Assignment 1: Organizational Analysis Tiffany Williams Professor Fortune Nichols Taylor BUS 310 January 31‚ 2013 1. Describe the organization‚ what it does‚ the customers it serves‚ and its size. The organization I work for‚ Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is an organization that exemplifies organizational analysis. An organizational analysis is a process by which an organization’s systems‚ capacity‚ and functionality are assessed in order to increase its efficiency‚ performance
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ranking difficult to support. This paper presents an extension of the ELECTRE III multicriteria outranking methodology to assist a group of decision makers with different value systems to achieve a consensus on a set of possible alternatives. Our proposal starts with N individual rankings and N corresponding valued preference functions‚ and uses the natural heuristic provided by ELECTRE methodology for obtaining a fuzzy binary relation representing the collective pre- ference. A comparison
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regulate and form the government. In the American federalist system‚ citizens are usually subject to three levels of government: federal‚ state‚ and local. The local government’s duties are commonly split between county and municipal governments. In almost all cases‚ executive and legislative officials are elected by a plurality vote of citizens by district. The federal government is composed of three branches: 1.Legislative: The bicameral Congress‚ made up of the Senate and the House
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2.2.2 Organizational Support Organizational Support can be defined as the second most essential approach in career success. It also can be categorized as the structural model which directed to career success of an individual. Past researches have proposed that Organizational Support components should be considered when examining the predecessors and associates of career achievement. In this study we examine how the organization supports the employee’s career success in insurance sector. The consideration
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When developing an information management strategy within an organisation‚ it is useful to consider information needs on three levels: corporate team‚ division‚ business unit‚ etc individual The needs of each of these three levels must be met if a coordinated and effective solution is to be maintained in the long-term. Failure to address any one of the levels will lead to areas of the business or individuals finding their own solution‚ which may not fit well within the strategic goals of
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consequences of structure and profoundly affect the success of the business. What may not be as obvious but is clearly as influential is how organizational structure either supports or blocks employee behavior. There is many an employee who was terminated from one company to become a star in another similar position in a different enterprise. Why? In many cases organizational structure makes it impossible for such a worker to blossom and produce. For example‚ a dedicated but independent-minded employee will
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The three levels of technology in medicine are non technology‚ halfway technology‚ and high technology. Non technology is not only high in cost‚ but it requires plenty of effort and skill for a doctor. Non technology is a type of supportive medical care in the medical field. This type of “technology” in medicine require physicians to provide reassurance to healthy patients that believe they have contracted a fatal illness. Non technology takes up a lot of time and is not real technology. Non technology
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second part of the question looking at Storey’s ‚ “Three Component Model” and how useful it is in identifying the key characteristics of successful growth businesses. Most of the small businesses do not grow beyond their classification as a micro firm‚ very few of the small firms rise to become a medium-size enterprise‚ and even fewer rise to become large companies in the future. Storey (1994) has identified three key components in the analysis of the growth of the small firms‚ they are influenced
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I. Federal‚ provincial and municipal - The three levels of government which is federal‚ provincial‚ and municipal. The provincial government mainly controls aboriginal issues‚ education‚ transportation issues‚ and environment issues‚ the federal government mainly controls the issues of Finance‚ health‚ labor‚ public safety‚ and justice. The municipal government controls the help of and issues of airports‚ businesses‚ roads‚ and police issues. ii. The House of Commons- The House of Commons is the
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Four models of organizational behavior are the autocratic‚ custodial‚ supportive‚ and collegial. The supportive and collegial models are more consistent with contemporary employee needs and‚ therefore‚ will predictably obtain more effect results in many situations. Managers need to examine the model they are using‚ determine whether it is the most appropriate one‚ and remain flexible in their use of alternative and emerging models. Although there are four separate models‚ almost no organization
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