ASSIGNMENT 1 Case study 1 Reinventing the Wheel at the Apex Door Company Jim Delaney‚ president of the Apex door‚ has a problem. No problem how often he tells his employees how to do their jobs‚ they invariably “decide to do it their way”‚ as he puts it‚ and arguments ensue between Jim‚ the employee‚ and the employee’s supervisor. One example is the door design department‚ where the designers are expected to work with the architects to design doors that meet the specifications. While
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Jim Delaney‚ president of Apex Door‚ has a problem. No matter how often he tells his employees how to do their jobs‚ they invariably “decide to do it their way” as he puts it‚ and arguments ensue between Jim‚ the employee‚ and the employee’s supervisor. One example is the door-design department‚ where the designers are expected to work with architects to design doors that meet the specifications. While it’s not “rocket science “as Jim puts it‚ the designers invariably make mistakes-such as designing
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to manage accordingly. “It also ensures that all employees feel they are the part of strong unifying corporate identity”. Cost bearded on employees: this is another important problem in the case of Siemens. After all the cost incurred on the employees‚ no loyalty from the employees has been seen. The case did not show any wordings regarding the loyalty of the employees towards the organization. “It also offers employees extensive continuing education and management development”. Re designing the
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Case 3: The Insider I. Brief Summary In 2011‚ a stock trader of a well-known investment firm along with two alleged accomplices was convicted of insider trading. The lawyers allegedly browsed around their law firm picking up information regarding corporate deals and would provide it to a person who would then pass the inside information to the trader. This information was then used by the trader for him to earn millions of dollars. Since the information came from the lawyers‚ the trader would thank
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that Jim Delaney‚ president of the Apex Door Company‚ cannot get his employees to do specific tasks without messing up. The causes of the central problem are that when employees don’t understand something. These problems come in front us clearly when it says about employers that "decide to do it their own way". Here we clearly explore the lacking of Apex Door Company not to having a through guide line or job description about the job they are doing. Apex Door Company surely has a job description but
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employee strengths and weaknesses assists the development of an effective training program. Teaching employees how communicate effectively enhances the work environment because there is no longer a difference between expectations and achievement. Apex Door has hired us to generate a training program. This proposal suggests specific improvements to the existing training process. TRAINING DEVELOPMENT PROCESS By understanding the organizational needs not individual‚ development of the training process
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Reinventing the Wheel at Apex Door Company. The central problem is that Jim Delaney‚ president of the Apex Door Company‚ cannot get his employees to do specific tasks without messing up. The causes of the central problem are that when employees don’t understand something they improvise on their own without asking a supervisor. Other causes to the central problem are that none of the jobs have training manuals‚ and their job descriptions are out of date. Also all training for new employees is
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Given the limited information in this case‚ which product would you recommend that Apex commercialize? Why? I would recommend that Apex commercialize Compound B-227. First‚ there is a much larger market size and future growth potential with B-227 at $40 Million and climbing vs. A-115 which is at $10 million and relatively flat and stable. This means that even if Apex tried to innovate with A-115 and theoretically captured 100% of the market‚ which is not likely considering they would be competing
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Given the limited information in this case‚ which product would you recommend that Apex commercialize? Why? Apex‚ a chemical manufacturer‚ has the option of commercializing one of its compounds due to resource scarcity. Apex needs to examine both choices and take into consideration the analysis of market size and trend‚ value proposition‚ market knowledge and share‚ and forecasted revenue for each of the compound before it decides which compound to commercialize. Compound A-115: The first
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