INDUCTION (Ask student if anybody has been to a new place either for a job or for social event) Foot and Cook (2008) define Induction “as the process of helping new employees settle quickly into their job so that they soon become an efficient and productive employee”. CIPD factsheet 2014 are of the view that “‘induction’ is generally used in a workplace context to describe the whole process whereby employees adjust to their jobs and working environment”. Stirzaker (2004) found in her research
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HUMAN RESOURCES Conference Paper Abstracts A CHANGE RECIPIENT PERSPECTIVE ON TRAINING AND COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT DURING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE Olsen, Trude Hogvold; Harstad U. College; trude.olsen@hih.no Stensaker, Inger G.; NHH Norw.Schl of Economics and Business Adm.; inger.stensaker@nhh.no As organizations change and adapt to pressures in the external and internal environment, managers and employees are required to learn new competencies and skills. Ideally, new skill requirements should be
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Shinsei Bank’s current organizational structure and culture reflect the effects of several defining moments in the bank’s history. When its original incarnation, the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, failed in 1998, it set in motion a series of paradigm shifts for the bank. First, the bank was sold to a US private equity group, Ripplewood. This was controversial as, per the case material, “corporate Japan loathed private equity groups, and the government was reluctant to allow a foreign group to
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experienced life as a staff and manager in a factory in his first business career. Throughout the period of being a factory manager, he learned the importance of ‘Field based management’ and ‘fulfillment’, which is about the reality of the shop floor and trust of the employees. Although this was just the beginning, his experience of management level has had a decisive effect on his overall leadership career so far. As a factory manager in Michelin, he learned to be open-minded and was content to listen to
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Organizational Readiness for Change: A Case Study on Change Readiness in a Manufacturing Company in Indonesia Managing Partner, The Jakarta Consulting Group Faculty of Economics, Tarumanagara University, Jakarta, Indonesia. Alfonsus B. Susanto ABSTRACT In today’s environment, changes are compulsory for an organization in order to survive and stay competitive. Although, planned change is intended to make the organization more effective and efficient, resistance from members of the organization
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Outcomes of Organizational Corruption Ruth V. Aguilera Abhijeet K. Vadera ABSTRACT. Corruption poisons corporations in America and around the world, and has devastating consequences for the entire social fabric. In this article, we focus on organizational corruption, described as the abuse of authority for personal benefit, and draw on Weber’s three ideal-types of legitimate authority to develop a theoretical model to better understand the antecedents of different types of organizational corruption
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137-139). Lastly, Grove named the fear of an organization being on the brink of total failure as a “strategic inflection point” (SIP) which he describes as an organizations face-to-face with massive must change events even to a point of complete organizational failure (Krames, 2003, p. 141). Resistance Comparison Michael Dell organization encountered near death when the brilliance of his technical engineering team and himself put together a massive computer (The Olympic) that customers had no real
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confront an inevitable transformation of the management system, Korean companies tried to solve the problem by bringing in a rapid growth process of North American HRM practices. But, unanticipated side effect has occurred in this process. As American HRM was uniformly adopted, traditional teamwork, organizational loyalty, and the advantages of traditional Korean companies were damaged. So many companies have shown a problem of decreased organizational effectiveness. In the case of employment relations
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correctly forecast market potential and future demand, by establishing long-term marketing objectives. Key words: Marketing, business, organizations, cross-functional teams, environmental scanning. Classic Airlines Classic Airlines is facing an organizational issue. External and internal marketing programs have not been able to satisfy the needs and wants of the stakeholders. Target customers are looking at the services offered by other airlines to satisfy their wants and needs. This has resulted in
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DECLARATION I hereby declare that the study of The Integration of culture and leadership of Human Resource Management role in Nakumatt: A case study of Eldoret town is my own original work written in partial fulfillment of the course MGMT 492, Research methods II. I am submitting this research to the University of Eastern Africa, Baraton, School of Business, and Department of Management. This work has not been presented anywhere else. Name: Namakula Hellen Walusimbi Student ID: SWALHE1031
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