Chapter One Organizations and Organization Theory 1-1 Organization Theory in Action • Topics • Current Challenges – Global competition – Organizational turbulence – E-commerce – Managing knowledge and information – Diversity – Ethics and social responsibility 1-2 What is an Organization? • Definition • Importance of Organizations – Bring together resources to achieve desired goals and outcomes – Produce goods and services efficiently – Facilitate innovation – Use modern
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distribution - channel strategy The following table describes the factors that influence the choice of distribution channel by a business: Influence | Comments | Market factors | An important market factor is "buyer behaviour"; how do buyer’s want to purchase the product? Do they prefer to buy from retailers‚ locally‚ via mail order or perhaps over the Internet? Another important factor is buyer needs for product information‚ installation and servicing. Which channels are best served to provide
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Organization structure Organization structure is the formal pattern of interactions and co-ordination designed by management to link the tasks of individuals and groups in achieving organizational goals Organization structure consists of four elements: ❖ The assignment of task and responsibilities that define the jobs of individuals and units. ❖ The clustering of individual positions into units and of units into departments and larger units to form an organizations hierarchy. ❖
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Recommendations Structural recommendation Obviously‚ the type of the organizational structure that MP used is Vertical Coordination. MP is a movie&record industry‚ so its product is relatively simple. Vertical Coordination is the most basic and ubiquitous way to harmonize the efforts of individuals‚ units‚ or divisions is to designate a boss with formal authority. In this structure，departments just focus on their core tasks‚ workers who have the same specialty are get together and seem to be more
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place where the consumers require the products is very far away from each other. For example: Tata Motors has a "Indica car" manufacturing plant in Pune but its customers are all over India. So‚ Tata Motors needs to set up an efficient distribution system so that the products reach its consumers. In case of some perishable food products‚ physical distribution is a very important part of the whole business. The transportation of "Amul Butter" to the stores that sell "Amul Butter" is a big challenge
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Analysis of HR Practices across Verticals Table of Contents Introduction 3 Recruitment and selection 3 Hiring process 4 Trends 4 Training and Development 5 The Training Process 5 Models of Training 6 Systematic Model of Training 6 Transitional Model of Training 7 Instructional System Development Model of Training 8 Variation across Verticals 9 Performance Management 10 Performance management system 10 Differences in goal setting 11 Differences in appraisals 11 Differences
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1 ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOR LEARNING OBJECTIVES The present module aims at: To understand the organization behavior and management functions To know the role of managers To know the reasons for studying of organization behavior To analyze organization behavior from the perspective of learning of an organization. To know and understand the basic approaches in organization behavior “Investing in People is the most important aspect of any modern business.” —Management Today‚ October
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merchandise this applies for budgeters like C&A as well as for luxury brands like Gucci or Prada. This paper aims to assess those emerging forms of distribution channels by outlining the prevailing formats and exhibiting examples of such innovations by the means of a mini case study for each respective innovative distribution channel. Characteristics of the Fashion Industry What Is Fashion? "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." (Oscar Wilde)
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Establishing Communications Channels Transmission path: point A point B • Networking Modes: connection-oriented; connectionless • Switching Modes: circuit switching; packet switching Networking Modes Connection-Oriented: connection is established before information transfer occurs. All information from source follows the same path to the destination. The line is disconnected after the transmission is complete. No delay in transmission since the path is predetermined. NWs operate
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takes up extracellular donor DNA. In transduction‚ donor DNA packaged in a bacteriophage infects the recipient bacterium. In conjugation‚ the donor bacterium transfers DNA to the recipient by mating.” Horizontal gene transfer also allows bacteria to acquire new DNA‚ but keep in mind that; “Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) is beneficial to a cell if the acquired
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