MSc Business Management BS7916 Principles of Responsible Management Semester One 2013- Module Handbook Module Leader : Dr Roz Sunley Room 201 Roz.Sunley@winchester.ac.uk Room 201 West Downs 01962 827339 In this module study guide you will find much of what you need in order to successfully complete the module. Further learning materials and information are available on the learning network under the module code BS7916. Module Code BS7916 Module Name: Principles of Responsible
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Who is Michael porter? Michael porter is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, based at Harvard Business School, this is one of the highest professional recognitions that can be awarded to a Harvard faculty member. He is considered the father of the modern strategy field and also as one of most influential thinker on management and competitiveness. He is one of the leading man in competitive strategy, the competitiveness and economic development of nations, states and regions, and the
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contribution to a debate that What leaders really do is began in 1977, when Harvard Business prepare organizations for School professor Abraham Zaleznik change and help them cope published an HBR article with the as they struggle through it. deceptively mild title “Managers and Leaders: Are They Different?” The piece caused an uproar in business schools. It argued that the theoreticians of scientific management, with their organizational diagrams and time-and-motion studies, were missing
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Aldershot: Gower. Armstrong. M. (2006). A handbook of Human Resource Management Practice (10th edition) London: Kogan Page , Bakan, J. (2004). The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power. New York: Free Press. Becker, H.S. (1982). Culture: A Socialogical View. Yale Review, pp 513 – 527 Birkinshaw, J.. The Structure behind Global Companies. Cited in Pickford. J (2001) Financial Times Mastering Management 2.0. Harlow: Financial Times: Prentice Hall Brooks, I. (2009) Organisational
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and the human response Life’s Work 156 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on career transitions Experience Illustration: justin gabbard Managing Your Professional Growth hbr.org The world of work has changed dramatically over the past decade. Companies are more global and employee groups more diverse than ever before. Organizational structures are less hierarchical and more collaborative. And today’s networked offices are full of technological distractions that would have been unimaginable
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4050 SEPTEMBER 18, 2009 TIMOTHY A. LUEHRMAN JOEL L. HEILPRIN Mercury Athletic Footwear: Valuing the Opportunity In March 2007, John Liedtke, the head of business development for Active Gear, Inc., a privately held footwear company, was contemplating an acquisition opportunity. West Coast Fashions, Inc. (WCF), a large designer and marketer of men’s and women’s branded apparel had recently announced plans for a strategic reorganization. The plan called for a divestiture of certain non-core
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SPOTLIGHT ON LEADING THE FOCUSED ORGANIZATION Spotlight ARTWORK Mark Dorf,//_path/untitled 73 2013, archival pigment print 60 Harvard Business Review May 2014 HBR.ORG May 2014 Harvard Business Review 6i SPOTLIGHT ON LEADiNG THE FOCUSED ORGANIZATION It's a sad truth about the workplace: Just 3 O ^ of employees are actively committed to doing a good job. According to Gallup's 2013 State of the American Workplace report, 5 O ^ of employees merely put their time in, while the remaining
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earlier: Ben, I know you’ve had a lot thrown at you these last few months as a result of the reorganization, with no help or information from your predecessor. I’m in the same boat here at the regional level. There’s been a lot of upheaval across the company since Mark Wallace became our CEO six months ago. Wallace hopes that we can improve our sales efforts in faltering districts and regions with high-performing talent like you in place; he is confident that sales revenue, morale, and productivity
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MG220 Marketing Management Group Term Project – Case Study on Marketing BBA2011 / Fall 2012 GUIDELINES (Page 1 of 2) Dated: Oct 5, 2012 Issued for: MG220 Marketing Management / BBA 2011 / Fall 2012 Prepared by: Muhammad Talha Salam, Asst Professor, FAST School of Management, Lahore Total Marks: 10.0% Selecting the Organization - Pakistani (preferably Lahore-based) - Having a formal marketing function - You may select the organization where you have any personal or professional references
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wrong and, worst of all, that very little will have been learned in the process. Take the example of a major retail bank that set the goal of improving customer service. It embarked on a program hailed as scientific: Some branches Katy Lemay Harvard Business Review 69 How to Design Smart Business Experiments grams). Now, a quantitatively trained were labeled “laboratories”; the new IN BRIEF MBA can oversee the process, assisted approaches being tried were known as by software that will
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