CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION & THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS/ IMPORTANCE OF ETHICS FOR MANAGERS (Week 1) TRUE/FALSE 1. Stockholders are individuals‚ companies‚ groups‚ and nations that cause and respond to external issues‚ opportunities‚ and threats. 2. A first step toward understanding stakeholder issues is to gain an understanding of environment forces that influence issues and stakes of different groups. 3. Demographically‚ the workforce has become more homogeneous. 4. For business
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Literature Review R esearch has indicated that service quality has been increasingly recognized as a critical factor in the success of any business (Parasuraman et al.‚ 1988) and the banking sector in this case is not exceptional. Service quality has been widely used to evaluate the performance of banking services (Cowling and Newman‚ 1995). The banks understand that customers will be loyal if they receive greater value than from competitors (Dawes and Swailes‚ 1999) and on the other hand
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116 CHAPTER- IV SECTION-I JOB SATISFACTION 4.1 INTRODUCTION Human Resource Management is considered to be the most valuable asset in any organization. It is the sum-total of inherent abilities‚ acquired knowledge and skills represented by the talents and aptitudes of the employed persons who comprise of executives‚ supervisors‚ and the rank and file employees. It may be noted here that human resources should be utilized to the maximum possible extent‚ in order to achieve individual
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Job design determines the way work is organized and performed. Job design typically refers to the way that a set of tasks‚ or an entire position‚ is organized. The aim of job design is to improve job satisfaction‚ to improve quality and to reduce employee problems (e.g.‚ grievances‚ absenteeism‚ turnover etc).Good design incorporates the relationship with organizational goals and values and should be well understood in order to align and prioritize the job’s responsibilities. The design should:
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JOB ORGANIZATION AND INFORMATION Understanding the different jobs in an organization is essential. Each employee should render the maximum contribution he is capable of making. For him to be able to do so‚ the tasks must be divided into jobs that can be performed effectively and also provide a source of satisfaction to the persons who are assigned to them. The tasks establishing the duties and responsibilities and standards for each job within an organization‚ therefore‚ is a most important
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companies-are-rethinking-their-offshoring Priscilla Urevbu Summary This article talks about a trend that started as far back as the 1980’s when companies began sending many jobs abroad mainly because of cheap labor. However‚ that trend is quickly changing. Companies are discovering that the wage gap is narrowing and many of the disadvantages are now starting to outweigh benefits of sending jobs abroad. One of the points mentioned
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Brochure More information from http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/2412467/ Country Road Limited (CTY) - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review Description: Summary Country Road Limited (Country Road) is a retailer of apparel‚ homewares and related accessories. The company operates as a subsidiary of Woolworths Holdings Limited. Country Road designs‚ wholesales‚ and licenses apparel products. Its products include apparels for men‚ women and children‚ gift cards‚ gift wraps‚ and tailoring
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What caused the global economic crisis‚ and what could have been done (by governments or the private sector) to prevent this? Also‚ give your personal thoughts on this issue. My personal thoughts on this issue: After watching all five parts of the movie‚ I think the global economic crisis key factor was caused by deregulation which began since Reagan administration‚ because it contributed to the real estate bubble and allowed greedy and overpaid banks to go on unreasonable leverage. Regulatory
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Job Change: Meaning and Types Job change means any type of change in existing job in the organization. Job change may be upward‚ downward or lateral by its nature. Upward job change is known as promotion‚ downward change is as demotion and lateral change is identified as transfer. |Promotion | | |
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Globalization refers to the ways in which capital; people‚ information and culture can now flow back and forth across national borders with a greater ease and greater rapidity than they had before this new phenomenon. Globalization‚ the growing integration of economies and societies around the world‚ was a word hardly used only a few years ago and now I doubt if there is a single country in the world where globalization isn’t being discussed. The global spread of the term is evidence that something
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