MASENO UNIVERSITY MBA PROGRAM 2013/14 YEAR MBA 808: MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES ASSIGNMENT 2 ASSESSMENT OF CONTEMPORARY THEORIES OF MANAGEMENT WHAT HAS BEEN DONE BY WHOM? (5 PAGES SINGLE SPACING‚ TIMES NEW ROMAN‚ FONT 12) BY JONI ANYANGO K’ONDIEK INTRODUCTION Management theory is a set of ideas and rules intended to help supervisors/managers to know the goals of the organization‚ to understand what inspires people to work when achieving the
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First Element: Stakeholder Categories Identifying all stakeholders is the midlevel leader’s first mission. Stakeholders include everyone who will need to contribute to the project or who could be affected by the project. This requires looking across all directions of the internal organization‚ as well as outside (customers‚ clients‚ vendors‚ contractors‚ media‚ etc.) Those stakeholders are then categorized into four distinct groups: Superordinate‚ Subordinate‚ Customers‚ and Complementors/Blockers
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Event Manager; legal and ethical responsibilities with respect to risk management The theme "Ethics and Risk Management" signifies that each of these two disciplines—risk management and ethics—depends on the other. Good risk management requires good ethics; and good ethics requires good risk management. This implies that‚ from a positive perspective: • First‚ for an organization/company to manage its risks well‚ everyone who represents that organization/company must practice good ethics. •
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analysis paper was “Management A”. There are two key decision options for this case. The first is to schedule the heavy emissions work for the night shift‚ so that when the EPA tests their levels during the day‚ they are normal. The second option given to George as an ultimatum by his boss is to move the plant 15 miles south to Mexico to avoid EPA emissions restrictions and fines. Below is a Stakeholder Analysis of each of the two possible decisions. Stakeholder Analysis Stakeholders Schedule Heavy
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. Theories of Change In order to survive and prosper in a rapid changing environment of business world‚ organization is often required to generate fast response to changes (French‚ Bell & Zawacki‚ 2005). Change management means to plan‚ initiate‚ realize‚ control‚ and finally stabilize change processes on both‚ corporate and personal level. Change may cover such diverse problems as for example strategic direction or personal development programs for staffs. In this section‚ several theories of
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PA R T I From Ethical Foundation to Addressing Stakeholder Needs Chapter 1. The Foundation of Ethical Thought Chapter 2. The Evolving Complexities of Business Ethics Chapter 3. Stakeholders and Corporate Social Responsibility 1 C H A P T E R 1 The Foundation of Ethical Thought The biggest corporation‚ like the humblest citizen‚ must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people. —Theodore Roosevelt We demand that big business give people a square deal; in return we must insist when
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Introduction Since we need to figure out the affection of stakeholders to an organisation‚ we should firstly take into consideration about the category of stakeholders and consecutively find out what do these individuals and groups enforce to influence organisations’ activities. Subsequently‚ we will also acknowledge what could organisations do to understand and control stakeholders. Classification of stakeholders We assume that the organisation we are talking about is a firm. So that we can
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Motivation theories and management practice EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report contains information about the motivation theories & its management practice and the factors‚ which really have an important influence on the behaviour of individuals and teams along with their application in Nike’s company. It is also helpful to make decisions regarding management style and selection of the individuals for an organization. LEADERSHIP Leadership is the backbone for the success of an organization. Normally
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Thesis Poor stakeholder management led to preventable mishaps such as the disasters in Alaska and Texas. Specifically‚ BP ’s defensive approach towards stakeholder management led to lavish compensation for upper level management while creating hazardous working conditions for employees and a burden on all of society in the form of rising oil prices and environmental damage. Background British Petroleum was founded in 1908 and since then has rapidly grown to become the eighth largest company
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Diploma in First Line Management Jackie Bowen Tutor Name: Liz Pawlowski Title: Meeting Stakeholder Needs Unit: 3003 Contents Page Page Number * Title Page 1 * Content Page 2 * Aim of the report 3 * Identifying Stone Computers key stakeholders 4 * Understand the process required to continually 8 Improve meeting stakeholder’s needs * Be able to prepare a case to support a change in meeting 11 Stakeholder needs * Bibliography
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