At Peoples" Bank, "massive changes began to take place in the business environment of banking with deregulation and the relaxation of ceilings on interest". ... At Ingersoll-Rand, the company was faced with the opportunity for improved productivity through changes in technology. ... This affects the rate of business change. ... Another environmental factor is reengineering, which is also called process innovation, core process redesign, or business process reengineering. ... First, it can strengthen motivation by providing employees with the opportunity to attain intrinsic rewards from th...

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Abstract Pat Bennett, feeling disenchanted with his employment, began to use his education to develop his personal business of repairing automotive motors. ... All things being equal, Bennett's Machine Shop, Inc. should have been a flourishing business. ... It was during Bennett's time at Stubbs-Overbeck, Inc., that he began to slowly acquire what he needed to build his own business. ... Initially, Bennett's business started small with just him, but as business grew, so came the need for a larger space, increased staff, and the complexities of running a business. ... Also, the a...

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S/he can see potential or opportunity where others see roadblocks or problems. Managers with strong conceptual skills can see opportunities that others miss. ... Important organizational challenges for managers include business strategy, ethics and social responsibility, and change. Business strategy is an outline of how a business intends to compete with other firms in the same industry. ... Although organizations have always had to be concerned with managing change, the rapid and constant environmental chang...

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It's important to make sure that the company has a meaningful and real objective, so that the business decision can be clearer to make. ... The business objectives are big milestones that you would want your business to achieve. A business objective with the best chance of success has to be following, specific of the organization, measurable of its goals, achievable of stated goals, relevant to the business, and finally has to follow a time-base verse another timeframe. ... Third looking at the opportunities of the company, where are the strengths not fully utilized? ... Threats that cou...

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1.0 ABSTRACT This research is aimed at investigating the relationship that exists between organizational structure, culture and the motivation of individuals in organizations. Several domains were assessed namely organizational structure and culture and employee motivation and performance in order t...

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Strategic planning requires organization leaders to consider the implications certain business factors will have on their organizations effectiveness, and ultimately, the organizations sustainability (Gelfand, Leslie, Keller, and de Dreu, 2012). ... This will help the management team identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the organization, as well as pinpoint critical areas requiring immediate action to remain viable (Yelken et al., 2012). ... To assess effectiveness and plan for future growth, organization must analyze the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and...

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This may have been the result of the fact that it business was in the highly competitive field of financial services. ... The theory is inadequate because it does not recognize the fact that in many businesses today, firms no longer retain all of their staff on a full-time basis. ... It fails to recognize the fact that by having many individuals that are working in organizations as part time or contract staff is not really given the opportunity, or they do not wish to become part of the organizational culture. ... What may have also been a contributing factor to the failure of the socializa...

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This may have been the result of the fact that it business was in the highly competitive field of financial services. ... The theory is inadequate because it does not recognise the fact that in many businesses today, firms no longer retain all of their staff on a full-time basis. ... It fails to recognise the fact that by having many individuals that are working in organisations as part time or contract staff is not really given the opportunity, or they do not wish to become part of the organisational culture. ... What may have also been a contributing factor to the failure o...

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Small businesses can not only build a web store to sell products and services, but also leverage their web site as a means to conduct and manage all back-end business transactions. ... For instance, with its on-board truck computers, American Airlines with its Sabre Reservation System and Amazon.com use information as a competitive advantage and have adopted technologically advanced e-business systems to stay ahead of their competitors. ... Contemporary changes in society and culture: "Organizational culture is the basic pattern of shared assumptions, values, and beliefs considered to be th...

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However, other writings similarly suggest that Human Relations is the best approach to manage the contemporary business organization. ... From there, we will be able to decipher if Scientific Management or Human Relations is more appropriate to the management of the contemporary business organization. ... Business organisations are not social or welfare organisations and to survive in the highly competitive environment, they have to consider many other factors besides the human factor. ... Scientific Management and Human Relations Because of the pros and cons of Scientific Management and or...

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The idea of the learning organisation is one which has captured the imagination of trainers and a whole host of others. Organisational learning means the process of improving actions through better knowledge acquisition, clearer understanding and improved performance. It is a method of detecting and...

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As the business world and world economies underwent various transformations, management took on a different perspective. ... Traditionally, the focus has been on the enactment of policies to deal with gender diversity, compliance with these policies and equal employment opportunities. ...

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In such organizations, people have the opportunity to develop and give the desired results. ... Being one of the largest companies dealing with business marketing and industrial marketing across the globe, its manager, Jack Welch, focused on developing human resource to deal with its challenges. ...

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