THE GOOD‚ THE BAD AND THE UGLY The Good: SEMCO International Management – MSc Organization A.Y. 2009 – 2010 Ettore Penazzato TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. SEMCO in brief 3 2. Reorganization of the company: context‚ actions & impacts 4 2.1 Changing the organizational structure 5 2.2 Profit-sharing program 7 2.3 Participatory decision-making 7 3. Evaluation based on the course material 7 3.1 HRM Practices 7 3.2 Empowerment of the employees 8 3.3 Intrinsic
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THE MANAGEMENT OF ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE Lesley Willcoxson & Bruce Millett ABSTRACT Culture is a term that is used regularly in workplace discussions. It is taken for granted that we understand what it means. The purpose of this paper is to identify and discuss some of the significant issues relating to the management of an organisation’s culture. As organisational cultures are born within the context of broader cultural contexts such as national or ethic groupings‚ the paper will commence by defining
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Universality and Reversibility: Justice and Fairness The categorical imperative incorporates two criteria for determining moral right and wrong: universalizability and reversibility. Universalizability means the person’s reasons for acting must be reasons that everyone could act on at least in principle. Reversibility means the person’s reasons for acting must be reasons that he or she would be willing to have all others use‚ even as a basis of how they treat him or her. That is‚ one’s reasons
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Upon making the decision to manage a group of people in a foreign country‚ a manager must study the local culture and the differences between his culture and the new one. For this particular assignment the country of choice is New Zealand. For the manager to be truly effective in his new country‚ one must study the New Zealand culture. The manager has three years before he begins his new role and must prepare accordingly. Even though there is no available data for the future‚ one can study current
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"In Defense of Elitism" By: Dr. William A Henry Summary The dominant theme in this essay appears to be this: post war social changes such as offering increased university admission promote the view of egalitarianism in education. The author’s main issue with "secondary" education is the sheer numbers of our population that the United States as a whole educates. According to Mr. Henry‚ the United States educates nearly thirty percent of high school graduates who go on to a four year bachelor’s
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people of Cambodia as a ruthless dictator for 4 years. The Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot had made a significant effect on history‚ by attempting to create an agrarian communist utopia. Pol Pot however was unsuccessful in reaching a revolution of radical egalitarianism with an aftermath that had affected a whole nation and its people. After the invasion of Cambodia’s capital‚ Phnom Penh on April 17 1975‚ Pol Pot declared “Year Zero” a program to "purify" Cambodian society of capitalism. This meant forcing
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a futile theory‚ for the social and economic perfection of American Dream has been proven time and time again‚ as simply unattainable. As defined by the Merriam Webster Dictionary‚ the American Dream is an American social ideal that stresses egalitarianism and especially material prosperity‚ and the prosperity or life that is the realization of this ideal. However‚ as seen in Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby‚ such a dream is only that- a dream. Gatsby is the physical manifestation of a
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Class 11: Chapter 4 "In all of your endeavors‚ you have opportunities to be a powerful and positive influence on the lives of other people. But first‚ you must care enough to understand them and become familiar with their personal interests and expectations for life." The Key and Importance of Culture; Nature of Culture and Effects on International Management Leadership; Research Studies of Cultural Dimensions; and Culture Management Leadership: The Globe Project The Key and why is the Issue
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according to their own free will‚ and take responsibility for their actions‚ while in contrast‚ Social liberal conceptions of (positive liberty) liberty place an emphasis upon social structure and agency and is therefore directed toward ensuring egalitarianism. In feudal societies‚ a "liberty" was an area of allodialland where the rights of the ruler or monarch were waived. Different forms of liberty 1. Natural Liberty: It is the liberty which men enjoyed in the imaginary ’state of nature’ when
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FIELD DEFINITION HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT KEY CONTRIBUTORS PRINCIPAL ISSUES Epistemology the theory of knowledge‚ is the branch of philosophy concerned with these questions a. Schools of thought and historical development 1) Skeptics a) Ancient (1) Pyrrho of Elis (2) Sextus Empiricus b) Medieval (1) St. Augustine 2) Rationalists a) Ancient (1) Plato b) Medieval (1) St. Anselm (2) St. Augustine c) Modern (1) Descartes (2) Leibniz (3) Spinoza 3) Empiricists
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