responsibilities of firms. Explain the factors that may motivate an MNE to adopt CSR in its international business strategy and operations. How might the country context influence the types of CSR initiatives undertaken? Support your answer with real world examples or cases. While corporate social responsibility (CSR) has existed for a long time‚ it has garnered attention only in the last two decades as an important aspect of doing business. Academic research on CSR has evolved over the years‚ indicating
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Corporate Culture : The Key to Understanding Work Organisations Organisational or corporate culture is widely held to refer to a system of shared meanings held by members that distinguishes the organisation from other organisations‚ that is a set of shared key characteristics or values. The culture that an organisation has will play an important part in its success in its market sector. Likewise an organisation’s continued success will depend to a large extent on the ability of the leadership
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British grocery store chain Tesco has recently been forcing employees at its Dublin distribution center to wear armbands that measure their productivity. The armbands‚ officially known as Motorola arm-mounted terminals‚ keep track of how quickly and competently employees unload and scan goods in the warehouse and gives them a grade. The monitors can be turned off during lunch breaks‚ but anything else‚ including bathroom breaks and water breaks‚ reportedly lowers workers’ productivity score.
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Career Development International Emerald Article: Effects of wage and promotion incentives on the motivation levels of Japanese employees Kiyoshi Takahashi Article information: To cite this document: Kiyoshi Takahashi‚ (2006)‚"Effects of wage and promotion incentives on the motivation levels of Japanese employees"‚ Career Development International‚ Vol. 11 Iss: 3 pp. 193 - 203 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13620430610661722 Downloaded on: 10-01-2013 References: This
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students in the Umea University campus to determine their perceptions of service quality in grocery stores. Findings – From the analysis carried out‚ it was found out that‚ the SERVQUAL model was not a good instrument to measure service quality because some of the items under the dimensions overlapped and regrouped under different dimensions from the factor analysis carried out. It also showed some items associated to more than one component. Some dimensions showed a reliability scale of less
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TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO PROFICIENCY IN ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE AMONG CHINESE STUDENTS IN JOHOR BAHRU BY OOI CHOON LEAN MP061113 EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY 581225-07-5846 SUPERVISOR ASSOC PROF DR AZIZI HJ YAHAYA ii ABSTRACT There has been an ongoing debate about the importance of the English language. Employers are lamenting that new graduates these days lack communicative proficiency in English. The purpose of this study is to determine the factors which contribute
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Effective Organizational Communication: a Key to Employee Motivation and Performance Kirti Rajhans Asst. Professor‚ National Institute of Construction Management & Research‚ Pune- 411045‚ India. Email: kirti.rajhans@gmail.com _________________________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT: Organisational Communication‚ in today’s organizations has not only become far more complex and varied but has become an important factor for overall organizational functioning
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to oversee the work of other employees‚ hence achieving organizational goals. In order to gain knowledge and prove that the manager is able to accomplish his goals and tasks‚ he definitely has to be able to comprehend who and how the external are forces acting on the organization. This is vital as failure to comprehend could very well result in the dismissal of the manager or collapse of the organization. BODY The external environment is made up of forces and factors that affect the organization
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1.1 Introduction Motivation is a factor that enables an individual to pursue towards achieving his goals or aims. Motivation is required for every individual to be driven towards acquiring his needs. In organizations the motivational factor plays a very important role in driving people towards fulfilling the assigned task and developing oneself to gain more knowledge and enhance skills. Motivation is a necessity of an employ and the requirement of the employee‚ it is more or less a give and take
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LETTER OF MOTIVATION Dear Sir or Madam: I am truly interested in applying for the master’s program ABC starting in winter 2014 intake in order to enhance my career prospects in the field of construction. I have graduated from Hochiminh city University of Technology with Bachelor degree in Industrial electrical engineering. I have known the ABC from both Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst in Vietnam and my sister who has been studying in the Logistic master course at Westfälische Hochschule
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