Task 1: Understand the purpose of an organisation and its operating environment. Network Rail was founded in 2002 and is the owner and operator of most of the rail infrastructure in Great Britain‚ this includes: tracks‚ signals‚ most stations‚ tunnels and level crossings. It is a company limited by guarantee‚ this means financially they are directly accountable to their members’ a members role is a similar role of shareholder except they have no financial interest. However‚ any final financial decisions
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ORGANISATION STRUCTURE OF VALERO ENRGY CORPORATION Valero Energy Corporation is a Fortune 500 company based in San Antonio‚ with approximately 22‚000 employees and expected annual revenue of more than $75 billion. The company owns and operates 18 refineries throughout the United States‚ Canada and the Caribbean with a combined throughput capacity of approximately 3.3 million barrels per day‚ making it the largest refiner in North America. Valero is also one of the nation’s largest retail operators
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“Discuss why strategy is important to an organisation” ‘Research has revealed that organizations that engage in strategic management generally outperform those that do not’ Wheelen & Hunger (2005‚ p.5). An organisation will perform to a high standard when there is a matching correlation between the organisational environment and the strategy‚ structure and processes of that organisation. Wheelen & Hunger’s said in their book ‘Strategic Management and Business Policy: tenth edition’ that
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The organisation I chose to do my report on is an Aboriginal Health Council of South Australia. This is an Aboriginal community controlled organisation in its own rights. This report provides the organisations History their aim and objectives. Also‚ it includes the services they provide to their members and their contact details. By choosing this organisation‚ it will provide
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1.1 Summarise entitlement and provision for early year’s education? Every child matters agenda and the childcare act 2006‚ it become an entitlement of all 3-4 year olds in England to receive a free part time early years education of up to 12.5 hours per week for 38 weeks of the year. Early year’s provision in school is about supporting very young children it is distinct from key stage 1 in each country within the UK and is best on the concept of learning through play rather than more formal education
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According to (Beevers and Rea 2010) ‘the primary purpose of the learning and development function in fulfilling the short and long term ambitions of the organisation’ cannot be over emphasized especially in recent times where HR/L&D has moved from the past when one of HR/L&D primary roles has been to ensure compliance with laws‚ rules and regulations. Although this is still the case and will always be‚ we have however become strategic partners working with line managers to achieve business strategy
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within an Organisation Introduction This report describes the effect and impact change has had within my organisation. 1.1 Change is a constant in today’s organisations. In a Recent CIPD survey it found more than half of all employees said that their organisation has been going through some kind of major change during the last year. Most organisations more than ten years old look nothing like they did even five years ago. And it is likely that in the next year or two organisations will not look
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How an organisation communicates – Greenpeace Greenpeace is an ecological and pacifist international organisation‚ economically and politically independent‚ that does not accept donations or pressure from governments‚ corporations or political parties. Greenpeace “defend(s) the natural world and promote(s) peace” (Greenpeace‚ 2008). The funding for its campaigns depends entirely on voluntary contributions from members and sympathizers. Because Greenpeace is an NGO‚ it cannot invest large amounts
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UNDERSTANDING A VALUE CENTRED ORGANISATION K P Gopalkrishnan Assistant Professor HR and Business Ethics Pillai Institute for Management Studies and Research Panvel – gopalpuru@rediffmail.com This paper attempts to clarify what is meant by value centred organisations since increasingly the word value is being used by Human Resource professionals to delineate their prognosis. To remove the fuzziness this paper takes a definitional stand and gives the HR professional a working idea of this
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HND BUSINESS UNIT 3 – ORGANISATIONS & BEHAVIOUR L01 Report on Burberry CONTENTS Page Task 1 – Understand the relationship between organisational structure and culture Executive Summary……….…….……………………………………………………………………………………..…………….1 1.1 Compare and contrast organisational
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