In addressing this week’s Discussion Question I’d like to talk about Online Banking The origin of online banking can be traced to The Bank of Scotland which in 1983 offered Nottingham Building Society customers their first internet banking experience called ‘Homelink’. The customers could connect via a television set and a telephone to make transfers and pay bills. Online banking is a process that allows customers of a financial organisation to conduct financial transactions via a secure website
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In business there is a lot of debate on what is ethical and unethical. The United States has passed many laws in order to enforce business ethics in corporations. However‚ there are still many outside countries that do not have a strict set of laws‚ and practice unethical business techniques. One major unethical practice that is done in many countries is the use of child labor in sweatshops. In sweatshops workers are subject to extreme exploitation. They are paid at a very low wage rate‚ do
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Institutional Repository Stacey R. Fitzsimmons and Christof Miska and Günter Stahl Multicultural employees: Global business’ untapped resource Article (Accepted for Publication) (Refereed) Original Citation: Fitzsimmons‚ Stacey R. and Miska‚ Christof and Stahl‚ Günter (2011) Multicultural employees: Global business’ untapped resource. Organizational Dynamics‚ 40 (3). pp. 199-206. ISSN 00902616 This version is available at: http://epub.wu.ac.at/3615/ Available in ePubWU : August 2012 ePubWU ‚ the institutional
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Cultural Diversity in an Organization 1 Cultural Diversity in an Organization Henry Jerkins Industrial Organizational Psychology Professor Withen April 5‚ 2011 Cultural Diversity in an Organization 2 There is no single definition to define cultural diversity in an organization. This topic has been studied from a variety of perspectives ranging from disciplines such as anthropology and sociology‚ to the applied disciplines of organizational behavior‚ management science‚ and organizational
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In the United States‚ there are many different types of non-profit organizations. These organizations help with many things‚ like building homes‚ protecting wildlife and animals‚ and giving people food. These organizations are also made to help enforce some of the laws. Without organizations like MADD‚ ASPCA‚ and Habitat for Humanity‚ our community would be worse than it is now. The MADD‚ or Mothers Against Drunk Driving‚ is an organization founded by Candace Lynne Lightner in 1980‚ when her
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Title: | Cultural control has become the dominant mode of control in contemporary work organizations | Word Length: | Approx. 3600 | Control is to ensure that actions conform to the expected results by appropriate feedback systems and correcting any deviation in time to see that results are ensured within proper time and cost as per planned standards. Control is a relationship that develops and changes with time. Child (2005‚ pp.112) states that “The standard English definition of control is
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Table of Contents Introduction 3 Importance of organizational culture 3 Wal-Mart 4 Commerce bank 5 Culture 5 Organization culture 6 Types of culture 6 The Power Culture 7 The Role Culture 7 The Task Culture 7 The Person Culture 7 Culture in both organizations 8 Organizational strategy and the importance of the culture in successful implementations the strategy 8 Strategy of Commerce Bank and Wal-Mart 9 Development of culture 9 How it starts 9 Socialization process
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Contribution In this report‚ I learn that many companies are global with divisions all over the world. One must understand the cultures involved for the organization to run as proficiently and efficiently as possible. What works for one group‚ may not work for another. One critical objective is to get a culture to mirror organizational culture so that there are no misalignment‚ gaps‚ and disconnects. Everything must work in sync‚ and in harmony for the organization’s stability and survivability
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The forces affect an organization Introduction With an increasingly competitive and dynamic business world‚ anyone organizations want to be successful‚ managers must make and develop appropriate business strategies. Strategy is the direction and scope of an organization over the long term‚ which achieves advantage in a changing environment through its configuration of resources and competences with the aim of fulfilling stakeholder expectations. ( Johnson‚ Scholes‚ Whittington‚ 2009:3). It does
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Cultural Approach to Organization Clifford Geertz and Michael Pacanowsky describe organizations as having their own culture like a web. Geertz described culture as a shared meaning‚ shared understanding and shared sense making. This means that any given organization has a particular culture in which the meanings for things are shared between individuals. Geertz has referred to himself as an ethnographer‚ do observe and analyzes social discourse in thick descriptions. Then‚ Michael Pacanowsky
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