UNDERSTANDING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Qualitative research, also called interpretive research or field research, is a methodology that has been borrowed from disciplines like sociology and anthropology and adapted to educational settings. Qualitative researchers, as you already have learned, use the inductive method of reasoning and strongly believe that there are multiple perspectives to be uncovered. Qualitative researchers focus on the study of social phenomena and on giving voice to the feelings
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Case for critical thinking: Control and the mobile worker: rethinking IT devices in the workplace 1. The case outlines several ideas that organisations are using to capitalise on changes in technology and preferences of employees to work remotely. How does the concept of management control relate to this? The concept of management control directly relates to the several ideas that organisations are using to capitalise changes in technology and preferences of employees working remotely. These
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Case Study IT Business Dot Com Alibaba. Com Extracted from Alibaba.com Presentations SME : Small and Medium Sized Enterprises IPO : Initial Public Offering The business model of Alibaba is very simple. It is to help sellers meet buyers. More specifically, it provides an Internet based business‐to‐business (B2B) platform where sellers(suppliers / manufactures) can meet buyers (outsourcers / wholesalers) on a global scale. The company offers two platforms, one in Chinese for Chinese
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for room availability, then he inserts customer’s data and verifies if the provided credit card number has enough credit to pay the room: in this case the booking is confirmed and we wait customer arrival. The Hotel information system allows customer to modify or cancel his/her reservation. If customer arrives he uses the room and then he pays, in case of no-show a penalty is accounted on his credit card and the booking is canceled. (9 marks)
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AND DEDICATED: WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT? Some jobs are not always what they seem to be. In the case study “Bright and Dedicated” we get to look at some of the hurdles a newly hired controller (Susan Reynolds) must face . We will then look at ways to improve an unstructured organization like Marco Pictures Inc. and remove the obstacles that Susan has encountered. Case Objectives and Use The case demonstrates the need for companies to identify specific knowledge, skills, and ability requirements
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Case Study Chapter 6 The two values I believe Schwartz created that are affecting Bain & Company, Home Depot and Best Buy include: conformity and universalism. In regards to universalism, Bain & Company and Best Buy began to lower the goals for employees’ sales, which resulted in their receiving bonuses still plausible. In addition, Best Buy tried to keep their employees engaged through the hard time by setting up online surveys for them to give the company general ideas for cost cutting. This
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LEVI STRAUSS & COMPANY CASE STUDY Cevdet KIZIL Master of Science in Organizational Leadership Program 1- Knowing that its managers are willing to trade off some economic efficiency in order to operate according to their collective view of what is “ethical”, would you buy shares of stock in this company? Why or why not? First of all, I think we are experiencing a paradox in this situation. Because, the company is trading off economic efficiency in order to operate, but it’s a well
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Case Study: Snapple Steals Share I. Introduction This case study scans the critical decisions to be made by Arnold Greenberg, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Snapple. The point of view of the latter was chosen since his role is increasingly important to the company’s ability to execute its strategy. The chief operating officer’s main concern is to come up with strategies that will drive operational excellence and high performance in the operation of the business. His decisions are very
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