Establishment of the Swedish organizational model in France
Thesis - 9 pages - Business strategy
IKEA, a growing multinational firm (present in 44 countries), is characterized in its presence abroad by a desire to maintain some organizational model to enhance one's home environment. With globalization and increasing competition, companies must renew their organization to become truly...
Henry Mintzberg: Organizational diagnosis
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
Mintzberg's organizational model establishes different characteristics of organizations that determine its configuration. Each organizational form has its own strengths and its weaknesses, it is important to know the relevance of each type of business. In addition, the...
The need for customer relationship management (CRM) in an organization
Thesis - 8 pages - Management
The end of World War Two saw an industrial boom. Manufacturing companies focused on mass production of standardized goods, in order to meet the requirements of a society in its attempt to rebuild after the devastation caused by Two World Wars. The period between 1970 to 1990, was considered as...
The usefulness of an ethnographic approach to the international comparison of organizations (1996-1997) - Philippe d'Iribarne
Book review - 1 pages - Management
Philippe d'Iribarne (born 1937) is ethnologist and sociologist, graduated from the Grande Ecole of Science and Technology and from the Grande Ecole for political science. He is carrying out studies in the national centre for scientific research about the impact of culture on business and on...
Why an information system or an information technology project could fail in an organization?
Essay - 9 pages - Business strategy
While the terms Information System and Information Technology are sometimes used interchangeably, they are two distinct concepts. The information system is an organized combination of several entities which stores, retrieves, transforms and disseminates information in an organization like...
Revolution at Oticon : the spaghetti organization (1994)
Case study - 11 pages - Management
Oticon is a famous Danish manufacturer of high-quality hearing aids, which is based in Hellrup in Denmark. It is a niche company which was born in 1904. At that time hearing aids were not available in Denmark. Hans Demant decided to import hearing aids there as his wife was hard of hearing. The...
Is scientific organization of work only a history?
Thesis - 4 pages - Management
In 1893, Frederick Winslow Taylor became general manager of the Manufacturing Investment Company of Philadelphia where he noticed two main problems: the saunter of workers and the high number of qualified workers with high salaries. Therefore, he developed a theory of management, “the...
Behavior modification as the most important motivation factor in a bureaucratic organization
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
According to a Japanese proverb, “No man will find the best way to do a thing unless he loves doing it.” According to Herzberg, workers are motivated by two factors: those that give satisfaction and those that don't. The factors that satisfy include achievements, recognition,...
An overview of training and development process in an organization
Thesis - 14 pages - Human resources
The genre of ‘Employees' seems to have evolved through a transformation process. They are now more growth oriented, ambitious, industrious, forward-looking and increasingly vulnerable to the rocking changes in the industry. They have a high self-concept and seek intrinsic motivation in the...
Competency mapping in an organization
Dissertation - 43 pages - Human resources
Today organizations are all talking in terms of competence. Gone are the days when people used to talk in terms of skill sets, which would make their organizations competitive. There has been a shift in the focus of the organizations. Now they believe in excelling and not...
Individual behavior in an organization
Essay - 11 pages - Human resources
Individual behavior is dependent upon whether a person is in a group or not. Individuals act differently in accordance with their situation. A group is composed of a minimum of two people. There are Two types of groups that have been identified by Stephen P. Robbin (1996) - a formal and an...
Fundamentals of organization development
Presentation - 24 pages - Business strategy
Organization Development is a process of planed change that aims at enhancing the congruence between the organization, its structure, strategy people & culture. It also helps to develop creative solutions & self renewing capacity. Organization Development is a long term...
Gibson, Ivancevich, Donnelly, and Konopaske. Organizations: Behavior, Structure, Process, 13th ed. McGraw-Hill, 2009, Chapter 5 Case for Analysis: What Motivates Entrepreneurs?
Book review - 3 pages - Management
The 13th edition of Organizations: Behavior, Structure, Processes is based on the proposition that managing people, structure, and processes in organizations is a challenging, compelling, and crucial set of tasks. There is nothing boring about managing organizational behavior....
Impact of effective leadership in an organization
Thesis - 46 pages - Management
The success or failure of managers depends on their leadership qualities. They can be successful leaders by helping subordinates to find solutions to their problems. Managers are involved with bringing together resources, developing strategies, organizing and controlling activities in to order to...
Critical evaluation concerning the belief that Japanese forms of operations management are inappropriate to Western organizations
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
I would like to start by pointing out that I strongly disagree with the statement above. In this essay, I am going to give evidence to support my view. I will define some major Japanese forms of operations management and discuss their advantages and disadvantages to organizations in order...
The role and importance of human resources department (HRD) in an organization
Thesis - 12 pages - Human resources
Ten years ago hardly any organization had HR departments or talked about it. Today it is difficult to find organizations which employ a large number of people who do not talk about HRD. In spite of this popularization of HRD in the last few years, success experience of HRD is...
The important departments in an organization
Thesis - 13 pages - Management
An Organization may be a manufacturing firm, a business concern, and an Insurance company, Hospital, University or A Service Industry. It may be small or large, Simple or complex. An organization is a human grouping in which work is done for the accomplishment of some specific goal....
The functional departments of an organization
Thesis - 14 pages - Management
Every organization, big or small needs to have certain departments, without which it cannot function. These are departments like the finance department, the human resources department, the personnel department, the marketing department, etc. The purpose of this document is to give you a...
A study on human resource (manpower) planning in organizations
Thesis - 10 pages - Human resources
Planning is deciding in advance. In a broad sense, planning entails anticipating future opportunities and threats and drawing up a blueprint to coordinate, motivate, and control the activities of the available assets for the effective implementation of organizational goals and objectives in a...
A study on various candidate selection methods in organizations
Thesis - 11 pages - Management
The process of recruitment in organizations entails sourcing the right candidate to fit the human resources requirements. This process comprises of two distinct activities, first soliciting and attracting a pool of interested candidates and then selecting the most suitable candidate from...
Organizational behavior and its importance for an organization
Thesis - 14 pages - Human resources
To make the topic clear we can take the example of the ubiquitous search engine - GOOGLE. Google servers' process more than 200 million search queries in 90 languages every day, over half of them form users outside the United States. Google's success is more amazing as this profitable company of...
A study conducted on executive perception towards organization environment in a firm
Tutorials/exercises - 58 pages - Human resources
The origin of organization has been spontaneous. It came into existence in the early stages of human evolution when persons began to co-operate and combine together to achieve a common goal. A sound management is based on proper organizational structure, which is concerned with...
Knowledge management in organizations
Thesis - 7 pages - Management
Knowledge management refers to the conscious, systematic, and organized activity of an enterprise in comprehensively gathering, organizing, analyzing, and sharing knowledge to further its goals. It comprises a range of practices that identifies, creates, represent, distribute, and enables...
A study on the recruitment and selection process in organizations
Tutorials/exercises - 34 pages - Human resources
“Management is the art of getting things done through people” :Mark Parker Follet. The above quote implies management to be a process of planning, organizing, leading and controlling all other organizational resources to achieve the stated organizational goals, which in turn would...
A brief study on the important departments in an organization
Thesis - 4 pages - Management
The Human Resource Department is the main part of the organization. It performs a number of activities concerned with the employees of the organization and it interacts with the other departments to ensure smooth running of the company. The marketing department usually consists of a...
Toyota Motors Corporation: A plan for organizational performance Improvement
Thesis - 8 pages - Management
Change is pervasive not only in people's individual lives but also in business organizations. Change is inevitable; it is also one of the constants in this world. Change will happen. Management theories emerged as a result of change - from the scientific management to centralized...
International economics: The World Trade Organization
Thesis - 9 pages - Economy general
Pascal Lamy, General Director of the WTO recently said that “negotiations towards a conclusion to the Doha Trade Round are 70% complete”. Indeed, the WTO trade talks have not been efficient over the last few years. Lowering agricultural and industrial tariffs, reducing subsidies in...
Strategic management in an organization
Thesis - 14 pages - Management
According to Johnson, Scholes and Whittington, ‘Strategic Management includes the understanding the strategic position of an organization, strategic choices for the future and turning strategy into action' (Johnson, Scholes & Whittington, 2005, p.16).There are many models and senior...
A study on competency mapping in the individual and organizational context
Thesis - 7 pages - Management
Competency is the collection of success factors necessary for achieving important results in a specific job or work role in a particular organization. Until a decade ago, a combination of knowledge, skills were the determining factors for the success of an individual in an...
Importance of organizational marketing
Thesis - 13 pages - Services marketing
Since the 1950's various concepts have captured the imagination of scholars and practitioners (organizational identity, corporate identity, corporate branding, corporate image, corporate reputation and corporate communications). Each of these concepts has their own intellectual roots and...
