Learning and improvement approach in traditional construction management models
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The documents studied in this paper can be provided on request. Both articles analysed in this paper are linked to the engineering manufacturing area, particularly in construction, and more specifically to the acknowledgment that there is a lack of learning and improvement approach in traditional...
The Low Cost - Emmanuel Combe (2011) - Summary by Chapter
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This book answers the following questions: how does low cost work? Does low cost always go hand in hand with low prices? To what extent is low cost a danger that affects established companies? In which sectors is low cost developing? What is the impact of low cost on products and jobs? Low cost...
Tarnished: Toxic Leadership in the U.S. Military - George E. Reed (2015) - Toxic Management & Leadership
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The book written by Reed (2015) reports the challenges of the American Army in terms of leadership. At first, soldiers have all the notions required to act like a perfect leader (Ibid). However, each leader develops a style of leadership according to his/her personality and his/her environment...
Organizational Development Review - Change, Communication and Motivation
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The first text with “Workplace Design : a new managerial imperative” deals with the management of the work place. Indeed, due to the change of work nature (more knowledge-based leads to team-based and collaborative, time pressured, dependent on social and technological skills),...
"Culture & Organizations", G. Hofstede - personal experience related to the book
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The scene takes place during the last day of January. The first semester students had organised a party in Potatisen, afterwards we all went to the Arena (a night club). The party was planned to start at 8 pm, and everyone had been told to buy some alcohol for himself. The party began a bit...
Gibson, Ivancevich, Donnelly, and Konopaske. Organizations: Behavior, Structure, Process, 13th ed. McGraw-Hill, 2009, Chapter 5 Case for Analysis: What Motivates Entrepreneurs? - publié le 16/12/2008
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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. Traditional...
Gibson, Ivancevich, Donnelly, and Konopaske - Organizations: Behavior, structure, process (chapter 11): A new leadership position - publié le 07/12/2008
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The profile prepared by Management Analysis Corporation is the first step in the process of finding a potentially successful of general managers, but it is not the only step. Actually, after MAC has understood very clearly the needs of Dancey Electronics, they could picture the perfect leader....
Organizations: Behavior, structure, process" - Gibson, Ivancevich, Donnelly, and Konopaske: Chapter 3 -Employment opportunities in multinational firms
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According to the Exhibit 3 which deals with the question of Japanese expatriates and American in executive positions in Japanese firms in the United States, 69.4% of employees in a top executive echelon or in a middle management branch are Americans. For example, 76.5% of employees from the...
