National Institute of Business Management Chennai - 020 FIRST SEMESTER EMBA/ MBA Subject : Principles and Practices of Management Attend any 4 questions. Each question carries 25 marks (Each answer should be of minimum 2 pages / of 300 words) Q1)What are the fundamentals of staffing and manpower? Explain the different methods of selection recruitment‚ training and development. FUNDAMENTALS OF STAFFING Any organisational fabrication requires a variety of people‚ and the supply of people consists
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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY Of all the factors of production‚ labour is the most important factor of production‚ which is supplied by the employees. The success or failure of any enterprise is therefore ultimately predicated on the willingness or otherwise of the people who supply the labour Force. A manager plays an important part in coordinating the efforts of individual workers to active organizational objectives. His work also include planning
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phoenix.edu/secure/aapd/cist/vop/Business/Riordan/Ops/SupplyChain.asp?hangzhou Chase‚ R.B.‚ Jacobs‚ F. R.‚ & Aquilano‚ N.J. (2006) Operations management for competitive advantage (11th ed). New York: McGraw Hill/Irwin European Business Review © Heinz Weihrich retrieved June 17‚ 2012 from http://www.usfca.edu/fac_staff/weihrichh/docs/germany.pdf The Eight Elements of TQM (2012). Retrieved June 18‚ 2012 from http://www.isixsigma.com/methodology/total-quality-management-tqm/eight-elements-tqm/
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objectives. Peter F. Drucker defines‚ “Management is an organ; organs can be described and defined only through their functions.” Henry Fayol‚ “To manage is to forecast and plan‚ to organize‚ to compound‚ to co-ordinate and to control.” Harold Koontz says‚ “Management is the art of getting things done through and with an informally organized group.” F.W.Taylor‚ “Management is the art of knowing what you want to do and then seeing that it is done in the best and cheapest way.” Features or characteristics
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York: Ballantine‚ 2009. Print. Froula‚ Christine. “The Daughter ’s Seduction: Sexual Violence and Literary History.” Signs. The University of Chicago Press‚ Vol. 11‚ No. 4. 1986. pp. 621644. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3174136 Koontz‚ Tom. "A Critical Analysis of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." Masterplots II. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Vol. 2. Pasadena‚ CA: Salem‚ 1994. 572. Print. McMurry‚ Myra K. “RolePlaying as Art in Maya Angelou ’s Caged Bird." South Atlantic Bulletin‚ Vol
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“activity to influence people to strive willingly for group objectives”(Terry 1960). A leader is a person who “exercise interpersonal influence in a situation and direct (people) through communication process towards a specialized goal or goals.”(Koontz and O’Donnell 1959). Certain traits are attributed to leaders‚ which make them stand above the rest of their group (Yukl 1989). Studies have shown that traits in people determine who are the leaders and who are the followers (Kirkpatrick ad Locke
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achieve a consistent co-ordinate structure of operations aimed at the desired results. According to Billy E. Goetz‚ "Planning is fundamentally choosing and a planning problem arises when an alternative course of action is discovered." According to Koontz and O’ Donnell‚ "Planning is an intellectual process‚ conscious determination of course of action‚ the basing of decision on purpose‚ facts and considered estimates." According to Allen‚ "A plan is a trap laid to capture the future." Nature / Characteristics
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Corporate Social Responsibility World Business Council for Sustainable Development defines Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as “The continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce and their families as well as of the local community and society at large.” Simple definition: Seriously considering the impact of the company’s actions on society. PERSPECTIVE ON CSR
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Vaughn (2005): The Professional Trainer: A Comprehensive Guide to Planning‚ Delivering‚ and Evaluating Training Programs(2nd Edition) . San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers M [Accessed 16 November 2011] The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company‚ 2011 H. Koontz and H.Weihrich(2008): Essentials of Management: An International Perspective(7th Edition) . New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill
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A dystopia is an imaginary wretched place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives‚ it is the opposite of a Utopia. "A dystopia is any society considered to be undesirable‚ for any of a number of reasons. The term was coined as a converse to a Utopia‚ and is most usually used to refer to a fictional (often near-future) society where current social trends are taken to nightmarish extremes. Often the difference between a Utopia and a Dystopia is in the author’s point of view. Dystopias
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