UNIT1. BUSINESS PURPOSES Task 1– P1 Identify the purpose of four different business organisations Business Ownership Size Scale Purpose Employees Income/profit Tesco PLC 260000 in the UK‚ 380000 worldwide £46.6b sales National and international: 1500 stores in the UK and 2700 worldwide Tesco’s purpose is the make a profit. They supply goods and services to consumers. Their strapline is ‘every little helps’ Tesco is a public limited company (PLC). This means that the company
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QUESTIONS. 2. How can leader or founder help create strong culture in an organisation? Can a leader eliminate culture? Explain. INTRODUCTION 1. BACKGROUND OF THE CULTURE IN ORGANISATIONAL 1.1 LEADER Leadership is a person whose can influence a person for accomplish their objective in organisation to make it more cohesive and coherent. As we know leadership try to influence a group or person to achieve their goal or target. (http://www.nwlink.com/~donc lark/leadcon. html) Always leader
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significant change. Students are challenged to formulate‚ evaluate and compare a range of strategic options and to choose the best way forward for Barclaycard 2. POSITION OF THE CASE The Barclaycard case study lends itself to illustrate how to identify and evaluate possible courses of action. In particular‚ evaluate ● the development of direction for Barclaycard’s strategic alternatives (chapter 7 of Exploring Corporate Strategy)‚ ● possible courses of action against the criteria of
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Flexibility in organization Flexibility is becoming a common world in the present world of work. Organisations find it essential to be flexible and to make its employees have the same mind set because they believe it can create organisational prosperity in terms of profit and competitive advantage. Functional flexibility is the requirement or expectation that workers will perform tasks beyond those strictly specified as their main role of function. This might entail ‘cross-working’ (performing
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Organisational commitment and job satisfaction are associated variables that affect organisational outcomes (Testa 2001). Organisational commitment can be define as ‘ a state in which an employee identifies with a particular organisation and its goal‚ and wishes to maintain membership in the organisation’ (Blau & Boal‚ p. 290). While‚ job satisfaction is referring to an individual’s general attitude towards their job and employee performance (McIntyre et al 2002). Research indicated there are three
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Unit 205 - Schools as Organisations Task A: The candidate is required to identify six different categories of school. For each category of school‚ the candidate should prepare brief notes about the way in which they are managed‚ the ages of children with which they deal and the curriculum they are required to follow. 1. Community: Example: Primary schools Run by local authority‚ age range 4-11 years‚ allot of mainstream schools and pupils are selected based on the area of school and where they
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MOTIVATION IN WORKPLACE Faith-based International Charity Background This faith-based humanitarian organisation based on the philosophy of Islam and Quran that if you save the life of one person; you saved mankind. Therefore‚ it promotes humanity in its operational areas. However‚ due to its identity of being an Islamic organisation‚ the funds are mainly generated through Muslim philanthropists and other means such as Zakat. In essence‚ Islamic identity has been the motivating factor
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few second. Organisation’s and individual’s web-pages can be accessed at the click of a mouse. In addition to these‚ real-time conversations or conferences could even be conducted in an instant at anywhere or anytime (Bingham et al.‚ 2002). This type of communication is fast‚ easy and most importantly: cheap. Other than these‚ it can be done not only locally‚ but even on an international scale. An in-depth overview of how e-recruitment has grown in business is being explained in the following part
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they differ in terms of culture‚ traditions and stereotypes. In other words‚ there are different stereotypes within an ethnic group. For example‚ Koreans and Chinese are of Asian decent‚ however‚ within the Asian groups; Korean people are stereotyped as materialistic and untrustworthy compared to Chinese people and Chinese people are considered to have poorer hygiene and parsimonious. This shows that‚ different backgrounds may influence people in distinctive ways. Kaiser and Miller’s study indicates
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text‚ and the activity or goal‚ each of which is influenced by multiple sociocultural texts” (p. 7). According to Day & Park (2005)‚ there are six types of reading comprehension- literal comprehension‚ reorganization‚ inference‚ prediction‚ evaluation‚ personal response‚ that assist language learners to be more interactive when reading. The first type of the reading comprehension is literal comprehension. It is about grasping “the straightforward meaning of the text” (Day and Park‚ 2005‚ p. 62).
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