Changing Who I Am Born in a small town in Fujian‚ China‚ a place with a population less than two hundred people‚ I could not have ever imagined myself standing here today‚ at Michigan State University‚ and becoming one of the forty-seven thousand students. My story began in China. I was a small town girl that moved to a bigger city. In another part of my life‚ I moved from China to the United States of America. And then‚ I graduated from a small high school and entered a large college‚ where
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0969-9988.htm Organizational culture: the case of Turkish construction industry Ela Oney-Yazıcı‚ Heyecan Giritli‚ Gulfer Topcu-Oraz and Emrah Acar Department of Architecture‚ Division of Project and Construction Management‚ Istanbul Technical University‚ Istanbul‚ Turkey Abstract Purpose – The main stimulus of this study is to examine the cultural profile of construction organizations within the context
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2.2 Create a leadership strategy that supports organizational direction Organizations need leadership strategies in order to create confidence for employees and other stakeholders that there is a clear direction in which the organization aims to head. Understanding leadership culture is the first stage to creating an effective leadership strategy; the next step is to assess the relationship between staff and their leaders and bring emotional intelligence into play‚ this will become a necessity for
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Generated by Foxit PDF Creator © Foxit Software http://www.foxitsoftware.com For evaluation only. The Impact of Organizational Culture On Employee Satisfaction and Productivity 1 Generated by Foxit PDF Creator © Foxit Software http://www.foxitsoftware.com For evaluation only. The Impact of Organizational Culture on Employee Satisfaction and Productivity Submitted to Emranul Huq Senior Lecturer School of Business United International University Submitted by Emam Hossan Noshin Riaz
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People and Organizational Management in the Built Environment Theory of Organizational Culture: The Climatic and Cultural Factors Table of Contents SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION ................................................................................. 3 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE IN THE CONSTRUCTION BUSINESS ..................................... 3 WHAT IS ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE?................................................................... 3 WHY DOES IT MATTER? ........
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Organizational strategy can be defined by examining: the analysis of the strategy‚ the choice of strategies and the realization of strategies. The analysis of the strategy: the process begins with the definition of the mission and the long-term objectives of the company. Any choice has to predict its future evolution and continuously follow the undergoing of the process. The analysis of the strategy points out: what is or what should be the strategic position of the company towards the competing
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Knowledge Management and Organizational Culture: Toward a broader perspective on how organizational culture impacts knowledge management. The words knowledge and management are two extremely broad concepts when separated. When the two words come together‚ it speaks of an idea that strives to organize information in a way that produces an advantage for an organization. While anyone would think that harnessing the knowledge of an organization is a positive thing to do‚ there are many who do not
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and onwards. The contributions of Questrom and Castagna were more on optimizing business operation while Mike Ullman and Theilmann were more on changing the organisational culture. Shortly after joining as chairman and CEO of JCP in December 2004‚ Mike Ullman along with his top management team took various initiatives to change the climate and culture of JCP from the rigid one into more flexible and democratic environment. The most notable among these were the “Winning Together” principles (WTP)
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Studies in Organizational Culture- Groupon Inc. “Groupon! Get your Groupon! Hot off the presses!” It wasn’t too long ago Groupon Inc. was the darling of Wall Street. Institutional and individual investors alike were anxiously anticipating an opportunity to buy shares of the company dubbed by Fast Company as “the most exciting thing to happen to retail since eBay.” That excitement was mirrored on November 4‚ 2011‚ Groupon’s first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange‚ as the price sky-rocketed
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1. INTRODUCTION Built on the idea of change‚ the roots of succession planning (SP) lie within anthropology and the study of kinship (Fox‚ 1967‚ pp. 16-7‚ 1993; Fortes‚ 1970‚ p. 305; Parkin‚ 1997‚ pp. 22-3‚ 127). Early work into business succession by authors such as Christensen (1953)‚ Gouldner (1954)‚ Trow (1961)‚ and Guest (1962) helped to fuel its dissemination into a wider management context‚ which in the present day encompasses leadership planning‚ change management‚ human resources‚ and indeed
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