www.ccsenet.org/ijbm International Journal of Business and Management Vol. 5, No. 12; December 2010 Employee Engagement: The Key to Improving Performance Solomon Markos (Corresponding author) PhD Scholar, Department of Commerce and Management Studies, Andhra University Waltair, Visakhapatnam-530 003, Andhra Pradesh, India Tel: 91-996-664-1683 E-mail: solomonmarkos5@yahoo.com M. Sandhya Sridevi Professor, Department of Commerce and Management Studies, Andhra University Waltair, Visakhapatnam-530
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INTRODUCTION ABC Telecommunications is a publicly traded, global, manufacturing telecommunications company who primarily sells copper and fiber products to customers like Verizon and AT&T/Cingular. Like many other telecommunication companies, ABC went thru a significant down-turn around 2000. Not only did offices and manufacturing plants get shut-down throughout the world, the morale and culture of ABC changed. ABC lost a lot of their highly skilled, highly valuable employees. They have consciously
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Introduction On September 12, 2002, national television showcased Tyco International’s former chief executive officer (CEO) L. Dennis Kozlowski and former chief financial officer (CFO) Mark H. Swartz in handcuffs after being arrested and charged with misappropriating more than $170 million from the company. They were also accused of stealing more than $430 million through fraudulent sales of Tyco stock and concealing the information from shareholders. The two executives were charged with more than
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market has radically changed due to globalization, strong competition, technical development and a customer-driven market. (Härenstam et al., 2004) This high pace of change means that the organization must change behavior and manage to rapidly adapt to shifts in the market (Norrgren et al., 1996 In Nonås, 2005). At the same time, Beer and Nohria (2000) have shown that currently, many change projects and development programmes produce unsatisfactory results. To increase the ability to change, the
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resources company. The company was created by the merger of two companies, BHP Ltd (An Australian mining company) and Billiton PLC (An UK based Company). BHP Billiton has created long time share holder value through the discovery, acquisition and development of natural resources. In the last few years, BHP Billiton has faced some governance challenges in conducting their business around the world. For overcoming those challenges several strategic drivers has been taken by BHP Billiton. This report mainly
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Analogous to the PROMOTIONAL MIX for products and services of companies is the EMPLOYER BRAND MIX that includes external reputation, internal communication, senior leadership, values and CSR, internal measurement systems, service support, working environment, recruitment and induction, team management, performance appraisal, learning and development and reward and recognition. The goal of employer branding is to create loyal customers; the customers here being the employees. With the job market becoming
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actually know what they're talking about" in 15 reviews * "Many bad/useless middle management built up over the years but the layoff did some clean up" in 13 reviews Reviews Dec 8, 2013 “Loved the company and the people.” Software Development Manager (Former Employee) Rolling Meadows, IL I worked at BlackBerry full-time for more than 5 years Pros – BlackBerry was a great company with great people. I still believe the technology is the best in the industry and is only lagging due
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Global Human Capital Trends 2014 Engaging the 21st-century workforce A report by Deloitte Consulting LLP and Bersin by Deloitte Contents Introduction | 2 | 7 Global Human Capital Trends 2014 survey: Top 10 findings Lead and develop Leaders at all levels | 25 | 35 | | 45 55 Corporate learning redefined Performance management is broken The quest for workforce capability Attract and engage Talent acquisition revisited Beyond retention | 75 | | 87 97 | 65 From diversity to inclusion
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two very important things about Google: lots of people want to work there and Google is very particular about who it hires. Google has made the Fortune list of 100 Best Companies to Work For every year since 2007. Let’s take a look at how the leadership practices at Google match up with The Engagement Formula. THE ENGAGEMENT FORMULA AT GOOGLE Step One: Create a Full‐Engagement Culture that Defines the Organization and Drives Performance A full‐engagement culture has the following
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Ishan Walia 860931111 Dr. Jasso Section 122 EXAM 1 1) On Moral Development a) Lawrence Kohlberg, a professor at both University of Chicago and Harvard, was the creator of the famous “theory of stages of moral development.” This theory consisted of six stages which evaluated the moral reasoning of a person. The theory is divided into three levels, each of which has two stages within them. The levels consist of preconvention level, conventional level and post conventional level. The preconvention
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