interesting. * Find background information on your topic Check our Electronic Reference Collection for an article in an online encyclopedia you can trust. * Look for magazine articles Magazine articles tend to be
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Leadership and Organizational Behavior Introduction: This paper about determining why job satisfaction is low and what is needed to turn OfficeMax into an HPO in efforts to increase job satisfaction. With guided research I will define HPO and research how current company initiatives compare and contrast to HPO. With the research findings I will create preliminary steps and outline for OfficeMax to increase job satisfaction within its organization which should increase job performance. The organization that
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AT&T: Becoming a Leader in Network Expansion Introduction The American Telephone and Telegraph Company’s (AT&T) history goes back to the year of 1875 when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. In the 19th century, AT&T became the owner of the Bell system company. The bell system was well known for the best telephone service in the country. The first telephone exchange, operating under license from Bell Telephone, opened in New
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Frank is always concern about the principles or strategies that proposed by his father and it’s applied throughout the organization, which is “Antonio Way”. This principles conveys the ultimate aim of Calveta’s which is quality of services and customer satisfaction, leads the development of employees in Calveta’s, maintaining the stability of profitability growth. As a fact, “Antonio way” provides a clear track of direction for Calveta’s in terms of operations on how to manage the organization effectively
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nationally and internationally every year. Recently they haven't won any awards. They feel customers are expressing their dissatisfaction with the quality of stunts. Additionally, many important employees have left the organization, and there has been a decrease in job satisfaction among the existing employees. The owner and founder Celsey wants to get to the root of the problem and increase both job and customer satisfaction in order to put Airdevils’ back on the right path and get them winning awards again
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together as a team, what factors influence their teamwork, as well as how could their teamwork be improved. In addition, they wanted to also investigate what were the levels of job satisfaction and motivation of the current Mimi’s volunteers, what factors increase or hinder those levels, and how can those levels of job satisfaction and motivation be improved. ORGANIZATIONAL TEAMWORK Results from the analysis showed that both the managers and employees rated strongly agreed and/or agreed that the Mimi’s
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Lincoln Electric: A Case Study Joe Attinello Cali Cook Alia Goss Kurt Oliver Mark Strom Mike Torbenson Business 305 Linda Gibson October 7, 2005 History and Background Lincoln Electric today is the worlds leading manufacturer of arc welding products, and also is one of the leading producers of electric motors, which was their very first product. John C. Lincoln is the founder of Lincoln Electric, which opened in 1895. He previously had been working for the Elliot-Lincoln Company
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Organizational Behaviour Book Notes Chapter 1 Learning Objectives: 1. Define organizations and describe their basic characteristics. Organization – social inventions for accomplishing common goals through group effort. * Social inventions – coordinated presence of people or a group of people * Goal accomplishment * Group effort – organizations depend on interaction and coordination among people to accomplish their goals. * Organizations are
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which are validated through these motivational theories: the Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory and Vroom’s Expectancy Theory. Looking at the evaluation of the motivating potential score (MPS) and the recommendations together will provide better job satisfaction (Robbins & Judge, 2008) to enhance this job within this company. Hennes & Mauritz AB (H&M) Hennes & Mauritz AB (H&M) has an international reputation as they are one of the world’s largest retailers that encompasses several different brands, which
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and train new people, so retention of the current employees is important. They want to look into this issue and provide a plan to improve retention. Purpose The intent of this paper is to investigate the main retention factors relating to job satisfaction, derived from the work practice itself, at the given case company, and to suggest ways to improve retention. By applying a given theoretical framework on a small enterprise in the consulting business, this
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