2222-2839 (Online) Vol 3, No.9, 2011 www.iiste.org Application of Frederick Herzberg’s Two-Factor theory in assessing and understanding employee motivation at work: a Ghanaian Perspective Kwasi Dartey-Baah (Corresponding Author) Department of Organisation & Human Resource Management, University of Ghana Business School P.O. Box LG78, Legon, Accra-Ghana, West Africa Telephone: 00233209621292 Email: kdartey-baah@ug.edu.gh George Kofi Amoako Department of Marketing, Central Business School P.O.
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resourcefulness, flexibility in behaviour and effectiveness, which all together develop their innate resilience. All this is necessary to establish a clear thinking, focused mind, personal grooming, and behavioural psychology and NLP can be applied here. According to Tosey (2008) neurolinguistic programing means a systematic linkage between an individual’s mental internal experience (also referred as ‘neuro’), language (‘linguistic’) and the patterns of behaviour (‘programming’). According to Walker
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------------------------------------------------- Organizational culture is the behaviour of humans who are part of an organization and the meanings that the people react to their actions. Organizational Culture, sometimes, also called as corporate culture, is basically the personality of an organization. The main elements of organizational culture are the assumptions, values, symbols, rites and rituals of organization’s members and their behaviours or in other words we can say that it is based on shared attitudes
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In organisations today, the role that communication plays is one that is imperative to an organisations success and the success of the individuals of that organisation. Poor communication is most often the source of interpersonal conflict (Cocks 2012), which is not a surprise as almost 70 percent of an individual’s day consists of some form of communication (Robbins, et al. 2011). Communication is the process of information being passed from one individual to another that follows a procedure of informational
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1 P 1.1. The purpose of different types of organisation. .................................................................................. 2 P 1.2. The extent to which an organisation meets the objectives of different stakeholders. .................. 3 P 1.3. The responsibilities of an organisation and strategies employed to meet them. .......................... 4 P 3.3.The business and cultural environments shape the behaviour of an organisation ........................ 4 Conclusion .....
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* Product * Strategies * Goals Control means reviewing, monitor, check * Managers monitor and regulate how efficiently and effectively an organisation and its members are performing the activities necessary to achieve organisational goals. * Managers keep an organisation on track, anticipate events, and change the organisation to respond to opportunities and threats Control systems Flexible because environment change Timely manner: for eg a 6 weeks reviews: will track, check
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Organisational Behaviour U58029 Individual assignment Name: Miguel Zhou Yang Student number: 13083861 Word count: Part 1: Organisational Misbehaviour Organisational behaviour can be defined as the study of what people think, feel and do in and around organisations (Mcshane & Glinow, 2008). Thus, the antonym for Organisational behaviour would obviously be Organisational Misbehaviour which its easiest and simplest definition according to Ackroyd & Thompson (1999) is “Organisational
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summarise the CIPD professional Map (i.e. the core areas, the professional areas, the bands and the behaviours) • comment on the activities and knowledge specified within any 1 professional area, at either band 1 or band 2, identifying those you consider most essential to your own (or other identified) HR role. The HR Professional Map is designed to identify the skills and behaviours all HR practioners should portray within their role. The map acts a guide of professional competence
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Importance of behavioural leadership in the organisation Suyash Desai IGlobal University Abstract This paper explores three published articles that highlight the importance behavioral leadership in the organisation. Leadership has many definitions. Numerous behavioral competencies can be found in high performing leaders. The articles, however vary in their definitions of a behavioral leadership. Mr. Dye suggested that there are certain aspects of your personality which are responsible to
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purposes (ICSA.org.uk, 2014) A flexible budget is designed to change with the fluctuations in the level of activity and provides a basis of comparison for any level of activity actually attained. It other features are; * It recognises Cost behaviours (drury,2012) * It can be properly used as an instrument for the evaluation of performance and cost control in contrast to fixed budget. * Flexible budget is able to point out the
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