Organisational Behaviour. The Volta Aluminium Company Limited (VALCO) is an aluminium reduction facility (smelter) located in the industrial seaport city of Tema‚ east of the capital city of Accra. VALCO was originally jointly owned by Kaiser Aluminium and Chemical Corporation (KACC) - 90% and Reynolds Metals Company .The Government of Ghana purchased the 90% shares of KACC in October 2004 and subsequently completed acquisition in June 2008. Therefore‚ currently VALCO is solely owned by the
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article is about learning organizations‚ how they operate and what is required of them for success. First Garvin states most scholars see the learning environment as gaining knowledge and improved performance and efficiency‚ but the definition of organisational learning is different from one another. However after organisations “pass the definitional test”‚ big organisation like General Motors still find it difficult to apply the knowledge to practice. Second‚ he states some activities that most learning
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Introduction GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is a pharmaceutical company which also deals with ‚ vaccines‚ biologics and consumer healthcare products. By the measure of revenues its stated to be the worlds third largest pharmaceutical company. GSK headquarters are located in London‚ United Kingdom where it has a primary listing on London stock Exchange and secondary listing on NewYork Stock Exchange. GSK has a challenging and inspiring mission to improve the quality of human life by enabling people to do
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Disadvantages of Standard Costing: - Standard costing is very good system‚ but it should be giving regard to following limitations: Establishment of standards may demand a lot of skill‚ imagination and experience. If all factors are not in harmony‚ desired result will not be forthcoming. There are no inset circumstances to be considered for fixing standards. The conditions under which standards are fixed do not remain static. With the change in circumstances‚ if the standards are not revised
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Table of Contents Table of Contents 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 CHAPTER ONE 4 1.0 INTRODUCTION 4 1.1 BACKGROUND: 4 1.2 RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: 5 1.3 PROBLEM STATEMENT: 5 1.4 PRIMARY RESEARCH QUESTION 5 1.5 OTHER RESEARCH QUESTIONS 6 1.6 HYPOTHESIS 7 1.7 POPULATION 8 1.8 SAMPLE 8 1.9 RESEARCH TOOL 8 1.10 ANALYSIS 8 1.11 SCOPE 8 1.12 LIMITATIONS 8 CHAPTER TWO 9 2.1 INTRODUCTION 9 2.2 JOB SATISFACTION: 14 2.3 FACTORS INFLUENCING JOB SATISFACTION 17 2.4 JOB DESIGN 17 2.5 WORKPLACE
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When I sit down to write this paper‚ I cannot help but to remember Lord Brahma‚ whose four heads were meant‚ simultaneously‚ to recite all four Vedas.Similarly‚ when I look at this problem of organizational challenges in India‚ I yearn to have those four heads- because there are Four Faces which need to interact in tandem.Firstly‚let us have a look at the three visible heads and then lastly‚ the invisible head. The three visible faces can be described as - Head 1: ASKING QUESTIONS Head 2: SEEKING
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Reliance About the company-: The Reliance Group‚ founded by Dhirubhai H. Ambani ‚ is India’s largest private sector enterprise with businesses in petrochemicals‚ refining‚ oil& gas. Other divisions of the company include cloth and retail business. The company was founded by well known Industrialist Dhirubhai Ambani. Reliance is known globally ‚ as It is the largest polyester yarn and fibre producer in the world and among the top five to ten producers in the world in major petrochemical products
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Organizational Behavior Introduction: An organization has different type of work. Planning is one of the vital works that an organization has to improvise properly. The part of planning work is more sophisticated rather than anything else. The planning reflect the mission‚ vision‚ goal‚ of the organization. The planning usually execute by the manager of the company. An entrepreneur or owner may can invest money but he or she can’t do the planning of his own. For planning a specialist or even a
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QUESTION 1 Ms. Apple Ang‚ who comes late for work is showing high consistency. This attributes to high internal and low external factors. Internal factors might be due to her attitude or habit while external factors might be due to traffic‚ sick or emergency. Madam May May should find out that is really Miss Apple Ang‘s lateness is due to external cause. This is because‚ sometimes‚ Madam May May may engage in Fundamentals Attribution Error which means underestimate the external factors and overestimate
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In the recent light of globalization and change in the dynamics of management‚ the classical theory of management has shown inadequacy and infeasibility in the real world. Thus leading to the evolution of contemporary theories‚ which are contrary to the hierarchal nature of top-down flow of information. These theories had to evolve on how best to organize in light of new developments (Miller 2009). Therefore‚ it depends on how the leaders manage communication within the organisation (Groysberg‚ &
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