What is conflict? Explain causes‚ effects and strategies of managing conflicts in an organisation What is conflict? Conflict can arise when two or more people or individuals in an organisation have different interests and they pursue these interests intensely. It can also occur when people in a group have different opinions about something even though they both are working to attain the same goal; they just cannot agree on how to go about it. Therefore‚ conflict can be defined as a process that
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Course: MGT (Organizational Development and Change) Semester 2‚ 2013/2014 Session Term Paper/Project: You are assigned a project and the report is to be submitted as a group. Each member has to fully participate in preparing this project. You are to approach an organization and apply what you have learnt in this course by carrying out the following activities: 1) Identify and obtain permission from an organization in carrying out OD consulting work by identifying area(s) in the organization
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NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA COURSE CODE :MBA 731 COURSE TITLE: ORGANISATION BEHAVIOUR AND THEORY 1 MBA 731 ORGANISATION BEHAVIOUR AND THEORY Designed by: Written by: Josef Bel-Molokwu‚ PhD Josef Bel-Molokwu‚ PhD 2 COURSE GUIDE MBA 731 - ORGANISATION BEHAVIOUR AND THEORY TABLE OF CONTENT 1.0. 2.0. 3.0. 4.0. 5.0. 6.0. 7.0. 8.0. 9.0. 10.0. Introduction 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 Course Content Course Aims Objectives - Course Materials Study Units - The Modules
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Organizational Planning This paper will provide a brief overview of L-3 Communication’s SWOT analysis‚ strategic‚ and operational plans that will enable the corporation to achieve its strategic and operational goals. This paper will identify strategic and operational plans for the specific strategic goal of technical and market leadership‚ and the operational goal of quality as the standard by which performance is measured L-3 is currently experiencing strong inorganic growth through the acquisition
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Organizational Behavior Case : The Blue - Ribbon Committee. Mayor Sam Small is nearing completion of his first term in office. He feels his record has been pretty good‚ except for the controversial issue of housing. He has been able to avoid doing anything about housing so far and feels very strongly that this issue must not come to a head before the next election. The voters are too evenly divided on the issue‚ and he would lose a substantial number of votes no matter what stand he took. Yet
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Organizational Analysis Michelle Crawford University of Phoenix Nursing Leadership and Management NUR 587 Dr. Marie Holley January 24‚ 2011 Organizational Analysis Nurses focus on providing the best quality of care to patients. To have the ability to provide the best quality of care to patients‚ nurses need a work environment that values and respects nurses‚ and provides resources for nurses to provide quality care to patients. “A magnet hospital is stated to be one where nursing
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Answer the following questions: 1. Administrative theorists concluded many decades ago that the most effective organizations have a narrow span of control. Yet today’s top-performing manufacturing firms have a wide span of control. Why is this possible? Under what circumstances‚ if any‚ should manufacturing firms have a narrow span of control? The best-performing manufacturing operations today rely on self-directed team‚ so direct supervision is supplemented with other coordinating mechanisms
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Chapter 2 The Role of Ethics in Decision Making 1. Contemporary Business Ethics a. Ethics and Society- our diverse society formed from many ethnic backgrounds‚ races‚ and religions resulting in few shared ethical values to guide behavior a.i. Public Education and Family Structure- decline in public education and family structure as sources for ethical teaching a.ii. Economic Interdependence- increasing economic interdependence promotes concerns about business ethics a.iii. News Media and the
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JFT2 Task 1 A1 The two motivational theories the board members Bill Bailey and Scott Parker should employ to motivate and support or oppose the merger between the Utah Symphony and the Utah Opera are McClelland’s Need Theory and Adam’s Equity Theory. Bill Bailey the highest ranking officer as chairman of the Utah Opera board is tasked with conducting business in an orderly fashion. As chairman‚ it is Bill’s job to lead the other board members from varying points of view or decisions to making
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listening‚ realistic job previews‚ feedback and inference. 2. Explain how you would handle the employment situation at the end of the case. what ideas from the chapter could be applied to help resolve this problem? Chapter: Social System and organizational Culture Incident: Liberty Construction Company Liberty Construction Company is a small company in Golorado. Over a half its revenue is derived from the installation of underground water and
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