Georgetown University Center for Public & Nonprofit Leadership Marketing & Communications in Nonprofit Organizations David Williamson Essays on Excellence Lessons from the Georgetown Nonprofit Management Executive Certificate Program © 2009 Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership Georgetown University Georgetown Public Policy Institute Essays on Excellence Lessons from the Georgetown Nonprofit Management Executive Certificate Program Advocacy in the Public Interest
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Strategic Management Journal Strat. Mgmt. J.‚ 24: 491–517 (2003) Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/smj.314 STRATEGIC PLANNING IN A TURBULENT ENVIRONMENT: EVIDENCE FROM THE OIL MAJORS ROBERT M. GRANT* McDonough School of Business‚ Georgetown University‚ Washington‚ DC‚ U.S.A. The long-running debate between the ‘rational design’ and ‘emergent process’ schools of strategy formation has involved caricatures of firms’ strategic planning processes
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WorldCom: Organizational Culture and Unethical Safeguards Organizational culture is one of four influences whether an ethical or unethical behavior will be made. WorldCom’s demise‚ deliberately overstating their income by $7 billion between 1999 and 2002; and their once valued stock of $180 million becoming nearly worthless‚ can attribute a significant amount of their failure on their “dis”organizational culture. Corporations worldwide who do not think this type of fraud can happen at the hands
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WORLDCOM‚ INC: CORPORATE BOND ISSUANCE Introduction This case raises many interesting questions concerning the record setting issuance of corporate debt by WorldCom‚ Inc. (“WorldCom”). Both the surprisingly voluminous structure of the proposed issuance and the foreboding macro-economic climate in which it was slated spark concerns over the risk and cost of the move. One of the first questions that must be addressed is whether WorldCom’s timing was appropriate. Next‚ the company’s choice of
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UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA Foundations of Planning Assessment 4 - Essay This essay will discuss the topic on foundations of planning. It will identify and define some of the factors that motivate an organisation to use formal planning processes (FPP). It will also look specifically into the four main outcomes managers are seeking when they are engaging in a formal planning process. The risks associated with an over-reliance on formal planning processes will also be identified and discussed
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Fiedler’s Contingency Theory Fiedler’s contingency theory states that leadership is a trait and it is fixed. Because leadership is fixed the only variable items are the situational factors. Therefore for effective leadership the situational factors need to be changed instead of the leadership traits. Leadership trait is measured by a rating scale of 1-8 bipolar adjectives‚ with 1 being very poor and 8 being very good. The leader is then asked to identify any one member of a team the leader had to
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Planning means looking ahead and chalking out future courses of action to be followed. It is a preparatory step. It is a systematic activity which determines when‚ how and who is going to perform a specific job. Planning is a detailed programme regarding future courses of action. It is rightly said “Well plan is half done”. Therefore planning takes into consideration available & prospective human and physical resources of the organization so as to get effective co-ordination‚ contribution &
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(2012)‚ Operations management‚ Palgrave Macmillan; Basingstoke Johnson‚ R.‚ and Clark‚ G.‚ (2012)‚ Service operations management: improving service delivery‚ FT Prentice Hall; London Cousins‚ P.‚ Lamming‚ R.‚ Lawson‚ B.‚ and Squire‚ B.‚ (2008)‚ Strategic Supply Management: Principles‚ Theories and Practice‚ Prentice Hall; London. Fitzsimmons‚ J.‚ and Fitzsimmons‚ M.‚ (2010)‚ Service Management: operations‚ strategy and information technology‚ McGraw-Hill Higher Education; Boston MA. Hollins‚ W
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Carden August 24‚ 2013 Introduction The intent of this paper it to define critical concepts of strategic planning with Southwest Airlines (SWA) top management and how their organization pursued choices and different strategies to run the business by using superior performance employees that gave them a competitive advantage over their competitors. I will concentrate on the thirteen strategic staffing decisions that are critical for any organization to be successful. I will also emphasis the
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the proposition that despite the potential advantages of formal strategic planning approaches‚ it is of limited benefit to organisations operating in uncertain and dynamic environments. About this discussion‚ I would like to introduce two steps. First step‚ I want to introduce the potential advantages of formal strategic planning approaches. Then I will introduce the second step: some important reasons about the formal strategic planning is of limited benefit to organisations operating in uncertain
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