Transmitted to: IKEA Prepared for: George S. Kencana (Lecturer) Unit 3: Organizations and Behaviour Banking Academy‚ Hanoi BTEC HND in Business (Finance) Prepared by: Kim Thai Ha F02-050 [12 January 2010] Table of contents I. Executives summary 6 II. Introduction 7 III. 1. Compare and contrast the different organizational structures and culture favored by Swedish and Americans 8 2. Relationship between IKEA’s structure and culture‚ also the effects
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Evolution of Management Thoughts (Managerial Function) Management is studied in business academics since earlier times and it is considered as an integral part to understand business operations. People have been changing and redesigning organizations for centuries. Though the 20th century is noticeable in history as an ’Era of scientific management’‚ still it does not indicate that management tactics were not used in yester years. Many studies indicated that Management theory evolved with "scientific"
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Task 1a. “The cost of scientific management is the organized study of work‚ the analysis of work into simplest element and systematic management of worker’s performance of each element.”--- Peter Drucker. Scientific Management is a theory of management that analyzes and synthesizes workflows and its main objective is to improve economic efficiency‚ especially labor productivity (Mitcham‚ Carl and Adam‚ Briggle Management in Mitcham (2005). The two underlying assumptions under this theory are:
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BIOGRAPHY OF STEVE JOBS Steve’s Childhood Steve jobs‚ born on 24th Feb 1955‚ in the city of San Francisco‚ was adopted by Paul and Clara jobs‚ middle class Americans. He did his high school from the city of Los Altos which was a home to an unusually high number of engineers. Steve decided to graduate from Reed College in the city of Oregon‚ a renowned liberal arts college and one of the most expensive ones in America which required his parents to put all their savings in his tuition. However
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Acknowledgement I would kindly like to thank our “Organizational Behavior” lecturer Ms. Kalpana Ambepitiya for bequeathing us such a great opportunity to identify and evaluate our knowledge and showing our capability to successfully complete the assignments. Not only did we prove ourselves‚ but also did we get a prospect of studying how to get used to a time planner in order to complete our work within the time given. I feel & believe that this assignment helped me (Personally) to brush up my
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Organizational Behaviour “Organizational Behaviour (OB) is the study and application of knowledge about how people‚ individuals‚ and groups act in organizations.”(www.nwlink.com) “Organizational behavior is the systematic actions and attitudes‚ which people demonstrate within organizations‚ research.” (S. Robbins‚ P.) “Organisational Behaviour is a misnomer. It is not the study how organizations behave‚ but rather the study of individual behaviour setting.” (http://www.referenceforbusiness
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(Page 13 & 14) Case study: Job Enrichment at Volvo 1. Itemise the differences in the hygiene factors when the Kalmar plant is compared with the Torslanda plant. Answer: The working condition at Torslanda plant was extremely noisy‚ making conversation at a normal level impossible whereas the Kalmar plant has special insulation installed which is used to keep noise down. This is particularly important as this was problem at the Torslanda plant so the company decided to install special insulation
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APUSH Mock 6 Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1. Which of the following statements is true about immigration to the United States during the last two decades of the 19th century? a. Southern and Eastern Europeans came in larger numbers than earlier in the century. b. Irish immigrants came in larger numbers than earlier in the century. c. The US government entered into a “gentleman’s agreement” to ban immigrants from certain
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twentieth century gave rise to the term ’Fordism’ consisting of the theory that high corporate profitability can be achieved by high wages to the employees. Even before Ford‚ Fredrick Winslow Taylor had propagated the ’scientific management theory’ or ’Taylorism’. Characteristic of Human Resource Management HRM relates to managing people at work. HRM is concerned with employees‚ both as individuals as well as a group. HRM is concerned with helping the employees to learn and develop their potentialities
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JOB DESIGN MEANING Job design follows job analysis i.e. it is the next step after job analysis. It aims at outlining and organising tasks‚ duties and responsibilities into a single unit of work for the achievement of certain objectives. It also outlines the methods and relationships that are essential for the success of a certain job. In simpler terms it refers to the what‚ how much‚ how many and the order of the tasks for a job/s.Job design essentially involves integrating job responsibilities
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