Managers can use humor and give their employees small tokens of appreciation for work well done. Also‚ when leaders themselves are in good moods‚ group members are more positive‚ and as a result they cooperate more. 127 Finally‚ selecting positive team members can have a contagion effect because positive moods transmit from team member to team member CASE1 Emotions and positive moods appear to facilitate effective decision making and creativity. ● Recent research suggests mood is linked
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There is a close connection between leadership and power. People follow leaders because they have power and people will follow them‚ the leaders get the power to lead. French and Raven (1959) identified that the power bases that managers can use are aimed to influence employees which include two types of personal power: expert power (respect accorded because of knowledge or skill and referent power (personal identification with and desire to emulate the leader). Three types of position power: (1) reward
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Enron’s derivatives activities (Jickling‚ 2002). The organizational behavior theory that will be discussed will be about the systems theory and contingency theory. Both of these theories explain why a company like Enron failed. Also‚ the unethical contribution made by management and leaders of the company played a huge part in the company’s collapse. Discussion For instance‚ the organizational behavior theory that Enron should have followed was the systems theory. “
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she invites her employees and customers to contribute time‚ effort and resources to projects that support the local coffee industry such as the Save the Barako tree-planting activities and the Adopt-a-Coffee-Farm project. Through Adopt-a-Coffee-Farm‚ Figaro taps underutilized farmlands for the cultivation of coffee beans‚ which the company buys for its coffee blends. The project was first implemented in Amadeo‚ Cavite and is now being undertaken in some of the remotest and most depressed areas in
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The most basic function that a manager is responsible for is to focus the people of the organization in performing work activities to accomplish desired goals. No matter the size of the organization‚ a manager is responsible for the planning and executing of the efforts of its team members in achieving the necessary objectives of its mission. There are four primary functions of managers known to many as POLC. These very important functions are planning‚ organizing‚ leading‚ and controlling. These
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Panino Restaurant The entrepreneur that I interviewed was Lydia Patterson. In 1989‚ Lydia and her husband‚ Lou‚ decided to start planning to open up a new Italian restaurant in Virginia. The restaurant industry‚ especially in the Washington DC area is very competitive. It is highly competitive with respect to price‚ value and promotions‚ service‚ location‚ and food quality. There are a substantial number of restaurant operations that compete for customer traffic‚ some of which have significantly
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got many opportunities to prove their computer skills. In 1972‚ they started their own company called ’Traf-O-Data.’ They developed a portable computer that allowed them to do analysis and prepare reports. This made them a sum of $20‚000. An entrepreneur has to have a persuasive style and possess good communication skills. This was a key factor in one of the turning points in Gates’ career‚ when at 25 he
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Natural-Born Entrepreneur by Dan Bricklin Reprint r0108b HBR Case Study r0108a What a Star –What a Jerk Sarah Cliffe First Person r0108b Natural-Born Entrepreneur Dan Bricklin Different Voice r0108c Is Success a Sin? A Conversation with the Reverend Peter J. Gomes In Praise of Middle Managers r0108d Quy Nguyen Huy The Superefficient Company r0108e Michael Hammer The Weird Rules of Creativity r0108f Robert I. Sutton What You Don’t Know r0108g About Making Decisions David A. Garvin
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Discussion on: Every Line Manager is an HR Manager Introduction “Slowly but surely‚ line managers are taking over the HR front line. Gone are the days when the first port of call for any people management query was the HR department.” – Lucy McGee (Personnel Today) This is partly because HR as a function has transformed over the past decade. Administration is often outsourced‚ legislation has become more complex‚ European Union regulations have to be understood and adhered to‚ compensation is now
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the promotion expectations of highly qualified Chinese employees are restricted by flat hierarchies and poor chances of permanent employment which western companies flexibly react to the needs of globalized market. This explains why motivational companies increasingly complain about unmotivated expenses and the loss of image which companies recently suffered in China. In Philippines‚ particularly in Manila Gasoline station the manager most often hired undergraduate applicant as a contractual basis
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