and Challenge Familiarize yourself with the case situation below and develop briefing notes to support a group consultancy exercise in class. You have been invited to join a team of management consultants by the Human Resource Director of Luxury Sweets Ltd. This individual is frustrated by the everyday challenges of managerial fire-fighting‚ and is keen to find effective means of addressing recurring production and employee relations problems on the shop floor. Your group has been asked to capture
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PEOPLE IN ORGANISATIONS Level 7 I. ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR 1.1. The meaning of organizational behaviour We live in an organizational world. Organizations of one form or another are a necessary part of our society and serve many important needs. The decisions and actions of management in organizations have an increasing impact on individuals‚ other organizations and the community. It is important‚ therefore‚ to understand how organizations function and the influences which they
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Bullying Bullying‚ one word that everyone knows. Bullying is the most common thing everyone can encounter at some point in their life. You are either doing it or receiving it. Bullying can eventually turns into suicide because the person that is being bullied feels hopeless and may even feel as though they have nothing to live for‚ when in reality they do. How would you feel if you were the one bullying someone and then they committed suicide as a result of it? Would this make you feel guilty‚
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MAKING FORMAL SPEECHES Often this is the most difficult part of oral communication for many people. Selection of the Topic This is the first step in formal speechmaking. You may be assigned a topic‚ such as to introduce a speaker. Here‚ you are likely to be assigned a topic because you have some knowledge of the subject matter (the speaker). In other cases‚ you will have to choose a topic by yourself. Do this using 3 basic factors: 1. background and knowledge (you need some knowledge of the
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"An Inspector calls" takes place in 1912‚ where there are great social divisions and distinctions. Written by JB Priestley in 1945 this allows for hindsight which eventually leads to dramatic irony. There are many examples of this‚ all of which are said by Mr Birling‚ "Just because the Kaiser makes a speech or two‚ you’ll hear some people saying that war is inevitable. Well I say to that - fiddlesticks" This play was first published after the second world war and so the audience will know just
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INSPECTOR CALLS REVISION NOTES Political views During the 1930’s Priestley became very concerned about the consequences of social inequality in Britain‚ and in 1942 Priestley and others set up a new political party‚ the Common Wealth Party‚ which argued for public ownership of land‚ greater democracy‚ and a new ’morality’ in politics. The party merged with the Labour Party in 1945‚ but Priestley was influential in developing the idea of the Welfare State which began to be put into place at the
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Call 0 for One.Tel by Corine Tay‚ Krishnasruthi Srivalsan‚ Tan Huijie‚ Teng Yun Ting‚ Yee Guan Wei and Yong Lin Lin under the supervision of Professor Mak Yuen Teen and Dr Vincent Chen Yu-Shen. The case was developed from published sources solely for class discussion and is not intended to serve as illustrations of effective or ineffective management or governance. The interpretations and perspectives in this case are not necessarily those of the organisations named in the case‚ or any of their
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“An inspector calls communicates a message that is relevant only to the plays first audiences; it has no interest or relevance on a modern audience” What do you think of this statement? An Inspector calls was written in 1945 in the setting of an Edwardian 1920’s Britain. In the same month that the atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima‚ audiences were queuing anxiously for J. B Priestley’s latest creation. An Inspector calls was hugely relevant to 1945 audiences‚ as it echoed their feeling
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Making it in America In the article Making it in America Adam Davidson takes time to interview different employees at Standard Motor Products to determine how it is treating them and how factories are changing in time. Adam is receiving a tour of the plant by manager Tony Scalzitti where he sees many factory workers in blue lab coats‚ hair nets‚ and protective eyewear. This is where Adam first runs into Madelyn Parlier. Madelyn Parlier was a 22-year-old woman working in
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