Coursework Assignment Brief Semester: Michaelmas 2013 Module Code: PM204 Module Title: Business Organisational Behaviour Programme BSc (Honours) Level: 5 Awarding Body: University of Plymouth Module Leader Stephen Makinson Format: Report Presentation: No Any special requirements: All work must be submitted on the Student Portal along with an acceptable Turnitin Report Word Limit: 2‚500 words (with 10% plus or minus leeway) Deadline date for submission: 2400hrs
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Assignment for Organisational Behaviour Unit 2014-15 The assignment for this unit is to prepare an outline or ‘treatment’ for a 30 minute documentary film for television on a topic from this unit which interests you. A treatment is a description of your documentary‚ in prose‚ which guides the reader through content and tone. Usually they are written to sell films to producers. Your treatment should include the following: 1. Title (what are you going to call your documentary) 2. The pitch (what
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Organisational Behaviour and Leadership Index: 1. Executive summary 2. Comparing Maslow’s theory of motivation with Skinner’s reinforcement theory in view of critique of each theory with special reference to the South African workplace. 3. A critical evaluation of the similarities and differences between reinforcement and the expectancy theories of motivation. Motivating a choice as to which one has the mist relevance to explaining the work motivation of employees in South Africa
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Organisational Buyer Behaviour 3 elements: * Structure – the who factor‚ who participates in the decision making process and their particular roles. * Process – the how factor‚ the pattern of information getting‚ analysis‚ evaluation and decision making which takes place as the purchasing organisation moves towards a decisiom * Content – the what factor‚ the choice criteria used at different stages of the process and by different members of Decision Making Unit DMU. Structure of DMU:
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Introduction This assignment will analyse the organisation behaviour of two mining companies: WMC Resources and BHP Billiton. It will discuss issues such as: motivating in the short term‚ resistance to change‚ internal and external forces that favour change‚ characteristics of an effective team‚ factors of team effectiveness‚ and how to use punishment strategies successfully. Summary Clear understanding of the relationship between performance and outcomes – e.g. the rules of the reward
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Organisational Behaviour. The Volta Aluminium Company Limited (VALCO) is an aluminium reduction facility (smelter) located in the industrial seaport city of Tema‚ east of the capital city of Accra. VALCO was originally jointly owned by Kaiser Aluminium and Chemical Corporation (KACC) - 90% and Reynolds Metals Company .The Government of Ghana purchased the 90% shares of KACC in October 2004 and subsequently completed acquisition in June 2008. Therefore‚ currently VALCO is solely owned by the
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of political leadership. Transactional leadership puts its focus on the interaction between leaders and their followers while transformational leadership puts emphasis on an approach that inspires individuals to aspire for more (Bass‚ 1990). This essay will look at both leadership styles in contemporary organizations across western societies‚ and explain why transformational leadership is more effective. Transactional leadership In this form of leadership the leader sets out goals and tasks
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underlying problems that exist in the accounting department. In the last section are some resolutions to improve the current situation. We discuss ways to provide motivation for employees‚ and reduce turnover from various theoretical models in organisational behaviour. Section 1 – Company Background Lock&Lock established in 1978‚ is a Korean based company with hundreds of subsidiaries and branches worldwide. Lock & Lock has 5024 employees including overseas employees and has 10 subsidiaries
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people have difficulty with it Problem identification is not just the first step in decision making: it is the most important There are five most widely recognised concerns. Stakeholder framing: attention-based theory of the firm: states that‚ organisational decisions and actions are influenced mainly by what attracts management’s attention‚ rather than by objective reality. Mental mode: if an idea does not fit the existing mental mode of
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things? To what extent‚ and in what ways‚ are employees motivated by different things? How can we accommodate differences? Introduction The purpose of this paper is to identify different employee motivators and their significance to the organisational outcome thorough‚ recognising different motivational theories and their applications in different examples within the hospitality industry‚ with a particular focus in the restaurant business in the UK. Being a service industry‚ the employee motivation
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