Management Essay Examples and Topics. Page 27

The company has continuously redefined the way it applies the concept of teams through making the most out of the diverse ideas and cultures in its areas of operation that may prove useful in its [...]

The human resource and security managers must be in a position to bring together their employees' needs to enhance the safety of the port.

The limitations of personality testing are also related to the fact that testing allows analyzing the personal traits on the surface level and does not necessarily help to predict the patterns of the individual's behavior [...]

Also key in the success of the company is a focus on the development of the company's strategies around four major areas of competency which are attraction of new customers, management of company fleet of [...]

This planning needs to ensure that employees adapt to change failure to which can lead to the ineffectiveness of the strategic workforce planning, which in most cases, is caused by unproductive behavior of employees.

This indicates that it would be difficult for a different theory of motivation to work in the country since the workers already demand monetary incentives in order to work.

If the problem is due to a training problem, then it is proper for the management to train the employees since training of employees is important if the organization needs to maintain good quality products [...]

Although, the Managing Director is based in London, his role is to control the management system of the organization throughout the world from the headquarters.

Virtual teams refer to a group of persons, who come together to form a team and members are distributed geographically and they are required to work together using electronic means of communication. Lack of effective [...]

It is also important to note that this can help project managers to focus on more important projects. In fact, when tackling voluminous projects, it can be effective to combine the two types of project [...]

The aim of this paper is to access the role of the of the integration of the system as well as the associated architecting in an effort to ensure the environment soundness of a system [...]

The other types of leadership place the leader at the top of the hierarchy in an organization. The role of a servant leader is to nurture the members in the organization.

First it will be based on the concept of employee commitment, such as the development of organizational commitment and secondly, we will base our findings from research studies done to define the relationship employee development [...]

In this article the maturity and efficiency of virtual team is measured by a Virtual Team Operation Survey tool that assesses the indicators of virtual team performance.

Pre-employment screening is an obligatory stage of the hiring procedures that allows the employers to identify what skills and abilities future applicants should possess to accomplish the goals of established in organization.

One of the best means of ensuring that the people are well managed in the organization is to ensure that there is a clear framework for guiding the workers in the process of carrying out [...]

A safety man was in charge of recording accidents in the company that were to be handled by relevant insurance companies as well as appropriate government agencies.

Other indicators of unhealthy environment in the organization are significant drop in the commitment and satisfaction levels of both the staff and students, increase in the cost of healthcare and the general loss of productivity.

Thus, it can be argued that a solution to the problems faced by the events industry can be considered a part of the creative industry if the entrepreneur can demonstrate the innovative use of technology [...]

The implementation exercise becomes successful and effective change is gained in the process of change management process since employee input and additional contributions improve decision-making process.

Since a lot of factors may contribute to the broad organisational impact of training, this dissertation will only dwell on the effect of planning for training on the actual training process.

The organizational values that the employee has to exhibit Means, procedures or processes the employee is expected to use in the job When focusing on performance expectations, the employee needs to know the reason for [...]

Therefore, the rationale for Business Process Improvement includes the need for change, motivating factors of the change process and competition in the business environment.

This would refer to the orientation of the leader regarding the aims and responsibilities of employees. As a strategy, Delta Air Lines management has empowered employees to recognize and comment on the performance of their [...]

The process of implementing performance appraisals is centered on three elements: the job, the employee and the environment of the business.

The goals in this line help to indicate the direction to be followed and do form the central frame work of reference and aid to identify success as well as clarify issues and expectations of [...]

The software helps in resource management consisting of assessment of state of the project and in tracking the development of the project, tracking the project team as well as the end users or administration.

As a matter of fact, the article is silent on segmentation of the research target who is the employee, geographical location of the research target, and the dynamics and unique aspects of the segment or [...]

Similarly, there is a need for the bank to have in place a set of strategies that will help address concerns of customers hence making the business stable It is worth noting that the model [...]

Employee turnover is referred to as the number of employees who leave a company after a given period of time due to high levels of dissatisfactions of various kinds in their workplace The major purpose [...]

The other relevant aspect of the implementation of the health and safety policy within the firm is that the workers will be able to fit easily into the working processes.

Clarity and decisiveness are vital to the success of the top-down management style. This leadership style entails allowing workers to make decisions on their own, and the organization's decisions are made taking into consideration the [...]

Most managers, in the current world, are of the opinion that rapid changes in technology are affecting the process of decision-making.

The demand for the healthcare services has continued to increase as the number of the healthcare providers continue to decrease. In order for the healthcare industry to thrive well, it is important to meet the [...]

Thus, the training plan for the employees and managers can be concentrated on developing the understanding of the fact that people of all the nations can exhibit culturally-conditioned behaviors, and it is important to admit [...]

It will discuss the purpose of the research, the research methodology used, the findings, the problems encountered and their practical implications, and finally the impact of the Bass and Avolio's and House's leadership theories.

In their contextual definitions, it can be argued that leadership is distinct from management as the former involves a process of influencing others to willingly follow, while the latter underscores the capacity to achieve objectives [...]

One limitation of this option is that the firm's production cost of the Alpha model is $17 while the buyer is offering $15 as the buying price; this affects the profitability of 70,000 units produced [...]

This paper discusses the importance of learning to an organization, the necessary requirements and examples of organizations which have used this concept to maintain their brands in the current competitive market.

Guided by these introductory statements, this research paper aims at exploring the concept of strategic leadership with particular interests in exploring the characteristics of strategic leadership, the contextual factors, both internal and external that has [...]

The learning and development theories, models and frameworks with regards to the BP Company are applied in analysis, design, delivery as well as the evaluation of the learning and development provision.

When this information generates some value for the organization, calls it "a knowledge based asset," which can be categorized into explicit and tacit knowledge.

The article's central concern and its relation to International Business Course The broad area covered in this article is the origins of the term Total Quality Management and a clarification on the divergent definitions of [...]

It is the goal of this paper to seek to uncover the essential components of strategy and the process of formulating a coherent organizational strategy in the context of the built environment.

In most situations, the neglect is mainly in the family roles of the employees hence leading to the strain by the members of the family. Most of employees were of the view that the company [...]

In all multinational enterprises, human resource management is a key to success; for the vast majority of organizations, the cost of the people who do the work is the largest single item of operating costs [...]

With the recovery of the global economy, there is a high probability of the firm increasing its sales revenue both in the domestic and the international market.

To interview the employees of this public library and ask each of them to suggest methods of improving the work of this organization.

Instead of this transport company transferring the cost of service delivery to the customer or cutting down their operations, they were rigid and not willing to change positively to counter the threat that was haunting [...]

In the case of Western Hospital and Academic Hospital, the laboratory services had their costs as; direct incremental costs in the form of labour and supplies costs, the cost was charged at Academic Hospital and [...]

Due to company's ignorance of the main shifts in company's performance and management, the working team was largely dependent on Mr.

The decline of the corporations in the US was also attributed to the failure of businesses in recognizing the change in technology and because of the failure of the organizations to manage the drastic change [...]

In addition the study will focus on the factors that determine job satisfaction, as this will help in finding out what the priority factors of job satisfaction are as perceived by employees.

One of the reasons attributed to the project delay was the overambitious estimation of the time needed to complete the project.

The article criticism activity centers on the effect of the author's lack of statistical details on the appropriateness, validity, and reliability of the findings.

The reasoning behind this is that some contracts in the eBook industry allow eBook resellers to pay a "lump sum" payment in order to sell a particular eBook on their website for a predetermined period [...]

Moreover, human capital management enables organizations to retain employees by engaging them in activities and operations of the organization. Through human capital management, employees are accorded with value and dignity because of their position in [...]

The concept of Fit underlines that there should be congruence of bundles of HR practices that are used by any organization and that the bundles should be in line with the strategic objectives of the [...]

This is the strategy that Branson used in drawing his followers to Virgin Group. We have seen that Branson has a charismatic leadership style that is attributed to the transformational model of leadership.

The decisions made by leaders determine the success of an organization; they have the role of mentoring and creating a learning environment to enhance the performance of their teams.

Through literature review, the paper advances the understanding of the differences in Human Resource Management practices in, developing and developed economies, hence we can learn that developing and developed economies Human Resources Management practices have [...]

LTC uses the training needs an assessment analysis to identify the areas where there is a gap in the knowledge, skills and attitudes of the employees of an organization.

Change in an organization proves to be necessary due to the technology advances and it may be of use to the organization; however, change is not always welcomed with open arms especially by employees, as [...]

Although the steps and models used by Price Waterhouse and Michael Beers to implement changes within organizations are different, the results of the steps and models in transforming changes to employees correlate the two.

Therefore, the PR Department has to spend some of the organization's limited funds to conduct such a research, with hopes of making amends on the image projected by the organization to the public, as well [...]

The study guide method permits the interviewer and respondent to figure a correlation within the interview and can enable the progression to encompass the experience of a dialogue as opposed to a prearranged intellectual process.

The process of managing change involves planning and involvement of key stakeholders in the change process to ensure successful transformation in an organization.

The target of the pop restaurants is the urbanite professionals of the aged 21 to 35 years. As it is the case with pop up restaurants the dishes are usually tantalizing, delicious and appetizing to [...]

These results in the improvement of the organization's ability to access, prepare and solve short and long-term problems, maintaining the competitive standards of the organization with the external environment.

The work of a supervisor in this stage is to show employees areas that need improvement and to lay out the action plan.

Yukl identifies two methods of leadership; direct leadership and indirect leadership which involves cascading, whereby, a message is passed through a channel, for instance, from the CEO to the manager, and finally to the employees.

To maintain a competitive edge and improve organizational performance, new set of priorities should the center of attention for HR professionals.

The charismatic aspect of the transformational leader is typified by providing a mission and vision, gaining respect and trust and instilling pleasure in the group. Exchange between the leader and subject is the means to [...]

These components include the behavior or the skills to be changed, the objectives of the performance and the plan of action for the learning transfer.

Due to a chance to work on real projects and lead the teams, the participants of such program will be able to develop their skills and knowledge in change of management and create their own [...]

Therefore, the purpose of this research is to employ both primary and secondary research tools in investigating how the understanding of client complexity, emergent requirements, and perceptions of different stakeholders by construction practitioners can result [...]

Cavusgil and Zou also deemed the matter of readiness, perceiving at the role of information internationalization in the globalization procedure of small and medium enterprises and defining internationalization readiness as being a function of its [...]

The second aspect is leadership development that bridges the routine, policy and science of leadership development by highlighting the importance of enhancing both physical and social capital in organizations.

With such kind of knowledge, a leader can be in a better position to design responsibilities, tasks as well as duties that are at par with the knowledge and skills of the targeted subject.

This is in an effort to come up with effective ways through which the employees in the subsidiary and the entire organization could be motivated to better their performance and hence that of the organization [...]

The paper will focus on the different views and debates that analyze the workings of the best-fit best practices strategy in HRM management.

The necessity therefore to explore the potential impacts of HPWS and empowerment among organizations forms the basic drive to carry out a literature review to ascertain if the extent to which the asserting by the [...]

In this case, 'Teejays' should have a profile detailing the size of the market, the competitors that operate within that market and the stage of growth the market is currently experiencing.

Behavioral approach is one of the approaches of studying and implementing leadership policies and decisions and has proved to be an effective way of management as it is consistent with theory Y.

However, the most effective factors to assess are the range of work load on the employees, the behavior of the workers' supervisor, social support availed by the organization to the employees and the control method [...]

At the beginning of the change management process, the organization should initially carry out a systematic diagnosis to determine the need for change and capability of the company to make the change.

The impacts of structures in an organization are dependent on the reporting structure in a company. An appropriate company structure helps in the development of a healthy organizational culture.

Managing change After defining the problem that needed to be addressed by the change to come, the management decided to appoint a steering committee of three people, including the engineering manager; the choice of the [...]

This is due to the fact that it is the leader who initiates directs and controls the growth and development of an organization.

Coussey is of the opinion that work-life balance entails developing working practices that are beneficial to both the organization and the employees. Integration of work-life balance as a human resource management strategy is beneficial to [...]

In the past times, the home nation was the pilot of such activities and the flow came from them to the multiparty business enterprises and international contributors.

A manager's knowledge of HRM is significant to the attainment of the organisation's goals and objectives. It is created to promote and pursue the aims and objectives of an organisation.

Fundamentally, the nature of attitudes and emotions that team members have determine relationships within a team and subsequently influence team's culture and behavior, which are critical factors in enhancing the effectiveness of performance.

Employees within the lower employment levels in Verizon Wireless are not treated the same with the top level employees despite the fact that the fact that they are the ones who undertake most of the [...]

With regard to the mandate of Etihad Airways which outlines to be commercially viable through being profitable and operating business that is financially sustainable in order to support economic development and diversification in Abu Dhabi, [...]

The theme of the book is to educate leaders to use flexible leadership skills that are intended to motivate employees using approachable skills that include training, democracy and involvement.

Introduction of the purpose of this critique paper and the aim of this paper The aim of this critique paper is to evaluate the journal article on the capabilities of market-driven organizations.

This paper covers in detail the personal development of the manager, looking in particular at the personal planning, resource requirements, evaluation of the development plan as well as the supporting and promoting of the welfare [...]

When there are change issues in the course of project implementation as was the case with the Integrated Project Delivery at Autodesk Inc, the manger should first understand the change, assess potential impact of the [...]

The economic growth that has been experienced in the world, coupled by the advancements in the field of information and technology and changes in tastes and preferences of consumers have led to the growth and [...]

The employees purchase part of the business stock, which acts as a motivator to work hard to make the company or business more productive, than when they are not part of the business.

The appearance of the website is used to determine the legitimacy of a website according to consumer's perspective. Nielsen 1994 observed that the usability of a website is the ease with which the consumers can [...]

To start with, it is important to appreciate the fact that the preparation of food is a very involving task and if at all businesses are to provide their employees with nutritious and healthy meals, [...]

Therefore, the changing social and cultural environment influences corporate culture and is a big challenge to managers endeavoring to change the culture.

In the case study of Charlotte Beers, her appointment at the Ogilvy and Mather Worldwide in 1993 improved the performance of the company as she improved the asset base of the company, created groups, enhanced [...]

On the other hand, the second category according to the definition postulated by the same Burbach and Royle view employee development to be the creation of a huge talent pool which ensures that there is [...]

Moreover, it is also essential for the company to focus on its techniques towards administration by further concentrating on Maslow's approach of management and other theories.

Dan must strive to create a common goal that would be the strategic goal of the company, and incorporate it in his leadership style.

This is why it can be said that a leader can achieve much if he is able to understand the importance of inner-maturity and awareness such as the need to become a servant leader.

As a result, many organizations in the industrial sector have been made aware of the basic ways to facilitate efficiency and sustainability in resources use to enhance better performance both in the short-run and the [...]

Additionally, it is apparent that the only constant in the business world is change, and for this reason, for employees to be sure of coping with such changes, there is need for them to acquire [...]

Gadek makes effective decisions when needed; the decision are timely and respond to the need at hand; Leaders should have the motivation and capacity to add value to their company; they should be willing to [...]

The success of knowledge workers depends on the knack of the organizational administration to ensure that knowledge worker teams build knowledge friendly culture.

It is with the same intent that the manager intended to use the help of his team to launch a new division that manufactures liquid soap brands for the market by using the potential of [...]

He says that the company in most of the time has in the shelves what they think is the goods asked for by the customers in many incidences.

Project management is tasked with planning and controlling of the project in order to enable the project to achieve the desired organizational objectives and the strategy is how and in what manner this implementation will [...]

Myer has identified the need to have human capital from different parts of the world; diversity in the company has assisted in bring people with different cultural backgrounds in the company in the efforts of [...]

A case study of General Motors is given as a good example to show how the culture of the business management, misunderstanding and cultural differences in the factories overseas caused the failures of the automobile [...]

On one hand, some scholars have argued that simultaneous pursuit of both strategies is detrimental to the firm's performance because of the tensions and conflicts resulting from the different approach requirements of the different strategies.

The revelation that comes forth include Project management plan plays the role of interpreting observed behavior among the members of the community, thus enabling the project manager to predict the community's future behavior; Project management [...]