18. March 2010 Saturn Corporation : A different Kind of Car company Saturn was created by General Motors chairman Roger Smith in 1985 to be a “Different Kind of Car Company” . As the single-most defining characteristic of the new company‚ Saturn proclaimed that sole focus was creating and maintaining a strong relationship with the customers. Saturn put significant resources into Customer research and product development. Hopes were high that GM could reach a new market area with a new
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List and describe three major advantages of franchising for the franchisee. 1. The most valuable advantage to a franchisee is that you are selling a proven product or service. (Hatten 112) Having a product or service that customers are aware of‚ they know the name and they know what to expect‚ is essential for a franchisee. 2. Franchising often gives the franchisee important pre-opening and on-going support. Such as marketing expertise‚ financial assistance to professional guidance. Professional
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Key Concepts | Key notions/ ideas/ points | Comments | InertiaWhy is it difficult to change? | To understand why there is organisational inertia and why it is difficult to change‚ it is necessary to first identify them so that they can be individually addressed. This can be done by categorising the inertias identified into ‘socio-technical’‚ ‘cultural’‚ ‘political’ and ‘economical’ with the ‘today’ and ‘tomorrow’ scenarios mapped out for each category. (refer to Appendix A for notes on the various
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The primary advantage of a corporate form of business is that a corporation is a stand-alone entity‚ which means you are not personally liable for the assets and debts of the business. Incorporating protects your personal assets from lawsuits‚ debt collection and other business issues that can arise. The stand-alone entity also separates tax liabilities‚ which is another advantage. This means that the corporation’s taxes are separate from your personal tax liabilities. As a business
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References: * Anonymous . (2011) Organizational Culture.[Online] Available from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_culture [Accessed 25-12-2012] * Niall Strickland. (2012 )The impact of company culture on productivity. [online] Available from: http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/The-Impact-Of-Company-Culture-On-Productivity/739922#.UN_EKuQ3vg8 [Accessed 25-12-2012] * Sharma. (2008) Organizational behavior. [Online] Available from: http://www.slideshare.net/g4u/organizational-behavior-presentation
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monitoring their work and corrective actions when necessary. To be a successful manager is not that easy and ask certain competencies‚ the most important issue in management success is being a person that others want to follow. It is expected that managers have technical skills but the bigger test is in the way they manage people. This is perhaps the most critical and elusive skill set of all. Weak people skills lead directly to lost productivity and ineffectiveness while strong people skills boost productivity
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Weimar was doomed from the start The Weimar Republic failed due to a popular distrust in democracy that was reinforced by severe economic crises and aggravated by the ‘Chains of Versailles’ and the actions of the right wing. Hyperinflation in the early 1920s and then the Great Depression from 1929 meant that the Weimar Republic never really prospered‚ and caused social upheaval in the form of a crime wave‚ as well as being tainted from the start by its association with the embarrassing Treaty of
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DESCRIBE TWO OF THE ORGANISATIONAL METAPHORS STUDIED AND DISCUSS THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF EACH. This essay explores the concept of studying organisation styles metaphorically‚ particularly as perceived by Gareth Morgan (1986). The essay begins by describing two of the organisational metaphors‚ specifically the mechanistic organisation and the organisation as a brain being the most diverse of the metaphors used. It then reviews the interpretation of theorists writing on the subject
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perspective are objectivist and belief that certain things exist independently based on knowledge and takes a positivist epistemology approach to generate knowledge from theorisation and conceptualisation by gathering and analysing data and testing them based on their five senses. Modernist believe the world exist independently from themselves. Modern organisation depends heavily on organisation structure as they view their organisation as an independent objective entity‚ modernist organisations
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used to describe the transformation process that a company goes through in response to a strategic reorientation‚ restructure‚ change in management‚ merger or acquisition or the development of new goals and objectives for the company. The realignment of resources and the redeployment of capital can bring many challenges during the transformation process and organizational change management seeks to address this by adopting best practice standards to assist with the integration of new company vision
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