Discussion in terms of Fayol's Managerial Functions

Discussion in terms of Fayol's Managerial Functions Henri Fayol proposed that all managers perform five management functions. - Planning, 2- Organizing, 3- Commanding, 4- Coordinating, 5- Controlling. Most management books still continue to be organized around the management functions, Although they have been condensed down to basic and very important functions. - Planning The planning functions involves the process of defining goals, establishing strategies for achieving these goals, and developing plans to integrate and coordinate activities. Our instructor also defines or goals which is standard education and successfulness in the exams, according to this concern he establish the ways and strategies that how can we perform well in our exams. 2- Organizing Managers are also responsible for arranging work to accomplish the organization's goals. This function is called Organizing. It involves the process of determining what tasks are to be done, who is to do, how the tasks are to be grouped, who reports to whome, and where decisions are to be made. 3- Leading When managers motivate subordinates, influence individuals or teams as they work, select the most effective communication channel, or deal in any way with employee behavior issues, the are leading.. Our instructor leading us by motivating through his moral support, he use best channels to teach us, he polish

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Money or your Life - human organ transplants

Individual Assignment Workshop 2 By: Gerard Bergsma Instructor: Jan Henk van der Werff Money or your Life Due to the ever-accelerating progress in medical science and especially the possibility of human organ transplants a demand in human organs has been created. In 1968 all U.S. States had accepted a variation of the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act of 1968. This law allowed individuals to donate part or all of their body after they died. This Act did not allow nor prohibited the sale of human organs. In the early 1980's it appeared that organs where collected in return for a fee. Most of these transactions concerned poor people selling their kidney while alive in order to make an extra buck. Then restrictions followed dominated by the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984. This Act was initially designed to prevent the sale of organs from living donors but it also prevented selling of the rights on ones organs after the individuals' death. This law exists in the US but similar laws apply to most countries in the world. In the US alone some 75.000 patients are waiting for an organ transplant. Every year 4000 people are dying because the necessary organs cannot be found in time. Institutes around the world are doing their utmost best to get people signed up as donors, but the demand for organs is still much larger then the current supply. So that means that something has to

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Organisation and management

OE203 (Organisation and management) coursework Case study (semester 1) "Critically analyse the main issues in the case study using relevant theories related to Organisation and management". DEADLINE: Friday 21st January 2005 This case study deals with the Oticon's organizational change, a Danish firm specialised in hearing aids. Due to an instable environment, the firm has transformed the organisation of the structure in order to be competitive in an international market and consequently it has changed the work, the hierarchy, the organisational culture and patterns. The case study shows us with the real example of Oticon how that change can affect the organisational behaviour of the employees and how Lars Kolind manage them in order to stimulate their motivation and increase the productivity. According to the results of the turnover and market shares, that change is a success but it also has some limits which may affect the activity of Oticon. Indeed, the organization has completely changed in term of work because "everyone started in a different workplace" and Oticon has adopted a structure in which the employees are present and involve in the important decisions. This new structure based on "project-organisation" is called "spaghetti-organisation. We can recognize some aspects and characteristics of an organic structure with "the lack of a line of command". Oticon has

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Leisure Administration and Development

Leisure Administration and Development The Management of Leisure and Tourism Services List of contents Page No . Introduction 3 Main findings 2. Marketing Mix 4 3. Recruitment 5 3.1 Staff Shortages 6 3.2 Recruitment Costs 7 3.3 Recruitment Laws 7 3.4 Training and Development 8 3.5 Grievance and Discipline 10 3.6 Manpower Planning 11 4. Leisure Programming 12 4.1 Methods of Programming 13 4.2 Common Mistakes 14 5. Managing Money 16 5.1 Capital Expenditure 17 5.2 Revenue Expenditure 17 5.3 Control of Income 18 5.4 Budgeting 18 5.5 Cash Flow 19 6. Conclusion 20 7. References 22 . INTRODUCTION People management, financial management, and the programming of facilities are all vital elements in the management of Leisure and Tourism so it follows that the best way to manage leisure and /or tourism facilities is via a method which links these three aspects. Whatever approach is adopted, it needs to be flexible and adaptable in an ever-increasingly dynamic marketplace. An inflexible organisation or company will stagnate and eventually fail, either as an organisation, or its customers, or both. This report will look at these three aspects of leisure/tourism management and how to effectively link the three areas through a common

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Ownership, Location and Aims and Objectives of Lex Transfleet and Express Diner

Sections A1, A2 & A3 Section A1 - Describing all four features for both businesses; Lex Transfleet and Express Diner Ownership of Lex Transfleet Lex Transfleet is a PLC (public limited company) which is hard to set up because of the paper work that needs to be done. They are owned by minimum of 2 people because but there is no maximum numbers of shareholders. Shareholders in Public limited companies have limited liability which is that they invest in capital and if they were in debt they only lose the amount of capital that they invested in to the business. For example a shareholder in Lex invests £50,000 and the business get indebt of 1 million pounds then they don't need to pay back the 1 million pounds, they just lose the £50,000 that they invested. The advantage of limited liability is that they do not need to pay the amount of debt because they just lose out what they invested. The advantages of a public limited company is that they have limited liability, the capital increases because public can buy shares and the shares increases in value if company is successful. The shareholders vote for who the directors are going to be and the directors in the business run the business and make all the major/minor decisions. The directors in the business are in charge on a day to day basis. For the business to grow they can advertise shares on the stock exchange and raise more

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Moving towards a modern HR department.

Moving towards a modern HR department * Promoting the company culture * Marketing the company as an employer * Organisation structure * Developing staff management * People data * Communication systems * Reward systems Defining and promoting company culture Marketing the company as an employer HR people should have a very keen understanding of three areas: . What is the purpose of the organisation they work for ? What is the culture that enables that purpose to be maintained ? 2. What is the work that people are employed to do in the organisation ? 3. As an employer, what positively distinguishes my organisation from others in the market-place ? Unfortunately, a lot of people in support roles do not appreciate that whatever their company makes or sells, the main purpose of a private sector organisation is make a healthy and reliable profit. To this end, the company culture is critical. HR people can make a contribution by their keen understanding of the culture that defines the whole or part of the company they work for, and reinforce the positive elements of that in all work they do. Mainly through recruitment and job evaluation, HR people learn about the work that people in other jobs than their own do. This is critical. HR people who do not know what employees are doing will not be influential with management or much value in the hiring process. Recruitment

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Market research is usually done to investigate products already on the market.In order to carry out the market research investigation, it was necessary for me to check the market

MARKET RESEARCH Market research is usually done to investigate products already on the market. In order to carry out the market research investigation, it was necessary for me to check the market for existing lacto vegetarian products. This was important since I needed to use some of these products to develop my initial ideas. I compared Lacto Vegetarian products from three supermarkets, so that I could assess the prices and quality of there products. The supermarkets I checked were Sainsury, Tesco and Asda .I found that the prices for various lacto vegetarians products at these supermarkets varied. Many items at Asda and Tesco were much cheaper than at Sainsbury. In addition, based on information I obtained from questionnaires completed by lacto vegetarians, I found out that most people are willing to pay between £3-£6 for main course vegetarian meals. Moreover, I realised that most lacto vegetarians prefer pasta dishes instead of Soya products, rice and pulse dishes. On the other hand, I found out that most lacto vegetarians use ready prepared meals either twice or more than twice a week. It should be pointed out that there does not seem to be a wide enough range of lacto vegetarian products available on the market. I carried out telephone interviews with owners of restaurants to find out what types of vegetarian meals are available for Lacto vegetarians. I

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Recruitment. In this task I am going to look at recruitment and training. I will explain the different types of stages that McDonalds use to recruit. I will also look at the different types of training which McDonalds use to help their employees.

GCSE Applied Business In this task I am going to look at recruitment and training. I will explain the different types of stages that McDonalds use to recruit. I will also look at the different types of training which McDonalds use to help their employees. Recruitment The process from the decision to fill a job vacancy to the point where completed job applicants are received The reason why McDonalds need to recruit employees may be because * There are employees soon retiring * Someone going on paternity/maternity leave * Someone leaves McDonalds * Promotion * Sacked McDonald's recruitment stage Agree the vacancy Staff are expensive and in McDonalds need to obtain permission to recruit a new member of staff. If McDonalds is struggling, they may also need agreement to replace someone who is leaving. Normally therefore there is a specific procedure managers must follow before the recruitment process can be started. Agree the Job Description The job being advertised may be new, in which case a job description needs to be devised. Even if someone is being replaced, it is useful to update the job description in case any task or duties have changed, Example of a Job Description Department : Marketing Job Title: Marketing Assistant Hours of work: 38 per week, normally 9am-5 45pm Monday-Friday with one hour lunch, but some flexibility

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City speed - There are 2 options that are currently available to you, the Board of Directors, the first is to purchase more vehicles in addition to the current fleet and the other is to expand to a new location from which to run the company.

CitySpeed Brief Introduction There are 2 options that are currently available to you, the Board of Directors, the first is to purchase more vehicles in addition to the current fleet and the other is to expand to a new location from which to run the company. New Vehicles Advantages The advantages of purchasing 15 low-floor easy-access buses are that it leads to a growth in the size of the current operating fleet. As can be seen from the benchmarking data although the current fleet size is bigger than our rivals, Destina, the average age of the fleet is double theirs. The introduction of new buses to the fleet will allow the customers to travel in more luxurious surroundings and so will increase the overall pleasure of the journey which is likely to lead to more people wanting to use our company's buses on a regular basis. The fact that these new low-floor easy-access buses operate as a fifth of Destina's fleet shows that they are a forward thinking company who are looking towards maintaining a greater market share by improving the level of customer satisfaction. By looking at our maintenance record over the previous years it can be ascertained that as the fleet has grown in age the amount of breakdowns and the cost of maintaining the fleet are beginning to rise. This can lead to unreliability in the transport network as buses may fail to arrive on time due to breakdowns.

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Analysis of Decline and Rise of Various Business Activities in the U.K.

In this task, I will need to decide what the core activity is in each of my two businesses and whether they are dealing with products, services or both. In the UK some of these business activities are becoming more common and others are becoming less common. I will need to find out the broad trends for these business activities and how they affect the businesses that I am investigating. The legal status of Freelance Audio Productions is an equal partnership between Martin and Nikki Rider. The company was set up in 1986, but has only been trading as Freelance Audio Productions for four years. The company doesn't make a product, the service it provides is audio production based which includes performance arts, supplying of equipment and supplying of production services and facilities. FAP falls into the category of the Tertiary Sector. There are many departments that operate within FAP, but there are two departments that control most of Freelance Audio Productions. These are Stage sound and Showbiz. Stage Sound. FAP Stage Sound has been in operation for fourteen years but has only been working under Freelance Audio Productions for the last four years. FAP Stage Sound specialises in renting out sound equipment and educating young trainees. FAP Stage Sound is a continuously growing business which is also shown in the trend of the tertiary

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