Question 1. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the executive’s actions in the emergency service agency (Note: in your response‚ please specify how diverse member characteristics are related to team performance‚ cohesiveness‚ conflict‚ and norms) Diversity within an organization encompasses elements such as nationality‚ religion‚ social status‚ age‚ etc. These elements can benefit organizations‚ but it can also harm it with a lack of management. The main idea is to combine people’s strengths
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Answer the following questions: 1. Administrative theorists concluded many decades ago that the most effective organizations have a narrow span of control. Yet today’s top-performing manufacturing firms have a wide span of control. Why is this possible? Under what circumstances‚ if any‚ should manufacturing firms have a narrow span of control? The best-performing manufacturing operations today rely on self-directed team‚ so direct supervision is supplemented with other coordinating mechanisms
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Professor Michelle Beshears Organizational Behavior MG365 15 February 2015 1. The effective and ineffective cycles are similar in some ways‚ although they have opposite effects. What are the similarities? What are the effects of each? Share your personal experiences with both of these cycles. Some of the similarities between the two cycles are that subordinates‚ more often than not‚ appear to do what they believe they are expected to do. They both are also dynamic affects; positive expectations
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significant for all managers and employees. Bonus is a sum of money added to a person’s wages for good performance. It is a way of rewarding the employees’ work. That is why it is a significant way to get a good performance from employees. Bonuses might have both negative and positive effects on employees. The managers should know how to give bonuses. There are some sensitive facts that managers should implement. For instance‚ an employee should get a bonus as a consequence of really hard work. If an employee
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statement on the company’s website. Now answer the following question: To what extent is the culture type you identified in question 2 consistent with the accomplishment of this mission or vision? Explain. 5. Which of the mechanisms for changing organizational culture did Mr. Marchionne use at Chrysler? Explain. 6. Would you like to work at Chrysler? Explain your rationale. 7. What are the observable artifacts‚ espoused values‚ and basic assumptions associated with Chrysler’s culture? Explain. 8
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interpersonal communications skills of Peter Clark affect behavior‚ human relations‚ and performance at the Ranch? A: “Peter Clark has to continually communicate with his partners and managers‚ and nothing takes the place of sitting down face-to-face during regular weekly meetings and listening to each other to continually improve operations.” (Page 174) “Interpersonal skill is the ability to work well with a diversity of people. Interpersonal skills have also been called relationship management.” (Page
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ASSIGNMENT Submitted to: Sir Mansoor Ahmed BBA 25-b Business Communication * What is Interview? The interview is the opportunity where you can describe your experiences and skills and can get an idea of what is happening with the company. During an interview‚ an employer’s goal is to gather additional information about you that is not provided in your resume and cover letter. They will attempt to find out what motivates you‚ how well you communicate and if you are a leader or a follower
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approaches. Even though these misconceptions have been disproven by empirical evidence‚ they still exist leading to age discrimination in the workplace. What changes in employment relationships are likely to occur as the population ages? As the population ages‚ changes in employment relationships are bound to occur. With age discrimination being an issue in some companies‚ older workers who are higher paid and have expensive benefit packages could be laid off in order to cut costs. On the other
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Enron The affect of the unethical behavior of the profitability of Enron was that the third party “outside” independent auditors was not able to backup and have accounting financial statements‚ some of those auditors and financial institutions may have been misled by the corporation’s net income. If I was an accountant for this company I would have followed regulated federal security laws‚ and if failed to provide prove of documents or financial statements‚ I would admit to my mistakes but also
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NATURE OF WORK. Name: Institution: Business organizations have been established across the globe to satisfy different consumer demands. Each set organization has a structure and a target to meet. These structures and goals propel the organization towards development. An organization that is poorly managed is not effective and its nature of work is hardly defined. Different authors define organization differently. For example‚ it is defined
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