Attempt Only 4 Case Study CASE – 1 MANAGING HINDUSTAN UNILEVER STRATEGICALLY Unilever is one of the world’s oldest multinational companies. Its origin goes back to the 19th century when a group of companies operating independently, produced soaps and margarine. In 1930, the companies merged to form Unilever that diversified into food products in 1940s. Through the next five decades, it emerged as a major fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) multinational operating in several businesses. In
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introduction to your organisation, and your role, to provide a context for your assignment. Based on your own organisation (or part of the organisation): a) Identify, with justification, a critical issue relating to people that impact on effective performance within the organisation. In justifying your chosen issue, you should analyse the organisational context using the course materials to show how the issue has arisen, and the impact that it has. (40% of the marks) b) Based on your analysis, develop
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02-Cawsey.qxd 5/23/2007 10:59 AM Page 33 CHAPTER 2 Change Frameworks for Organizational Diagnosis How to Change Change is. —Anonymous Chapter Overview • The chapter differentiates between how to create organizational change, its process, and what should be changed, the content. Change leaders must understand both. • Lewin’s classic “Unfreeze-Change-Refreeze” model is discussed. • A modified version of Beckhard and Harris’s change management process is developed in depth. The
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organizational context (Nwokocha 2011). For more than five decades ago, the term leadership has been a researchable topic. Mostly, the research work focuses on issues of quality of leadership, ability of a leader, or leadership effectiveness, or leadership styles (Daft 2008, Bass 1990, Erez et al 2001 & Yukl 2006) Stogdill (1974, p. 259) stated that “ there are almost as many definitions of leadership as there are persons who have attempted to define the concept” and Yukl (2006) highlighted that leadership
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Environment………………………………………………………………………6 Internal Environment…………………...……………………………………………………8 Organizational Design for an International Environment……………………….….9 Products and Service……………………………...………………………………………...9 Information Technology and Control Systems………………….……………………..10 Company Size, Life Cycle and Possible Declines………………………………………..11 Organizational culture…………………………………………………………………...12 Ethical value…………………………………………...…………………………………...14 Decision making processes……………………………………...…………………………
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The Leadership Quarterly 14 (2003) 769 – 806 Leadership theory and practice: Fostering an effective symbiosis Stephen J. Zaccaro*, Zachary N.J. Horn Department of Psychology, Center for Behavioral and Cognitive Study, George Mason University, David J. King Hall, 4400 University Drive, 3064 Fairfax, VA 22030-444, USA Accepted 12 September 2003 Abstract Leadership theory has not lived up to its promise of helping practitioners resolve the challenges and problematics that occur in organizational
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DISSERTATION SUPERVISOR: MS VU CHI MAI Dissertation title: The influences of leadership style on employee’s job satisfaction in Vietnam’s young science and engineering workforce– A case of VAST organization. Executive summary This study focuses on answering the question "research" has shown the relationship between leadership and employees within the organization. An overview of knowledge have shown the leadership style directly influences employee satisfaction. The satisfaction of employees in an organization
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Greatest Motivational Force The Enthusiastic Employee: How Companies Profit by Giving Workers What They Want Learning and Change………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..11 Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life Followership: How Followers Are Creating Change and Changing Building the Bridge as You Walk on It: A Guide for Leading Change Built to Change: How to Achieve Sustained Organizational Effectiveness Leading in global and multicultural
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to talk. The term communication is used for description of diverse processes, connected with information transmission, and for the verification of presence or absence of a relation between two subjects (systems). COMMUNICATION – the exchange of meanings between individuals through a common system of symbols. The subject of communication has concerned scholars since the time of ancient Greece. Until modern times, however, the topic was usually subsumed under other disciplines and taken for
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