Fall 2013 MBA Semester 1 MB0038 – Management Process and Organisational Behaviour Q1. (a) A vision statement is a formal statement of what a business wants to be. According to Collins and Porras‚ a vision statement should have four parts. What are those four parts? (b) Differentiate between ‘process’ and ‘tasks’ a) The vision statement has to have four parts namely: • • • • Core values‚ Core purposes‚ The Big Hairy Audacious Goal or BHAG (pronounced as ‘Beehag’) vivid description
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and competetive advantage. 3rd ed. New Jersey: Prentice Hall. Campbell‚ A. & Yeung‚ S.‚ 1991. Brief Case: mission‚ vision ans strategic intent.. In: P. J. Smit‚ ed. Strategic Planning Readings. Cape Town: Juta Academic‚ pp. 127-132. Collins‚ J. C. & Porras‚ J. I.‚ 1996. Building your Company ’s Vision. Harvard Business Review‚ September - October.pp. 42-55. Cunill‚ O. M.‚ 2006. The growth strategies of hotel chains. In: Binghamton: The Haworth Hospitality Press‚ pp. 1-69. Grundy‚ T.‚ 2006. Rethinking
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More and more‚ experts in the field of strategic planning and management are advocating for more attention to be paid on strategic thinking‚ and recommending for it to be considered a separate and distinct stage in the strategy planning and executing cycle. Results from the strategic thinking exercise feeds directly into creation of the strategic vision‚ which according Thompson‚ Strickland & Gamble (2008) is the first phase of a strategy-making‚ strategy executing cycle. Ingid Bonn (Bonn‚ 2001)
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Raphael Porras Tabula Rasa Theory: Frankenstein’s Creature The nature versus nurture debate has been an ongoing issue in Psychology. It centres on whether a person ’s behaviour is a product of his or her genes or the person ’s environment and surroundings. Some well-known thinkers such as Plato and Descartes proposed that certain things are inherited and innate or that they simply occur naturally regardless of human influences. On the other hand‚ other philosophers such as John Locke believed
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initially shows the inconsistent use of the concept of mission in the expanded list approach. It then proceeds to show similar inconsistencies in three of the most respected models of guiding statements in the literature. Vision Framework (Collins and Porras (1991‚ 1995‚ 1996‚ and 1997) Ashridge Mission Model (Campbell and Yeung (1991)) Model of organizational vision –Liptons Model (Lipton’s (1996‚ 2003)) Mission Statements Approaches Check List Type: - The article says that to get a well-defined
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Analysis of “The Purloined Letter” using Structuralist Criticism The purloined letter is a detective story which has so many complex language that has more than one interpretion in some sentences. The content of "The purloined Letter" is an investigation for a missing letter. The whole story happens in two places primarily: one is C. Auguste Dupin’s little back library and the other is the hotel Minister D lives in. There are six characters in the story. Only one is a woman‚ the queen‚ and the
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Child Observations Observation 1: Physical Development Background information: Age Group: 0-1 year Observation Number: 001 Date: 25/01/2013 Method Used: Checklist Media Used: Pen and paper Time Started: 13:10 Time Finished:
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Founded in 1978‚ Sa Sa has grown from a 40 sq. ft. retail space to become today’s regional "beauty". According to the "Retail Asia-Pacific Top 500" ranking of Retail Asia magazine and Euromonitor in 2014 the Sa Sa holdings is a topmost company in the Hong Kong. As one of the largest sole agents in cosmetics in Hong Kong‚ Sa Sa represents over 100 international beauty brands in Asia. Sa Sa prospers on its successful and proven "one-stop cosmetics specialty store" concept‚ offering customers with
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Renié’s Pedagogical Repertoire Renié also enriched the pedagogical repertoire of the harp with many original compositions for her students. Several of her pieces fall into this category‚ including Grand-mère raconte une histoire (Grandmother Tells a Story); Les pins de Charlannes (The Pines of Charlannes); Feuillets d’album (Album Leaves); Feuilles d’automne (Autumn Leaves); Six pièces (Six Pieces)‚ op.1‚ and Six pièces brèves (Six Short Pieces)‚ op. 2. Fortunately‚ these works are all currently
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Schildersbedrijf KWASTJE in Haarlem [pic] Inleiding Het is vrijdag 1 juli 2005 om 16.30 uur‚ de laatste werkdag voor de bouwvakantie. Directeur Hans‚ administrateur Arie‚ receptioniste/telefoniste Joke en zeven van de tien schilders van schildersbedrijf “Kwastje” zijn in het kantoor te Haarlem-Noord aanwezig. Iedereen geniet van een drankje en een hapje‚ kortom het is gezellig om de laatste werkdag zo af te sluiten. Alleen Tom‚ Kees en Ab zijn er nog niet. Er was afgesproken dat iedereen
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