Number of Aston Credits: Number of ECTS Credits: 15 7.5 Staff Member Responsible for the Module: Dr Yves Guillaume Work & Organisational Psychology Group Aston Business School, South Wing, Room 8017, Extension 3252 Email: y.r.f.guillaume@aston.ac.uk Dr Nicholas Theodorakopoulos Work & Organisational Psychology Group Aston Business School, South Wing, Room 8015, Extension 3472 Email: n.theodorakopoulos@aston.ac.uk Availability: See Blackboard or contact WOP Group Administrator Mrs Jenny Thomson
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the identification of ways to improve the use of technology in the business, balanced with a technology aversion among the employees. It is not only a matter of the employees not being willing to adopt technology in their work procedures, though, the issue is further complicated by the technical as well as academic illiteracy among staff members. Another central issue is the delicate balance between exploring ways to expand business and avoiding to compromise the core service. Generation and evaluation
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International Journal of Global Business, 7 (1), 77-94, June 2014 77 Building Global Strategic Alliances and Coalitions for Foreign Investment Opportunities Dr. Balarabe A. Jakada Department of Business Administration and Entrepreneurship Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria. bajakada@yahoo.com Abstract Global strategic alliance and coalition is a diffuse way of effective combination of strengths of companies aiming at entering new markets, exploring new technologies, bypassing government entry restrictions
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Topic: Impact of hot Desking on the Performance of the Employees Research Aim The aim of this research is to explore if the concept of hot Desking is a helpful technique which increases the productivity of an employee and helps in the cost savings for the organizations. The paper would discuss the use of hot Desking at different companies and the survey questionnaires, and interviews are conducted for the employees of different companies that would identify the importance of the concept of hot
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CRH is an international building material company. “Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, CRH operates in 35 countries, employed approximately 80,000 people and its focus on three core business, primly materials, value-added building products and specially building material distribution. “(http://www.crh.ie/) CRH’s stocks are listed in both the Irish Stock Exchange and London Stock Exchange. There are two core strategies in CRH, development strategy and acquisition approach.” CRH’s approach to acquisitions
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Lean is a logical approach to minimize gap between customer’s expectation and actual outcome at the best speed with the lowest cost. Lean.org defines Lean by a succinct definition “Lean is to maximize customer value while minimizing waste. Simply, lean means creating more value for customers with fewer resources”.1 LEAN addresses new reality: 1 What is Lean? Ref: http://www.lean.org/WhatsLean/ The advent of Lean can be traced to after World War II, when Kiichiro Toyoda and other
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organizes, owns, manages and assumes the risk of a business”. On the other hand, Schumpeter (1934) argued that risk bearing is a characteristic more common in the concept of ownership and since entrepreneurs are not necessarily owners of a venture it cannot be considered as an absolute entrepreneurial trait. To conclude, although Schumpeter’s differentiation of ownership and entrepreneurship is well defined, examining an entrepreneur’s activities we could assume that the risk-bearing propensity
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Music, Drama and Dance Chinese Music Chinese music has a very long history. In the primitive society, about four to five thousand years ago, dances and songs had already occurred. This can be prove by a excavated cultural relic - an egg-shaped wind instrument called Xun (ocarina) which made of pottery clay with six holes which believed it is from the Neolithic Stone Age. The evolution of musical culture in Chinese history was begun to develop rapidly and successfully in the Zhou Dynasty (11th century-256
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Learning Styles and Strategies Family-Centered Health Promotion Amy Bell Grand Canyon University 10/18/2015 Learning style is an individuals unique approach to learning based on strengths, weaknesses, and preferences. After completing the VARK questionnaire it showed that I had a strong Aural learning style. There are many different learning styles which include visual, aural, read/write, kinesthetic and multimodal. The aural learning preference is for people who like information that
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to perform. This is because of this management style, as it promotes creativity and diversity in the working Management Management can be defined as a business organizing, planning and delegating guidelines and policies to meet specific goals. Management has been defined as the process, comprised of social and technical functions and activities, occurring within organizations for the purpose of accomplishing predetermined objectives through humans and other resources (Longest, Rakich, & Darr
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