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Summary of leadership philosophy

Every leader in society or organization has their personal approach and perception towards doing things. Leadership must be guided by specific philosophies that provide direction on how to achieve the desired results and performance. A leadership philosophy is quite different from leadership styles or models. A leadership philosophy focuses on how a leader behaves and his characteristics. It is the detailed kind of leadership a certain leader offers to his subjects. The philosophy I hold towards leadership is a combination of two philosophies. My leadership philosophy is to offer leadership that is based on ethics, servants and values.

Leadership should be centred ...

BSA 343

1. Change is the introduction of something that is unusual in the normal way of life. There are different types of changes such as change in an organization, changes in the way of life, and many others. The introduction of change in any institution commonly faced with many challenges as it usually result in a different mode of doing things that an individual is not used to doing. In order to identify the barriers to change, an individual should first look on how other people perceive the change, how willing they are adopting it, the effects that are associated with ...

Tencent is a social networking firm that provides various services to Chinese internet users. The company has shown accelerated growth since its establishment. The following discussion focuses on Tencent Holdings in terms of its growth, business model, value creation and market and growth granularity.

Growth

Why select Tencent

Tencent is an investment holding company that provides a variety of services such as; internet value-added services (IVAS), e-commerce transaction services, on-line advertising and mobile and telecommunication value-added services (MVAS). The company was founded in 1998 and forms one of the largest Internet Service Portal in China (Tencent Facesheet). The main aim of ...

Management of Change

Part 1 –Managing Leadership Change in D&P

While the business environment has become diverse and competitive, many organizations adopt the change management as the only strategy to unravel the changing business world. According to Stogdill (2009), managing of changes in the business practice helps to keep in pace with changing business world. Changes in businesses occur due to customer changing needs, preference, and taste. Watzlawick (2008) reveals that, most businesses strategies fail due to lack of incorporation of management of change strategy that could help in the implementation of such strategies. Meta-analysis of 20 business studies reveals ...

Fredrick Taylor developed the scientific management theory to increase economic efficiency by improving labor productivity among workers. The phrase ‘scientific management’ is derived from the systematic and observational ways used to analyze and arrange work for regular members in industries. The theory, which is based on facts, was proposed in 1930’s, but it is still applicable to date. Taylor argued that the aim of an organization should be to maximize the employer’s prosperity and improve on employees’ productivity level (Tompkins, 2005, p.26). There are four principles attached to the theory of scientific management: development of scientific ...

Introduction

A strategy is essentially a high level plan that is used by an organization to achieve one or more goals under uncertainty conditions. The concept of strategy therefore becomes ever crucial when it is suspected or is known that insufficient resources are present to achieve the desired goals. It is thus about both attaining and maintaining an advantageous position over adversaries through successive exploitation of emergent or known possibilities rather that an institution committing to particular fixed plan that is actually defined at the onset.
Strategy formulation is the task of a manager in every institution hence it is a requirement ...

Personal learning goals could be one of the most important things that a person should take into consideration. This could be a form of discipline that would help us in achieving our goals to learn more things. Based on my examination, my personal learning goals would help in in improving myself when it comes to achievement and learning. Thus, it may increase my capacity to learn and acquire additional information within this course. During the discussion, I always urge myself to become an active participant of every course activity. As part of my goal, I set myself to become participative in ...

Introduction

People working across different organizations, spend huge amount of time and significant part of life at workplace. This increases their expectations from the employers and it is essential that employers keep their workforce satisfied and happy in order to achieve efficiency in job performed by employees. Motivation is one the major factor that govern various aspects related with why people perform their jobs and what is driving factor that determine their overall behavior. A satisfied employee benefited the organization not by performing their job with full efficiency but also by reducing their absenteeism, encouraging co-workers and creating healthy environment ...

Business

This course is quite hands on as far as tangible, practical, academic and career success are concerned. It has been very instrumental in my development in both academics as well as my future demographics. It has equipped me with the ability to formulate a realistic working plan, come up with tangible success strategies and self-evaluation strategies that are bias free and enable me to assess myself with high degrees of honesty and sincerity. I am now equipped with adequate reading skills and writing skills, which are pivotal for my academic success as well as the necessary academic etiquette necessary to ...

There are various theories of human development, each of which has a different approach in explaining maturity and human development. The theories have different definitions and explanations of being human. The theories also focus on the ways on how to understand human response to collective working and to challenges in life. It is important that individuals, especially managers, have a clear understanding of these theories. This will help them to have in depth insights and ways with which they can apply in order to an effective work force that will accomplish the organization’s objectives. The manager will also use this ...

Question One: definition of political graffiti

Graffiti remains one of the topics, which attracts attention of political sociologists and other researchers in various discipline. In essence, graffiti has existed for many years, but researchers and political sociologists have paid less attention in terms of examining the roles and functions of graffiti as a form of political participation and political contentious ,despite it conveying and eliciting political messages. The fact that researchers and political sociologies have paid less attention on the topic of graffiti makes it illegitimate and unlawful in repressive regimes. In other words, the government persecutes, charges, and convicts individuals who employ graffiti as a form ...

Executive Summary

The strategic plan of Pepsi aims at establishing a clear vision and defined goals of how to maintain market leadership of Pepsi and how it has been able to be the best employer in the recent past. Pepsi Co majority of the times had a dominant position in the market, however, at the same time, it has also faced intense competition from its rival, Coca- Cola. The one type of change that it has experience in the last five years is its Diversity Inclusion Project which is now being led by CEO, Indra Nooyi, who has also been a major transformation in ...

Abstract

The success of a business is directly proportional to the relationship that exists between the business and the factors that shape its market. Each strategy undertaken by a business to is geared towards changing the perceptions of its customers. Additionally, there is a need to allure more customers into buying products or rather using their services. In this context, customer relationship management system is a strategic tool employed by objectively oriented organizations. How a business attains this is dependent on the number and nature of manipulative fronts it utilizes. Additionally, studies of divergent business situations depict how customer relationships with respective businesses determine success. ...

Introduction

Identification of Strategic Position

I would like to undertake the analysis of the firm TESCO, which is the market leader in UK. I would like to determine the Strategic Position of TESCO with respect to its capability, culture, purpose, and environment. It is important for TESCO to utilize its resources optimistically in order to continue its market dominating position in a given London Market scenario. They, however, need to improve upon their work culture and define a specific purpose so as to serve the different needs of the internal and external environment.

For this purpose, they can look down ...

I admire my peer from my micro (micro/meso/exo/macro) system because he/she has the social skills I will need to achieve my goal. What I want to emulate about this person is their ability to listen carefully and respond to matters appropriately. My friend also has good leadership skills and persuasion strategies.The behaviors of this person that are within my reach are teamwork, cooperation, patience and their ability to communicate effectively with others.

I admire my family from my micro (micro/meso/exo/macro) system because he/she has the emotional stability I will need to achieve my goal. What I want to emulate ...

In the given case study, my small manufacturing company is essentially attempting to increase the quality of our products in order to ensure faster delivery and streamline costs; at the same time, our sales are high. In order to achieve the goals that I must reach, an organization motivation plan must be created that ensures all workers have high job satisfaction, productivity and high-quality work, while also lessening turnover. Examining the situation, it is clear that the sales department itself does not necessarily need any changes in motivation, while the assembly, technology and administration departments do require an increase ...

Movenpick restaurant

Introduction

Movenpick restaurant is an organization offering services and products to the respective customers within the market. The technological changes and the increasing trends in the hotel industry depict the need of the organization to develop dynamic approaches that reflects such changes. This depicts the essence of having effective and efficient transformational leadership and embrace organization changes within the industry towards creating a competitive advantage. Transformational leader’s embraces unique qualities that define their leadership style as availed in the preceding analysis that incorporates the respective entities under the leadership style and the organizational change based approaches. Having worked for the ...

Personal thinking styles

As portrayed by my personal Life Style Inventory, my primary thinking style and back-up thinking styles were constructive styles (11, 12, 1 & 2 o’clock) and passive styles (3,4,5 & 6 o’clock ) respectively. My primary thinking styles are represented by the constructive styles in my LSI Styles profile. These thinking styles have a percentile above 75%, showing that the styles in this range highly describe my thinking style. One my primary thinking styles is humanistic-encouraging. I’m very accepting of people for who they are. Apart from this, I have accepted myself for the person I ...

Management

A company can gain competitive advantage and can achieve competitive edge if it adopts unique ways. The four most significant ways in order to create competitive advantage are as follows.

- Achieve superior efficiency
- Achieve superior quality
- Achieve superior innovation, speed, and flexibility
- Attain superior responsiveness to customers.

These four methods are considered as the building blocks of the competitive advantage. A company is regarded as a device that transforms inputs such as land, labor, capital, technological expertise and management into the outputs i.e., the goods and services. The simplest efficiency measure is the ...

- Abstract

Planning is an important aspect in businesses today. Any business that does not take initiative to plan for its future is likely to face challenges which could otherwise be identified during a desk review and planning process (Bose 2002). This document is a continuation to the business plan for Dalnim but now covering Statistics to be used in measuring quality, capacity planning md facility location, an aggregate plan to maintain competitive advantage, work system design, project life cycle, and project management and to inventory planning and management. This is with a view to make the business and financial plan operational.

- Background information

Dalnim was ...

Strategy is the method through which an organization or an individual will conduct his actions in order to achieve the desired results. Organizations employ unique strategies in order to beat their competitor and also in order to gain competitive advantage. In most cases companies normally keep their strategies as a secret that is known to a few individuals who are responsible for implementing the strategy (Burke 2011, p.45). Strategies are normally kept as a secret because if an organization’s strategy is known by a competitor, the competitor may commence employing measures to counter the effectiveness of the strategy thus the business may ...

Introduction

The Department of Homeland Security is tasked with ensuring that the citizens of the USA are provided with the security that is a right of theirs as per the constitution. They are to be protected by the government from all forms of danger by all means necessary that are under the law of the land. The government formed this department so as to prevent the atrocities that may have befallen such people are they were not safeguarded by their government. The department was tasked with ensuring that all forms of law breaking were prevented and if not prevented, they would ...

Accuray Company concentrates its efforts in providing premier radiations oncology which basically manufactures and sells tailored innovative treatment solutions that ensure high standard care mainly for cancer patients. The corporate is the leading adopter of modern technology- Tomotherapy and Cyberknife system which in a broad way assist in delivering stereotactic body radiation therapy, radiosurgery, image-guided radiation therapy, intensity modulated therapy, and adaptive therapy. Looking the organization on a business perspective, it hasn’t been doing well, and there has been dire need for the company to adopt new change to realize maximum profit and growth. The intent of this paper is ...

Abstract

In today’s competitive landscape, an organization must employ all possible means within reach to maximize growth and profitability by focusing on strategic marketing. Classic Airlines has the opportunity and resources to alter the landscape of the airline industry in its favor. In order to succeed, Classic Airlines must correctly forecast market potential and future demand, by establishing both short- and long-term marketing objectives.

Classic Airlines

Classic Airlines faces an organizational issue requiring urgent solution. The current internal and external marketing programs have not been able to satisfy the needs and wants of the stakeholders. Classic Airlines customers have resorted to ...

Personal strengths are individual internal characteristics that can be referred to as the assets that enable one to live a healthy successful life. They are the core competencies that describe the individual’s innate capacity to accomplish his/her dreams. However, most of the people are unable to identify their specific strengths. Research has shown that unless one is able to point out their strengths, they may not attain their full potential as far as succeeding in life is concerned. To help in the identification of personal interest, several individuals have embarked on programs that enable people to identify their strengths. ...

As the CEO of a multinational Organization, I will ensure that I am a visionary leader. I will be the type of leader who works towards achieving certain goals for the organization I work for. I will commit myself to protecting the interests of the Organization in such a way that success will be attainable in the long run. I will apply cross cultural leadership in the multinational Organization. I will be the kind of leader who can integrate my leadership skills to suit the different cultural backgrounds represented within the organization. I will apply this in my day to day duties ...

Forewords

Water sustainability is a crucial issue in Nigeria as well as in other developing countries. The significant issues of water sustainability in Nigeria include many factors as desertification; the depletion of critical wetlands, forests and vegetation covers at a fast rate. In addition, it includes the pollution of water sources from point sources such as industrial effluent and urban domestic wastes; unregulated utilization of groundwater for domestic purposes. There is also an issue of unavailability of portable water for citizens in most parts of the country particularly those in the rural areas and so forth (Ajai). These water sustainability issues are ...

My Leadership Traits and Competencies

Leadership and its related concepts are an area that has attracted the interest of several; researchers on the verge to develop an understanding of what makes good and bad leadership in an organization. Several believe and philosophies have been advanced to explain leadership. Besides, individual personality is also believed to have a great bearing to and a person’s leadership style (Drinon, 2012). Every person, good or bad, has his/her strengths and weakness. To become a better leader, one needs to focus on maintaining the strengths as he/she endeavors to improve on the weaknesses. This paper addresses on self-evaluation in which my ...

Introduction

Today, contemporary organizations emphasize upon building and maintaining strong relationships not only in the consumer markets but also business markets. Cooperative strategies such as strategic alliances and joint ventures are gaining immense significance in order to achieve sustainable growth and success in the competitive ad uncertain global environment. Business-level and cooperate level cooperative strategies are aimed at achieving short term or strategic objectives of the organization.

Samsung has entered into several successful strategic alliances to gain sustainable competitive advantage and strengthen its market position. Samsung has assessed its core ...

Leader can be defined as a person who guides a group of people and organizes them to achieve a common goal. Good leadership is the key to success of any successful business venture.

There are some special qualities which if present in a leader can make him successful. A leader should be honest and dedicated towards its duties. A business is the reflection of its leader; therefore by promoting healthy working lifestyle and encouraging the team to follow the ethics, the leader will be successful in achieving a friendly and dedicated workspace.
Ability to delegate a team is the most significant quality of a successful ...

Employees enjoy better satisfaction, greater quantity and quality of their output from their job environment and less absenteeism when they feel valued and genuinely recognized for their efforts. Motivation programs help employees’ understanding of their input in fulfilling the duty of the team to the organization. Motivation plans can also aid in attracting and retaining top value staff. Elements that play a key role in motivation vary from an individual to another. They include challenging work, recognition, employee participation, job security and good compensation.

Due to the complication of the human and the associates’ aspects of motivation, many experts over ...

All sane and considerate people who strive for prosperity have the same goals and targets. These goals include a healthy people, less violence and crime, freedom and a prosperous nation. However, people differ in their ideas so as to achieve these goals. Both liberalism and conservatism promoters seek to achieve positive results concerning the national educational policy. Although liberalism is supported a majority of the people, both principles (left-wing and right-wing) seek to find the most appropriate and method of overcoming illiteracy and ignorance (Neil, 28). The Democrats traditionally support the liberal principles as the Republicans believe in conservatism.

The liberalism ...

Changing AIS

Implementing a new enterprise wide change in an organization is a daunting task for any organization, and if it is not properly handled, the process can fail and lead to unprecedented losses for the organization in question. Accounting Information Systems are important in any modern business organization. Businesses cannot continue using the now outdated accounting techniques in this era of advanced technology. However, a number of organizations have encountered problems trying to implement accounting information systems for the first time or even when changing from one to the next one. Such was the case with an Australian company X-Ray Australia (Not real ...

In this assignment, I am going to write a book review of the four disciplines of execution. It is significant to note that the staffs play an important role for the existence of a successful company, hence the necessity of improving the staffs performance. Though the application of the four disciplines of execution, it help in keeping the staffs, team members, on their toes, so as to achieve the company’s objectives.

Discipline 1: focus on the wildly imperative goals

It is a fact that a company will have many significant goals to achieve, but this discipline help the company in identifying the most wildly imperative goals- could be one or ...

What precisely did the Civil Right Movement gain?

The Civil Rights Movement was a period when Black people attempted to gain their rights constitutionally. The fact that the Civil Rights Movement was a legal, political, and social struggle experienced by Black Americans to gain their full citizen rights and to achieve racial equality, as well. The movement was a challenge to segregation, to accept the Black people as human beings. Specifically, the segregation focus on the Black students to enroll or attend in the White schools in the community or the desegregation of schools. Thus, the Civil Right Movement gained the freedom from slavery, the rights of full citizenship, and ...

Sex and gender

Sex is biologically and physiological based characteristics that actually define men and women. Sex also refers to nature as well as biological parts that characterized female and male. While, gender refer to the nature and main ideas about characteristics in females and males as well as their behaviors that predominant in any given society at one time. Gender can be defined as the socially constructed roles, activities, behaviors and traits that are considered appropriate in a given society for men and women. Gender offers social expectations for females and males to be feminine and masculine (Grusky, 1994). This process involves ...

Introduction

The second battle of Fort Fisher was an important war in which the Union force’s commander, General Alfred Terry, applied most of the six principles of mission command to secure the union victory. From constituting an effective team, making clear his intent, taking initiative and motivating his force, to taking prudent risks and promoting independent actions amongst his subordinates, the commander demonstrated a remarkable degree of commanding competence. The battle was a joint attack against Fort Fisher by the United States Navy and the Union Army. Generals Alfred Terry (Union Army) and David Porter (US Navy) fought Braxton Bragg, Robert ...

Planning for a long term success

A business organization is a commercial enterprise that portraying characteristics of an organized institution that provides and supplies goods and services to the society. Organizations require order and hierarchical arrangement for smooth operation. After establishment of a business, managers entitled to different departments take charge to develop tasks and strategies on how to achieve them. The workers down the line should follow these tasks in order to achieve desired goals at each stage. The paper discusses processes of developing tasks after foundation of a business. The paper shall discuss each stage suggested to be critical in determining business success at the long-term. ...

Factor 1: Aggressiveness and Enthusiasm

What can you do to be an aggressive candidate and how can you demonstrate your aggressiveness in this interview?
I will show that I am self disciplined and confident. I will exhibit confidence in how I handle questions without being distracted by fear.

What genuine enthusiasm do you have for this organization, its products and/or services, and the job itself?

Zeal and determination to positively impact all those I will work with. I will strive to deliver and meet the goals and objectives set out by not only the organization but my own goals too.

What is your best story to demonstrate that you are an aggressive employee?

I am very active and adventurous by default because I am always eager to explore new things. This enables me ...

Good for the World: Hustle Statement - Activity: Part 1

Leading a large organisation will not only be instrumental in advancing my career development, but will be vital in helping the organisation to achieve its long term and short term goals and objectives. In this case, I intend to lead a clothing organisation to achieve its long-term objectives without undervaluing the existing organisational cultures and practices. Initially, the organisation had an effective reputation and its productivity was admirable. However, with increased global challenges including financial and economic crises, the organisation has started trailing behind its competitors in its production and marketing. The purpose of leading this organisation is to assist it ...

Abstract

Market segmentation in changing market trends is achieved through a perfect network of product establishment and distribution. The market trend is defined through a creatively identified models and scope that are objectively managed through a predictable approach. The considerable opportunities are necessitated through a merited strategy in order to understand the changing behavior among clients. The macro-segments are fully installed within a given focus and creatively deployed in order to assess the pattern of product marketing. The profitability level that Tammy Limited projects its operations is composed of the input-output model and the aggregate functions. The building factors necessitated within the business interconnection are ...

Several types of information were used to study the customers. Some of them were the customer’s preferences and sensitivity in terms of the features they like and most need. The initial strategy for coming up with a competitive advantage was the pricing policy. However, the best strategy used was the production of several models, in that the low cost, eco-friendly, family and image. The company has maintained this strategy by improving on the models and using different market strategies to market. On the analysis of the team, several things have been done to effectiveness. The first one is the ...

Today teachers are broadly viewed as central both in the area of problems with education and as the ones who can solve it. School leaders and education researchers are facing the challenge of motivating teaching professionals for reaching high levels of performance. Only in this way the nation’s goal of teaching students to the highest standards can be achieved, closing the achievement gap at the same time.

According to the requirements of the Federal government, and the No Child Left Behind Act, all the teachers of academic subjects in schools and other educational establishments should be highly qualified. ...

Innovation is one of the most confused words by many people. However, it is important to note that innovation is a common thing in business organizations and in technological sector. Those who have attempted to define innovation agree with the fact that innovation brings to the world a new idea, a product or a new way of doing something. To organizations, innovation is an important thing for the survival in the market. It is therefore important that the planners in the organization have different and unique ideas, processes, and goods that are to distinguish them from other organizations in the market. This research ...

An organization is an entity involving various activities and responsibilities. A clear and elaborate mode of control is required in the organization in order to meet its set goals or objectives. This will depend on the organizational structure adopted. The challenge is to establish an organization structure that fits the organization's operations. A combination of self managed, and outsourcing organization structure is one of the many organization structures. It forms a matrix form organization structure, that subdivides organization into several sections in terms of branches, departments or functions. The importance or pros of this structure is that, every functional ...

Question one

Organizational adaptation and sustainability refer to the process where an organization evolves to conform to the prevailing conditions inside or outside the organization. Organizational adaptation is an organization’s ability to counter organizational responses to pressures and changes in the internal and external environment. This is an ideal way of organizations to react to opportunities and threats in an industry or competitive market.

Adaptation affects organizational recognition and interpretation operations of environmental changes. Therefore, organizational adaptation is an important aspect in organizations because it helps them become aware of changes and how to deal with them. Firms that have ...

Introduction:

In this paper, the significance of good quality early childhood education has been discussed, along with the teaching strategies which encourage multicultural education. The relationship and interaction between the teacher and parents is shown to be of vital importance, in order to make a child’s learning successful and meaningful in every aspect. Some light is thrown on how a teacher can motivate children in the classroom and ignite their interest in various activities. Various assessment methods have now been developed and implemented which mainly focus on recognizing and nurturing a child’s strengths and strengthening the weaknesses or areas which need ...

Describe how the role of the traditional manager is changing

Leadership is defined as a form of social influence in a society in order to lead a group or cluster of people to accomplish a common task. Any person who leads a group is called a leader.

The role of a traditional manager is largely to lay stress on current goals. These goals are more or less internally focussed objectives such as budget, sales target, profitability or market share. He is largely reactive in his performance modes such as decision making and implementing plans. Today’s modern day manager is changing in his performance reaction. Unlike the traditional manager, the modern manager doesn’t act after ...

Genesis - Schultz’s leadership model

Great leaders usually have certain characteristics that make them special. For any organization to be successful, then they should have great leaders with special characteristics. This research will evaluate the leadership of Howard Schultz whom I believe is a leader who possesses the characteristics of a good leader.

According to leadership theories, a good leader takes care of the other employees’ needs. They should help the other employees to work through activities such as delegation (Michael, 1). In addition, the leaders should allow employees to give their ideas that can assist the organization. Howard Schultz reports that good leadership involves observation of ...

Change Management and continuous improvement are essential parts of a process and therefore in order to ensure that the quality of delivery is optimum, a technique is always required to manage the shortcomings and to improve the quality of production and service. Project management has been widely used in order to create flawless execution systems to achieve any desired output within a specific period of time. Although, project management is a single concept however there are various methodologies that are used in order to cater to multiple organizations, businesses and domains. Apart from project management there are other techniques to improve process performance ...

A particular feature of the literature is that it can send the author’s message in various ways and reach a target reader out of the crowd of ignorant ones. This can be often achieved through the hidden meaning inside a literary work or through irony, satire and caricature of the reality described. The aim of the present work is to compare and contrast Anton Chekhov’s play “The Proposal” and Guy de Maupassant’s short story “The Necklace”. In this context, the comparison will be conducted in the framework of the depicting of the same theme of gender ...

Answer c: does not achieve the required result but does achieve one of the optional results

The primary requirement of the network that must be created for the firm is to upgrade the bandwidth from 10- MBPS to a higher bandwidth. According to the requirements the bandwidth will exceed the 10-MBPS capacity and therefore UTP is a clear need, however using CAT 5 UTP the business will be able to achieve the desired comfort level with any further growth in future considering the fact that the maximum transmission distance for CAT 5 will be 213 meters. It is important to understand ...

The article by Kerr discusses a major flaw in most reward systems; what the systems reward is not what the organization or group they are used in wants to achieve. The author gives the example of the American voter community which wants presidential candidates that have comprehensive operative goals rather than those with official goals. On the contrary, the voters do not support candidates that emphasis more on their operative goals than their official goals. Kerr points out that such a reward system only ensures that the voters never get presidents with operative goals since most candidates opt to show their ...

- As much as it is true that focusing people towards the performance of work is the manager’s responsibility, it would be wrong to conclude that it is the basic one. Managers perform many duties and responsibilities. In most cases, the most important responsibility that managers perform is that of setting up a proper system that may allow effectiveness and efficiency in the manner that work is done.

- In management, it would be wrong to think that there is one best style of management. In essence, management styles that can be defined as being best ...

Executive Summary

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Digital Media Initiative (DMI) was terminated in the year 2013 because of lack of progress and many problems. The National Audit Office reported that the project had failed because there was no adequate planning, and there was confusion in the objectives and governance of the project. This report introduces the story of BBC and its failure in the DMI Project. The background of the BBC DMI project is explained as well as the reasons why the project failed. The report explains the importance of project management, and evaluates the major areas of project management ...

The corporate strategy of the firm is based on a number of factors and various elements. There are virtually tens of viewpoints and narratives on which a firm can build its core objectives. These viewpoints serve as a basis towards uniform criteria for strategy development and maximum utilization of firm’s capabilities. The corporate strategy making has gone a long way since the industrial revolution and the introduction of mass production. Various theories have been proposed by business theorist and intellectuals that revolve around maximizing a firm’s performance and competitive advantage. The evolution of those thought processes and later experiments in real business ...

Quiz 1

Decision making is normally described as the essence of the manager’s job based on various entities that encompasses management which is the main role of the managers. Decision making defines the ability of the organization to achieve the set organizational goals. The respective roles and functions of managers such as planning, controlling, organizing, staffing, and others are some of the attached entities that enable the managers make decisions hence essence of manager’s job towards increasing or enhancing organizational performance (Daft, 2005).

Quiz 2

Organization’s culture can largely define or influence the way managers make decisions based on the ...

Gender equality is a human right, an essential condition for the complete enjoyment by women and men. It means that there is an equal empowerment, visibility, participation of women and men in all area of public and private lives. The acceptance and appreciation are highly necessary of the complementarities of women and men with their roles in the society as individuals. It measures an equal representation of both women and men in a range of role and responsibility. It does not imply that men and women are the same; however, they should have equal value in the society and with equal ...

Patient centeredness entails exhibiting the qualities of compassion, empathy and responding to the needs and values of an individual patient. It also involves interpreting to the patient all the information on the medical service they are receiving. Physicians are also required to give patients information about other alternative medical procedures or other facilities that can offer more specialized care (AHRQ 169).

In order to improve transparency in health care, a lot of work and dedication is necessary from all the medical staff. The first stage in improving is planning where the goal identification occurs, and a strategy is formed to achieve ...

Introduction

Different firms in the world today are continually engaging in co-operative strategies through cooperation with other firms in partnership and strategic alliances rather than forming completion between them. They mainly engage in strategic alliances joint forces for a sustained competitive advantage and a mutually beneficial opportunity (Gulati, 1998). Two or more firms in the same or different industries but operating at the same production stage may merge to share resources at that same level as in the case of horizontal integration. This acquisition usually results to the creation of a monopoly (Lateral integration). In addition, a partnership may exist between the firm and ...