IBS Hyderabad Academic Year – 2014-15 Course Handout Section A Course Name: Organizational Behavior Faculty Name: Smita Kulkarni Room No: 114 Wing No: D Consultation Hours: between 10.55- 12.10 on Fridays Email: smita@ibsindia.org Course Objective: Semester: I The management of complex organizations requires an understanding of the nature of human behavior in corporate and other organizations, styles of motivations, personality and perceptions, company leadership, power and authority, strategies
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globally. The company have five hundred fifty employees and an annual earning of forty-six millions. Riordan Industries has a Fortune 1000 enterprise with revenues that excess of one billion dollars. It has a plant in Albany, Georgia that produces plastic beverage containers. In Pontiac, Michigan this facility produces a custom plastic parts. In Hangzhou, China this facility produces plastic fans. The Company’s headquarter in San Jose California is a research and development facility. Their customers
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Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs motivational model Abraham Maslow developed the Hierarchy of Needs model in 1940-50s USA, and the Hierarchy of Needs theory remains valid today for understanding human motivation, management training, and personal development. Indeed, Maslow's ideas surrounding the Hierarchy of Needs concerning the responsibility of employers to provide a workplace environment that encourages and enables employees to fulfil their own unique potential (self-actualization) are today more
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of India with over thirty five years of experience at senior level across Industry Verticals covering Manufacturing, Service Sector and hospitality. Having been a person with a flair and interest in knowing and involving myself in all areas of business helped me in handling various portfolios with ease. This trait helped me in my career and all round development as a person such that at later stages I was handling areas which required me to participate as a Core Team Member involved in critical
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which are similar and also different in the ways they structure their businesses. For example David Braginsky who worked for both Facebook and Google over the past five years wrote that "Google is really big. There are multiple teams doing the same thing and don't know about each other. There are teams that strongly believe that other teams should not exist. There are giant sections of Google that have been described as "non-Google" because of culture drift and acquisitions. When you go to the holiday
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Written Case Submission In 1984, ONSET Ventures was established as a seed stage venture fund by Terry Opdendyk and David Kelley. With $5 million in capital, this “feeder” fund was created with the help of three later-stage venture capital firms, and investments from 31 CEOs as well as various entrepreneurs. The goal of this initial fund was to make seed stage investments that would later be backed by the larger, later-stage VC firms. During this time, Opdendyk embarked on a study of 300 separate investments
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developing their workforce. It also helps them to identify their level of maturity according to their workforce practices, to establish a continuous workforce development program, defining improvement actions, to integrate both processes of development and improvement, establishing a culture of excellence. All CMMs are divided in five maturity levels. A company achieves a new level of maturity when it establishes or transforms a system of practices to provide capabilities it did not have previously
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Running head: HOW PERSONAL CAN ETHICS BE 1 BUS520 Organizational Leadership October 20, 2011 HOW PERSONAL CAN ETHICS BE 2 Abstract Business ethics in an organization have become extremely relevant in today’s business society. Graduate schools teach business ethics to prepare leaders and managers to be more responsible. Although ethical issues often arise out of business relationships many companies strive to implement a code of ethics that eliminates room for
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contract. The framework below illustrates the key areas to consider when planning a negotiation The Negotiation Process Each of the four stages of the Negotiation process will be discussed further in detail below. When considering the Negotiation process, it may be useful to have reference to the SPD Negotiation Plan Template STAGE ONE – Pre Negotiation Gather Information. Enter all negotiations knowing a great deal about your supplier's and your own organisation.
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Erickson developed a model with eight stages of psychological development. This model is based on the idea that a person’s development moves through stages in their life and each phase will be affected by the stages of development they go through. Each phase is seen as a challenge that should be attended to as they can be directly linked to one another and cause problems in the future Ted is in adolescence stage that Erickson named the Identity vs. Role confusion Stage. He says that peer groups and role
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