MANAGING PEOPLE & ORGANISATIONS SESSION 1 – MANAGEMENT & ORGANISATIONS A – Multiple-Choice Questions 1. The term “management” involves all of the following EXCEPT _____. a. belonging to a collective bargaining unit b. assembling and using sets of resources c. acting in a goal-directed manner to accomplish tasks d. carrying out activities carried out in an organizational setting 2. The term “resources” in management does NOT refer to _____. a. leisure time b. information c. people d. raw materials
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rates are very high. Glueck & Glueck Mednick Caspi Moffitt Shaw & McKay Sampson Bursik & Grasmick Positivist Individual Trait Social Disorganization Differential Association Social Learning Subcultural Sutherland & Cressey Sykes & Matza Akers Wolfgang & Ferracuti Anderson Anomie Institutional-Anomie Merton Messner & Rosenfeld Strain General Strain Cohen When individuals cannot obtain success goals Cloward & Ohlin (money‚ status in school)‚ they experience strain Agnew or pressure
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PHI 200 THE DEATH PENALTY March 19‚ 2012 The issue that I chose to write about in my paper is the Death Penalty. The Death Penalty has been a serious issue that has recurrently caused so much conflict in our world today. My argument is that the death penalty is very important to bring justice pertaining to murderers. This issue with the death penalty is one of the highest arguments in the United States. The death penalty is something that countless individuals do not have an
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around $10‚000. Steve Jobs‚ co-founder of Apple who visited PARC‚ decided that GUI on a computer was more useful than a text-based interface. Then Apple I and Apple II were just another less interested computers as other computer giants including IBM were taking over economical stand. For an economic success‚ Steve Jobs introduced Apple Lisa with GUI as similar as Xerox Alto computer. It was sold with costs as high as $9‚900 roughly. Commercially‚ it was not successfully due to high price and
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V-Guard Industries Ltd. generates greater efficiency with IBM and SAP Founded in 1977 as a small manufacturing unit‚ V-Guard Industries Ltd. (V-Guard) has grown to become one of the largest electrical appliance manufacturers in India. The company reported revenues of more than $126 million for the 2010 to 2011 financial year‚ and a 43 percent increase in net sales during the same period. V-Guard manufactures electrical products‚ including voltage stabilizers‚ wiring cables‚ pumps‚ motors‚ solar
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References: Aker‚ J‚ M. (2009). Managing a multigenerational workforce. Buildings. 103(1)‚ 46-48. Anonymous. (2006). Beyond age discrimination to leveraging human capital. Human Resource Management International Digest. 14(3). 6-8. Anonymous. (2009). Make plans for
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Apple Inc. – IBM – Motorola Strategic Alliance also known as AIM… Content: 1. Strategic Alliance 2. AIM Strategic Alliance 3. Taligent and Kaleida Labs. - Joint Venture Companies 4. Accomplishments 5. Product : PowerPC development 6. AIM’s End 7. Glossary 1. Strategic Alliance A Strategic Alliance is a formal relationship between two or more parties to pursue a set of goals or to meet a critical business need while remaining independent organizations. Partners may
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COMPUTER REVOLUTION Personal Computers The personal computer revolution was a phenomenon of immense importance in the 1980s. What the average American commonly refers to as a PC‚ or personal computer‚ did not even exist before the 1970s. Mainframe computers had been the norm‚ and they were primarily relegated to business and scientific use. With the dawn of the personal computer all Americans were allowed potential access to computers. As competition and modernization increased‚ issues of cost
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“IBM owned and leased more than 90 percent of all tabulating machines in the United States at the time” (Wikipedia). This company became a virtual monopoly‚ because of its patents and because the firm chose to rent its equipment rather than sell it. Thomas Watson was elected president of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in 1937. “World Peace Through World Trade” became the slogan of both the ICC and IBM” (Wikipedia). IBM was founded and had major plants that IBM provided land
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References: Akers‚ R. (2006). Parental and peer influences on adolescent drug use in Korea. Asian Journal of Criminology. Schmalleger‚ F. (2012). Criminolgy today: An interactive introduction. (6th ed.). Upper Saddle River‚ NJ: Prentice Hall. www.icpd.org/development_theory/SocialDevTheory
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