|PUTTING PEOPLE FIRST FOR ORGANIZATIONAL SUCCESS | |By: Pfeifer‚ Jeffrey‚ Veiga‚ John F.‚ Academy of Management Executive‚ 10795545‚ May99‚ Vol. 13‚ Issue 2 | |Database: Business Source Premier | |
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DYNAMICS OF WORK AND WORK ORGANIZATIONS Course Number 37:575:308:02 Index #54661 Spring 2011 Class Times: Mondays‚ 7:15pm – 10:05pm Class Location: Douglas Campus‚ Hickman Hall‚ Room 131 Rutgers‚ The State University of New Jersey School of Management and Labor Relations Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations Instructor: Mohammad A. Ali Office: Labor Education Center 156 Phone: 732-529-6161 Email: maali1969@gmail.com COURSE OVERVIEW Workplaces have changed in fundamental‚ and sometimes
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Summaries of Articles on Management Accounting All the article summaries included here were prepared by MBA students in Management 413‚ Cost Accounting. Each article summary includes the name of the student who prepared the summary. Management Accounting in General Adler‚ Paul S. "Time-and-Motion Regained‚" Harvard Business Review (January-February‚ 1993)‚ pp. 97-108. Alonso‚ Ramon L and Cline W. Frasier "JIT Hits Home: A Case Study in Reducing Management Delays‚" Sloan Management Review (Summer
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INTRODUCTION "There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity‚ there would be no progress‚ and we would be forever repeating the same patterns." - Edward de Bono The above saying could not be truer‚ more so in today’s business context. Organizations are trying to find new and inventive ways of first creating and then holding on to their competitive advantage and being creative is one way they can achieve that. Creativity is a very misunderstood
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the world. In 1982‚ the Toyota Motor Company and Toyota Motor Sales merged into one company‚ the Toyota Motor Corporation. Two years later‚ Toyota entered into a joint venture with General Motors called the New United Motor Manufacturing‚ Inc‚ NUMMI‚ operating an automobile-manufacturing plant in Fremont‚ California. The factory was an old General Motors plant that had been closed for two years. Toyota then started to establish new brands at the end of the 1980s‚ with the launch of their luxury
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A RESEARCH PAPER ON TOYOTA MOTOR COMPANY Name: Professor: Institution: Course: Date: 1.0 Company Description The Toyota Company is a leader in the car manufacture‚ assembly and distribution the world over. A very efficient management style that the company uses has been one of the reasons for the firm’s good performance. There are many other salient factors that have made the company achieve the niche of market leader. The market structure the company operates in can not be definitely
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at http://www.emerald-library.com IJOPM 19‚11 Continuous improvement and the mini-company concept Jan de Leede and Jan Kees Looise University of Twente‚ The Netherlands Keywords Continuous improvement‚ Teamwork‚ Organizational design‚ Case studies‚ Kaizen Abstract The key issue of continuous improvement (CI) seems to be the problem of combining extensive employee involvement with market orientation and continuation of CI
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CHAPTER І A DISCUSSION OF THE IMPACT OF INDIVIDUALISM AND COLLECTIVISM ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE Over the last 30 years there have been many comparisons of Japanese and American business practices. There has been much research done on the positive and negative effects of both practices and the root of such differences. Typically the Japanese culture is known as a collectivist culture that places higher value on harmony and group continuity rather than individual accomplishment
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1. Introduction Toyota Motor Corporation was established in 1937. The company operates both automotive‚ under the brand Toyota‚ Lexus‚ Hino and Daihatsu‚ and non-automotive and can be seen as one of the best known automobile manufacturers. According to Japan Corporate News network‚ in 2007‚ the firm sold over 8.5 million vehicles in more than 170 countries. Based on Toyota Motor Global site ‚ the major Consolidated Subsidiaries of Toyota Corporation across the world mainly locates in North America
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ACKNOWLEGEMENT No work is created entirely by an individual. We would like to express our indebtedness and gratitude to all those who have directly or indirectly helped us in accomplishing this assignment. The sense of gratitude through words would hardly suffice our feeling for our Prof Mr. Kunwar Milind Singh for providing the intellectual stimulation and enlightening guidance through the course of our project We are highly indebted for his scholarly suggestion‚ constructive criticism and consistent
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