Attitude Case Studies Samples For Students

Analysis

The case study talks about Maryam Qureshi who is a very hard working lady.At the beginning, she has an outstanding performance report at her place of work. She arrives at work on time and does her duties efficiently and with a lot of determination.The management of the organisation was satisfied with her work until she started showing some change in behaviour. She reported late at her work place and also wasted a lot of time during lunch breaks.She frequently returned late from lunch breaks. Her supervisor, Haleema noticedthat Maryam had difficulty in completing her assigned tasks. She also faced a lot of difficulty ...

Communication

Internal and External Stakeholder Communication

- How should Jamie deal with the information that Catherine provided?
Primarily, Jamie should give time to have a good conversation with Catherine. Jamie can also ask for any evidence that will show proof regarding Catherine’s allegations about her co-workers. It is clear that there is an attitude issue within Jamie’s staff. That is why, it is important that Jamie should be aware of her staff’s attitude and behavior. Nancy Borkowski (2011) says that attitude is a complex mixture of a person’s beliefs, personality, behaviors, values, and motivation. Therefore, Jamie should primarily ...

DQ1. Clorox is using an attitude change strategy of associating the product with an admired group. The good perception of Sierra Club will transfer to Green Works.
DQ3. While Green Works is a brand name, it is also a sentence with a noun and verb. Green Works implies that Green practices work to protect the environment.
DQ4. Clorox should engage the bloggers directly. Clorox should also use social media like YouTube and Facebook to provide positive information about Green Works product.
DQ5. Those endorsements are critical to the implementation of the change strategy Clorox is using of associating Green ...

Introduction

The Four Seasons Hotel management and staff have one golden rule, which is ‘do unto others, as you would have them do unto you’. This means that everyone is treated with dignity, respect and compassion; be it a client or an employee. In order to cultivate such a philosophy and culture in an organization, it is cardinal to have the right people to implement it. To achieve this objective, the Four Seasons Hotels human resource department has a comprehensive program for recruiting, selecting and hiring new employees. Opportunities are provided openly and fairly to all qualified candidates interested in working for the ...

- Discuss the case in terms of the attitudes and beliefs of the managers and workers. Pay particular attention to issues related to satisfaction and organizational commitment
Attitude affects the efficiency of an employee in an organization. It may affect it positively or negatively. Employees with a good attitude towards work, perform very well while at work while employees with poor attitude towards work perform dismally (Porter et al 37). The manager's attitude is also another important factor that determines how the organization performs. If a manager has a negative attitude towards the employees or the organization, the working conditions in ...

Introduction

Workers have different feelings towards everything within the workplace. The attitudes of the teenage and student employees, especially in the hospitality sector, are of great ethical importance since they determine how these workers treat the clients, how seriously they take their work, and whether they will steal from the business or not (Rogojan 6). This paper explores a case study and will attempt to establish how typical are the attitudes that Sheehy reports. The paper will also show how Sheehy’s description of a new work ethics matches with my own experiences.

How typical are the attitudes that Sheehy reports?

Sheehy raises a number of attitude issues ...

Abstract

Upon being employed, Aline DeNeuve attempts to implement strategies she believes will encourage workplace harmony. In her strategy, she believes that limiting communications and relations between employees will be the best way to achieving success for her organization. For confirmation, if her strategies are effective, Aline decides to conduct a study to find out the perceptions of her work mates on her thoughts. Aline’s case will provide insights on the effects of omitting or not considering employee relations in an organization. From her organization, it will be possible to determine how employee emotions and attitudes can be influenced. ...

Section

The J. K. Roberts Company Case Study:

Motivation & Work Behavior (BUS454-01), Spring 2013

Summary
The case presented by the company JK Roberts is about employee motivation, performance, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, needs and wants, use and abuse of power, and other organizational development issues. This case looks into an already impaired organization in JK Roberts, who is faced by stiff competition and must evolve to be able to retain relevance and long-term viability. Unfortunately, change has not been managed effectively as managers failed to recognize the needs of the employees and the pitfalls that happen when power is wielded incorrectly. The answers below examine ...

Pain: State in which the individual experiences and communicates the presence of severe discomfort or an uncomfortable feeling.

Related factors: Pain resulting from musculoskeletal disorder; in this case, osteoarthritis; immobility

Features: Verbal communication of pain descriptors, level 8-9 pain reported by patient

Evidence: Mrs. Hardy experiences great knee pain when climbing stairs, a symptom associated with her osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis cannot be cured, but pain can be controlled.

The primary client-centred goal for Mrs. Hardy is pain management (Bijlsma, Berenbaum and Lafeber, 2011). Expected measurable outcome is that Mrs. Hardy will experience relief of pain as evidenced by Mrs. Hardy’s ...

Answer 1

Corporate social responsibility is a management strategy where companies integrate social and environmental concerns into their business operations. The company tries to integrate itself into the society. It tries to bring people together and even to improve their living standards at all levels. By launching the plate4plate initiative in 2011, the company donated a plate of food to the developing world for every plate sold at Zambrero. It, therefore, shows that the company is trying to integrate itself to society of the developing world. The company, through this initiative saw a donation of 1 million plates to the developing countries. It acted ...

1.
a) Describe the socialization process that Turner experienced at MLI

Socialization processes play an important role in integrating newcomers into the company and developing employee skills, relationships and attitudes, which are necessary for successful work in the company (Chao et al., 1994a; Chatman, 1991; De Vos et al., 2003; Louis, 1980; Thomas and Anderson, 1998). Neglecting or not using these processes effectively may result in job dissatisfaction, high staff turnover, low productivity and general miscommunication. Therefore, in order to make sure that recruiting expenses are not undermined by inefficient organizational socialization, effort should be put into integrating newcomers ...

Article Evaluation

Article Evaluation

A. Introduction

- Does investigator report on relevant literature?
- How many sources were used and how many were recent (i.e. within five years of publication date of the article)?
There was an apparent use of relevant literature in the study, which is evident in the linking of theoretical underpinnings of the study itself and those of the literatures being used. For example, the study establishes the relationship between academic, first-semester academic achievement and psychological attitudes. The relationship in these variables constitutes understanding of resilience among first year college students, which was reinforced by the findings ...

Introduction

The skeleton of any organization is the organizational structure. Ideally, organizations’ structures delineate their parameters. In particular, the structures define the departments as well as activities, which make up the functioning of the organizations. These activities include supervision, task distribution, and coordination. The organizational structures that have clearly defined scopes of authority, roles, and functions ensure that the individuals within the organization collaborate to attain the set goals and objectives. Notably, the structure of a given organization plays a crucial role in defining the interpersonal relationships, which ought to exist between people and work. The paper delves into the ...

Abstract

The health care providers come into contact with patients and people from a variety of faiths. This means that they should have the right knowledge of the diversity of religions. The purpose of this paper is to provide a comparative ethical analysis of George, patient diagnosed with ALS, which is a progressive disease that will cripple his quality of life. Ultimately, he will lose control over his life and become completely dependent on others. The deterioration of motor neurons will make him lose his ability to speak, move, eat, and breathe. George is devastated by the diagnosis and is ...

Organizations are groups of people who work closely together with an aim to attain some purpose i.e. they have a collective sense of purpose. Behavior, on the other hand, is the response of a person or people to an action, environment, an individual or a specific event. Organizational behavior is the study of how staff members of the organization think, respond, act and feel within the confines of the organization (Stone & Marsden, 2001). Workplace practices influence prospective of human capital. Human capital entails workers skills; knowledge and other abilities that provide competitive advantage by helping uncover opportunities and reduce threats. The study ...

ANSWER # 1

The article by Steadman (1969) entitled “How Sexy Illustrations Affect Brand Recall” in the Journal of Advertising Research has much to offer to the experts of advertisements. The overall research methodology contributes effectively in defining the relationship of irrelevant and bizarre elements in add in order to explore the brand recall rate. However, the methodology has some limitations. First and foremost, the participants in study were all male and the material provided to the participants for the assessment of objective was pertaining to female only. This contradicts to the study findings of the Rudolph (1947) and the analysis and ...

Abstract

President Obama in his inaugural speech, has been quoted to say that bringing smart, young students especially engineers and enlisting them in America’s workforce will complete the journey of welcoming immigrants who want to live the American Dream. (Sandra Lilley, 2013)
This has always been many a president’s speech, but the difference is that in the is day and time the context is very relevant as we see the influx of many countries who send their youth to study abroad. The reason that many foreign students come to the U.S to study is because of the many ...

Interview Profile

This paper is focused at looking at personality and attitudes traits in an individual. For purposes of the article and protection of the interviewee, he will be addressed, as Mr. X. Mr. X is an individual of sound mind aged 26. I recently interviewed him in an aim of learning more about him as a person. The first thing I wanted to learn about the individual was whether he preferred to watch an action in order to remember it, or was more comfortable with reading about it in books. To defend his answer, Mr. X told me that he was ...

In the case of the request for a second meeting between Shirley and Jeannie, with Kelly supervising, I believe it is quite necessary to do this, especially after the events of the first meeting. Despite the fact that it would be quite tense to go through for all parties involved, it would foster a much better work relationship between everybody if another meeting was attempted, this time with a greater attempt at fostering amity with Shirley and Jeannie. Obviously, there are some incredible discrepancies between how Shirley should be doing her job and how Jeannie feels she should be doing her job, ...

Abstract

The essay looks at the social problem of racism in society. Racial and ethnic minorities are seen a poorer quality of health care as compared to the White non-minorities. Although the sources of these disparities are complex, they are rooted in historic inequities. Racism in health care industry involves many participants and at different levels, such as the healthcare systems, healthcare professionals, and the patients. Stereotyping, biases and uncertainty contribute to disparities in the treatments provided. Minorities experience a range of barriers when accessing health care. The purpose of the essay is to study the social problem and what ...

The J. K. Roberts Company
- Discuss the case in terms of the attitudes and beliefs of the managers and workers. Pay particular attention to issues related to satisfaction and organizational commitment.
An individual's attitude is his unique way of feeling, behaving, looking at life and thinking. This phenomenon is very important in someone’s career and life in general. Beliefs, on the other hand helps the managers and workers to generate passion about their job. As such, it is important for workers and employers to believe in something. This is because, only strong and deep beliefs can ...

Background

ConsoE has recently acquired Expeer, an electrical company based in Austin, Texas with 15,000 employees. Expeer’s benefits package for its employees has traditionally been extensive and comprehensive when compared to what ConsoE offers. A tactical plan to communicate the change in benefits structure for the incoming former Expeer employees is crucial to help them understand and adjust to the new order.

Issue Identification and Root-Cause Analysis

The employees of Expeer get very high benefits that are significantly different from what is offered by the Consolidated Electronics. The benefits include a fully paid ten different health insurance plans, a 401k plus 3% match ...

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Background
With particular focus on Dewar’s book, A Savage Factory, this report examines how the failure in manipulating various organizational behavior principles in the right manner can lead to massive mistakes and the ultimate collapse of the organization. It is the memoir of Robert J. Dewar who has worked at Ford Motor Company, one of the biggest automotive companies in the world. This report aims to summarize the history of workers and managers and their attitude towards work. The workers and managers discussed were mainly responsible for controlling the quality of the products and sale ...

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The issue of safety in any industry has always been a priority of the management especially in refineries which is described as an accident and injury prone industry. Yet accidents and injuries in the workplace have not been completely eliminated in spite of claims of Management about its unquestionable commitment towards prevention of accidents on the shop floor. Some common steps towards safety commitment have been outlined by Medina, Et al., (2009) as pinpointing work practices that affect safety; defining and reliably measuring such practices; implementing measurement systems; setting reasonable goals; ...

Introduction

Social learning theory is a comprehensive theory that encompasses interrelated concepts about human behavior. The first to develop this theory is the American psychologist, Albert Bandura, in the 1960s. Bandura theorized that people learn behavior through observation, which he proved through his ‘Bobo doll’ experiment. Social learning theorists believe that human behavior is not just a product of the ‘cause and effect’ phenomenon as what behaviorism suggests, but rather, human beings processes information from the environment and learns their behavior over time. According to Bandura, man is a thinking creature; that he is not helpless to the psychological and ...

Introduction

Changes in the business environment may have adverse effects on individual organizations. An evaluation of Friendly bank demonstrates that it faces a significant problem. First, the organization is facing an organizational culture problem. The problem can be attributed to the changes in the organizational design that have transformed the operations of the organization. The move has caused confusion among employees who have found themselves in a dilemma. They could either leave the organization or work in departments that they had not applied for. The changes in the organizational structure were prompted by two significant trends in the banking industry. First, rapid ...

Introduction

Creating overall viable plan for the development of the company requires thorough consideration of the peculiarities of business, strategy-friendly organizational structure and the ways to enhance employees’ engagement level, as well as proper management tools. For the purposes of this assignment I will research into above-mentioned issues with respect to elaborating on the overall business strategy for the enterprise under study. To make the discussion more practical I will view the organization as a problem-solving mechanism (Coperrider&Srivastva 149), and identify issues and the way to solve them for each of the questions of the case study

Organization structure

The business under study ...

CRITICAL EVALUATION OF THE KEY ISSUES

The role of human resource for the organization is to utilize the policies and procedures for aligning the workforce of the organization. The managers must understand the goals of the organization and then they must align the workforce accordingly. This requires that the managers analyse the ability and competence of the employees and create opportunities which motivate the employees. All this is associated to the performance outcomes of the individuals. If the workforce is motivated then the individual performance of the employees can be utilized (Watson, Maxwell, & Farquharson, 2006). This role of HR is shown in the chart below.
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Introduction

Hiring professional and skilled employees is the key objective of the Human Resource Management (HRM) department. For the purposes of the realization of this strategic objective, the HR manager is obliged to pursue equality in provision of working opportunities for all employees regardless race, sex, nationality or any other supplementary factor giving ground for unequal attitude. In this particular situation, the managers of the company request the Human Resource Department to resolve issue pertaining to division of quotas between ground crew and other employees. With that, the attention of the managers is focused on the age of the employees ...

Introduction

Weak relationships among medical care workers are often found or evidenced by malpractices’ reports by some nursing and medical cases. Unresolved challenges often result to one group avoiding the other with the last persons becoming the troublesome individual or party. Kaluyu memorial hospital in Nairobi, Kenya has been experiencing a related scenario where there are conflicts and tension among doctors, nurses and other hospital employees most of whom avoid tasks given and even looking forward to the end of their shifts. The hospital has been incurring losses that result from the unhealthy relationship among staff members of the organization. ...

What seems to be the cause of the conflict?

The core of the conflict is a toxic organizational culture, which has been allowed to emerge over overtime. An organizational culture comprises numerous aspects, key among them being communication, leadership, collective values, mission/vision, practices, diversity management, regulations/policies, place, and organizational narrative. The leadership failure created by the past operational manager, particularly his appointment of supervisors without a moral authority over the employees, resulted in a complete breakdown in leadership, which when coupled with the lack of formal policies (and best practices) in issues such as the use of radio and stringent recruitment checks, resulted into conflict, ill motivation, belligerency, ...

Responding to Rape Cases in England and Wales

Background to the problem
Sexual offenses cases such as rape are often the cause for debate in many countries especially when it comes to the capacity of the government to prosecute criminals and aid victims involved. For England and Wales, several laws and programs have been proposed to stop the growth of rape crimes and improve response from the government, from the Sexual Offenders Act of 2003 to the reorganization of government agencies such as the Sexual Assault Referral Centres. However, it is still a question on whether or not these actions are enough to improve how the authorities ...

INTRODUCTION

In the modern global business world people interact within organizations to achieve a variety of targets. Organizational behavior helps realize how people influence each other in companies. Given this fact, organizations are examining ways to treat employees respectfully and to support them at work creating a stressless workplace, motivating staff and maintaining competitive advantages among their rivals (Schermerhorn et al 26). Additionally, realizing organizational behavior managers receive perfect insights into the problems of individual differences, values and diversity, which have become increasingly popular and important in the recent years. With the increasing value of diversity in the workplace, organizations need to ...

- At P.F. Chang’s, leadership is synonym with delivering excellent customer service and Rick Federico, the Chairman of the company is promoting a leadership by example model, wherein the employees must follow the leads of the more experienced workers for knowing how to make the customers of the restaurant feel great about their choice and come visit the place again. This leadership trait, that Federico possesses, is visible in the employees’ behavior, as they are becoming excellent servers watching their more experienced colleagues at work, or being encouraged and properly trained by their direct coordinators.
Positive energy is ...

Introduction and background

The following case study addresses human resources-related issues in Honda Motorcycles and Skooters India Ltd, which required significant efforts from the management to cope with. Uniqueness of the case study lies in seriousness of the issues under study and their significant implications on the activities of the enterprise.
Question1. Key factors that led to the breakdown of the industrial relations at Honda.Quite a wide range of preconditions underlay workers’ desire to form a union, despite all existing HR initiatives. At the first sight it seems to be strange that workers decided to unionize, considering existence of such HR initiatives as ...

Curses, Foiled Again in France

In the case, Curses, Foiled Again in France, Erin Barker will be successful in her role in international relations only if she is able to adjust her attitudes and manner of working to that of the French. However, for as long as she insists on doing things the way she’s used to then it will be hard for her to succeed in the said role as the French would continue to resent her or will fail to cooperate with her, considering that they are not on the same page and have different work ethics or work attitudes.

However, ...

DIFFERENCE IN JOB SATISFACTION AND WORK LIFE BALANCE BETWEEN GEN X AND GEN Y

Introduction
The report is on the difference in job satisfaction and work life balance between Gen X and Gen Y. The differences in the generations have been researched and studied in regard to the workplace. The studies have found some differences in the generations, in the work value. For example, the work ethic and work centrality declined progressively from the Generation X to Generation Y. The studies indicate and confirm the existence of generational differences in the context of work. However, there are no confirmations on the relationships between the diverse work attitudes in respect to generation. The ...

The NOGO Railroad Case Study

Overview
A close look at the case reveals a shoddy and archaic organizational culture at NOGO Railroad rife with negative practices such as nepotism and feather bedding being actively practiced as part of the legacy of the rail industry, shaping up the currently rigid and change-averse attitude of the employees. This is substantiated by the findings of a research study conducted in Malaysia “showing an association between organizational culture and the affective, cognitive, and behavioral tendency of attitudes towards organizational change, and that these acceptance levels of change vary with different types of organizational cultures, some of which facilitate change, ...

The aging process occurs during a person’s lifespan. Nobody can escape this process and it happens to everyone. Aging is associated with maturation, growth, and discovery (Cohen et al., 2015). Many abilities of human beings peak before the age of 30, but there are other abilities that continue to grow and develop throughout the life of a person. Most people who are over the age of 65 are healthy, fully independent, and happy while others start experiencing signs of deterioration. These changes are normal and not harmful. The hair thins and start turning gray and skins thins and ...

Communication

Activewear market continues its growth of the ‘athleisure’ trend. More and more customers are ready to adopt a healthy lifestyle. It is not strange to see a person wearing gym clothes beyond the gym today (Petro G., 2015). That is why all sportswear companies are eager to change their marketing strategies in order to meet the expectations of their customers. Lululemon was one of the first companies to see the opportunity to sell activewear. But they were not the only one. The main competitors of lululemon are Nike inc., Gap, Under Armour, and Victoria’s Secrets who entered the ...

The case “American Tools and Die” presents a scenario in which Vince Broft (the father) and Kelly Mueller (the daughter) make apply different decision-making approaches. Kelly and her father face an unprecedented challenge to ensure that their family’s company survives the economic downturn. According to Kelly, the strategy is to ‘adapt or die’ and she is adamant to see the company survives. She wants her father to be creative so that AT&D avoids being bankrupt. However, Broft does not seems convinced by Kelly’s decision to move the company to Mississippi because this would result in 195 employees ...

Business

Unprofessional conduct
Nowadays one of the major challenges facing education is the quality of education that should be determined in addition to the content and new technologies in this field, a humanistic orientation of the educational process, and the competence of teaching staff. The main categories of teachers' ethics are the pedagogical duty, freedom, responsibility, fairness, tact and honor. Development of ethics fruitfully impacts on interpersonal relationships between all the participants of the educational process: teacher and student, student - student, teacher - parent, teacher - colleagues. All this improves the moral and psychological climate in the school. Therefore, ...

Psychology

The culture and experience literally defines our attitude and values. Judging from cultural background (individualistic or collectivistic), it is possible to predict a particular person’s behavior and relationships with others (independent or interdependent). Personal experience and culture also have impact on values this person appreciates in people and tries to develop in her/himself. People tend to value those things that are highly estimated in the society they were brought up. Cultural influence on the psychology led to the establishment of cultural psychology devoted to study psychological tendencies rooted in culture.
I think that Mr. Ramirez possibly was exposed ...

DILEMMA AT DEVIL’S DEN

Devils Den faces a dilemma. Susan is a finance major who works part-time at Devil’s Den, a snack bar, managed under a contract with the College Food Services (CFS). The snack bar runs two shifts; the morning shift is managed and controlled by full-time employees, while the night shift is run by students, who work under the supervision of another student, who holds the position of manager. There are approx. 30 student employees and 6 student mangers employed by CFS to supervise Devil’s Den. Student managers are previous employees chosen by other student managers, have no formal training, or have any ...

1. Clearly define the problem to be solved or identify symptoms that suggest an underlying problem.
The problem at hand in this situation is that of stereotyping at the healthcare institution. Stereotyping patients may have a negative impact upon the patient’s overall health. Doctor’s for instance, may not take the grievances of female patients as seriously as male patients. Moreover, doctors may have a different attitude towards patient’s belonging to an ethnic background. For instance; sick people of the Afro-Caribbean group areconsidered as having a laid back attitude by the doctors. Therefore, doctors may have varying attitudes with ...

According to the demands of modern life, education is considered to be the inherent component of success. In order to become a well-rounded personality ready to face different challenges, one is expected to study. However, obtaining education is a difficult process that consists in both triumphs and failures and depends on extrinsic factors, which are usually not controlled by students. Among many other impacts that may be encountered in the course of learning, attention should be drawn to such factors as society, race, and home life, together with parenting.
Firstly, learning process can be discussed from the viewpoint of the ...

Herb Kelleher, the former CEO of Southwest Airlines, provided growth of the company using his flamboyant leadership style and extraordinary approach to team making. Southwest Airlines pioneered in the low-cost segment of the market. From 1996 to 2012 the company almost doubled the number of cities served. The operating income of the company had grown by 1.55 times in 2012 if compared to 2008 while its net income made up 2.37 times greater in 2012 in comparison to 2008. Thus, the company had grown significantly, but the growth outstripped to the maturity stage. The previous growth resources were exhausted ...

India: An Automobile Hub in the Making

Part 1
Prior to 1991, India had protective investment policies that prevented foreign direct investment to flow into the country. For the financial stability, India depended on the bilateral loans from politically closer countries. Foreign firms were allowed to have equity less than forty percent and that too were overlooked by government authorities. The laws were against propagation of foreign brands, but Indianised hybrid brands were allowed for example Hero-Honda, Maruti –Suzuki, etc. Because of the restrictive trade and investment practices, India was not connected to technologies available in the developed countries. Also, India lost many labor –intensive ...

Introduction

This is a case of colleagues holding the same job position in a multinational company. EUROi is an IT company that was formed as a result of a merger between a British firm, RoyaIPC, and a French firm, Internet du France (IDF). Margaret, who is 50 years old and her 35 year old colleague Georges are supposed to work together each representing their respective companies. Georges works as the marketing manager representing the French company while Margaret was sent from London to France to work in the same position for the British partner. Although both employees have exceptional leadership skills, they are not ready to ...

Question A: Justification for shift into the new market

The reasons given by the directors to justify the shift into a new market can be seen in different perspectives. However, in overall, the main reason that justified the move was the poor performance of their business in their initial area of operation. This is perhaps explained by the fact that the Ghanaian market was nascent and had hardly grown sufficiently to necessitate the information services the company initially offered. In that context, it is imperative to appreciate the need for the company to profit so as to offset its loan while at the same time being able to pay ...

LT Brown should be considered for the spot promotion. This decision is based on leadership perspectives that are to be considered. Choosing between the two candidates LT Coffer and LT Brown is a process that will require CDR Smith to consider a number of aspects. This is because both candidates are equally qualified in terms of their experience, rank, and passion for higher responsibilities. In his book, Leadership: Theory and Practice Peter Northouse suggests a number of approaches that can be used to select leaders in such circumstances.

Factors that lead to the decision

Four factors will be considered leading to the decision to select LT Brown, traits, ...

Introduction

Capital markets and individual companies have changed the face of business through globalization. Firms have expanded their operations through new technologies that provide solutions at a low cost. Technological innovations have kept firms on their toe in the competitive world. Global markets are also putting firms at pressure to innovate and still reduce the costs of their products. This is not an easy task but it has led the companies to effectively manage the assets they have more specifically human assets and come up with more strategies other than innovation to maintain the profile in the market and cope with ...

Question 1: To what extent do you believe that Texaco's actions will be effective in getting its high-ranking employees to feel less prejudice toward members of minority groups?
Answer: The image of Texaco was significantly tarnished after release of tapes featuring senior executives discussing to destroy some evidence that prove the discriminatory practices of company against African-Americans. After that incident, company adopted various measures to change the behavior of white employees towards black employees. The company made significant changes in recruitment and appraisal processes to avoid any kind of discrimination and giving equal opportunities of growth to all ...

Bad Image Radiology Department

Step I: Summary of the case

Notably, many hospitals find themselves in the middle of court cases and trials with very little knowledge of the events that led to the scenario. This case is a good example. It presents the origin of the problem, the personnel that were involved and the events that led to the problems presented. It is about MacMillan hospital and the problems that generated from the department of medical imaging. The department had contracted its services to Good View Company and the major shareholder was Goodview (Darr, 2001, p. 322). He started neglecting his work and ...

Undertaking (does not require signature): By Submitting this assessment, the student hereby declares that the attached assignment is his/her own work and s/he has not knowingly or unknowingly plagiarized or colluded with another student. The student understands that any form of cheating on the assessment is not acceptable by the Centre for Executive Education and could lead to failure in the assessment in the first instance.

Core issues of IMP

The following are the major questions that must be asked of the IMP Company with regard to issues facing the organization.

What were the language policy and the nature of employee relations in the company? Did they respect one another?

Was there a proactive action taken against ...

Abstract

Financial risk hedging and corporate management are important tools for non-financial corporations. Following the theories of Modigliani and Miller corporate risk management is an irrelevant activity. However, the presence of market imperfections can explain the corporate use of derivatives. Hedging can contribute to the firm value, when firms face a progressive tax rate and when in the presence of the expected costs from financial distress. Moreover, hedging can lower agency costs of debt. The use of derivatives can be also explained by the managers’ behaviour towards risk. The aim of the paper is to evaluate the theoretical and empirical literature ...

A case study on FridgeCom

Question 1:
Using specific examples drawn from the case study, critically discuss different styles of leadership and potential behavioural responses.

In today’s global economy, leadership and organizational behaviour are important factors that can determine the success of organizations. However, the methods used by leaders to influence employees for achieving goals are a matter of contention among researchers (Skansi, 2000). In answering this question, various leadership styles that motivate employees to increase productivity levels have been discussed. This answer attempts to focus on the various modes of leadership and potential behavioural responses to them in terms of motivation, communication, ...

A case study on FridgeCom

Using specific examples drawn from the case study, critically discuss different styles of leadership and potential behavioural responses.

In today’s global economy, leadership and organizational behaviour are important factors that can determine the success of organizations. However, the methods used by leaders to influence employees for achieving goals are a matter of contention among researchers (Skansi, 2000). In answering this question, various leadership styles that motivate employees to increase productivity levels have been discussed. This answer attempts to focus on the various modes of leadership and potential behavioural responses to them in terms of motivation, communication, perception, and teamwork.

Understanding Leadership

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Executive Recommendations Letter

The mission statement of Snapple Group is delineated in its company intention of being a domestic leader in the flavored beverage industry. Its reputable and established brand allows it to deliver beverages of superior quality to its existing and potential customers. As such, in order to achieve its mission, the company bases its operations on the following objectives:

Effective marketing

Strengthening its distribution channels
Establishing fruitful partnerships.
Investing in its employees and the communities the company operates in.
Using environmentally sustainable operations in its undertakings.
Implementing the best technology to minimize costs and sustain profits.
Core Competencies
An authentic brand with ...

Question 1: Statistical strategy

The strategy here is to analyze the distribution or variation of the data instead of focusing on the measures of central tendency. Measures of central tendency can be misleading especially where the distribution is asymmetrical (Graham 38-80). In this case, the median life expectancy of eight months does not necessarily mean a cancer patient dies within eight months.

Question 2: Shape of the distribution

The available literature shows that cancer patients have a median mortality of eight months. The distribution of the life expectancy of cancer patients is not normally distributed. The data is positively skewed. Half of the cancer patients live more than eight ...