Chapter 1: Business Model: is a framework for making money. It is the set of activities which a firm performs‚ how it performs them‚ and when it performs them so as to offer its customers benefits they want and to earn a profit. Components: Positions‚ Resources‚ Costs‚ Industry Factors = Profitability. Determinants of profitability: Industry factors: Competitive Forces: exerted by suppliers (is high – bargaining power over industry firm; extract high prices raising costs; lower quality supply)‚ customers
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Theme 2: Competitive Environment of Organisations Competition and Business Strategy in Historical Perspective (2002) - P. Ghemawat (not really asked but gives background) Are You Sure You Have a Strategy? (2001) - D.C. Hambrick and J.W. Fredrickson How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy(1979) - M. Porter Profit Pools: A Fresh Look at Strategy (1998) - O. Gadiesh and J.L. Gilbert Getting Real about Virtual Commerce (1999) - P. Evans and T. Wurster Question 3 2010 In the
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organisations designed to maximise employee performance in service of their employer’s strategic objectives. HR is primarily concerned with how people are managed within organisations‚ focusing on policies and systems. Organisational Behaviour : studies the impact individuals‚ groups‚ and structures have on human behaviour within organisations. It is an interdisciplinary field that includes sociology‚ psychology‚ communication‚ and management. The companies which interest people do better financially. Exercise
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Organisational Behaviour. The Volta Aluminium Company Limited (VALCO) is an aluminium reduction facility (smelter) located in the industrial seaport city of Tema‚ east of the capital city of Accra. VALCO was originally jointly owned by Kaiser Aluminium and Chemical Corporation (KACC) - 90% and Reynolds Metals Company .The Government of Ghana purchased the 90% shares of KACC in October 2004 and subsequently completed acquisition in June 2008. Therefore‚ currently VALCO is solely owned by the
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1. Unethical organisational behaviour has become a recurring theme in corporate life. How can organisations understand and address this trend? Incorporate a discussion on organisational rhetoric and corporate responsibility in your answer? INTRODUCTION In spite of the trend for organisations to adhere to corporate social responsibility‚ unethical behaviour remains a continual feature of the modern day workplace. Unethical behaviour is an important topic for consideration as suggested by
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“Making clinicians organisational leaders is a huge and costly task. Is it worth it‚ especially given the many competing demands on clinicians’ time?” Introduction Making senior clinicians as organisational leaders after years of their clinical & practical skills‚ time investment‚ financial cost to something which they were not trained from the medical school and higher specialty training is definitely a huge and costly task. Traditional view of doctors
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arguable for many years and is still on-going regarding whether HRM and organisational performance are directly or indirectly linked to each other. Some insist that it clearly has a positive impact on business performance whilst the others question that “why companies then hesitate to take the HR policies and why some of them adopt another alternative approaches?” From their point of view‚ it does not affect much of the organisational performance. Therefore‚ a company does not necessarily need to implement
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205 American Journal of Industrial and Business Management‚ 2012‚ 2‚ 205-216 http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ajibm.2012.24027 Published Online October 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ajibm) The Impact of Organisational Culture on the Implementation of TQM: Empirical Study in the Iranian Oil Company Yadollah Karimi1‚ Sharifah Latifah Syed Abdul Kadir2 1 Faculty of Business & Accountancy‚ University of Malaya‚ Kuala Lumpur‚ Malaysia; 2Department of Operation and Management Information System‚ Faculty
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Nestlé Corporate and organisational culture Link to case study Overview: a case study of Nestlé’s strategy of sustainable development and the way this has been communicated. Lesson objectives: ➢ to identify the stakeholders of Nestlé ➢ to identify the values and culture of Nestlé ➢ to appreciate the importance of culture in determining a firm’s success. Introduction (3 minutes) Introduce the lesson: you will look at Nestlé and examine the stakeholders of Nestlé
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Organisational Change Management * The Courthouse Hotel Case Study – Content 1. Introduction p.3 2. Background Information on the Courthouse Hotel p.4 3. Internal and external drivers for change p.5-6 –PEST and SWOT 4. The Courthouse Hotel: nature of change p.7 5. Reactions to change p.8-9 6. One approach to change management: p. 10- 12 The Courthouse Hotel 7. Conclusion
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