THE ORGANIZATION AS A POLITICAL SYSTEM OVERVIEW: The Political perspective brings into sharp focus some aspects of the organization that are very different from those we see using the Strategic Design lens. Where the Strategic design lens sees the organization as a social system deliberately constructed to achieve overarching strategic goals‚ the Political lens sees it as an arena for competition and conflict among individuals‚ groups‚ and other organizations whose interests and goals differ
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Product / Product life Cycle. 4. Explosion of Information. The increased Management Complexities could be attributed to:- 1. Management Science Technologies. 2. Decision – Making. 3. Onset of Computers. 4. Information Feedback System. These complexities have in turn necessitated:- 1. Strategic Planning. 2. Setting of Objectives (Parameters). 3. Devising Operational Plans. 4. Obtaining / Processing / Storing; Retrieving and using information for decision – making
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Indirect Procurement: The Way Forward With the recent global economic downturn and financial crunch‚ companies have come to the realization that in other for them to ride the wave of recession and create a strategic competitive advantage through sustained cost savings and increase the available cash on hand‚ a change in the management of their internal spend is imminent. Identification and usage of a viable tool for procurement and spend management has become a priority We know that businesses
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Table of Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Department Analysis 3 2.1. Strengths and Weaknesses of IT Department 3 2.2. Recommendation for IT Department 4 2.3. Strengths and Weakness of Finance Department 4 2.4. Recommendation for Finance Department 5 2.5. Strengths and Weaknesses of Marketing Department 5 2.6. Recommendation for Marketing Department 6 2.7. Strengths and Weaknesses of Operations Department 6 2.8. Recommendation for Operations Department 6 2.9. Summary
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TQM in Manufacturing and Service Organizations 14 April 2010 GM 588 Introduction to Topic Total Quality Management (or TQM) is a management concept coined by W. Edwards Deming. The basis of TQM is to reduce the errors produced during the manufacturing or service process‚ increase customer satisfaction‚ streamline supply chain management‚ aim for modernization of equipment and ensure workers have the highest level of training. One of the principal aims of TQM is to limit errors to 1 per
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Cost benefit analysis for the Long Engineering Company The Long Engineering Company (LEC) has decided to install a network system to help their technical support engineers (five of them who earn an average of $100‚000 each per year) to deliver better customer service including: mail out sales and other literature‚ answer phone calls for technical assistance and log and forward repair requests using an alpha-numeric paging system that will be part of the new network system. Currently all company
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Direct Measurement of Global Value Chains: Collecting Product- and Firm-Level Statistics on Value Added and Business Function Outsourcing and Offshoring Timothy J. Sturgeon‚ MIT* Peter Bøegh Nielsen‚ Statistics Denmark Greg Linden‚ UC Berkeley Gary Gereffi‚ Duke University Clair Brown‚ UC Berkeley Final Draft: April 2‚ 2012 Forthcoming as Chapter 9 in the World Bank volume: The Fragmentation of Global Production and Trade in Value-Added - Developing New Measures of Cross Border Trade‚ based om a
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THE INTERNAL CONTROL SYSTEM The internal control system includes all the strategies‚ policies and procedures adopted or instituted by the management of an entity to assist in their objective achieving as far as practicable‚ the orderly and efficient conduct of the business and includes adherence and compliance to management policies and applicable laws and regulations; the safeguarding of assets; the prevention and detection of fraud and error‚ the accuracy‚ reliability and completeness of the accounting
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Contents BACKGROUND 2 Methods 3 Observations 3 Interviews 4 Data analysis 5 Results 5 Observational Results 5 Observed waiting time and service delivery time at different service stations 6 Socio-demographic characteristics of respondents 6 OPD clinics: patient experiences at the entrance gate‚reception and medical records 6 OPD clinics: consultation waiting time 7 OPD clinics: complaints and recommendations 7 Interviews with patients at the laboratory 8 Patient satisfaction
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Outsourcing Former U.S. Presidential candidate Ross Perot once warned of the U.S. entry into the North American Free Trade Agreement as "a great sucking sound" as U.S. jobs "run" to Mexico. Many Americans feared that cheap labor in Mexico would cause many Americans to lose their jobs as U.S. companies could find cheaper labor south of the border. In the ten years since the beginning of NAFTA‚ the U.S. job market has remained strong. The types of jobs may have changed to a certain degree‚ but
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