MANAGING OPERATIONS BBA YEAR 1 Mid Term Assignment 2011-2012 Florence Course: Managing Operations 1MOc Lecturer: Clive Woollard Percentage of final grade given: 30% In addition to submitting a paper copy to the lecturer and email a copy to the academic department you will be required to submit your project on www.turnitin.com. Use the instructions provided to you by Elisa. Class ID and Enrollment Password will be provided at a later time Objectives: The assignment has been
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Guillaume Lacour Article Review 2 In a company‚ for different reasons we do not manage younger employees in the same way that we manage employees‚ which are in the company for several years. In an article from the Harvard Business Review‚ Michael Fertik has told us some good ways to teach and motivate employees in their twenties. The first step could be to give responsibility to young employees through a specific mission immediately. In that way the employee will to make decision‚ and if he does
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Managing Virtual Teams 1. Introduction Virtual teams have emerged to mitigate the challenges of managing teams that are distributed across different regions‚ and are a sustainable component of global business. A project manager managing a virtual team would have to integrate communication strategies‚ project management techniques including human and social processes in order to support the team‚ (Kimball‚ 1997). The author is a project manager assigned to lead a virtual team of 300
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Managing Organizational Change Zaid Mulki AWR‚ 1 Business Administration Spring 2010 Page Contents Abstract 3 1. Introduction 4 2. Definition of Organization Change 5 3. Types of Organizational Change 5 3.1. Strategic Change 5 3.2. Structural Change 6 3.3. Technological Change 7 3.4. Behavioral Change 8 4. Change Process 9 4.1. Kurt Lewin 9 4.2. The Change Implementation Model 10 5. Obstacles to Change. 11 6. Managing Change 12 6.1. Commitment 12 6.2
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"Managing Multicultural Teams" Managing Multicultural Teams a case study by Jean Brett‚ Kristin Behfar and Mary C. Kern‚ is one of the attempts to offer solutions to the problems embedded in the managerial world where one or the other hurdles make their way and get onto the head of the managers and the team involved. The situations of disputes‚ conflicts and clashes often become part of the professional world where people from different cultures work together as a team. These situations occur
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Managing China’s Float Why do you think the Chinese government originally pegged the value of the Yuan against the U.S. dollar? What were the benefits of doing this for China? What were the costs? Over the last decade‚ many foreign firms have invested in China and used their Chinese factories to produce goods for export. If the Yuan is allowed to float freely against the U.S. dollar on the foreign exchange markets and appreciates in value‚ how might this affect the fortunes of those
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to involve stakeholdersdeveloping a strategy for change in the planning of change 3.2 develop a change management strategy with stakeholders 3.3 evaluate the systems used to involve stakeholders in the planning of change 3.4 create a strategy for managing resistance to change4 Be able to plan to implement 4.1 develop appropriate models for changemodels for ensuring ongoingchange 4.2 plan to implement a model for change 4.3 develop appropriate measures to monitor progress IntroductionStrategic marketing
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Case: Managing the Virus Hunters Introduction: Symantec Corp. is a security software company‚ best known for its Norton antivirus. Founded in 1982 by Gary Hendrix‚ it is the market leader in security software. Its headquarters are located in Mountain View‚ California‚ U.S. and the company operates worldwide. Symantec hires over 18‚000 employees and customers all around the globe. Their Response Lab‚ in Santa Monica‚ California‚ is called the “dirtiest network at Symantec” and is the place where
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Managing Employee Performance HR2E01N 31st-July-2009 Q.”Assess the use of 360-degree appraisals in performance management” Performance management is the process of management that contributes to the effective management of individuals and teams to achieve high levels of organizational performance. Some see performance management as performance related pay schemes and others as the performance appraisal systems. In simple terms‚ performance management provides the means for people to improve
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1.1 Managing and Leading Group Report no. 1 Date of meeting: 3rd August 2010 Attendees: All members of the group. • Hong Tang (Issabella) • Thi Hung Tran (Julie) • Bao Quan Nguyen (Michael) • Wanqian Zhou (Tiffany) • Yang Geng (Yang) Absentees: None Roles and responsibility: ✓ Issabella– responsible for the icebreaker and introducing the teacher‟s feedback part‚ take attendance ✓ Yang– responsible for the ‘Team Tower Power” and lead discussion
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