CMEC01 12/8/06 8:50 Page 1 Chapter 1 Managers and Managing LEARNING OBJECTIVES After studying this chapter‚ you should be able to: ✓ Describe what management is‚ why management is important‚ what managers do‚ and how managers utilise organisational resources efficiently and effectively to achieve organisational goals. ✓ Distinguish among planning‚ organising‚ leading and controlling (the four principal managerial functions)‚ and explain how managers’ ability to handle each one can affect
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18 MANAGING CHANGE Chapter Scan Organizations have to keep pace with current issues related to quality‚ technology‚ diversity‚ globalization‚ and ethics. This requires managing both change and resistance to change. All organizations experience external and internal forces for change. There are numerous organization development interventions available to managers. Diagnosis and needs analysis are essential first steps in any change management effort. LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading
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culture: In last one decade many foreign and multinational companies entered into Bangladesh market and opened their business here. They established a linkage between Bangladesh and world market and thus contributed to creating a multicultural workforce in the country. Globalization effect: By virtue of globalization‚ both employee and employers are able get in touch with global work environment. For example‚ a group of data entry operators can receive training and instruction from their American
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employ‚ not only to understand and cope with the diversity but also to leverage it towards building wholesome business relationships. Diversity in many ways is closely connected to another term that we see commonly used today‚ which is ‘Change’. Managing diversity is an essential part of change management. If Indian companies have to thrive in today’s changing global marketplace‚ it has to learn to manage diversity‚ both within the company and without. The two Realms of Diversity at India Inc
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speaking those jobs are and have traditionally been a certain gender dominated. Philip N. Cohen‚ and Matt L. Huffman‚ in Occupational Segregation and the Devaluation of Women’s Work Across U.S. Labor Markets‚ hypothesis that gender segregation in the workforce exists because of the “discrimination both in the allocation of workers across the job categories and in how female-dominated jobs are rewarded relative to male-dominated jobs” (882). Women are “blocked access” to typical male dominated jobs because
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Chapter 2 Images of Managing Change Learning Objectives • • • • • Understand the importance of organizational images and mental models. Identify different images of managing and of change outcomes. Outline six different images of managing change. Identify the theoretical underpinnings of these six change management images. Understand the practical implications of the six images and how to use them. Images of Managing Change Images of Managing Change ◦ Top-down
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delegated much of their responsibilities leaving me with a workforce unresponsive and unappreciative of the new level in the store hierarchy. This assessment will detail the changes executed when I joined the company‚ through promotion to Store Manager‚ right up until my departure. Changes implemented at store level will be examined and compared to a change process made companywide‚ providing theoretical frameworks and linkages to managing change literature. I will conclude the analysis with recommendations
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Managing in complexity Complexity and Personal Experience Assignment 3 Thinking about complexity is not to “think about a new problem”‚ but rather to “think in a new way about a problem that has always existed”. First of all‚ we should think about what is the basis of complex thinking? The article gives the answer: Association of ideas or mental association has always been an integral part of scientific thinking. In today’s increasingly complex world‚ being able to associate knowledge and
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Did the Indian Mutiny of 1857 create the British Raj? The Indian Rebellion of 1857‚ which was also called the Indian Mutiny‚ or the War of Independence was a turning point in the history of Britain in India. However‚ whether this lead to the formation of the British Raj‚ will be explicitly explored in this essay. The East India Company traded in cotton‚ silk‚ tea and opium. They won over Bengal after gaining victory in the Battle of Plassey in 1757‚ under Robert Clive. The East India Company
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ISSN 000-000 Contract farming Partnerships for growth FAO AGRICULTURAL SERVICES BULLETIN 145 Inside front cover Contract farming Partnerships for growth FAO AGRICULTURAL SERVICES BULLETIN 145 A guide by Charles Eaton and Andrew W. Shepherd Rome‚ 2001 © FAO 2001 iii Preface Contract farming has been in existence for many years as a means of organizing the commercial agricultural production of both large-scale and small-scale farmers. Interest in it continues
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