Case 5-1 1. How should AMAX be organized and controlled? * Measuring the management performance to provide proper motivation for managers for measuring profitability. * The quality measurement of manufacturing process such as scheduling product‚ quality control‚ and the decision making. * By focusing on the profit centers that give the information about profitability to upper management. * By focusing on the ending profit or loss that encourage managers to make more profits from
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5 Major Weaknesses of Group Decision-Making INTRODUCTION Although groups can be effective tools for making decisions that affect a large percentage of stakeholders for a company‚ they are not without their weaknesses. These weaknesses can stem from poor composition of the group‚ lack of role definition or poor facilitation. The five major categories of weakness for decision-making groups are: • Slowness and expensiveness • Groupthink • Polarization • Escalating commitment
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Decision-making is an essential aspect of modern management. It is a primary function of management. A manager’s major job is sound/rational decision-making. He takes hundreds of decisions consciously and subconsciously. Decision-making is the key part of manager’s activities. Decisions are important as they determine both managerial and organizational actions. A decision may be defined as "a course of action which is consciously chosen from among a set of alternatives to achieve a desired result
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2. Will Nau’s approach have a limited appeal‚ or do you think it has staying power? What drawbacks might there be to what Nau is doing? This approach has extra costs involved‚ that means that in hard economic times Nau has a limited appeal‚ because the population would rather choose the cheaper product. Although‚ the company also saves money by the inventory for instance. As mentioned in the case‚ they do not need a large storage room‚ because of the “Web-front” concept. Studies appear to show a
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MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) A field of study that investigates the impact of individuals‚ groups‚ and structure on behaviour within organizations is known as A) psychology. B) sociology. C) social psychology. D) anthropology. E) organizational behaviour. 2) What is characteristic of Johan’s department is that there is a broad mix of people in terms of gender‚ race and ethnicity. This is known as A) diversity
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2014 Complementary‚ Alternative and Integrative medicine are viewed as alternative approaches to traditional health care treatments. Over 40 percent of Americans use medical treatments developed outside of what’s considered to be “mainstream” Western or conventional‚ medicine for specific conditions or sustainability of overall well being. Discussions among people in the medical field often times lead to these types of treatments to termed “alternative” and “complementary”‚ many times
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Multiple-Sclerosis Alicia Robinson Alaina Geeter Lecture 2113/4 Fall 2014 Dr. Rizk Multiple sclerosis‚ also known as MS‚ is one of the most common diseases of the nervous system. It has been around for over a century‚ before doctors even knew what it was. MS is a disabling disease of the central nervous system‚ or CNS‚ that disrupts the flow of communication and information between the brain and the body. It affects various parts of the body and is thought to be an autoimmune disorder. In MS
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Competitive Advantage To survive and thrive‚ an organization must create a competitive advantage. A competitive advantage is a product or service that an organization’s customers place a greater value on than similar offerings from a competitor. Unfortunately‚ competitive advantages are typically temporary because competitors often seek ways to duplicate the competitive advantage. In turn‚ organizations must develop a strategy based on a new competitive advantage. When an organization is the
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Alternative Sentencing We need to realize that the current approach to our penal system is failing terribly. Take a group of people‚ take away all of their possessions and privacy‚ expose them to violence‚ overcrowded cell blocks‚ and the result is a group of people intent on getting even with society rather than contributing to it. It is very expensive to house prisoners. There are several other options to deal with nonviolent offenders. Alternative sentencing is finding other ways to deal
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v. Oscar Zacarias‚ No. E2014-00122-COA-R3-CV‚ 2014 WL 4403106 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2014) discussed the validity of a signed contract when the individual who signed the contract does not understand English. In the Zacarias case‚ an agreement was signed between a homeowner and the plaintiff construction company to perform certain work on the residence. The homeowner never paid for the work. Therefore‚ the construction company sued the homeowner for breach of contract. The
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