metaphors can be used to further analyze and understand organizations (Alvesson‚ 2011). In this assignment‚ we will be taking a closer look at a multinational enterprise‚ The Coffee Bean & Tea Life (CB&TL)‚ using the aid of two selected metaphors which are Organizations as Machines as well as Organizations as Cultures. The metaphors of Organizations as Machines help to analyze the workings of The CB&TL with the guide of Taylor’s theory of Scientific Management and Weber’s Ideal Bureaucracy Theory
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Economic Objectives Business is basically an economic activity‚ its primary objectives are economic. The economic objectives of a business are to earn sufficient profit to give reasonable reward to the investors of capital and to provide funds for expansion and diversification. The main economic objective of business may be described as under: (a) Earning Profit: Business activity is undertaken for earning profit. Profit is the basic incentive to business pursuits. It is the most important objective
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power against stakeholders e.g. customers‚ employees‚ suppliers‚ public‚ communities”. Do you agree or disagree? Explain what you answer is and why have you reached that conclusion. You are to include a clear rational argument for your case that has strong examples to support your thinking. Unlike shareholders who are solely interested in return dividends and share price growth‚ stakeholders have wide variety of interests in how companies operate. Freeman (1984) stated that stakeholders are‚ “any
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Stakeholders can be defined as all entities that are impacted through a business running its operations and conducting other activities related to its existence. The impact can be direct in the case of the business’s customers and suppliers or indirect in the case of the communities in which the business chooses to place its locations. Businesses must consider the needs and expectations of its stakeholders‚ though it need not consider them to be of equal importance. Certain stakeholders such as owners
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Abstract In this report‚ purposes of corporations are investigated under two different approaches on corporate value maximization: Shareholder Approach and Stakeholder Approach. So‚ firstly both approaches are defined briefly. Secondly‚ compare and contrast of shareholder and stakeholder approaches is made. Keywords: Purpose‚ Corporation‚ Value Maximization‚ Shareholder Approach‚ Stakeholder Approach. Shareholder Approach on Value Maximization: Shareholder approach
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|Symbolic Interpretive |Critical Theory | |Focus of Organisation |Finding universal laws‚ methods and techniques |Deconstructing organisational texts; |Describing how people give meaning and order to|Developing the intellectual ‘tools’ to ‘unmask’| |Theory |of organisation and control‚ favours rational |destabilising managerial ideologies and |their experience within specific contexts‚
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with the focus being on employee satisfaction. This is said to be the start of the HRM movement (Giri‚ 2008). The research question came from an interest in the HRM movement and the link Mayo identified between employee satisfaction and output which in turn affects profitability. Numerous amounts of research and literature support this link‚ however a piece of research carried out by Abbott (2002) indicates that there is an inverse relationship in the technology industry in particular. This is
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Zaida Ahmed 01/12/12 ORGANISATION AND BEHAVIOUR UNIT 01 TASK 2 UNDERSTAND DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP 2.1 COMPARE AND CONTRAST THREE DIFFERENT LEADERSHIP STYLES FOR THREE DIFFERENT BUSINESS ORGANISATIONS. The three different leadership styles I want to compare are:- Autocratic Bureaucratic Transformational Firstly the Autocratic leadership which is where leaders have complete power and no one else is allowed to make any decisions‚ this type
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An organisations culture is a body of its beliefs‚ culture and code of conduct‚ which influences employee behaviour in an organisation (Trevino & Nelson 2010). Cultural systems in organisations are divided into formal and informal systems. It is hard for organisations to specify written rules that cover all aspects of their work hence; the formal system presents us with limited direction (Ouchi 1977). Under formal cultural systems leadership‚ values and selection systems are discussed in this essay
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simplification of a complex process which has the following specific activities: (i) Analyzing the content. (ii) Deciding on the position of the content to be selected for instruction. (iii) Deciding on instructional objectives for the chosen content on the basis of the knowledge about (a) Lend of students (b) Their socio-cultural context (c) Time available. (iv) To study different learning experiences that arc suitable for achieving the set objectives (v) To decide on the best alternative
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