collapse. Particular attention will be concentrating on the ethical internal running of the company’s corporate structure and executive leadership, focussing in particular on Eddy Groves’ poor decision making, creative accounting and resulting organisational culture. Dahlberg & Moss (2005) claim that ethics is a practical matter which involves thinking about every day actions and decisions either individually or collectively and then responding with respect for all concerned. When values underpin
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kenyatta university Introduction to business and management Prof.Alex selel 2006 Undergraduate study in Economics, Management,Finance and the Social Sciences This is an extract from a subject guide for an undergraduate course offered as part of the kenyatta university International Programmes in Economics, Management, Finance and the Social Sciences. Materials for these programmes are developed by academics at the kenyatta university School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). ContentsIntroduction1Aims
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Thinking... The conceptual background to strategy, marketing and planning Stephen Cashman, February 2003 This online background paper provides a review of some of the definitions, theories and concepts underpinning strategy. As such it is intended to introduce the key concepts involved, or to form an overall reminder of the various issues relating to these areas. 1. What is strategy about and why is it so important? ‘Every company needs a strategy – either explicit or implicit.’ Costas
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Teleological Theories of Change ......................................................................... 25 Dialectical Theories of Change............................................................................ 27 A Dialectical Approach to Organisational Strategy and Planning ....................... 29 Limitation of Dialectics; DA and DI.................................................................... 31 Theories of Change in Organisations...................................................
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Coping with Continuous Change in the Business Environment CHANDOS KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SERIES Series Editor: Melinda Taylor (email: melindataylor@chandospublishing.com) Chandos’ new series of books are aimed at all those individuals interested in knowledge management. They have been specially commissioned to provide the reader with an authoritative view of current thinking. If you would like a full listing of current and forthcoming titles, please visit our web site www.chandospublishing
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economic activity which has the potential of contributing to the development of areas endowed with the resource. In North America, raw mineral production in 1998 was valued at approximately US$ 70 billion. The industry employs approximately 1 million people (Mbendi Profile, 2005). In Peru, the mining sector accounts for 50% of the country’s annual export earnings. During 1993, the mining industry’s contribution to the Peruvian economy was represented by $240m paid in taxes; $400m spent on local purchases;
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Health Service (NHS). It seeks to contextualise issues around diversity within the current political environment, and identify the barriers to diversity in the NHS. The business case has been very strongly argued as justification for introducing both managing diversity and equal opportunity initiatives - here the paper examines the inconsistencies of using that argument, and maintains that the only justification worth presenting is that based on (deontological) moral arguments. Design/methodology/approach
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Roles, authority and involvement of the management accounting function: a multiple case-study perspective Caroline Lambert HEC, Paris 1, rue de la Libération 78351 Jouy en Josas Cedex lambert@hec.fr Samuel Sponem Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers GREG-CRC (EA 2430) samuel.sponem@cnam.fr Acknowledgements The authors are grateful to participants at the European Accounting Association Conference 2009, the Accounting department ESSEC seminar, France, and at the seminar of Ecole de Comptabilité
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organization affect the organization’s work /life balance? What ethical considerations exist that may drive the organization to be more work/life balance? Answer: The challenge is to make organizations more accommodating to diverse groups of people by addressing different lifestyles, family needs, and work styles. So diversity in an organization will raise the following issues which are affecting the life /Balance: • Need to attract and maintain a diversified work force that
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Title Page Assignment Title Specific elements of essay: * Describe the Goals & objectives of my organisation * Understand the specific responsibilities of middle management in enabling an organisation to achieve its goals Gareth Lewis Date: 12 June 2013 Birth: 08/03/1956 Phone: 01656 773163 Email: gareth@lewis453.orangehome.co.uk Page 2 This assignment has been produced to provide evidence of my organisations goals & objectives, the evidence provided gives clear distinction
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