Researching the Organisation [a] Post Fordism? i) The 1980s: Flexible Specialisation and ’Disorganised Capitalism’: Piore and Sabel (1984) argue in The Second Industrial Divide[i] that new production systems must orientate towards multi-skilling and rapid re-skilling in order to accommodate the search for shifting and newly forming niche markets in a post mass production/mass consumer world. This implies economies of scope rather than economies of scale and a more creative workforce‚ which‚ by implication
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produce product. So the worker and those who own the work is separated or alienated. Marx also talk about capitalist exploitation. Capitalist system is to gain profit at much as possible. This result in exploiting workers by giving low salary‚ de-skilling them and treat workes as a tools. Marx think that this Capitalism system is a threat to the society. So for Marx‚ this division is enforced for the benefit of the owners so they can exploit working class (worker) for gaining profit and other means
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Raiborn/Kinney Chapter 14 question 51: Colson Manufacturing (Balance Scorecard‚ EVA) A) Why would the use of EVA discourage a high growth strategy? Economic Value Added (EVA) => A measure of the extent to which income exceeds the dollar cost of capital. In essence‚ it is the value generated from funds invested in a business. It can be calculated as income minus (invested capital times the cost of capital percentage). This measure is an easy- to-understand method that recognises improvements
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1. Abstract Agility basically means the power of being AGILE i.e. the art of moving quickly and seamlessly with proper balance‚ speed and coordination. This definition of agility can be applied to testing as well. Agile testing can be considered as the software testing methodology which does not follow testing practices and procedures. This is basically defined as RAPID TESTING where strategies to test the functionality does not follow any procedure. 2. Introduction Agile Testing is a testing
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What led to the eventual collapse of Enron under Lay and Skilling and How? Answer: All the fraud activities conducted by Lay and Skilling and bad corporate culture led to the Eventual collapse of Enron. Both were aware of the Enron Code of Ethics but they did not follow it. Kenneth Lay former CEO was indicted on 11 criminal counts of fraud and making misleading statements. Jeff Skilling was indicted on 35 counts of wire fraud‚ securities fraud‚ conspiracy‚ making false statement on financial reports
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he sentenced the company to scrupulous horrific death. Jeff Skilling was hired as Chief Operating Officer of Enron Finance Corporation and became the Chairman of Enron Gas and Electric. Skilling was a visionary and seemed to have the deregulation game figured out. He used mark to Market accounting system to forecast projected earnings. This made stocks skyrocket and so they appointed Jeff Skilling to CEO or Enron. Skilling then hired Andy Fastow. Fastow was hired from Continental a bank
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adequately trained‚ provided with all the relevant information‚ the best possible tools‚ fully involved in key decisions‚ and are fairly rewarded. But the entire empowerment process involves cost. A budget needs to be set aside for training and upskilling employees for growing them as organizational assets‚ which should be justified in terms of benefits it draws. This study aims at assessing the “soft” costs associated with employee empowerment and to justify it by benefits associated with it.
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collapse of Enron under Lay and Skilling? There were various reasons as to why Enron collapsed under Lay and Skilling. One reason Enron collapsed under Lay is because Lay simply did not practice what he preached. Lay did not live by his code of ethics and neither did his corporation. Not only that‚ but Lay and top management gave Andrew Fastow an exemption to the code of ethics to continue doing business. Another reason that Enron collapsed‚ under Skilling‚ is that Skilling had a performance evaluation
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for the person’s advantage. How does this relate to the Enron scandal? To determine whether Enron’s executives were either motivating or manipulative‚ we need to look at what type of leaders they were. The CEOs of Enron were Kenneth Lay and Jeff Skilling; very wealthy men‚ at the start of the company that is. On the other hand‚ Lou Pai wasn’t named a CEO‚ but was one of the company’s top executives. Leaving before the bankruptcy in the late 1990s allowed Pai to keep his wealth from the company without
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There is a general impression that Enron was a good corporation that went bad. The movie argues that it was a con game almost from the start. It was "the best energy company in the world‚" according to its top executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling. At the time they made that claim‚ they must have known that the company was bankrupt‚ had been worthless for years‚ had inflated its profits and concealed its losses through bookkeeping practices so corrupt that the venerable Arthur Anderson accounting
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