engineering‚ construction and technical services firm that offers program management; planning‚ design and engineering; systems engineering and technical assistance; construction and construction management; operations and maintenance; and decommissioning and closure services (URS‚ 2010). With approximately 46‚500 worldwide employees and total global revenues of $9.25 Billion in fiscal year (FY) 2009‚ URS ranks as one of the largest engineering design firms in the world. URS is a publicly traded company
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CHRONOLOGY OF ORGANIZATION THEORY AND MANAGEMENT PRACTICES APPROXIMATE YEAR | INDIVIDUAL OR ETHNIC GROUPS | MAJOR MANAGERIAL CONTRIBUTION | 5000 BC | Sumerians | Established written records for both government and commercial use | 4000-2000 BC | Egyptians | Recognized need for forecasting‚ planning‚ organizing‚ and controlling. Employed inventory practices‚ sales ledgers‚ taxes‚ developed bureaucracy for agriculture and construction‚ i.e‚ pyramids; employed full-time administrators. | 4000
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opposing forces of standardization versus localization. Based on a large-scale survey of headquarters (HQs) and subsidiaries of American‚ Japanese and German MNCs‚ we provide evidence that MNCs can no longer afford to define standardization simply as the worldwide adoption of HQ practices. Standardization can take place towards two different poles: HQ practices and global best practices‚ wherever they originate from. As we believe managing the challenge of localization versus standardization towards
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catering to the online B2B and B2C community. The company started as one of the pioneering i-cafés in Angeles City in 1998 helping business people and students on research‚ transcription and encoding. Currently‚ it provides both domestic and offshore outsourcing services. TopData serves Australian‚ European and US clients in front and back office operations such as accounting‚ data entry‚ customer service‚ database and website content management‚ and transcription. Employee 1: As an editor I feel
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In this past 20 years‚ Microsoft was practicing the knowledge management. For Microsoft to build up a learning organization ’s strategy‚ it can be concluded into 3 ideals and 4 principles which suggested by "Microsoft secret". The first ideal is self-criticism. The second ideal is message feedback. And the third one is a wide-ranging exchange. Now‚ I introduce an example which held in Microsoft. One of the Microsoft managers promoted their product in a fair and won 9 prizes out of 10 prizes. After
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NIKE Part 1: Organizational Analysis 2/6/2013 NIKE Part 1: Organizational Analysis Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Overview and History 4 Organizational Strategies and Innovation 5 Organizational Design and Effectiveness 6 Competitors 7 Organizational Structure 7 Board of Directors: 8 External Environment 9 Opportunities 9 Threats 9 Internal Environment 10 Strengths 10 Weaknesses 11 Competitors 11 Nike Products and Services 12 Information Technology
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single most important business issue of our era.” In fact‚ managing innovation has always been critical to the survival and growth of organizations‚ and an essential component of leadership. Innovation and creativity are just as important to established organizations as they are to start-up organizations that are typically referred to as innovative. Yet‚ as organizations get more established‚ they often lose their edge‚ finding their very existence to be threatened by their inability to generate innovation
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internet and associated digital technologies to attain marketing objectives and support modern concepts. Internet marketing is a marketing strategy used by businesses to process new products online and offer customer services online. Internet is applied to all marketing communication aspects and supports marketing process. Internet marketing is a significant part of marketing mix in several organizations. Internet marketing can be applied by business as an integral part of the modern marketing because
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Direct Measurement of Global Value Chains: Collecting Product- and Firm-Level Statistics on Value Added and Business Function Outsourcing and Offshoring Timothy J. Sturgeon‚ MIT* Peter Bøegh Nielsen‚ Statistics Denmark Greg Linden‚ UC Berkeley Gary Gereffi‚ Duke University Clair Brown‚ UC Berkeley Final Draft: April 2‚ 2012 Forthcoming as Chapter 9 in the World Bank volume: The Fragmentation of Global Production and Trade in Value-Added - Developing New Measures of Cross Border Trade‚ based om a
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