AN ORGANISATION AND ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOR An organization is a social unit of people that is structured and managed to meet a need or to achieve collective goals. All organizations have a management structure that determines relationship between the different activities and the members‚ and it subdivides and assigns roles‚ responsibilities and authority to carry out different tasks. Organisations are open systems‚ this is to mean that they affect and are affected by their environment. On the other
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ASSIGNMENT PROGRAMME: BACHELOR OF COMMERCE UNIT NAME: ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOR UNIT INSTRUCTOR: MR. GERVAS MWETA UNIT CODE: HBC 2209 ACADEMIC YEAR: 2012/13 PARTICIPANTS: MROKI‚ Evans ISHENGOMA‚ Fredrick KOMBA‚ Dominic LEONARD‚ Obed ALANDO‚ James YUSUPH‚ Iddy MREMA‚ Albert LEVELS OF STRATEGIES Strategy is the direction and scope of an organization over the long-term: which achieves advantage for the organization through its configuration of resources within a challenging
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social identity What are Teams? “Teams are groups of two or more people who interact and influence each other‚ are mutually accountable for achieving common objectives‚ and perceive themselves as a social entity within an organization. ” McShane and Travaglione (2007‚ p.266) Types of Teams ➢ departmental teams ➢ production/service teams ➢ self-directed work teams ➢ advisory teams ➢ task force (project teams) ➢ skunkworks ➢ temporary work
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side emissions of electric cars with this graph. Here we see the higher amount of emissions per electric car‚ although this can naturally be compensated during the lower emissions during the life-cycle of this car. To note that in case the battery has to be replaced during the life-time of the vehicle‚ the amount will increase to 12‚5t of CO2 per car‚ so more than the double of a gasoline car. 2.2 Source of energy. Here we get to one of the biggest problems of electrics cars: the way we charge
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In 1996‚ electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast‚ produced no exhaust and ran without gasoline........... Ten years later‚ these futuristic cars were almost completely gone." ’Who Killed the Electric Car’ is a documentary which unfolds a complex set of events around the development and demise of the modern electric car. The story stems from California from the early 1990s to 2006. Chris Paine‚ the film maker has woven together interviews and archival
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Electric cars are seen as the future of human life. They provide an oppurtunity of being clean and eco-friendly. Electric car motors are magnificent and figuring out how they work is a mystery. Electric cars have also been around for a while since almost two decades ago. Electric cars are proven to be better for the environment. Electric cars are a prime example of how electricity has changed over the years. First‚ electric cars are amazing‚ but what is more amazing is the motor that makes one
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entrants is very high. Entering the electric automotive industry in 2003‚ Tesla itself faced the challenges of being the new entrant into the market having numerous financial troubles that required high capital investments‚ building the brand and distributions channels. However‚ for established manufacturers with considerable economic power to enter this market is relatively low due to their capabilities and governmental program support for developing electric vehicle (Shirouzu‚ 2011). There is a
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over clean emissions-cars. In 1996 the company introduced the EV-1 electric car in California and Arizona. Hundreds of the electric cars were soon on the road. Then they all disappeared. The mystery behind their disappearance is the subject of the documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car?" Electric vehicles had many advantages over their competitors in the early 1900s. They did not have the vibration‚ smell‚ and noise associated with gasoline cars. Changing gears on gasoline cars was the most difficult
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The most obvious advantage of electric car batteries is that they don’t produce the pollution associated with internal combustion engines. According to the Electric Vehicle Association of Canada‚ or EVAC‚ even EVs recharged from coal-powered electric generators cut carbon emission roughly in half. EVs recharged from cleaner forms of electrical power generation‚ such as hydropower and nuclear plants‚ can reduce carbon emissions to less than one percent of those currently produced by internal combustion
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The Importance of Ethical Behavior and its Significance in Persuasion Ethical behavior is often seen as amoral when used for persuasive purposes. This is possible because persuasion may be used in unethical situations as well as ethical situations. Either way‚ it depends upon the person who is trying to persuade others. Adolf Hitler is an excellent example of someone who persuaded millions of people to behave unethically. On the other hand‚ Mother Teresa used persuasion for ethical reasons by caring
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