company is growing to take advantage of a new market opportunity, restructuring to remain competitive or simply trying to cope with attrition resulting from retirements and turnover, one thing is certain — more and more employees are newcomers to work groups, departments or organizations. In today’s volatile economy, more than 25% of all workers in the United States have been with their company less than a year and more than 33% less than two years. Americans will, on average, change jobs 10 times between
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Knowledge sharing in organisational contexts: a motivation-based perspective Alice Lam and Jean-Paul Lambermont-Ford Abstract Purpose – Facilitating knowledge sharing within organisations is a difficult task: the willingness of individuals to share and integrate their knowledge is one of the central barriers. This paper aims to develop a motivation-based perspective to explore how organisations resolve the social dilemma of knowledge sharing. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis builds on
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although a slightly revised model is presented. Important relationships between factors are identified, and the central role of the learners’ personal capacity for transfer (hitherto unreported in the literature) and their motivation to transfer in facilitating transfer is highlighted. In practical terms, the tested model can be used as a diagnostic tool by identifying individual, training design and work environment transfer issues in need of attention and by developing strate- r Dr. Cyril Kirwan
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organization that HRD involved in, the macro and micro. A macro change intends to ultimately improve the effectiveness of the organization while micro is directed to individuals, small groups and teams. So the HRD professional may also be directly involved in carrying out the intervention strategy, such as facilitating a meeting of the employees responsible for planning and implementing the actual change process. II. The HRD Executive as strategic Manager The HRD executive/manager has primary
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important lessons to be carried forward in this course to the next group of students, and finally, my desired and my expected grades. Additionally, I will evaluate similar metrics for the small student team to which I was assigned for the duration of the semester. My contributions to the class were both inside of the lecture component of the course as well as outside the classroom in the form of submitted questions for discussion and interaction with my professor and peers. As a diligent student in the
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unfairly treating a person or group of people differently from other people or groups of people.”(Webster) When companies deal with discrimination due to prejudice against a certain subgroup of the population, often times they feel educating the masses on the importance of the differences they are experiencing may be helpful. Enter: Diversity training. “Diversity training is defined as a distinct set of programs aimed at facilitating positive intergroup interactions, reducing prejudice and discrimination
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CHAPTER 11 - LEADERSHIP and TRUST LEARNING OUTCOMES After reading this chapter students should be able to: 1. Define leader and leadership. 2. Compare and contrast early leadership theories. 3. Describe the four major contingency leadership theories. 4. Describe modern views of leadership and the issues facing today’s leaders. 5. Discuss trust as the essence of leadership. |Opening Vignette—Employees First
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Environmental Problem: Defined The environmental issue that my research will focus on is the continued use of fossil fuels as the primary energy source by our global economy: regardless of the proven adverse impacts, from our reliance on these nonrenewable resources; and in consideration of the circumstances regarding the existence of viable alternative sources of energy, given the application of equivalent technologies applied to their systems of conversion. The focus of this paper is not to identify
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A Study On “Social capital and relation with Good Governance (GG)”. Tanzina Ferdous Department of Public Administration University of Dhaka. Preamble One of the most striking developments in social science over the last decade is the rise of interest in social capital as a mechanism for understanding socioeconomic phenomena. “Social Capital”, it’s a sociological concept, which refers to connection within and between social networks. Ours is an age of modern democracy. And this democracy is much
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THE ROLE OF GLOBALIZATION IN THE MODERN ECONOMY GLOBALIZATION DEFINED Over the past several decades, the economies of the world have become increasingly linked, through expanded international trade in services as well as primary and manufactured goods, through portfolio investments such as international loans and purchases of stock, and through direct foreign investment, especially on the part of large multinational corporations. At the same time, foreign aid has increased much less in real terms
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