SHAKY START Left to himself‚ Ratan Tata would probably have stayed on in the United States after training as an architect at Cornell University. But the son of deputy group chairman Naval Tata and the nephew of JRD Tata couldn’t be allowed to work outside the group (he had an offer from IBM). In 1962‚ Ratan joined the family business‚ working on the Tata Steel shopfloor at Jamshedpur‚ just one of several thousand employees. He got his first independent assignment less than a decade later --
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To: Ravi Kant (Managing Director‚ TML) From: Subject: Nano Tata-logy: The People’s Car Date: 17 the September‚ 2011 Situation Overview TML is currently posed with a tricky question of how to go about the Tata-Nano (the much-hyped “People’s Car”) business strategy‚ given its commitment to release it on time with the promised cost and the spectrum of issues and recent developments that pose potential hurdles. Issues Operations 1. Political problems at Singur Plant which will certainly
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Career Development International Emerald Article: Effects of wage and promotion incentives on the motivation levels of Japanese employees Kiyoshi Takahashi Article information: To cite this document: Kiyoshi Takahashi‚ (2006)‚"Effects of wage and promotion incentives on the motivation levels of Japanese employees"‚ Career Development International‚ Vol. 11 Iss: 3 pp. 193 - 203 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13620430610661722 Downloaded on: 10-01-2013 References: This
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of situations. Motivation is the “extent to which an individual is engaged by the work role he or she occupies.” It is very important that in today’s society‚ managers have a successful motivational strategy put in place in order to maintain high levels of performance in the work environment. The motivational theories that I have studied can be categorised into two groups; content and process theories. “Content theories are based on the assumption that we can attribute a similar set of needs to
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WORKING PAPER: 06-03 Mar. 2006 The Tata Group after the JRD Period: Management and Ownership Structure by Ram Kumar Kakani & Tejas Joshi XLRI‚ Jamshedpur 831001‚ India E-Mail: kakani@xlri.ac.in Last updated in Feb. 2008 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=889394 XLRI Working Paper: 06-03 2 The Tata Group after the JRD Period: Management and Ownership Structure1 Ram Kumar Kakani & Tejas Joshi E-Mail: kakani@xlri.ac.in Abstract Complex ownership structures
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• Joined Tata Motors in July 1978 as GET. • Worked in maintenance‚ production & as Engine Factory Head. • Fond of swimming. PLANTS OF TATA MOTORS LTD. MILESTONES DATA REGARDING THE SITE [pic] MASTER PLAN ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE AND PHILOSOPHY STRUCTURE FOR SUPPLY CHAIN STRUCTURE FOR SUPPLY CHAIN VENDOR PARTNERING [pic] PROJECTED STATE EARNINGS FROM TATA MOTORS [pic]
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British grocery store chain Tesco has recently been forcing employees at its Dublin distribution center to wear armbands that measure their productivity. The armbands‚ officially known as Motorola arm-mounted terminals‚ keep track of how quickly and competently employees unload and scan goods in the warehouse and gives them a grade. The monitors can be turned off during lunch breaks‚ but anything else‚ including bathroom breaks and water breaks‚ reportedly lowers workers’ productivity score.
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McClelland identified three key motivating drives that work for everyone. He named these key drives as: * The Need for Achievement * The Need for Affiliation * The Need for Power He also identified how these needs each vary in strength between different people. Everyone‚ says McClelland‚ is motivated by all of these‚ but to motivate individuals‚ the manager needs to consider what the primary drivers in each case are. Achievement How to recognise the Achievement Motive in a person
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Motivational theories have been studied by many scientists for many years. Motivation is “the processes that account for an individual’s intensity‚ direction‚ and persistence of effort toward attaining a goal.” In laymen terms motivation has been said to be a reasoning of why people do the things that they do or say some of the things they say and want some of the things they want. Many scientists put a lot of time and effort into the study of human beings and this intriguing topic testing hypotheses
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be utilized to optimize performance in a work setting‚ the different motivational theories will be discussed as well as their affect on employee’s behavior. It intends to outline a fictitious organizations proposed incentive and motivation plans for their employees. Keywords: motivation theory‚ organizational development‚ incentive plans‚ motivation MOTIVATIONAL PAPER: MOTIVATION THEORIES 3 Motivational Paper: Motivation Theories Motivation is a crucial yet invisible
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