Goals Case Studies Samples For Students

Employee Orientation is proposed to address the issue of high turnover of the employees working in the plant operations. Employee orientation program is a socialization process of new employees through interactive and strategic learning programs.

Encounter (induction of the employees to the organisational values, and culture) and Change and acquisition (employses socialize better through the orientation programs) are the stages of Feldman's socialization model that are influenced by an orientation program. The two key content areas of an orientation program that may reduce turnover and increase morale are the business context (understanding the strategic goals and how they are ...

Valley Wide Utilities

Valley Wide Utilities is facing a lot of problems currently. Some of these problems are macro while others are micro in nature. One of the macro problems is that the company is financially inefficient as a result of its plan for expansion of its facilities. Another problem is that three years ago company implemented a performance evaluation method with the help of an outside consulting firm. There are some negative reactions towards this approach because it was not perceived as fair. Dissatisfaction among employees is one of the micro challenges faced by the company. As a result of dissatisfaction employees have threatened to ...

Question 1

Even if PepsiCo were not good for business, it would be committed to diversity. This so because embracing diversity would bring a desirable positive outcome to the company. Diversity as a tool in human resource management would help the company to have immediate access to a large pool of knowledge and abilities needed in the achieving organizational goals and objectives. These positive aspects of diversity would help PepsiCo even when the business is not performing well.

Question 2

The white did not participate in the conversation due to poor communication and lack of affiliation that played a significant role to exit the decisions. They did ...

Introduction
This paper aims at preparing a comprehensive job structure that cover all major facets that are crucial in the categorization, definition as well as specification of jobs. In order to come up with a detailed and clear job structure that can be quite effective and efficient in its application, three major facets will be highly considered; this will include, the job field, family and category.
Following is a detailed description of the components that consequently define a job structure with respects to its constituent elements. A logical order in relation to entities superiority is employed in the description of the ...

Information Gathering and Data Eliciting

Information Gathering and Data Eliciting

The interviewing team should take time to prepare the interview questions, determine the skills required for the project and forecast any concerns that may arise from other parties during the process. The team should also acquaint themselves with background information on the interviewees.

Step Two: Outlining objectives

The objectives of the interview should be well highlighted before the actual process; this is essential in ensuring that the right skills are selected for the project. In addition, the team should also identify the professional objectives of each interviewee and aim to highlight how the project will help achieve these ...

Every business venture aims at achieving its business objectives. This is vital in the business’s survival and prosperity in its business environment. When a business seems not to be performing as much as it may have intended, there is need for the business to evaluate its processes to determine where the problem is. In view of this, Kahuna Cleaning Supply has realized that it is not performing as much as it would want to. This paper seeks to develop a fact-finding plan for Kahuna Cleaning Supply (Whitten & Bentley).

Fact-finding plan

In order to determine and analyze why Kahuna Cleaning Supply has not ...

Organizational Plan for J.C. Penny
Organizational Plan for J.C. Penny
The J.C. Penny marketing team comprises of various marketing professionals who are highly skilled and experienced in different fields. As an organization, J.C. Penny strives to provide the best services to its worldwide clients. The organizational plan for the corporation ensures the marketing team reaches a diverse clientele base thus improving the company’s efficiency.
The management team at J.C. Penny comprises of a chief executive officer. The CEO is the overall head of the management team. He manages the running of the company and ensures that all ...

Management

Management

Introduction

Management is a key function of an organization that should be approached carefully. The case study presents the prevailing conditions within a company known as AbeBooks. There has been high employee turnover within the marketing team. Essentially, increased employee turnover implies that that is a prevailing problem that needs to be addressed in order to avoid adverse effectives of this problem. A thorough review of the case and identification of the root causes of the problem is necessary to ensure that a resolution is achieved as promptly as possible . This report addresses the prevailing issues within the company in order to provide ...

Software development life cycle (SDLC) is process through which software’s or systems that are designed developed and implemented (Roebuck, 2012). Proper SDLC methodologies can be used to improve quality of datasets. This can be done through by selecting the best SDLC methodology, which is achieved through learning the SDLC models, assessing needs from all stakeholders and then defining a criterion to weigh and establish the best model to implement, (Chao, 2006). This criterion must meet the threshold for the taskforce in the design, best technology in resolving the problem at hand, compatibility of the methodology to resolving the problem ...

Questions on decision analysis course: Major Management

Question 3.1
Means objective is the objective that its importance is based on its contribution to accomplish another objective. For example, arriving from work early enables the individual to do other activities, hence achieving another objective. On the other hand, fundamental objective is the objective that provides an insight of the core motive for considering a decision. An example of fundamental on objective is when an individual makes another person happy.
Fundamental objectives are considered more important than the means objectives because only fundamental objectives are used to compare and evaluate options. Fundamental objectives help the individual to ...

We are talking about Becky, how she thought that she is not a good student. But when day when she was offered a treat, she gave her best possible efforts. A student, basically a child needs constant love, security and attention. She feels lonely or unimportant if she does not get these things. If a child is facing lack of attention at home, that would be reciprocated in his class grades. This may also be called as Attention Deficit Syndrome, where the child wants to gain attention of the parents thus she behaves in a way that she thinks will attract her parents attention ...

Introduction

Friendly Bank has recently switched over to a new process and this requires excellent leadership efforts. Especially in a change management situation, it is essential that effective leadership is in place so that employees are motivated to perform. The decision to commence the online banking system of Parkers PLC and the incorporation of Friendly Bank is a change management initiative. Such situations warrant effective transformational leadership style which is based on the four fundamental principles of idealized influence, inspirational motivation, individualized consideration and intellectual stimulation (Gabel, 2013).
The main problem with Friendly Bank was the decision to rope in previous employees ...

Management covers the coordination of all the skills and abilities as well as efforts of all the skilled and unskilled personnel in order to accomplish the objectives and goals using the available resources both effectively and efficiently. Leadership on the other hand can be described as the process through which can acquire the support of others in performing a common task for their benefit. For effective and admirable performance of an organization, then the management should be at its perfect shape to lead their subordinates and colleagues to success. The leaders are to develop effective skills that include honesty, optimism, ...

Google is a result of collaborative efforts of Sergey Brian and Larry Page; they were the students of PhD at the Stanford University. This bright idea hit them during the education, to develop a worldwide search engine, which could be used and deployed worldwide. The page ranking algorithm developed by Brian and Larry was rated as the most intelligent software as it could cater any content throughout web and could tell the importance of the pages as well. The mechanism deployed behind the Google search engine was that it uses page ranking algorithm in connection with back-linking of data. Also, the ...

TNT case analysis

Mission, aims and objectives
According to Hom (2013), mission is a clear statement of the reason for the company’s existence on the market. Mission details the status of the company and provides both direction and guidance for setting aims, objectives and strategies at different organizational levels.
The value of the mission, which is expressed formally and effectively represented to the employees of the organization, cannot be overstated. The aims and objectives made on its basis serve as criteria for the subsequent decision-making process. For instance, according to the case, the TNT’s mission consists of three key ...

Explanation of the mission, aims, and objectives terms

The business mission is defined as the statement that portrays the fundamental purpose and the principle aims of the business. A mission statement defines what the business, the activities involved, is and the future of the business. For instance, the TNT mission reflects the company’s future through seeking “to lead the industry by instilling pride in our people, creating value for our stakeholders and sharing responsibility around the world.” Such statement is created in a simple way that the employees and other stakeholders can understand and relate to. For instance, the Coca-Cola mission simply defines its aim purpose of ...

Educational Institution

Correspondence concerning this paper should be addressed to Student Name,
WEB-BASED COURSES 2
One way to find out if web-based courses are meeting goals set by a department is to review the goals and see if the outline or syllabus for the course covers each goal and the desired outcome. Reviewing the syllabus is beneficial because it can act as a checklist for goal comparisons. If the syllabus is not meeting the goals set for the course, the department would need to revise the syllabus in order to meet the defined goals.
Some of the questions that I ...

Introduction

The project is a program that will be used to inform the clients of the legal requirements for the work that they will be performing. It is a program that will help Max Lionel Realty to ensure that the clients obey the legal bindings and the requirements that will help them to develop a good working relationships with the clients. It will also help the clients to develop professionalism and working trust with MLR.

Goals and objectives

The goals of the project is to have a program that will enable the MLR Company to have efficiency and reliability in professionalism and provision of legal obligations and ...

Introduction

Yahoo is one of the oldest and most widely used website globally that have contributed to the development of the internet. The creativity that is reflected by its web page is evidence of its success. However, in the year 2001-2002, the company seriously faced HR issues that have affected the company’s employee’s performance and satisfaction. Yahoo! hired Sartain in managing development and putting efforts to lead HR team (Losey, Meisinger and Ulrich, 2005). This paper will highlight core HR issue along with an action plan that would help the company to overcome its human resource problems.

HR Issue

The ...

The aim of this paper is to provide a reaction to the case entitled “Teaching “Relevant” Literature”. There are a number of issues that came to an observation in the case regarding curriculum planning. In order to understand the issues, Walker and Soltis claim would also be used as a backup.
Planning of a school curriculum is a daunting task because it has a direct relation with the goals that are set by goals and the future academic levels. Therefore, academic institutions give a lot of attention to the planning of curriculum. Herein, it should be noted that new teachers or newly appointed instructors find ...

The article by Christopher Meyer “How the Right Measures Help Teams Excel” stresses upon the importance of designing new performance-measurement systems that will address the companies’ needs and ensure the effective means of delivering high quality products to their customers. The shift toward team-based approach challenges traditional hierarchical measurement systems in a way that such measurement systems do not let team members speak a common language and provide expertise to teams (Meyer 95). The traditional measurement systems rely on pulling valuable information to managers who will make beneficial to the company decisions, whereas all functions are seen in terms of their ...

Management

Module 1 – SLP
Mission and Vision statements defines an organization’s core values and are often used as the guiding principles in establishing organizational objectives. However, more and more companies have a discombobulated notion about the role of the mission and vision statement resulting to a creation of a rather more confusing jargon. What constitutes a good mission and vision statement according to Welch and Welch (2008) should convey a clear definition of realistic and more achievable expectations. Mission and Vision statements should possess specific elements that define the universal values of an organization.

The key elements that an explicitly constructed mission statement that demonstrates definition of an organization’s priorities are:

- Specific aim - Organizations often fall victim into ...

Introduction

Working environment and interpersonal communication build on the essential part of motivation and job satisfaction. Individuals find themselves under a lot of pressure, once they work with those, whose management and leadership styles contradict with their own perspective on working relationships or are very different from the attitude and approach of their previous manager. The situation, considered in the case study illustrates classic conflict of perspectives and differences in the personalities, which were not solved and are currently building on the complex internal relationship issue on high organizational level.
The case dwells upon the leadership style of George Latour, ...

Group development

Stages of group development
There are five stages of group development. In order of their sequence, these stages are; forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning (Tuckman, & Jensen, 1977). The team formed by the Wood Foundation, the school district and the National Coalition for Parental Involvement in Education (NCPIE) is in the forming stage. At this stage, the individual members to make up the team come together. This is supported by the mention that, “the development team will consist of three individuals”. This stage characterized by safe and patterned behavior from the members. They have a desire for acceptance and ...

The assignment was to create the following:

- A consequence table
- A weighted scoring model

Are there any dominated alternatives that can be eliminated? Are there any even swaps?

Management problem definition
The problem that is being faced by the management of the company lies in choosing the new venue for the conference of accounting systems’ users. The problem appeared due to the unexpected effect of the Hurricane Katrina that prevented the management from keeping the conference held in New Orleans. Several alternatives on the possibility of running the conference were considered (e.g., canceling the conference, postponing the conference, etc.) with regard to maintaining the level of conference’s costs and maximizing attendance. Careful consideration of all ...

Fredrick Herzberg is the mastermind behind the two-factor theory. He has categorized motivation as stemming from the presence of the hygiene factors and motivator factors. The presence of both these factors is essential in order to motivate employees at the workplace. SAP has ensured to incorporate a certain level of hygiene and motivator factors to keep their workers happy. On the other hand, Saviour Beds has adopted these factors according to the requirements of its workforce and organizational culture. The way both companies have embedded motivation within its work environment is evident from the results it generates. Both companies have ...

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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A business organization structure should have written goals that are part of their business plan. It is these set goals that will describe what the organization plans to achieve in terms of market share, growth and profitability. In our case, Dell Company is utilizing its different organizational structure to improve performance especially in motivation and goal setting process. The different organizational structures in Dell are providing focus to the relevant employees (Robbins, 2009). When an organization set goals for its employees, it shows employees the organizational priorities. Therefore employees are familiar with what to focus in the coming quarter ...

MANAGEMENT

- SPRAY DIAGRAM
- rough spray diagram
b. tided up spray diagram
The above diagram is a spray diagram which displays the usefulness of system thinking. The diagram demonstrates how system thinking is useful in various aspects. One of the aspects is that of examining interrelationships. System thinking tries to view things as a whole system and in that way the interrelationship between such things is identified. This is helpful in identifying initial level of the problem and viewing problems as a whole system.
System thinking is also an important agent of integration. When used with strategic planning ...

The previous software at Babycenter.com allowed developers to choose which projects they considered as priority objectives for the company. This system led to some projects being ignored and those that were really of high priority not being completed on time, simply because the developers did not consider them as important. The project requirements in the previous software were not fixed, and so developers could deviate from original objectives. Whereas this was fine in promoting innovation, it could lead to low customer satisfaction if the clients feel their wishes are not been met.
The new software development process uses ...

Introduction

It is quoted that if you fail to plan what you are in reality doing then you are planning to fail. This is dilemma that majority of community are experiencing. For an effective community it must plan for its future. What ultimately may happen is that the community fails to acclimatize to change and to take advantage of opportunity. Comprehensive planning is much related to the economic prosperity of communities. Therefore it is a tool for planning the future growth. A quality comprehensive plan is used to address the evolution and constant change of a community. However and in some instances ...

Conceptualization

The psychological problems of the client, Yisel revolve around her choice of career, and are rooted in the fact that she is trying hard to live and make decisions according to the expectations of her parents as she fears disappointing them. Yisel is incongruent because there is a very slight overlap between her ideal self and her real self. With this being the case, it is very unlikely that she will achieve the state of self actualization. Seeking to conform to the needs and desires of her parents has consistently widens the gap between her real self and her ideal ...

Q1
Westwind Resort’s mission statement would be; the leading resort in providing fashion solution, accommodation, food and beverage service and sporting activities to our customers without any limits.
Q2
A mission statement should be developed with all stakeholders in an organization. In the case of Westwind Resort, the mission statement should have been developed by the involvement of the general manager Mr. Wendell, the managers and the board of directors working together to come with a desired mission statement (Planning at the Westwind Resort, 1). A mission statement should be reviewed by either the staff or ...

Introduction

Talent management is a vital process that guarantees organizations have the quality and quantity of a position to meet their future and current priorities. The process includes the life cycle of the employee thus; performance management selection, development and succession .

Talent management program that led to success for the company

For the concerned stake holders and contractors, there are three stages that take place from day one and then midpoint after the first quarter and at the end of that first year. The original phase normally takes one month, and at the end, all the new managers must have mastered the business model and must understand the cultural norms and how ...

Introduction|

Since the company has been founded in 2002, it has experienced substantial growth, and notoriety in the book world. It has gone from selling books in mainly stores to branching out to sell books online, competing with online sites such as Amazon and Barnes and Noble. In the past decade the aims of the company have been to make a profit, the goals were fundamental to the overall success of the company. However, Better World Books embarked on social entrepreneurship where we have developed social objectives to promote literacy all around the world. Better World Books thrives on social responsibility ...

OUTLINE
- St. Martin de Porre High School
- Sources of funds
- Accomplishments and awards
- The Corporate Work Study Program
- History and background
- When was it established?
- Why was it established?
- Who started it?
- Management
- Who manages it?
- Where is it located in the school structure?
- What are the tasks of the persons managing the program?
- What are the common problems encountered by the management? How are these resolved?
- Policies
- Who ...

Psychology: Case Study

Introduction 3

Initial interview 4
Assessment formulation methods utilized 4
Assessment of John presenting problems and goals 5
Analysis and critique of MMT approach 6
Agreed goals 6
Treatment plan 6
CBT interventions 7
Intervention for cognitions-thoughts records 7
Benefits of the approach 7
Interventions for behavior- activity scheduling/diversion techniques 8
Benefits of the approach/ interaction 8
Interventions for imagery/interpersonal- imagery based exposure 8
Benefit of approach 9
Intervention for sensation- relaxation/ visualization 10
Conclusion 11

APPENDIX 1 13

References: 15
Psychology: Case Study
Introduction
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As part of QUT’s plan of establishing a $230-million Science and Engineering Centre at the center of the CBD Gardens Point Campus, a Process Innovation Centre will also be established. This will be in alignment with the faculty’s vision, which is to influence the future environments of BUI through the innovation provided to businesses and communities and through advancements in the fields of science and engineering.

Roles and Responsibilities

Roles and responsibilities are especially important in the governance of an organization or an organizational initiative as they provide guidance on who the members of the organization or the team should report to; ...

The change styles of John Howie and Craig Lockhart

The management styles adopted by John Howie and Craig Lockhart have differences in structure and management –workers relationship. While, John was able to succeed with the aid and support of the Naval Commodore who is inclined to change, he adopted downsizing of workforce as a strategy to reduce operational cost. He was able to downsize and reduced the operational layers from seven to four. John’s management strategy was focused on cost reduction. In this scenario, John was able to reduce cost and saved £14million against a target of £3 million. However, such strategy is not workers friendly; motivation for workers ...

RC 381

Leadership and Employee Involvement
Pursuant to the conditions set by OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Program (VPP), organizations who choose to implement this aim to promulgate a safe and secure working environment that effectively addresses the safety and health requirements of all personnel. As such, it was explicitly noted from the Regulation Information that outlined the theoretical framework for the VPP that one of the crucial elements which would assist in regular evaluation and review of the organization regarding adherence to OSHA’s safety and health standards is the “high level of management leadership and employee involvement in the safety ...

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The modern business environment is so complex and challenging that only those organizations can survive who have a team of highly competent, educated and committed workforce. The employees must be talented enough to cope with diversified business situations. In addition, they must be capable of meeting challenging deadlines and can alter their behavior and working style according to the requirement of the task at hand. The availability of such talented staff is only possible through highly competitive and fair recruitment and selection system. A part from recruitment and selection, the retention of employees is also a very ...

Describe your department/agency/division budget, and main focus

or purposes of the document (Mission, Vision, and Values)
The Ventura county probation agency is given the mandate to supervise offenders of different ages on probation. It also has the role of preparing sentencing report required by the courts. On the juvenile context, it ensures there is preparing for an equivalent for their facilities operations. The mission of this agency is to safeguard the community security by initiation of a program that graduated sanctions. The sanctions are purposed to bring balance of services between the lawbreaker and the community. Under the jurisdiction of the agency, the young , adult and ...

Tim Horton’s internal audit plan is conducted by the accounting staff to provide specific guidelines to be used by the management review team and private certified public accounts to carry out accounting processes. The audit plan consists of several phases and these include planning, fieldwork, a take notes meeting and a counteractive audit. Planning processes are the most important step in ensuring a successful internal audit. Tim Horton Inc. operations include the development and franchising of quick service restaurants principally in the United States and Canada serving premium coffee, fruit smoothies, soups and other food products. As a franchisor, royalty revenue is ...

Information in this eportfolio is strictly private and is being accessible to specific people with the understanding that those individuals shall uphold confidentiality and not divulge or distribute any portion of this eportfolio to third parties short of the prior written consent of the author. The information contained in this eportfolio is the sole property of (student name), under the care and guidance of Walden University.

Purpose Statement 3

Intended Audience 4
Method of Organization 5
List of Work Samples 6
Reflective Evaluation 7
Purpose Statement
This portfolio is meant to display all my personal, professional and ...

Defining appropriate learning objectives

When planning adult training classes, it is constructive to use a checklist that highlights the main topics to consider in class. This checklist will enable a teacher to form questions and goals in creating a curriculum for the training classes. Process and product model set the goals expected at the end of the curriculum, and it defines achievement methods of the objectives in the curriculum (Tyler, 1951). Objectives of process and product model equip teachers to help adult students understand their keyboarding skills. The model should also help the students understand the essential concepts required in keyboarding classes. As a result, it enables ...

This case study presents bosses who are difficult to deal with mainly because they always think of what is best for the company. In the process of doing so, they push each and every person to surpass their limits. It is quite tough for an employee to deal with a difficult boss. They are always unpredictable like the commodore, less rational and less understandable. This makes it difficult to deal with them especially since one minute they seem quite understanding and the next they minute they behave like monsters.
Both bosses’ posses the characteristics discussed above. From the case, ...

Annotated Bibliography

Carer, N. (1991). Learning To Measure Performance: The Use Of Indicators In Organizations. Public Administration, 69(1), 85-101.
Performance indicators (PIS) are fundamental in management of government affairs. For example, the Thatcher administration considered use of PIS extremely fundamental for administration. This article bears extensive research on the significance of use of PIS in management for public agencies, private businesses, and government departments.
This article extends authority following proper analysis on the management of the British government by Margaret Thatcher. This is an indication that PIS can be used in the appraisal and management of large organizations ...

The Diamond E Strategic Template

The Applied Projects facilitated the application of strategic processes and frameworks in case analyses. To explore the learning outcomes from the completion of the Applied Project, the Diamond E strategic template and the strategic planning process will be reviewed in the following discussion. Apart from describing the Diamond E strategic template and the strategic planning process, the discussion will also cover the three most important aspects of both.
The Diamond E as a strategic planning process encompasses: (a) the goals and objectives of the organization, (b) the capabilities of the organization, (c) and the activities or processes that the organization should ...

Our case study revolves around the possibility of this franchise turnaround and corporate revival , which transformed it what deemed to be the worst during its low points in the 2004 to a team that would later clinch the Stanley Cup in 2010. So we already identified an achievement attained after the overhaul. We will the show this happened and exactly transpired. Rocky Wirtz the son of the deceased owner and the father took charge of the franchise just before the 2007-2008 season started. It was also only four weeks after the death of his father Mr. Willaim “Bill” Wirtz. His ...

There are a variety of different problems presented at Cengage Learning, but none of them are particularly insurmountable issues without some attention from upper-level management. Some of the issues presented by current and past employees are specific to Cengage Learning, while others are general issues that are faced in many corporate environments.
The first, and perhaps the primary area of concern at Cengage Learning is the issue of communication. The communication at Cengage Learning is problematic in two areas: peer-to-peer communication and hierarchical communication. The first recommendation for action that is suggested for Cengage Learning is to implement strategies ...

In the case of “The Superintendent’s Directive” the problem stems from the improper implementation of the change being initiated by Superintendent Porter. The first thing that Dr. Porter should have done is to call for a meeting among the principals of the schools under his supervision. During the meeting, he should discuss his proposal to the principals. He should explain why he thinks it would benefit the schools. It would be best if Porter invites the consultant to explain to the principals what the proposal is about and what advantages it will offer the schools. Porter should listen to ...

We went for management and teamwork building activity in mountain Everest. We Were to work in a group of five members, where there was a team leader, physician, environmentalist, marathoner and I was the photographer. As we set ourselves on the base camp, each and every member had his or her own goals and we had the group goals. My goals as the photographer was to reach the first second camp, where I would spend extra day in both camp 1 and camp 2. Such a decision was an intuitive decision making since I was to give reasons such as the health ...

In this essay I am going to discuss about Britney spears who has a mood disorder called bipolar disorder.

Britney spears born on 2nd December the year 1981 in McComb in Mississippi and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana is an American pop star. She is daughter to Lynne spears and Jamie spears. She started attending classes in dancing and was a great gymnast, but of all things she liked to sing. This love for singing made her audition for The All New Mickey Mouse Club show at age 8, but because she was young they turned her down. 2yeras later she went and auditioned for a role in Mickey Mouse for the second time and now she won the role and ...

McKinley Consulting Group Incorporation

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BUSINESS BOOKLET QUESTIONS

- Define the term secondary sector
Secondary sector is defined as a particular section of the economy that deals with manufacture of finished goods. It includes several industries that use machinery to transform the products extracted by the primary sector to come up with finished goods and services that are more appealing and more useful to the final consumer.
- Define the term production:
Production is defined as the process of transforming raw materials and other resources through incorporation of manpower’s ideas and knowledge to goods and services that are appreciated and utilized by the final ...

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Question 1:
What are the advantages of Kaizen over a tayloristic approach (applied in the Ford factories) with respect to quality management?
Question 2:
Which measures can you suggest to avoid an exploitation trap when applying Kaizen in a company?
Answers:
Answer 1:
The Kaizen concept, unlike the tayloristic approach is simple and straight forward as it simply means improvement. The Kaizen approach involves different stakeholders like workers and managers. The involvement of different people in the organization ensures that everyone plays a role in the improvement process. For instance, the top management are determined to ...

In the article Strategy: An Executive’s Definition, the authors seek to define a business strategy. The authors are quick to point out that strategy differs from mission, vision, priorities, goals and plans. According to Favaro et al (18), a business strategy is “the product of choices that executives formulate on where to play, how to win and maximizing long-term value”. This article therefore examines these three critical aspects of business strategy. The first aspect discussed is “where to play”. This aspect defines the target market on the needs to be met and the customers. The several characteristics of a target market ...

Bureaucratic organizations are slow to adjust to change but there is something a manager can do regularly to make change less shocking when it is necessary. Managers can consistently and subtly remind employees of the company goals which are stated in the mission statement. If managers do this everyone will be working towards the same goals all the time. It helps everyone feel like they are on the same team and when change is necessary a manager can remind everyone that ‘Well, the goals are still the same.’ The reminder should help make any changes seem less scary or unnerving.
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Motor Ways Company is a road construction company which is based in Kenya. The company was given the responsibility to construct roads in the rural parts of Kenya in order to open them up so as to encourage trade in the area. The main reason for opening up these rural areas was to encourage trade and also to promote rural industrialization which is in line with the Kenyan vision 2030. The industry laid down their objectives which were also in line with the objectives for opening up those areas. However, most of the fundamental objectives both from the side of ...

A manager is an individual with the capability of uniting subjects in order to accomplish desired goals and objectives using the available resources effectively and efficiently (Fayol, 2008). Managers are normally challenged to lead their firm’s teams and department in an effort to define the roles and responsibility of the workers. The acronym POLC refers to a summary of the four basic functions of managers which include planning, organizing, leading and corporation (Justin Tan & Litsschert, 2006). However, these functions can be applied to a level of management hierarchy. Therefore, there are three levels of management, which include top or administrative ...