Assignment 1 – Part B – Organisational Theory Organisational design can be defined as achieving the organisation’s goals through changing and constructing the structure of that organisation (Robbins & Barnwell 2002). Organisational environment can be defined as the conditions that could potentially impact the organisation (Robbins & Barnwell 2002).The purpose of this essay is to explore and critically analyse British Petroleum (BP) from the modernist and symbolic interpretive perspectives. This
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Historians evaluate sources to determine their legitimacy and reliability. Inspecting the domain can assist in determining the source of a given website. The source should always be identified and evaluated before using it when writing. With technology and the internet as advanced as it is today it is very easy to stumble upon misinformation. Opinionated websites‚ for-profit websites‚ and others may provide only one side of a given story or event. An unbiased‚ responsible source is much better to
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and authority are closely related but theoretically different concepts (Faeth 2004). The exercise of power is legitimated through authority (Weber 1947) and Weber was the first to develop a systematic version of these terms as keystone of his social theory. Lewin (1941) developed the study of leadership by introducing the concept of social power in terms of the differential between interpersonal force and resistance. French and Raven described five sources of power namely reward power‚ coercive power
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Has Globalization reinforced or undermined the legitimacy of the nation-state? Globalisation is a phenomenon that has been increasingly used in the lexicon since the latter half of the 1980’s‚ achieving widespread and common currency amongst politicians‚ political analysts‚ academics‚ economists‚ the media‚ business‚ trade and finance. The term has become synonymous with the “global village” concept‚ where nations and states are drawn closer together; where economic‚ political and cultural spheres
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------------------------------------------------- BP—Deepwater Horizon Case Study INT1001 Study Skills Module Reading and Writing Skills—Summative Assignment Done by: Mew Hui Ying ------------------------------------------------- Date: 12 February 2013 ------------------------------------------------- Industry: Oil and Gas ------------------------------------------------- Company: British Petrol Contents Page No
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Analysis of the British Petroleum (BP ) industry environment 2007 Page : 1 Introduction BP Petroleum operates in different countries . It faces many threats according to Porter ’s Five Forces Model . The threats according to Porter comes from suppliers bargaining power ‚ buyers bargaining power ‚ threat of substitutes ‚ threat of new entrants in the market and threat of competition . These forces vary in its power and depend in different time periods for the same industry and the significant
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Goal: The learner will be able to define and understand what hypertension is and accurately utilize a slow jog to lower blood pressure and help with hypertension prevention Learning Theories: I have based my teaching strategies using cognitive field theory and Maslow’s humanistic theory. The cognitive learning theory‚ involves a change in one’s cognitive structure. This change occurs when new information or experiences are combined with existing knowledge. Learning becomes meaningful when
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The legitimacy crisis that occurred within the police in the 1960s was a result of the injustice that minorities experienced at the hands of the police. Often times beaten and brutalized by the police‚ African Americans started demanding equal rights and wanted discrimination based on color to stop. Protests and marches were organized to bring attention to the mistreatment they were receiving. White police would show up to try to contain and monitor these protests that often ended in riots. Protests
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Agency Theory A theory that explains the relationship between principals and agents in business (In this relationship‚ the principal hires an agent to do the work‚ or to perform a task the principal is unable or unwilling to do. For example‚ in corporations‚ the principals are the shareholders of a company‚ delegating to the agent i.e. the management of the company‚ to perform tasks on their behalf.) Agency theory is concerned with resolving problems that can exist in agency relationships;
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