Organization development (OD) is a deliberately planned‚ organization-wide effort to increase an organization’s effectiveness or efficiency. OD theorists and practitioners define it in various ways. Its multiplicity of definition reflects the complexity of the discipline and is responsible for its lack of understanding. For example‚ Vasudevan has referred to OD being about promoting organizational readiness to meet change[citation needed]‚ and it has been said that OD is a systemic learning and development
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information and some reading on entrepreneurship journals‚ books and articles have brought to the idea on writing this paper‚ towards certain perspective‚ on successful entrepreneurial characteristics. This paper examines the myths associated with what it takes to be an entrepreneur‚ the profiles and the common characteristics among these successful entrepreneurs. INTRODUCTION The first definition on entrepreneur was simply someone who invented something. Eventually‚ it turned into someone who owned
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INTRODUCTION The object oriented information modeling started in the early 1960’s‚ but at the time it was not very popular. It is only recently that object oriented programming has become popular. It was designed for the purposes of creating simulations and was developed by Kristen Nygaard and Ole-Johan Dahl in Norway. The term “object oriented information modeling” was first used by Xerox PARC in their Smalltalk programming language. The term was used to refer to the process of using the
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victims are immoral enemies of the state (192). In short‚ the torturer becomes disoriented and unable to decipher the actuality of his existence. This disorientation is caused by repetition‚ or "habituation"‚ in addition to the development of the "task-oriented frame of mind"; according to one Chilean ex-torturer ". . . after . . . not wanting to . . . but wanting to‚ you start getting used to it [and there] definitely . . . comes a moment when you [no longer] feel [anything] about what you are doing" (191)
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MANAGING PEOPLE AND ORGANISATION Assignment: Shenzhen Filtroil: Finding Balance CONTENTS: Executive summary 4 Part 1. Analysis of external environments 5 Part 2. Analysis of the organization structure and organization culture 8 Part 3. Analysis of leadership and management styles 12 Part 4. Recommendation for best of four options 16 Part 5. Specific recommendations 17 REFERENCES 18 appendices 19 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The following report is performed for Albert Randolph and
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Audience Characteristics When preparing a presentation concerning sales data to a diverse group of managers‚ sales persons‚ and customers; attention to the differences and similarities of the group need to be considered. The amount of technical information and understanding among the differing groups varies and this requires the ability to formulate a presentation that puts an emphasis on finding the way to communicate the information to each individual within the group that is easily understandable
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Unit 205 - Schools as Organisations Task A: The candidate is required to identify six different categories of school. For each category of school‚ the candidate should prepare brief notes about the way in which they are managed‚ the ages of children with which they deal and the curriculum they are required to follow. 1. Community: Example: Primary schools Run by local authority‚ age range 4-11 years‚ allot of mainstream schools and pupils are selected based on the area of school and where they
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Schools as organisations Unit 302 Outcome 1 1.3) Explain the post 16 options for young people and adults. The opportunities for pupils aged 16 and over have traditionally been either to leave school and start employment‚ or to stay and continue with their education. Although many pupils do still choose one of these options‚ it is likely there will be more opportunities available as there has been an increased government focus on and funding of education for 14 to 19 year olds‚ and in particular
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1 ECON 331: INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION TOPIC: ANALYSIS OF THE NEWSPAPER ARTICLES SUBMITTED BY: Vishakha Agarwal BABE-3 110144 2 INTRODUCTION 1. PRODUCT DIFFERENCIATION “Diversity is the staff of economic life.” The theoretical tool of dealing with diversity is product differentiation. (Rosen.2002). It is an important component of imperfectly competitive strategic interaction. Sometimes‚ producers create physical and psychological differences between goods that are nearly identical
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Object-Oriented Programming Paradigm Advantages * Because of the concept of inheritance in OO programming‚ existing codes can be easily modified because new codes can be added with little modifications made. That is to say it is easily extensible and codes can be easily re-used. * OOP provides a clear program structure because the solution to be developed can be broken down into objects and approached as such. This gives room for maintainability of the program because problems would be easy
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