Motorola Mobility‚ the ailing cellphone maker that Google bought in May‚ told employees Sunday that it would lay off 20 percent of its work force and close a third of its 94 offices worldwide. The cuts are the first step in Google’s plan to reinvent Motorola‚ which has fallen far behind its biggest competitors‚ Apple and Samsung‚ and to shore up its Android mobile business and expand beyond search and software into the manufacture of hardware. The turnaround effort will also be a referendum on
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wearing a jewel in between her eyebrows and appropriating Hinduism at the same time. Culture appropriation has become a common issue in the 21st century fashion world. Culture appropriation is when a more dominant culture takes a significant element from another culture (usually minority) and represents it in a negative context (Fager). Symbolizing the element negatively can be damaging and dishonoring the culture the ritual is taken from (Fager). A bindi is an ornamental mark worn in the middle of
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ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE There exist successful corporations with very different corporate culture. Their employees enjoy their jobs and generally like the way how things are done at their company. Every organization has a set of values that characterize how people behave and how the organization carries out everyday business. Positive cultural norms strengthen the company while negative cultural norms have the power to take the company down. A related concept concerning the influence of norms
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the personalities that surrounded President Ronald Reagan. Lytton had taken leave from his Philadelphia law firm for six months to act as Deputy Special Counselor for Reagan during the Iran-Contra investigation. “I would mentally pause and think of how fortunate I was to be there‚” Lytton recalled. But as if to check that emotion‚ he would summon the lessons of John Dean‚ the young White House lawyer who found himself caught up in the Watergate scandal after allowing himself to become “dazzled‚” as
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Part A: theorizing the organization Organization theory can be observed from modern‚ symbolic interpretative‚ critical and postmodern perspectives that provide us with values‚ distinct beliefs and knowledge. In this essay‚ I will discuss on how modernists and postmodernist perspective differ in their basic ontological and epistemological assumptions‚ different ways of understanding and contributes to different ideas about power and the limits of power in organization. Ontology and Epistemology
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John Dewey‚ in his book "Experience and Education"‚ publicized the concept of experiential learning as an ongoing cycle of activity. But‚ how did this concept emerge? Or‚ what does it really mean for the businesses? In order to understand this‚ we have to analyze the problems and needs. The core idea behind "learning organization" is that organizations of all kinds will not survive‚ let alone thrive‚ if they do not acquire an ability to adapt continuously to an increasingly unpredictable future
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PART A Introduction Understanding organizations may occur to some‚ to be a complex issue. The multiple approaches allow us to embrace this issue by providing us with concepts and theories using the different assumptions of ontology and epistemology to understand and analyze organizations better. This essay will discuss on the modernism and critical theoretical perspectives and its influence on the aspects that constitute an organization which includes power‚ control and conflict‚ social and
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| Electronic Business Managment | Case Study The Failure of Boo.com | | | Brief Introduction Boo.com‚ which was founded by two Swedish entrepreneurs: Kajsa Leander‚ a fashion model‚ and Ernst Malmsten‚ launched during the end of 1999. It was an e-tailing site which positioned as fashion merchandise seller (B2C). Business Model Boo. Com mainly sold its products. The source of income was only the sales of its products online. There were no links to small boutiques where customers
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Background information about the organization: 5 Analyzing data with literature review 6 Definition of Culture and Culture in McDonald 6 McDonald’s development in China 7 Relating Schein’s model with McDonald 8 Levels of culture: 8 Artefacts: 8 Values: 9 Basic assumptions: 10 Conclusion: 10 References: 12 Introduction: An organization or company can be defined as the developed social elements by the humans in order to serve some kind of purpose. Generally the organization is consisting of an individual
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law. What followed this act was a series of almost disaster’s effects. Prohibition was a major failure in the U.S. It was made to ensure temperance and decrease alcohol abuse. When in reality it exacerbated the problem. After Prohibition more people abused alcohol as illegal than when it was legal. It was also the cause of a major crime increase in the states. Intern‚ Prohibition was not only a failure‚ but a possible cause of America’s demise. Luckily‚ it was repealed. Economically‚ America started
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