Q4. What can Mattel do to enhance product quality? As mentioned in the article‚ one of the contributing reasons to the recalls of Mattel’s toys was due to insufficient quality controls. Product quality starts from the product development and design stages of an industry. Mattel has research and development centre where the designs and developments of its products is done in its headquarters in California‚ USA. Most of the recalls of Mattel products in 2007 were due to the design fault‚ excessive
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Work is now commonly organized into teams in most organizations‚ and conventional wisdom is that working in groups is more productive than individual work. Yet‚ research on work in groups shows that teamwork can actually inhibit or even damage productivity. Why? One reason is that under the cover of group work people are less productive‚ sometimes even satisfied that others are the same. Originally‚ this behavior was called “social loafing‚” a term coined by a French professor‚ Max Ringelmann in
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Productivity dilemma Productivity dilemma Abernathy’s productivity dilemma describes businesses trade off between two strategic goals: efficiency and innovation. Efficiency is a result of exploitation‚ there utilizes existing knowledge and capabilities‚ resulting in stable and efficient performance. Innovation or adaptability is a result of exploration‚ which creates new knowledge‚ enabling organizations to innovate‚ and adapt to changing conditions. Paul s. Adler highlights that Abernathy sees
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Motivation Motivation is the driving force that is applied in an organisation to assist in the achievement of the laid goals (accel-team: 2010). Motivation in the workplace aims at triggering human behavior and their need to work. Relatively‚ it is a process by which people seek to satisfy their basic drives and it is what drives production in the work place. Basic model of motivation In his book ‘management theory and practice’‚ Cole has outlined the basic model of motivation (Cole:
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Introduction Productivity. The term productivity means‚ “the state or quality of being productive” which basically means how fast an product or how good a product can be made in a certain period of time. The efficiency of production will easy affect the company profit as the output that is given by the company needs to match its sales. Productivity is the main factor that affects the performance of the company because more productivity means more income and also it will increase the power of purchase
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Research Proposal on The Impact of Motivation on Employee Job Performance The Impact of Motivation on Employee Job Performance Introduction People within an organization are harmoniously working together to satisfy one certain goal‚ whether short or long-term goal. The organization‚ as the collection of people‚ are expected to be deliver the best assets that they have which are the people bearing the knowledge and skills suitable to their position in the organization. Through the desirable performances
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Labour productivity = production/labour When productivity changes‚ it affects how productive an economy is. Labour‚ as an input in production‚ helps to determine total output. When productivity falls‚ labour‚ as an input‚ produces less goods and thus total production falls. The PPP (also known as the PPF) moves inward to represent the fewer production choices available. When productivity increases‚ the curve shifts outward to represents increased production and production choices. DEFINITION of
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In my view‚ all the workplaces should have limited internet access as it affects the overall productivity of the company because of the lack of work-efficiency of every individual. There are two reasons in support of my opinion. Firstly‚ now days‚ Internet has a lot of entertainment than knowledge. And people are prone to watch more of entertainment shows than reading any useful information from websites which would enrich one’s knowledge. For instance‚ today’s internet has so many social networking
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|BASIC MOTIVATION CONCEPTS | LEARNING OBJECTIVES After studying this chapter‚ students should be able to: 1. Outline the motivation process. 2. Describe Maslow’s need hierarchy. 3. Contrast Theory X and Theory Y. 4. Differentiate motivators from hygiene factors. 5. List the characteristics that high achievers prefer in a job. 6. Summarize the types of goals that
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Session 4 (Motivation) Motivation in an organizational context is the processes that account for an individual’s intensity (how hard the person tries)‚ direction (the orientation that benefits the organization)‚ and persistence of effort (how long a person can maintain his/her effort) toward attaining a goal. 1. Maslow’s Hierarch of Needs Theory – hypothesized that every human being has needs (shown in the form of a pyramid) that need to be satisfied at each level before moving upward to the
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