International Journal of Business and Management December, 2008 Organizational Culture and Its Themes Shili Sun School of Foreign Languages, Ludong University No.186 Hongqi Middle Road, Zhifu District, Yantai 264025, Shandong Province, China Tel: 86-535-668-1098 E-mail: shilisun@hotmail.com Abstract As one of the key ‘stable factors’, culture within an organization is playing a critical role in the organization’s everyday operations. Although the culture literature has at times
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STUDIES COLLEGE OF MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES SECOND SEMESTER EXAMINATION 2013/2014 SESSION Course Title: Production Management Course Code: BUS 325 Time: 21/2 hour Instruction: Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) Production/Operations Management is A) responsible for producing goods B) responsible for providing services C) system that create goods or services D) often referred to as the core of scientific management 2) Operations
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The four functions of business are Planning, Organizing, Leading, and Controlling (Norman, 2014). Planning involves deciding where to take a company and selecting steps to get there. Location of a company is very important to the success of that business. Is the community willing and able to provide support to the company? Does the area have the infrastructure and materials to maintain and help the business to grow? Planning is not only the where but also who and the what. Who are the people
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needs to match its business strategies according to the human resource functions and practices. The main reason behind this is that economy has changed from manufacturing based to knowledge based economy. Many organizations’ competitive advantage now stems more from their human assets (Bal et al., 2013). This concept of integrating business strategy and human resource management is called strategic human resource management where it gradually became well known in the 1980s (Azmi, 2011) This paper
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Management, 11e (Robbins/Coulter) Chapter 1 Management and Organizations 1) A great manager makes a job more enjoyable and productive. Answer: TRUE Page Ref: 4 Objective: 1 Difficulty: Easy Classification: Conceptual 2) Managers play an important role in dealing with various challenges being faced by organizations today. Answer: TRUE Page Ref: 4 Topic: Why Are Managers Important Objective: 1 Difficulty: Easy Classification: Conceptual 3) Today's managers are just as
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Barriers to Organizational Creativity Introduction: Interestingly, more than half of the life altering technologies and innovations came into being in the past 200 years (Albery & Yule, 1989). Like human beings, organizations too have experienced the impact of changes brought about by new innovations. If organizations don’t adapt then they would be replaced by other organizations therefore, resource utilization in the most creative possible way is essential for the survival in the ever-changing
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Bateman−Snell: Management: Leading and Collaborating in a Competitive World, Eighth Edition I. Foundations of Management Introduction © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2009 Foundations of Management • Managing • The External Environment and Organizational Culture • Managerial Decision Making Planning: Delivering Strategic Value • Planning and Strategic Management • Ethics and Corporate Responsibility • International Management • Entrepreneurship Strategy Implementation Organizing:
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that leadership and organisational performance, commitment and innovation go hand in hand (Judge, Bono, Ilies and Gerhardt, 2002; Judge and Piccolo, 2004; Keller, 2006; McGrath and MacMillan, 2000; Meyer and Hepard, 2000; Purcell, Kinnie, Hutchinson and Dickson, 2004; Yukl, 2002). Conversely, some studies for instance, House and Aditya (1997) suggest that is not a key factor in achieving organisational performance, commitment and innovation. Due to the conflicting findings concerning the role of leadership
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ROLE OF OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT The role of operations managementThe creation of goods and the provision of services by businesses. The transformation of inputs into outputs or products to be sold. This involves: * planning activities * purchasing inputs * managing inventory * selecting and implementing manufacturing processes * Developing strategies to gain a sustainable competitive advantage. | The strategic role of managementA strategic decision is one that affects the business in
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resource management; lack of employee motivation; lack of properly defined working standards for employees and other final results measurable; not taking concern of negative information about the organization especially from the clients which costs the organization’s image and remaining too busy to pay any attention to the establishment of problem solutions, lack of fairness among employees and lack of proper follow up on the employees work. All these are consolidated in the four functions of management
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