Principles of Management
Chapter 1: 1. Developing employee skills is a challenge in almost any environment. What type of skills needs to be mostly developed for EMAL trainees?
* Technical skills.
2. Once those employees progress in their careers and get promoted, what kind of skills would be needed?
* Human skills the most and less of technical and conceptual skills.
3. Go to the Emirates Aluminum Website at www.emal.ae. What can you tell about the company’s emphasis on people and their careers? How does the company emphasize the hiring of local, in addition to international, talents?
* The company takes a special care of its employees and makes a lot of effort to improve their human powers by training. The company focuses on balancing between local hiring and international hiring to rise the probability of getting talented and hard workers.
Chapter 2: 1. Mr.Hamdoun is a big advocate of efficiency. How might principles of scientific management be useful to LCB?
- two of the three scientific methods are the most useful to Mr.Hamdoun.
1. Putting the right person on the job with the correct tools and equipment.
2. Having a standardized method of doing the job.
2. How might knowledge of organizational behavior help the bank’s supervisors manage their employees? Would Mr.Hamdoun and other top managers need to understand OB? Why or why not? 1031586
* Knowledge of OB would help the supervisors in the bank because the study of the actions of people at work is very important for people are the most important asset of an organization. Yes, even top managers need to understand OB because they also contact with other people and they need to study their actions too in order to improve the level of the company.
3. Based on information from LCB’s website (www.lebcanbank.com), what values does this bank embrace that might be important for successful organizations in the twenty-first century?
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4. Using Exhibit 2-7, describe LCB as
* Technical skills.
2. Once those employees progress in their careers and get promoted, what kind of skills would be needed?
* Human skills the most and less of technical and conceptual skills.
3. Go to the Emirates Aluminum Website at www.emal.ae. What can you tell about the company’s emphasis on people and their careers? How does the company emphasize the hiring of local, in addition to international, talents?
* The company takes a special care of its employees and makes a lot of effort to improve their human powers by training. The company focuses on balancing between local hiring and international hiring to rise the probability of getting talented and hard workers.
Chapter 2: 1. Mr.Hamdoun is a big advocate of efficiency. How might principles of scientific management be useful to LCB?
- two of the three scientific methods are the most useful to Mr.Hamdoun.
1. Putting the right person on the job with the correct tools and equipment.
2. Having a standardized method of doing the job.
2. How might knowledge of organizational behavior help the bank’s supervisors manage their employees? Would Mr.Hamdoun and other top managers need to understand OB? Why or why not? 1031586
* Knowledge of OB would help the supervisors in the bank because the study of the actions of people at work is very important for people are the most important asset of an organization. Yes, even top managers need to understand OB because they also contact with other people and they need to study their actions too in order to improve the level of the company.
3. Based on information from LCB’s website (www.lebcanbank.com), what values does this bank embrace that might be important for successful organizations in the twenty-first century?
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4. Using Exhibit 2-7, describe LCB as