Organizational Behavior.
Merger's Incorporated Plan 3754 Consolidated Transition Plan University of Phoenix ORG 502 Organizational Behavior M. I. Plan 3754 Consolidated Transition Plan I. Overview This document is the M. I. Plan 3754 Transition Plan for acquisition of McGruder, Floyd, Childers, Mangum, Bryant Group, LLC. The intent of this plan is to provide a work environment free of obstacles to morale, communication, and productivity. Management will present clear expectations, set challenging goals, and assist employees in performing at their highest level. The vision is a more responsive, customer-focused service, one that emphasizes high quality service and accountability for results. It contains a high level plan for transforming the existing organization by consolidating the duties and functions of the two existing organizations into a single enterprise comprised of four new task departments. It describes the integration of these organizations, and describes a process for moving beyond initial departmental consolidations toward a fully-integrated, more responsive enterprise. It also describes the elements of a consistent organizational and management structure to be put in place across the entire enterprise and contains plans for leadership, organizational configuration, motivation processes, and communications throughout the transformation. Finally, it describes a risk management
Organizational Behaviour
ABSTRACT The subject of this report is a leading Australian retail company which has undergone significant changes in the recent years. The purpose of this research is to analyse the process of change, the strategies used and their effectiveness. The organization will be referred to as Company X throughout this paper. The data was collected via informal interviews with two members of the organization, referred to as Member A and Member B. The results of this study show that the process of change can be completed successfully when appropriate strategies are used and, when the management uses relevant work practices in order to manage the required change. INTRODUCTION It has been often said that the only thing that is constant is change. In fact, the ancestry of this accepted wisdom about change is documented early on in history. The Roman poet Ovid (43 B.C. - A.D. 17) wrote: "... There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement."(Gaiam Inc, 2008) Yet prior, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus wrote that "...change alone is unchanging..." and "...nothing endures but change." (Quotation Page, 2007). Common sense explains that if change is such an ancient constant individuals should be used to it by now. They should know how to cope with
Organizational behaviour.
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR COMMUNICATION According to Chapter's 10 Case incident - James W. Caruso has communication problems - we are going to analyze in depth the areas of communication like: * Why managers accused of being "poor communicators". * The relationship between reinforcement theory and communication. * Methods to improve communication skills * How to learn to be a better communicator. Introduction: Communication is the transfer of information and may be defined as an exchange of facts, ideas, opinions, or emotions by two or more persons. Actually is the transmission of information from a sender to a receiver, and the feedback given by the receiver to the sender, indicating understanding (or lack of it), confirmation and so on. It is therefore a cyclical process. Research indicates that poor communication is probably the most frequently cited source of interpersonal conflict. Individuals spend nearly 70 percent of their working hours for communicating. This is done through talking, reading, writing and listening etc. According to Lasswell, [1948, p.50], communication is "Who says what, in which channel, to whom with what effect". Every type of action that a manager takes with his/hers employees, involves communication in some way. There are many different forms of internal communication that managers can encompass within the workplace, such as
Operational Motivation Plan
Operational Motivation Plan Stephen F. Delahunty University of Phoenix, Organizational Behavior 502 Dr. Lois D. Wiley Anderson, Ph.D. February 26, 2002 Operational Motivation Plan An operational motivation plan will provide a structured driving force for employees to accomplish agreed-upon goals aligned with corporate objectives as set by senior management. The technique proposed is management by objective (MBO), a proven motivational method for employment in a business organization. The incentive element of the MBO program will be to utilize bonus payments to employees that accomplish goals. Roles and Functions Senior management of the firm must be committed to the operational motivation plan in order to support success. Robbins (2001) shows one reason that plans such as MBO fail is "lack of top-management commitment" (p. 191). If the MBO program is implemented and not supported wholeheartedly the impact to the firm could be extremely negative from the employee perspective. Managers within the firm must commit to the first-line management of the MBO program. The execution of the program rests firmly with manager/employee goal setting, tracking, and feedback. The manager is the critical component to establish and supervise the program. Training for managers may be necessary to implement MBO. The human resources department will be responsible for the overall
Operations Management
PART 1 NEW Walk Museum and Art Gallery * Layout an Flow New Walk Museum and Art Gallery is located in the heart of Leicester City. Its 10 minutes walk and 5 minutes drive from the Leicester train station. There are no regular buses which run from station to the museum but council arrange for special tour buses in the summer, from station to the different touring spots, which includes New Walk museum as well. The museum was established in 1840.It is basically located in one large Victorian style building, close to Leicester University, but is equipped with some modern ad cons. It has got the car park facility also, which can accommodate up to 25 cars. On normal days it attracts on average around 200 people per day. But the number touches to 1000 during peak seasons, which is most of the time in holidays. The entry to the museum is free. Although it has got different range of galleries and the management has given them numbers as well. But for the sake of simplicity, we will mention the main galleries (which are then actually divided to the sub galleries or kind of sub-section) and give them our own numbering to them to give a clear picture and to avoid any ambiguity. On entrance, it has got a Reception on the right hand side (inside the building). Right next to it, are the stairs which will take you to the first floor Art Gallery. Passing the reception you enter to main
Operations Management
Operations Management Level 2 COPR3903 BA Honours Degree in Business Tutor: Masoud Azhashemi Nadina Kalsi Student No. P03205177 Word Count: 1,978 Contents Operations Management Assignment Outline 3 Summary 4 Introduction 5 The role of operations management in both manufacturing & retail 6 Conclusion 12 Bibliography 14 Appendices: Appendix 1 - Porters Value Chain 15 Appendix 2 - The Kano Model 16 Assignment Outline: Describe and critically appraise the role of Operations Management in both manufacturing & service organisations. Summary: Operations Management is present in many occupations as well as those of manufacturing and service industries. I belive it to be present in daily duties of any person although they may never notice. With this in mind I see operations management as a skill anyone has with an aim of achieving an outcome of something they are working towards in a logical process with thought of awareness of a system structure. Introduction: Operations management has been around for some time yet it was Christopher Polhelm (Sweden) first recognised a skill and recorded that 'Nothing increases demand so much as low prices. Therefore there is a great need of machines and appliances which will diminish the amount or intensity of heavy work' (Extract from text book Operations
operations management
Operations Management. Assignment 2 How Planning and Control are used in operations Introduction All systems and processes are designed to achieve certain goals and outcomes. In most processes of organisations the objective is to provide product and service that would have demand among customers. However it is not that easy to do considering the competition that organisations meet in the world market today. Therefore, all organisations have to plan and simulate their processes very carefully do that their product or service "does what it says on the tin". In this assignment I will describe and analyse a process which I have a first hand of and the one I have to deal with on the daily basis. Task 1. Describe a service process of which you have firs hand experience and produce a process plan using mapping symbols to illustrate it I have chosen the process that takes place in every estate agents, it is a process of letting a residential property. The reason why I have chosen this process is because I do work in estate agents called "Adam Keys" and I know the process is designed and the activities that accommodate a completion of this particular process. Calling private landlord from available resources e.g. Internet, Newspaper 2 Introducing yourself, the company and charges to the landlord 3 Waiting for landlord decision 4 If Landlord agrees, take his details down
Operations Management
Strategic Operations Management PS4H01 07235569 6/24/2008 Summary Quality is a part of the organisation operational activity. It revolves around the analysis if the processes performed to add value are working efficiently and effectively. There have been evolution of different techniques to resolve the problems the organisations are facing to achieve efficient and cost effective production for example Total Quality Management, Just in time, Lean Manufacturing, Manufacturing resource planning I and II, Six Sigma, Enterprise Resource Planning. Maintaining the level of quality and improving it is a challenge for every organisation. The report talks about how has quality been applied in the company and also how they can work towards getting the ISO 14000 certification to their organisation. The company The Nutan Mumbai Tiffin Box Suppliers Trust delivers lunch boxes containing cooked food for people at work. The food is cooked by one of their family members. The error rate that the company maintains is one in 16 million transactions, which is Six Sigma performance. The process followed by them is simple and efficient. The company is looking at expanding their business to different parts of the country and not able to sustain their business due to the infrastructure, social problems in those cities. Action plan for the organisation is to slowly move towards other cities
Elements of the marketing mix.
Assignment 2 INTRODUCTION This assignment is designed to look at products and services, their characteristics, life cycle stages and new product development. It will also look in more detail about the marketing mix, mainly at the differences between selling goods and selling services, and the importance of price in the purchase decision and the distribution and communication channels used within the organisation. The report will relate all theoretical concepts to a work environment. The work environment I am going to link with this marketing report is the company I work for, TD Travel Group. TD Travel Group is an independent corporate travel organisation that takes the frustration and confusion out of business and group travel arrangements using its specialised services. TD Business Travel Management co-ordinates air travel worldwide as well as catering for car rental, rail tickets and sea crossings. They also offer a number of specialist facilities including organising currency, the procurement of passports and visas and running a 24-hour emergency help line. The Special Events department takes a fresh approach on every brief in order to deliver a perfectly organised event, whether it is a conference or a skiing trip. TD Roomfinder use their years of experience in the business of dealing with hotels in order to ensure the best deal for their clients looking at both
Corporate Governance
2. 'When they were put to the test, corporate governance routines did not serve their purpose to safeguard against excessive risk taking.... the risk management systems have failed in many cases due to corporate governance procedures rather than inadequacy of [complex financial] computer models alone." With reference to the one of the theoretical models of the corporation you have studied consider: a) What, if any, are the legal obligations of directors of Australian companies generally to safeguard their company against excessive risk taking? The primary responsibility of the board of directors is to protect the shareholders' assets and ensure they receive a reasonable return on their investment at a given risk appetite. This is however, rarely the case. Directors are most likely to engage in excessive risk taking1 (Adler) to further their own personal interest and incentives at the expense of the company and its' stakeholders. Contractarian theory revolves around the notion that the corporation is deconstructed to reveal no more than a "nexus of contracting relationships" between managers, shareholders and other stakeholders.2 Its core innovation was to conceptualise the relationship between management and shareholders of a public company as a corporate contract in which wealth would be maximised as a result of atomistic market-mediated actions.3 The primary criteria
