Many people believe that leadership is being the first, biggest and most powerful. In fact leadership in an organization has more meaning definition. Leader is someone who sets directions for employees to follow to get organization goals. How they set directions and guidance, it depends on diversity of factors that organization considers on. There are some theories about kind of leadership like charismatic leadership and transformational leadership. In this case we can talk about culture of o...
"You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, they won't get you anywhere" (Seldes) Lee Iacocca, former president of Chrysler Internal communication is a subset of effective business communication. In a business context, is the dialogic process between employees and employer, and employees and employee. Communication is vital in an organization because it not only connects members within a specific department but also connects them to members from other departments, from ot...
Organisations are operating in a dynamic environment. It is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain a competitive advantage for very long as market stability is threatened by short product life cycles, short product design cycles, new technologies, frequent entry by unexpected outsiders, repositioning by incumbents, and tactical redefinitions of market boundaries as diverse industries merge. Consequently a company or a business unit must constantly work to improve its competitive advantage...
The author assumes that what happened to Galileo was unfair due to religion negatively affect on science. The legend within Galileo's stories was described as a man against superior authority, science versus religion and ethics opposed to Church. The author values justice and truth. Because he simply made it clear that he admires the fact that Galileo stood up for facts, truth and science even facing his own pain and persecution. Galileo risked his freedom, writing and publishing his point of...
Training, coaching, mentoring, development practices, are some of the important HR practices that affects the quality of the HR outcome in terms of employee skills and ability (employee performance). Apart from these behavioral and attitudinal changes (personal development skills) also leads to high organizational performance. These are achieved by the contribution of the implementation of HR practices. Training is an important factor that has shown a positive effect on organizational perform...
The firms and the relationships must be studied to understand the networks (Axelsson and Easton 1992, p. 3). Johanson and Vahlne define business networks as "webs of connected relationships" meaning in practice that exchange in one relationship is linked to exchange in another (2009, p. 1414). In a similar way, Durrieu and Soldberg (2006, p. 59) define networks "as interlinked relationships both at the individual and the organizational level". These networks usually consist of independent age...
Supply chain refers to the network of organizations that are involved, through upstream and downstream linkages, in the different processes and activities that produce value in the form of products and services in the hands of the ultimate customer or consumer" (Lysons and Farrington, 2006, p. 91). On the other hand as a comparison Supply chain management (SCM) is the systemic, strategic coordination of the traditional business functions and the tactics across business functions within a part...
J Sainsbury plc is a leading UK food retailer with interests in financial services. It consists of Sainsbury's Supermarkets, Sainsbury's Local, Bells Stores, Jacksons Stores and JB Beaumont, Sainsbury's Online and Sainsbury's Bank. The decision to diversify into convenience stores is discussed further within a Porters 5 forces analysis. Their objective is "to serve customers well and thereby provide shareholders with good, sustainable financial returns. They aim to ensure all colleagues have ...
1. Introduction Although leadership is recognised as being an important construct, it is not a concept that holds one single definition. What leadership actually is, or how to define it correctly is still regarded as a mystery by many. Leadership is something that may differ depending on the people involved, the situation at hand, and the goals being pursued, and is therefore open to subjective interpretation. Stogdill (1974: 259) concluded that there are ‘almost as many definitions of leader...
Q NO. 3 The Culture of organization has great impact on the leadership and the structure of an organization. There are different types of culture like Power culture, Role Culture, Task Culture and Person Culture. The organization in the case ADSL follows task culture. The management is seen as completing a succession of projects or solving problems often as part of a team. They work as a team which is reflected in a matrix organization or in projects teams and task force. In an organization o...
