Organisation Article Reviews Samples For Students

Introduction

Stuart MacDonald in his 1995 article, Learning to Change: An Information Perspective on Learning in the Organisation published in the Organisational Science Journal puts forward certain theories on learning. His hypothesis is that organisation change should not only depend on internal factors such as corporate culture, core competence and firm’s capacity but should also rely on information outside the organisation. Secondly, the important thing is not the acquisition of the information but the use of the information. The information should be gathered by the individuals and not necessarily by the senior management.

Organisational Learning

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Article Synopsise

The article in question begins with a brief summary of the current state of New York City from the crime and law enforcement perspective. In this case the author presents a city dogged by problems of poor motivation amongst an aging police force and a lack of experience in the agents of the newly arrived FBI (Muller, 1998). However, as the article develops the area of relevance to the course may be seen as Hoover’s high level of competence in managing the media including pictures publications and the film industry. In short, Hoover as head of the FDI is presented as a ...

The article opens with a quotation from George Bernard Shaw’s land mark work Pygmalion in which the premise of the article is surmised. In this case the quotation implies that people behave not in a way which is a product of personal traits and qualities but in a way which reflects the expectations and treatment of the individual by those around them. As such, the author of the article raises key questions in the field of management from the outset despite thus far only getting one paragraph into the article.

Having quoted from Shaw’s Pygmalion Livingston (1988) then goes on to ...

Summary of the Research

The research relies on the role of workplace spirituality in selling organisations and its significant impact on selling organisations. The research indicates that workplace spirituality is a growing trend these days; however few attempts have been made to integrate it in sales literature. Consequently, the main aim of the research conducted by authors is to put forth a conceptual framework that explicates the role of workplace spirituality in selling organizations. The objective of the research was to advance work on workplace spirituality by focusing on accepted themes (Badrinarayanan and Madhavaram 2008).
The findings of the research suggest that workplace spirituality ...

Frederick W. Taylor, Principles of Scientific Management, 1912

Thesis: According to Fredrick, the principles of scientific management when applied and given sufficient time can be very effective and produce far larger and better results for both employer and employees. The management of “initiatives and incentive” in which those on the management’s side deliberately provide a huge motivation to workmen who work for them and as return the group of workmen responds by putting efforts to their very best ability all the times in the interest of their employers.
“The first advantage which scientific management has over initiatives and incentive management initiative of workmen is obtained practically ...

Application of Kohlberg’s model of Cognitive moral development at workplace

This one particular incident related to my workplace. I was an HR manager at an oil refinery site. Once, I got a case where a group of 6 engineers, two females and 4 males filed a formal complaint against their supervising manager. Their allegation was that the manager would ‘harass’ the two female engineers by calling them on their mobile phones in the evening. He would ask them to visit his home and play ‘cards’ with him. He would also ‘touch’ the girls in appropriately during meeting. I was in a state of dilemma as the Supervising manager was an integral part of ...

Terrorist financing involves providing funds for terrorist activities. This may include funds that has been raised from various legitimate sources for instance personal donations, gifts, business profits and also from charitable organisations, as well as funds from illegitimate or criminal sources such as kidnapping, piracy, drug trade, money laundering, extortion and smuggling of weapons. Terrorist have been using these and other techniques especially through money laundering and disguise as charitable organisations so as to evade being caught by the relevant authorities and also as a way of protecting the identity of the sponsors as well as that of their beneficiaries ( ...

Article 2 Summary: Duncan, J. W. 2011. Everything is Obvious, Once You Know You Know the Answer: How Common Sense Fails Us. New York: Crown Business. Retrieved on September 09, 2011 from http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6785.html
It is imperative for leaders to exercise common sense especially in modern day leadership which requires decisions to be made fast.
Modern day decisions making is rapid and often done without much research or application of any theories and the expectation is to have below average risk exposure.
The decision making can be improved through wisdom and experience, failure or absence of these ...