SIA CORPORATION 1. What are some of the social, political, and economic forces that are influencing SIA’s decision to become a learning organization? When SIA Corporation decides to become a learning organization that SIA manager thinks about developing five discipline: system thinking, shared vision, challenging mental models, team learning, and personal mastery in which everyone is engaged in identifying and solving problems, enabling the organization to continuously experiment, improve, and
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Angelica Acevedo Week 1 - Information Systems Strategy Triangle Step 1: Create lists of case details that fit each side of the triangle. Step 2: Then look at each item and think about how that item affects the other sides of the triangle. Step 3: Take a look at the industry. Make a list of triangle attributes you find. Compare the industry items with the case company items. Step 1: Create lists of case details that fit each side of the triangle. Step 2: Then look at each item and think about
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completion of 5 years? Yes, An employee can claim gratuity even before completion of 5 years in followings cases: * Death (to his nominees) * Disablement But the quantum of gratuity will be as per act. FAQ 2: Can employer forfeit Gratuity, even if employee has completed 5 years? Yes, employer can forfeit gratuity even if employee has completed 5 years in following cases: * If the services of such employee have been terminated for his riotous or disorderly conduct or any
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CASE STUDY #KNG “Develop and Foster Unique Quality” Subject: IE 222 (04) – Engineering Management I. Define the Problem This case study seeks to analyze the problems encountered by SIA Corp in their transition from a Bureaucratic to a Learning Organization. It will also give an account on how will the employees respond on the change in the management approach of the corporation. The main issue in this study was finding an efficient method to transform SIA into a learning organization
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SIA’S DECISION TO BECOME A LEARNING ORGANIZATION? | 4 | 3. | Q2: IF YOU WERE A SPECIALIST AT SIA, HOW AND WHY WOULD YOU RESPOND TO THE PROPOSED CHANGES? WHAT STEP WOULD YOU SUGGEST JERRY TAKE TO INCREASE EMPLOYEE UTILIZATION OF THE KNOWLEDGE-SHARING SYSTEM IN PARTICULAR? HOW CAN HE ENCOURAGE SIA EMPLOYEES TO SHARE INFORMATION? | 5 | 4. | Q3: WHAT GENERAL OBSTACLES WOULD YOU FORESEE IN A COMPANY SUCH AS SIA TRYING TO MAKE THE TRANSITION FROM A HIERARCHICAL, OR BUREAUCRATIC, TO A MORE COLLABORATIVE
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The situation in this case study demonstrates the need to consolidate employee knowledge into one system in an effort to improve overall company performance. SIA had acquired 30 separate businesses but they were still functioning like 30 separate companies. They each still had their own set of management and well-defined procedures and policies. As a result, most of the employees had developed their own areas of expertise. In the highly competitive insurance market, SIA needed to change this
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SIA Corporation: Case for Critical Analysis In the early years of the new century, it wasn’t hard to see that SIA Corporation couldn’t keep doing business the old-fashioned twentieth-century way. Chief knowledge officer Jerry Seibert fully realized he owed his new position in the newly created knowledge management department to this challenge. Headquartered in the Midwest, SIA was an umbrella organization offering a wide range of insurance products to commercial customers of all sizes throughout
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To what extent do you think that SIA enables employees to work and deal with one another in a coordination and co-operative way as they work towards the goals of the business? This case study demonstrates how its performs an effective organization management and well training system, as being one of the largest airline company with over 29,000 employees, it extents of well organization make the most effective of resources in human and fiscal resources to achieve its’ organizational goal. How
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CASES IN MANAGEMENT 115 Singapore Airlines : Gliding with People Excellence Nilanjan Sengupta and Mousumi Sengupta Introduction The aviation industry has been constantly facing several challenges, such as, overcapacity, commoditization of offerings, cut throat rivalry exacerbated by the entry of low cost carriers, and intermittent periods of disastrous under-performance (Costa et al., 2002). Several macro-level socio-economic factors such as rising oil prices, the SARS (Severe acute respiratory
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32 Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources 2004 42(1) Human resource management strategies in practice: Case-study findings in multinational firms Irene K.H. Chew* Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Frank M. Horwitz* University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Competitive pressures have increased the strategic value of a skilled, motivated and adaptable workforce, and the HRM strategies to support and develop it. A strategic perspective
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