HUMAN RESOURCES AND ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS Human Resources and Organizational Effectiveness Introduction – The organization I am currently employed with is the United States Army‚ more specifically the Army Substance Abuse Program‚ rehabilitation treatment clinic at Joint Base Lewis-McChord‚ Tacoma Washington. The rehabilitation treatment clinic has 35 employees; 26 chemical dependency counselors‚ four of which are supervisors and nine administrative assistants. Key Strategy
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Organizational Management – Task 2 Utah Symphony Strengths Financial The Utah Symphony Orchestra (USO) has a long a deep history as an arts organization. This success directly related to the contributions of two major heads of the organization‚ Mr. Abravanel and the current music director Keith Lockhart. This long history has allowed them to grow their endowment to over $817‚000 as of the end of 2001. Part of the great success of the organization has also to do with the international notoriety
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Strategic Capabilities 2011 Introduction Strategy is all about planning the next moves‚ making decisions - how and where to move forward from the current position. In the past‚ strategy was associated mainly with the military sector‚ the top chiefs of command were making tactical choices in order to defeat their rivals and achieve victory. In the business sector the purpose of strategy is in principle the same‚ planning and building a road or path that will lead us to where ever it is
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Strategic Management Journal Strat. Mgmt. J.‚ 21: 1105–1121 (2000) DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES: WHAT ARE THEY? KATHLEEN M. EISENHARDT* and JEFFREY A. MARTIN Department of Management Science and Engineering‚ Stanford University‚ Stanford‚ California‚ U.S.A. This paper focuses on dynamic capabilities and‚ more generally‚ the resource-based view of the firm. We argue that dynamic capabilities are a set of specific and identifiable processes such as product development‚ strategic decision making‚ and
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do you identify as Sony’s resources‚ capabilities and core competencies? Does Sony have a sustainable competitive advantage? Sony Corporation is considered one of the world’s most successful companies‚ operating in the “electronics‚ games‚ music‚ films and financial services” industry (Hanson et al‚ 2001). Sony is known for creating “products that stimulate the senses and refresh the spirit” (Sony‚ 2007). Effectively managing a combination of its resources‚ capabilities and core competencies‚ has
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“An internal capacity for leveraging resources and competences is a prerequisite for creating competitive advantage. Discuss‚ with references to theory and real world organization of your choice”. Strategic management is a multi faced and vast area of study with many theorists presenting differing views as to what is crucial to the successful formulation of strategy. This essay will present an explanation of the internal capacity of leveraging resources and competences and show how they are creating
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What are capabilities? What must firms do to create capabilities? Capability is a capacity for a set of resources to integratively perform a stretch task. It represents the identity of the firm as perceived by both its employees and customers. It is the firm’s ability to perform better than competitors using a distinctive and difficult to replicate set of business attributes. The organization’s capability is comprised of three core assets – physical capital‚ including all tangible assets; technology
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organization and create value to its consumer‚ it is essential for Netflix to understand the competitive advantages and strategic competencies of its organization with the help from Netflix resources‚ capabilities‚ core competencies and value chain analysis. Tangible Resources Case Fact Strength Weakness Financial Resources Revenue grew by 25 percent to $4883.7 million and net income by 44 percent to $32.3 million (Ireland‚et‚ al.2013 P298) Ability to generate funds with the increment in revenue ability
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Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS) CAHRS Working Paper Series Cornell University ILR School Year 2005 A Resource-Based View Of International Human Resources: Toward A Framework of Integrative and Creative Capabilities Shad S. Morris Cornell University Scott A. Snell Cornell University Patrick M. Wright Cornell University This paper is posted at DigitalCommons@ILR. http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cahrswp/284 CAHRS at Cornell University 187 Ives Hall Ithaca
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1a) Dynamic capabilities are abilities which enable the organisation to renew and recreate its strategic capabilities to meet the needs of the changing environment. It is the capacity of an organisation to change which enables them to adapt more readily. Sustainable competitive advantage relies on resources‚ competencies and capabilities evolving with the dynamics of the industry. Sustainable competitive advantage is achieved when an organisation’s capabilities are of value to customers‚ unique
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