science to explain consciousness When I see my dog and my cat‚ I realize how differently they behave – I think the cat is somehow more mysterious –‚ but how I could know that they have inner states? Likewise‚ people have different behaviours: if they are at a football match they behave differently than in an art gallery. We suppose that they have different inner states‚ but how do we know this? There are different approaches to take to this question‚ but fundamentally the question is of how body and
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Relationship between Organizational Culture and Performance Management Practices: A Case of University in Pakistan Ul Mujeeb Ehtesham‚ Tahir Masood Muhammad‚ Shakil Ahmad Muhammad Abstract The aim of this study is to expand the base of knowledge and empirically test the relationship between the components of organizational culture and performance management practices. The study adopted the exploratory research approach to explore the impact. In this study‚ primary data was collected through
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Research on the Relationship between Intellectual Capital and Company Performance ——An Empirical Analysis Based on Panel Data FAN Libo YUAN Xin WANG Su School of Business‚ University of International Business and Economics‚ P.R.China‚ 100029 Abstract: It is well known that knowledge economy is mainly based on intellectual capital. Intellectual capital plays a key role in enterprise’s value promotion. In fact‚ the good intellectual capital control system can bring the positive influence
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Culture encompasses the values‚ beliefs‚ attitudes and behaviour of an organisation. Culture is how things get done in organisations. It is an intangible asset and a specific collection of values and norms that are shared by people and groups in an organization and that control the way they interact with each other and with stakeholders outside the organization. Here‚ organizational values are beliefs and ideas‚ about‚ what kinds of goals members of an organization should pursue and the appropriate
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framework to understand and design organisational structures. Mintzberg defined organisational structure as " the sum total of the ways in which it divides its labour into distinct tasks and then achieves coordination among them ". Each configuration contains six components: characteristics 1. operating core : the people directly related to the production of services or products; 2. strategic apex : serves the needs of those people who control the organisation; 3. middle line: the managers who connect
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A study of the organization’s objectives helps to understand how it is likely to respond to changes in its environment. It is often assumed that business organizations will always try to maximize their profits through a combination of maximizing revenue and minimizing costs. The profit maximization objectives must be qualified by a time dimension. A firm that pursuing a short-term profit-maximizing objective may act very differently to one that seeks to maximize long term profit. This may be reflected
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Scenario 1: LO1 (P1.1): There are mainly four types of organisations. Private sector organisations‚ Public sector Organisations‚ voluntary organisations and cooperatives. Private Sector: In the private sector‚ businesses operate in order to maximize the profits. They raise finance by issuing shares‚ borrowing loans from banks etc. They are owned and controlled by private parties. For example Bank of Maldives‚ Amin Construction pvt ltd‚ Haza Construction pvt ltd. Their main aim is to maximize the
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2004. © 2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. 137 The Relationship between the Environmental and Financial Performance of Public Utilities GREG FILBECK1 and RAYMOND F. GORMAN2‚∗ 1 Adjunct Professor of Finance‚ University of Wisconsin – La Crosse; Senior Vice-President‚ Schweser Study Program‚ 1905 Palace Street‚ LaCrosse‚ WI 54603‚ USA; 2 Miami University‚ School of Business Administration‚ Oxford‚ OH 45056‚ USA; *Author for correspondence (e-mail: gormanrf@muohio
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Explain how an organisation can cost a product and determine its price at any activity level The main costs and elements that a business needs to consider‚ taking into account the nature of these costs as well are: * Expense of buying vehicles or maintaining it * Mortgage * Business Rates * Wages Extra / Wages * Drawings * Advertising * Insurance * Loan repayment interest * Loan repayment capital * Purchases / VAT on purchases * VAT paid to C & E
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ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE & STRUCTURE Outline Prepared By: Marnela Kathleen V. Pasamba‚ RN MSN I I. Organizational Culture A. Definitions 1. Gareth Morgan: set of beliefs‚ values and norms‚ together with symbols like dramatized events and personalities‚ that represents the unique character of the organization and provides the context for action in it and by it. 2. Edgar Schein: a pattern of shared basic assumptions that the group has learned as it solved its problems that has worked well
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