BP – The $40billion Safety Culture Vacuum On March 23rd 2005 a huge explosion at BP’s Texas oil refinery killed 15 people and injured more than 180. Most were its own staff. The refinery had suffered safety problems before. The previous year two workers died when scalded by super-heated water that escaped from a high-pressure pipe. The British media focused on the effect of the 2005 blast: the price of oil rose by several $s a barrel. In Texas‚ however‚ the local media were outraged by ‘yet
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of management Dogfight Over Europe: Ryanair (A) | Case Analysis Overview Cathal Ryan and Declan Ryan have started Ryanair since 1985. For nearly a year‚ Ryanair had operated a 14-seat turboprop between Waterford and Gatwick Airport on the outskirts of London. The airline targeted low-fare segment market. It initiated service from London’s secondary airports. In terms of competition‚ Waterford and Gatwick didn’t pose any challenges. In 1986‚ Ryanair gained a license to operate between Dublin
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1.Introduction 3 2. Business cases of Content and Code Ltd and Macphie of Glenbervie Ltd 3 2.1. Performance management systems 3 2.2. Communication 4 2.3. Engagement 4 2.4. Ensuring policies stack up 5 3. The practical difficulties‚ challenges‚ and implications encountered by the use of performance management/ high performance 6 3.1. Measuring/evaluating dimensions 6 3.2. Keeping leaders focused 7 3.3. Linking job descriptions to performance management 8 3.4. Implementing performance management
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Organisational Buyer Behaviour 3 elements: * Structure – the who factor‚ who participates in the decision making process and their particular roles. * Process – the how factor‚ the pattern of information getting‚ analysis‚ evaluation and decision making which takes place as the purchasing organisation moves towards a decisiom * Content – the what factor‚ the choice criteria used at different stages of the process and by different members of Decision Making Unit DMU. Structure of DMU:
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underlying problems that exist in the accounting department. In the last section are some resolutions to improve the current situation. We discuss ways to provide motivation for employees‚ and reduce turnover from various theoretical models in organisational behaviour. Section 1 – Company Background Lock&Lock established in 1978‚ is a Korean based company with hundreds of subsidiaries and branches worldwide. Lock & Lock has 5024 employees including overseas employees and has 10 subsidiaries
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Assignment for Organisational Behaviour Unit 2014-15 The assignment for this unit is to prepare an outline or ‘treatment’ for a 30 minute documentary film for television on a topic from this unit which interests you. A treatment is a description of your documentary‚ in prose‚ which guides the reader through content and tone. Usually they are written to sell films to producers. Your treatment should include the following: 1. Title (what are you going to call your documentary) 2. The pitch (what
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intangible aspects of the way employees think. Organisational culture can be defined as ‘a pattern of shared assumptions invented‚ discovered or developed within an organisation as it learns to cope with problems or external adaptation and internal integration’ Organisational climate is ‘a characteristic ethos or atmosphere within an organisation at a given point in time which is reflected in the way its members perceive‚ experiences and react to organisational context. There are different techniques
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Ryanair Strengths * In its 26 of being in the airline travel industry‚ RyanAir were the first to launch low cost flights in Europe and has established itself as a reliable airline providing the lowest fares in the market. * The usage of a single model of aircraft i.e. Boeing 737 planes reduces training‚ maintenance and supervisory costs. Their new aircraft models burn less fuel and have less noise emissions which result in more safety‚ higher fuel efficiency and create more opportunities
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4-Increased passion for work. Disadvantages: 2-Excessive time spent in meeting. 3-Use the time depends on the team management. Organization Chart: Organizational chart represents the structure of an organization in terms of relationships among personnel or departments and is the most intuitive way to understand your organization. Organizational chart makes information accessible throughout the organization with a unified‚ visual view of critical data from different business systems and providing
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REMAKING JC PENNEY’S ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE 1 Do you think JC Penney was justified in appointing Mike Ullman‚ an outsider‚ as CEO instead of Vanessa Castagna‚ considering that Castagna was instrumental in turning around JC Penney in the early 2000s? Soon afterwards‚ Castagna left the company. What are the pros and cons of “bringing in an outsider” and promoting from within”? Discuss too the impact of such decisions on the morale of the employees. JC Penney is a mid range chain
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