ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR Is a multidisciplinary field of stduy that investigate show indidividuals behave within formal organizations. OB AS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY FIELD (Campo) * Psychology: individuals, motivation, personality, attitudes, learning, goals, expectation, perceptions, cognition. * Sociology: groups, status, hierarchy, influence, trust, reciprocity, social identity, social networks. * Economics: perfromance, efficency, effectiveness, incentives, monitoring, coordination
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Unit 2.1 – Human Resource Planning A thousand workers, a thousand plans. Chinese prover Key topics * Supply of human resources and demographic changes * Domestic and international labour mobility * Workforce planning * Recruitment, appraisal, training and dismissal * Changes in work patterns and practices: homeworking, teleworking and portfolio work Higher Level extension * Employment rights and legislation * Handy's shamrock organization Note:
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CHAPTER 3 Management’s job is to support the vision of the company. Their role is to cut costs, increase productivity, increase revenues, and ensure that the requirements of upper management are met. Functional organizations are fairly common. These types of organizations are segmented by departments and their “functions. * In a true functional environment, all team members, including the project manager, report to their functional manager. * Project managers are sometimes simply called project
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support crisis management functions. This paper examines the various categories of social media tools to understand how they can be utilised to enhance analytical and response capabilities of organisations for crisis management. The paper identified four main social media functions: (1) information dissemination, (2) disaster planning and training, (3) collaborative problem solving and decision making, and (4) information gathering, which are then mapped onto the three crisis management phases of preparedness
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Motivating Workers Motivation Motivation is the reason why people work, and it drives them to work better. Therefore, managers try to find out what motivate workers and use them to encourage workers to work more efficiently. This results in higher productivity, increased output, and ultimately higher profits. Motivation theories People work very hard when they are working for themselves. When they work for other people, less so. Managers have been looking into what makes employees contribute
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such, there is a need for organizations to analyze the existing market competition for talent and create the corresponding responses in terms of competitive reward packages. The recruitment policies of the competitors also affect the recruitment function of the organizations. To face the competition, many organizations have to change their recruitment policies according to the policies being followed by the other competitors. The recruitment policy of an organization states the objectives of recruitment
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VIEW Strategic Human Resource Management Taken from: Strategic Human Resource Management, Second Edition by Charles R. Greer Copyright © 2001, 1995 by Prentice-Hall, Inc. A Pearson Education Company Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 Compilation Copyright © 2003 by Pearson Custom Publishing All rights reserved. This copyright covers material written expressly for this volume by the editor/s as well as the compilation itself. It does not cover the individual selections herein that
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TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT AND SIX SIGMA Edited by Tauseef Aized Total Quality Management and Six Sigma http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/2559 Edited by Tauseef Aized Contributors Aleksandar Vujovic, Zdravko Krivokapic, Jelena Jovanovic, Svante Lifvergren, Bo Bergman, Adela-Eliza Dumitrascu, Anisor Nedelcu, Erika Alves dos Santos, Mithat Zeydan, Gülhan Toğa, Johnson Olabode Adeoti, Andrey Kostogryzov, George Nistratov, Andrey Nistratov, Vidoje Moracanin, Ching-Chow Yang, Ayon Chakraborty, Kay
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Table of Contents Abstract 3 1- Introduction: 4 1.1 - What is decision making? 4 1.2 - What is a Decision Support System? 4 2- Literature Review 6 2.1 - DSS in the technical support world 6 2.2 - Important attributes of a Decision Support System 6 2.3 - Capabilities offered by DSS 7 3- Discussion and Analysis: 9 3.1 – How is technical support and Decision support linked together? 9 3.2 – Technical Support and Decision Support Systems 9 4 - DSS implementation: 11 4.1.- Implementation
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2005 Baldrige National Quality Program Criteria for Performance Excellence THE MALCOLM BALDRIGE NATIONAL QUALITY AWARD PROGRAM A Public-Private Partnership Building active partnerships in the private sector—and among the private sector and all levels of government—is fundamental to the success of the Baldrige National Quality Program in improving national competitiveness. Privatesector support for the Program in the form of funds, volunteer efforts, and participation in information transfer
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