Essays 31 - 60
to identify the main activities of the company, as to gain accreditation under EMAS, or ISO 14001, a company needs to "establish a...
right thing. The confusion is valid because there is a thin line between a leader and a manager. In fact, managers do lead and l...
boundary. The private information falls within a boundary; the individual believes they own whatever information is included withi...
In six pages contemporary management is examined in a consideration of theories that include those of Peters and Waterman, Engstro...
organization being vertical, or hierarchical. Decisions are made by executives, while employees comply with those decisions, under...
Achievement Theory and Maslows Hierarchy of Needs (reviewed below). Content and process theories are both in place to explain what...
has heightened both production and attention to human capital and likely, these trends will continue through the twenty-first cent...
(in other words, "my way or the highway") with little input from subordinates. Division of labor is also a part of this particular...
know exactly what reward they are receiving for what behavior. A punishment may simply be the withholding of the reward (Sharpe, 2...
of a single or single set of objectives, rather than an ongoing repeated process. For example, planning the building of a structur...
designed to meet an organizations goals and objectives. Then there is the top-down theory, which states that management doesnt wan...
In five pages types of employee motivation are considered in the theories of Adam Smith's 'economic man, Taylorism, social man of ...
This involves recruiting, hiring, training, employee development, i.e., training, and monitoring performance. The company will onl...
the team, but for the good of the sport as a business. Obviously, sports is big business, and for all large businesses, adminis...
been added. Eight basic functions of management will be explained: * Planning is an ongoing process and it is essential for the or...
This paper consists of twenty pages and considers adult communication management along with such relevant terms as the development...
approach to changing the way a corporation does business puts the motivational horse behind the enhanced productivity cart. A...
them if they prove to be less than adequate (Christensen, 1999). The organization that wants (or needs) to try on different appro...
In seven pages public management is discussed in terms of the management of human resources, organizational theory, formation of p...
(Silva, 1997). In todays organization development literature, we consistently find the word strategic - strategic planning, strate...
and Clegg and Dunkerley (1980) who sought to study organizations using this paradigm. The Marxist approach is one that embodies so...
survival means a profit needs to be made. In the public sector the ultimate failure is to fail the community with social consequen...
role in the company itself as the system, but also may also change the commercial environment which will impact on other firms (Je...
In ten pages these radical paradigms are defined, compared, and then considered within the context of the market view, Theory X an...
relationship (Armstrong, 2009, p320). Process theories place an emphasis on the differences that are found in employees, and inste...
or love of their subject matter and a desire to motivate students. Problematic Behaviors Problematic behaviors are actions by s...
do well. Things change constantly, and companies have to be able to reinvent themselves; this is the process Jenkins calls "dynami...
change process and change content is also helpful in terms of change management and the changing of an organization. Change proces...
Konrad (et al., 2005), argue workforce diversity is a recognition of differences within the employee base, some of which may be vi...
of the firm. Schechter and Sander (2002) extend a well used business analogy which has been utilized by authors such as Mi...