Caselet 1: Elektra Products‚ Inc. Questions: 1. How might top management have done better job changing Elektra products into a new kind of organization? What might they do now to get the empowerment process back on track? The top management of Elektra Products‚ Inc. introduces a new era of involvement and empowerment in their organization. They only assigned selected managers to work on several problem-solving teams to come up on ideas on how to implement empowerment campaign. With this
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Elektra Product Inc. I. Case problem Elektra Product Inc facing a crisis in the company since their market share was declining among the competition‚ limited idea to create new innovative products‚ lack of communication between the department and all of sudden most of the workers feel uncertain about their future in the company. Lack of leadership and management causing many problems inside the company and reflected to the company profit in the last few years. At the moment company realize
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industry: Rewarding a Job Done Safely. The reasons are obvious why this could be a well received practice; who wouldn’t want a $20.00 Bass Pro Shops gift card every month if he had no reported injuries during that period? And for the worker who was hurt that month? He’ll have to come out of pocket when he wants to go shopping. The problem becomes apparent when employees start to cover up their injuries just to get the same reward as everyone else. The question lingers: How Much Is Safety Worth?
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Elektra Products‚ Inc. 1. Martin Griffin‚ the CEO of Elektra Products Incorporated‚ was on the right track with the idea of empowerment among Elektra Products’ employees. However‚ one has to question if it was a contradiction for Martin Griffin to leave the meeting early of his employees that he called together to discuss new ideas. Martin Griffin could have performed a better job of changing Elektra Products into a new kind of organization if he had actually stayed to listen to the full ideas
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Case Analysis Report Elektra Products‚ Inc. I. Introduction Elektra Products‚ Inc. is an 80 year old publicly held company that had once been a leading manufacturer and retailer of electrical products and supplies. In recent years‚ the company experienced a host of problems: market share was declining in the face of increased foreign and domestic competition; new product ideas were few and far between; departments such as manufacturing and sales barely spoke to one another; morale was at all
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Case Analysis: Elektra Products‚ Inc. Problem/Issue Analysis: This case details the change in the Elektra Products‚ Inc. company into an employee involved and empowered organization. It discusses how Martin Griffin and the rest of the department heads deal with the implementation of the empowerment campaign. Primarily‚ majority of the company employees upon hearing of the plan have shown disinterest and skepticism to the idea. The negative response towards Griffin’s speech supports such and is
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decision to shift to Crytex Systems. Moral obligations and interpersonal responsibilities have been increasingly differentiated both in the philosophical and in the psychological literature. Moral obligations in the Kantian tradition define duties or obligatory actions that we owe to everybody under all circumstances. They include‚ for example‚ the obligation to keep a promise or to be veridical. These obligations have been subsumed under the principle of justice and fairness. On the other hand‚ expectations
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and to enjoy‚ not restrict. What most people fail to realize is that the video game industry‚ like the film industry‚ is heavily regulated with a strict code of parental guidelines already in place. Even the game consoles to play these violent games have parental controls. What I fail to understand is that some parents believe its okay to give their children 18+ rated games even though they are well under that age‚ and say that these games are the sources of violence between children. If parents would
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issue has been whether Siegfried Sassoon or Wilfred Owen did a better job of getting their points across. On one hand‚ some argue that Owen did a better job because he wasn’t as angry. Since Owen did not show his anger as much it helped visualize his writings better. On the other hand‚ however‚ others argue that Sassoon did a better job because he did not use complex writing styles. In sum‚ the issue is whether Sassoon did a better job or if Owen knocked it out of the park. Yes‚ they had one similarity
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The world is forever changing‚ but is it changing for the better? I believe that it is. Technological advancements such as the internet have enabled us to easily access information in a matter of seconds. Scientific advancements such as vaccines have also allowed us to cure the seemingly incurable. These examples have shown that the world is changing for the better. When the internet was first introduced to the public‚ people were amazed by its capabilities. Even now‚ the internet is still constantly
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