Essays on Gilley

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Strong leadership skills are imperative for every organization since employees are attracted by leaders who understand varied workplace situations and are able to design ways through which workers stay motivated. Three themes that are fundamental attributes of competent leaders include the ability to lead and influence actions of employees, ability to promote work-life balance and the need for leaders to impact positively in an organization such that their contributions to the organizations will forever be remembered. The three themes were brought forward by the guest speakers Mark Herley, Martin Plant and Michelle whose presentations provided useful insights on factors ...

The Ongoing Story of Starbucks Turn Around:

2014 Leadership Change The Ongoing Story of Starbucks Turn Around: 2014 Leadership Change

Introduction

In 2014 Starbucks announced major organizational changes starting a new leadership structure as part of its ongoing turn around focus from 2008. The new leadership restructure intended providing leverage in its operations and assets as well as gaining maximum benefit from the consumer, retail, digital, and mobile shifts currently underway in the global marketplace. Review of the past success of Starbucks’ organizational leadership change in 2008 provides the underpinnings of the direction of this next major change. The past success and the focus of the ...

Cost Leadership and Differentiation Strategies

Conventionally, companies seek profits. C'est ses raisons d'être! A senior executive would confidently assert. True, profit is one cardinal goal every business should pursue, a goal which can be achieved by cost leadership. The dilemma, however, every business faces – particularly an expanding one – is how to deliver quality services and/or products at competitive prices. The standard strategies businesses must adopt appear to be either / or. That is, in pursuing a superior quality, cost is driven up inevitably. Conversely, in cutting back on costs and offering competitive market costs quality goes down, inevitably. This dilemma has been conceptualized by Porter's " ...

Application of Leadership Practice Concepts

Application of Leadership Practice Concepts

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Today’s global business social scientists and business experts alike examine organizational culture influencing institutional, factional, and personal behavior aligned to leadership practices. The growing body of literature available on this timely subject shows one conclusion that Hartnell, Ou, Yi, and Kinicki (2011), and Schein (2004) describe a company culture as a shared set of implicitly accepted assumptions binding each member in thought, perception, and reaction to various work related environments and how this effects production, company goals and development. The focus of this scholarly investigation as an application of leadership practice concepts through a course ...

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In the recent years the importance of collaborative group testing for improvement of students’ abilities has become even more crucial. It is emphasized that group testing may benefit both high- and low-performing students. Actually, the value of traditional exams is overestimated because students usually have individual tasks. Moreover, delayed feedback may lead students into misunderstanding of their mistakes. However, it would be more effectively to discuss individual answers after exam. Giuliodori M.J., Lujan H.L., DiCarlo S.E. ran collaborative group testing to demonstrate that high- and low-performing students may benefit from appropriately hold group testing and improve their retention ...

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Organizational changes in management benefits incorporating the application of Kotter’s 8-step Change Model. Review of the following academic exercise part one outlining a change management plan through the Human Resource (HR) department of Kudler Communications provides a number of descriptions integrated with applying the Kotter Model. RBSGROUP (2014) on communicating the vision of the change incorporating the Kotter Model means, “Ensuring that as many people as possible understands and accepts the vision (p. 3).” The focus of the HR change centers on management continuity. “Once the corporate decision has been made to pursue business continuity planning as an initial ...

Customer service in all manners is very essential in every aspect of the company since they say without the customer a company cease to exist hence the slogan customer is king. As a business that is seeking to gain a jumpstart before the rest of the company we could be limited in a number of ways where customer service is concerned. Maybe staff numbers could be low not to enhance full customer care convenience and such other. Customer are more likely be satisfied by mere conversations, yes that is right most problems to the customer have to do with reduced or bare ...

The Canadian standards and guidelines for career development practitioners states that Career Development is a gradual process throughout one’s life and it involves the management of learning, work, leisure, and change over, so as to reach at an individually determined place and develop a future of one’s preference. Traditional career development was purely an individual employee’s own initiative to further his career. However, as organizations’ vouch for employee retention as a means of rising productivity and reducing costs, organizations have taken an active role in helping their employees’ careers to progress through career development programs. According to Baldwin ( ...

Awareness and Habits in the KSA

Human Resources Management (2761 words)

Change Management: Developing Environmental Sustainability Awareness and Habits in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Sustainability has become the shared goal of people around the world. The United Nations General Assembly has defined sustainability as “improving the quality of human life while living within the carrying capacity of the Earth’s supporting eco-systems” (UN 1987). The concept of sustainability is based on the need for changing to alternative energy sources and the need to respect the natural environment. The possibilities range from living in homes that make use of passive solar energy to living with state-of-the-art technology in smart and intelligent homes. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) ...

The age of new technologies makes the world we live and work in more complicated, while continuous social and economic changes increase in complexity of tasks lead to the need for adequate development of management means and methods. Lack of competence in management that some leaders have results in usage of the easiest (not the most efficient) way of interaction with the world, by some pattern, the same as in the past, by technology developed once and for all. However, due to uniqueness of each organization, no manager can improve his business by copying the organizational, technological, and other ...