KENYA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT MODULE: DCM 200‚ PRACTICE OF MANAGEMENT. CLASS A‚ EVENING CLASS‚ MONDAY. JANUARY – JUNE. LECTURER: MR. KISIA WORK BASED ASSIGNMENT PARTICIPANT: HUSNA TWALIB NYANGASA ADMISSION No: NRB/53875. SECTION 1 a) Identify the common types of organizational cultures found in organizations. Culture A culture is a way of life of a group of people the behaviors‚ beliefs‚ values‚ and symbols that they accept‚ generally without thinking about them‚ and that are passed
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TASK-1 (a) Explain the importance of strategic human resource management and the need for adopting both a medium and long- term perspectives in respect of HRM (AC1.1) Introduction The human resources of an organization consist of all people who perform its activities. Human resource management (HRM) is concerned with the personnel policies and managerial practices and systems that influence the workforce. In broader terms‚ all decisions that affect the workforce of the organization concern the
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"Human Resource Management will be regarded as valuable business partner and important organisational resource when the Business Units are satisfied with the results achieved through Human Performance and Process Improvement." This is how human resource management has been described by an unknown source and quoted in many books and journals on the same subject. Human Resource Management‚ unlike Personnel Management‚ is linked to and plays a vital role in the organisations strategic planning and
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and Taru Yadav Human Resource Development (HRD) as a function has evolved in India indigenously from the year 1975 when Larsen&Toubro (L&T) conceptualized HRD as an integrated system and decided to separate it from the personnel function. Since then‚ most organizations have started new HR departments or redesignated their personnel and other departments as HRD departments. Today‚ there are high expectations from HRD. Good HRD requires well-structured function‚ appropriately identified HRD systems‚
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The Contingency Approach: Y. Y^ -a . . ’ ^ 1 i^-^ .g ^ ‚ The Contingency Its l^oundations and Relevance A poc p r ah to Theory Building and Research in Marketing by Valarie A. Zeithaml Duke University‚ Durham‚ North Carolina‚ P. "Rajan" Varadarajan Texas A&M University‚ and Carl P. Zeithaml University of North Carolina‚ Chapel Hill Introduction During the 1960s‚ management theory and research began to adopt a new orientation‚ one that embodied a remarkably simple concept
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book ’Experiential Learning: Experience As The Source Of Learning And Development’ Kolb acknowledges the early work on experiential learning by others in the 1900’s‚ including Rogers‚ Jung‚ and Piaget. In turn‚ Kolb’s learning styles model and experiential learning theory are today acknowledged by academics‚ teachers‚ managers and trainers as truly seminal works; fundamental concepts towards our understanding and explaining human learning behaviour‚ and towards helping others to learn A note about
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PEOPLE DEVELOPMENT Assignment one By: Shaun Szabo – W0051439 Task: There is a wide range of definitions applied to Human Resource Development (HRD). To demonstrate your understanding of HRD‚ use an essay format to critically discuss the following definition: HRD is a combination of structured and unstructured learning and performance based activities which develop individual and organisational competency‚ capability and capacity to cope with and successfully manage
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| | Throughout the centuries and decades of human presence‚ the theme that have time after time resonated and stayed constant is inevitable change. Change is the pushing factor that contributed to innovation‚ growth and evolution; nowhere is that theme more predominate than the twenty-first century and even more so in the business environment. The delicate balance between the consumers and the retailers is pivotal upon the response and react to the changes in the environment; it is the
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September 2012 Subject: Proposal on New Approach to Advertising 1. INTRODUCTION For the past 3 years‚ our product Lion Beer annual sales has dropped about 6%‚ whereas our competitors have increased market share‚ 3.2% for Heineken‚ 1.8% for San Miguel and 1% for Carlsberg. The report from our marketing research team revealed that majority new generation consumers less knowing our product due to our current conventional advertising strategy. Our advertising plans should be changed accordingly to boost
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A New Approach to Handoff Shaunna Repa Chamberlain College of Nursing NR 351: Transitions in Professional Nursing Summer Session 2011 A New Approach to Handoff Introduction As Healthcare evolves with today’s ever changing society nurses in practice are increasingly challenged by patients and healthcare organizations to provide clearly measurable care of the highest quality (Holleman et al‚ 2006) They are able to enhance their knowledge and skills based on information gained from results
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