Author-date style only style: THIS ASSESSMENT ITEM IS FOR HRMT19020 FOR TERM ONE 2013. Topic background: What changes in organisations? Navigating through difficult or changing circumstances often requires managers to lead and foster new and better ways of doing things. Innovative organisations endeavour to find successful ways of managing change so as to keep the competitive advantage in today’s modern business environment (Schermerhorn et al. 2011). Assessment task: 1. Required reading:
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1 – Business Organisation and Environment * What is business activity? Inputs – Land‚ Labour‚ Capital & Enterprise Outputs – Goods or Service & Waste. Processes – Research and development‚ Production‚ Marketing‚ Finance‚ Administration‚ Human Resources. * Functions * Production – the changing of natural resources into a product or service. * Marketing – IT is to do with identifying consumer needs and pleasing them. Eg: Pricing‚ advertising‚ promotion‚ packaging
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structures. It is not a discipline that has more practical relevance in one sector than in another: the methods and approaches of the discipline are being applied in business and government alike. Because of increasingly dynamic environments‚ organizations are continually confronted with the need to implement changes in strategy‚ structure‚ process‚ and culture. Many factors contribute to the effectiveness with which such organizational changes are implemented. Whether the change processes are essentially
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How Organizations Attract a Quality Workforce And How they Motivate and Retain them. “In today’s workplace‚ almost limitless job opportunities and less employee loyalty has created an environment where a business needs its employees more than the employees need the business” (Smith‚ 2012). When one side of this equation becomes dependant on the other‚ they lose the upper advantage and it puts them in a very vulnerable spot. This is the last place an organization wants to put themselves
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file FILE ORGANIZATION -refers to the way in which records are stored in an external file - refers to the data structures used for organizing the data. FOUR COMMON FILE ORGANIZATIONS 1. SEQUENTIAL FILE ORGANIZATION - records are written consecutively - files are stored in ascending or descending order according to a key field. ADVANTAGE: - easier to maintain than other organizations – especially in terms of adding and deleting records 2. RANDOM FILE ORGANIZATION - implies a predictable
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SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF ORGANIZATIONS -Daniel Katz & Robert L. Kahn Book Review By - Dhiren N Panchal © www.hrfolks.com All Rights Reserved 2 INTRODUCTION NOTE: The book review has been written in present tense and as if I myself would have been an author. This book has its origin in the program of research on human relations in organizations launched by Rensis Likert in 1947 as one of the major programs of the survey research center of the University of Michigan. From its inception‚
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united Congo through united political parties and Congolese unity. As Congo demolished colonial rule‚ Lumumba provided a case on the grounds that Congo emerge from colonial rule united as a nation through his founded political party‚ MNC. Lumumba’s aim for the Congo state would be that of a central government‚ increasing independence
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examples include the NHS‚ local authorities‚ local council-run libaries‚ schools controlled by local authorities‚ and care homes. Commercial Sector organisation - A commercial organisation usually operates for the purpose of creating a profit from the sale of products and/or service. Third Sector organisation - Third sector organisations operate on a voluntary or not-for-profit basis and include charities. Some social enterprises‚ Co-operatives and many sports clubs. Take a closer
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Organization of hotel Individual hotels are usually organized along functional lines‚ with departments grouped according to the particular work activity in which they are engaged. The hotel is divided along functional lines into five administrative departments: rooms‚ food and beverage‚ accounting‚ sales‚ and personnel. The five department heads report directly to the GM. Each department is subdivided into smaller organizational units. These subdivisions represent refinements of the work performed
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ORGANISATION SOLE TRADING CONCERN ▪ Meaning ▪ Features ▪ Advantages ▪ Disadvantages ▪ Suitability PARTNERSHIP FIRM ▪ Meaning ▪ Features ▪ Merits ▪ Demerits ▪ Kind of partnership firm ▪ Types of partners ▪ Partnership Deed JOINT HINDU FAMILY BUSINESS ▪ Meaning ▪ Features ▪ Advantages ▪ Disadvantages JOINT STOCK COMPANY ▪ Meaning ▪ Features ▪ Advantages ▪ Disadvantages ▪ Management ▪ Forms of companies ▪ Features
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