Case # 9-603-062 Managing Knowledge and Learning at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory This case focuses on knowledge management (KM) at NASA after a mandate to move from “expensive‚ infrequent‚ heavily engineered” projects to “Faster‚ Better‚ Cheaper” projects has been in place for almost ten years. Read the case‚ discuss it with your team members‚ and then answer the following questions. Summary Jeanne Holm‚ Chief Knowledge Architect for NASA faces
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Introduction Mergers and acquisitions are becoming commonly practiced strategic options for organizations. Organizations are coming together one way or another to realize emerging commercial opportunities. Goals for this upcoming and popular strategy converges around themes including growth‚ diversification and achieving economies of scale. A merger is a consolidation of two organizations into one. On the other hand‚ acquisition is the purchase of an organization by another which gives the buyer
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Management 5000 2012 Managing Team Conflict FINAL PAPER management 5000 Table of Contents * Describe the nature of conflict in teams * Define types of conflict and describe how each manifests in a team * Identify reasons why team members struggle with conflict * Describe how a team leader can manage conflict within the team * Summarize my key learning‚ with recommendation for an intervention that may work in a group conflict situation Introduction It is commonplace
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Nowadays‚ when new technologies emerge and business trends rapidly change‚ companies has a difficult task to perform. They find themselves in the face of many challenges‚ which they should overcome in order to maintain their position on the market. Companies grow by expanding into new competitive space‚ attaining financial‚ material and knowledge assets and replicating their wins‚ however‚ this may be not enough. At present‚ the major challenge facing companies is the need to manage change in order
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MANAGING PEOPLE AND ORGANISATIONS | OUTCOME 3 ASSESSMENT | | Contents MANAGERIAL WORK 2 MAIN FEATURES 2 MEASURING MANAGERIAL PERFORMANCE 4 BEHAVIOURAL THEORY 5 McGREGOR‚ THEORY X & Y 5 LEADERSHIP THEORIES 6 SCOTIA EXPANSION & THEORIES OF LEADERSHIP 7 MANAGERIAL WORK There are three different levels of management‚ the first being senior level management who are concerned with the strategic planning and decision making of the organisation. The decisions they make are
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P5 All companies including the NHS will use some or all of these to manage the performance of its employees. Managing performance A business can only find out how hard employees are working if they measure their performance. Managing performance involves monitoring the targets and goals that employees have been given to see how they are progressing‚ this can be done in a number of ways. Probation When an employee starts a new job they are often put on probation for a certain time where their
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Managing Organizational Change By Michael W. Durant‚ CCE‚ CPA The increased pace of change that many of us have encountered over the past ten years has been dramatic. During the late 1980s‚ many of us were grappling with issues that we had never encountered. The accelerated use of leverage as a means of increasing shareholder wealth left the balance sheet of some of America’s finest organizations in disarray. Many of our largest customers‚ that for years represented minimal risk and required
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assisted by the disciplines of modern Marketing‚ Finance‚ Operations‚ Human Resource Management etc. have made the once-upon-a-time uncertain business world quantitatively almost predictable. Business world a few decades ago had been full of apprehension and uncertainty. But the recent pragmatic development of the theories and practices in the field of business related disciplines‚ justly enlivened by extensive automation and technological advancement‚ has provided us with the opportunity to deal uncertainty
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MANAGING CONFLICT I. Interpersonal conflict management. The chapter begins with the observation that too much agreement – or a lack of conflict – among managers in organizations is a leading cause of business failure. Managing disagreements and conflicts are needed to break the cycles of dysfunction in organizations that can result from groupthink‚ narrow-mindedness‚ overconfidence‚ or complacency. The increasing globalization of business and greater diversity in organizations are trends that also
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