CASE STUDY: Merger of Zipcar and Avis Budget Group On January 2‚ 2013‚ Zipcar announced that it would be acquired by the Avis Budget Group. This merger may let staff members of both companies to feel uncertain and uncomfortable‚ especially of Zipcar and they feared that company was swallowed. Motivational problems related with finance were of major importance to employees of both companies and here too. The senior management and executive members of Zipcar company sought to gather and discuss
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In the 1950s‚ Douglas McGregor (1906-1964)‚ a psychologist who taught at MIT and served as president of Antioch College from 1948-1954‚ criticized both the classical and human relations schools as inadequate for the realities of the workplace. He believed that the assumptions underlying both schools represented a negative view of human nature and that another approach to management based on an entirely different set of assumptions was needed. McGregor laid out his ideas in his classic 1957 article
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: Motivation is the process that account for an individual’s intensity‚ direction and persistence of effort toward attaining a goal. Douglas McGregor proposed two distinct views of human beings: one basically negative‚ labeled Theory X‚ and the other basically positive‚ labeled Theory Y. After viewing the way in which managers dealt with employees. McGregor concluded that a manager’s view of the nature of human beings is based on a certain grouping of assumptions and that he or she tends to mold
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Organizational Behavior at Whole Foods Introduction This paper will discuss the organizational behavior concepts that relate to Whole Foods. These concepts include Theory X and Theory Y‚ human and social capital‚ the profile of the 21st century manger‚ Carroll’s Global Corporate Social Responsibility Pyramid and the seven moral principles. Whole Foods Market is a supermarket chain that functions through several completely maintained divisions. The supermarkets are located in the US‚ Canada
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order to ensure productivity‚ if a manager is too strict this could lower morale and reduce work output‚ if too easy-going morale would be higher but employees may take advantage of the situation again reducing output. There have been a number of theories developed to try and understand as
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In this case Linton and Scoville lie in theory x category. Both were by nature aggressive and believed that people lacked the motivation to do work. Could Benton have done anything differently? There could be two different ways‚ she could have acted in order to avoid this situation Situation 1
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workers did not seem happy. She did however notice that the finishing department was running efficiently and successfully. Other Division Managers berated Andy Longclaw‚ who ran the finishing department. The Division Managers seemed to follow McGregor ’s Theory X which was "pessimistic‚ stifling‚ and outdated" (Kreitner 55). For them to recognize the successes of the finishing department they had to admit to their own failures within their respective departments so bashing Andy Longclaw ’s division
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E’Ek rukaa hua faisla’’ ‚ remake of Hollywood classic ’’Twelve angry men’’ an Oscar Winning Film widely used in Management Schools & corporate for understanding ‘HUMAN BEHAVIOR’ and “LEADERSHIP STYLES’ ….. Let’s take a look at the plot first to be familiar with this movie. The movie starts from a scene in a jury room where 12 jury members are discussing the case for the final verdict. The case is regarding a murder of an old man and the suspect is his own son. Everything from the statement of
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Running Header: MY X AND Y TWO WAY STREET 1 My X and Y Two Way Street MGT 302 Organizational Behavior and Teamwork Bernard L. Aguon Trident University International MY X AND Y TWO WAY STREET 2 Abstract After reading through the various articles and learning about the different companies
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Hrm Future Trends Presentation Transcript 1. Future Trends in HRM 2. How is the environment changing? Society Technology Government Employers Employees Economy 3. How is the environment changing? Society From To Tolerant Assertive Modest expectation Rising expectation Collective Individualistic Long term oriented Short term oriented Less educated Better educated Aware of duties Aware of rights too 4. How is the environment changing? Technology From To Labour intensive Labourless
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