internal strengths and weaknesses with external opportunities and threats to maintain competitive advantage • HR Challenge: building leadership pipeline (manage talent shortage) Role in Formulating Strategy - HR professionals + line managers do environmental scanning: identify and analyze external opportunities/threats that can be crucial to company success ○ Can also add value to strategy forming process by supplying information regarding internal strengths/weaknesses Role in Executing Strategy
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OUTCOMES Explain the difference between transactional data and analytical information, and between OLTP and OLAP. Define TPS, DSS, and EIS, and explain how organizations use these types of information systems to make decisions. Understand what AI is and the four types of artificial intelligence systems used by organizations today. Describe how AI differs from TPS, DSS, and EIS. Describe the importance of business process improvement, business process reengineering, business process modelling, and business
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Q1. Based on research of the company, identify the range of decisions made by the company. Evaluate the effectiveness of the decisions (Criteria 1.1, Grading Criteria M1). Strategic Planning Decisions: Strategic planning decisions are those decisions in which the decision-maker develops objectives and allocates resources to achieve these objectives. Such decisions are taken by strategic planning level (top level) managers. Example: pizza hut might have the objective of increasing sales
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generation to make them effective change agents. 4. To meet the demand for trained and professional people in the country at the top level management of business and industrial organizations in the light of the new economic and industrial policy of the country. 2. COURSE DURATION The MBA (Full Time) programme of Mahatma Gandhi University shall be spread in two years duration with 4 Semesters. Each semester shall comprise of a minimum of 16 instructional weeks of 5 days each of 5 hours a day (total contact
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of this chapter. This can be done without any loss of overall continuity in the course. If the course will emphasize internal controls, it might be desirable to cover in class one of the general cases on internal control from the back of Chapters 4, 7, or 8. This should be done to stimulate student interest, but the instructor should not worry if the students in the course fail to analyze the case correctly. In some ways, teaching systems can be more difficult than teaching other areas. In many
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customers. ABE - Adult Basic Education Adult Basic Education Accreditation Certification by a duly recognized body of the facilities, capability, objectivity, competence, and integrity of an agency, service or operational group or individual to provide the specific service(s) or operation(s) needed. Recognition given to a person or organization meeting certain standards. Achievement Performance as determined by some type of assessment or testing. Action Plan
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is a great pleasure for me to acknowledge the assistance and contributions to this assignment; First of all I would like to thank to my lecturer Mr. Kanchana Wimalasurendra who helped me to understand the problems of the scenario that helped me to approach the problems confidently. I would like to acknowledge to the lecturers of ICBT Kandy Campus, my friends and the people who helped me to finish the assignment successfully. Finally, I gratefully acknowledge to the support, encouragement, and
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Module 3 – Assignment 1 Practice Case Examination Backgrounder The background information relating to the Case Examination (Backgrounder) is provided to candidates in advance of the examination date. The Backgrounder contains information about both the company and the industry involved in the case. Candidates are expected to familiarize themselves with this information in preparation for the analysis that will be required during the Case Examination. Candidates should note that they will not be
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This text was adapted by The Saylor Foundation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License without attribution as requested by the work’s original creator or licensee. Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books Saylor.org 1 Preface Competing books are focused on the academic part of HRM, which is necessary in a university or college setting. However, the goal with this book is not only to provide the necessary academic background information but also to present
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Organization of this Book xi xiii xv I Introduction 1 3 9 10 12 16 1 Questions about Questions 2 The Experimental Ideal 2.1 2.2 2.3 The Selection Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Random Assignment Solves the Selection Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Regression Analysis of Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . II The Core 19 21 22 23 26 30 36 38 38 44 47 51 51 3 Making
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