Case Study on Entrepreneurship: Larry Page

Business Analysis

The Boundaryless Career: Modern Contemperory Perspective on Career

Human Resource Management

Concepts of Throughput Accounting and Theory of Constraints

Financial Management

Kaizen – Understanding the Japanese Business Philosophy of Continuous Improvement

Operations Management

Role of Leaders in Shaping Organizational Culture

Management Principles

Reasons You Should Commit to Lifelong Learning and Ways to Do It

One of the most valuable assets one can have is commitment to lifelong learning. The knowledge you will acquire from continuous education is a powerful possession you can ever have throughout your career. While there are so many advantages of lifelong learning, understanding the reasons why you need it is also important. Importance of Nonstop Learning Humans naturally yearn for learning. In fact, your insatiable hunger for learning begins during infancy since you become curious to your senses of smell, sound, taste, feel, and sight. The quest for knowledge doesn’t simply stop once your curiosity has been answered. As you mature, you seek for more discovery and learning while getting to know yourself. The main importance of learning is that, life is a broad concept with continuous changes happening in every stage. You need to keep up with those changes by understanding the real meaning of being alive. Here are Continue reading

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Case Study of General Electric: Six Sigma Implementation

General Electric, one of the most successful companies implementing Six Sigma, has estimated benefits on the order of $10 billion during the first five years of  implementation. GE first began Six Sigma in 1995 after Motorola and Allied Signal blazed the Six Sigma trail. Since then, thousands of companies around the world have discovered the far reaching benefits of Six Sigma, including Japan’s Taiichi Ohno used as a model for the Toyota Production System (TPS), did not let him down during bad economic times. An Overview  of Six Sigma Motorola coined the term “Six Sigma” and created the original formulas in the 1980’s. The result was a culture of quality that permeated throughout Motorola and led to a period of unprecedented growth and sales. The crowning achievement was being recognized with the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Motorola factory that manufactured television sets in the United States, took over by Continue reading

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“Job Enrichment is Just a Fancy Name for Employee Exploitation”- Discussion

Job enrichment is operationalized with job descriptions and job specifications. Badly written job descriptions and job specifications restrict management’s freedom to make changes in job tasks, duties and responsibilities; and assign work to employees. Claims of employee exploitation will usually come from trade unions. To avoid industrial disputes with trade unions, it is critical that job descriptions and job specifications be clear, concise and understandable. This is particularly so with jobs that have A,B,C, classifications. Such jobs must be carefully distinguished by job title and clearly involve different job content and job requirements. Where ABC type classifications have developed for ‘historical’ reasons it is essential that a thorough job analysis be conducted to ensure that more than one level of the job actually exits. If this is not done, claims for “higher duties” payments or upgrade to a higher classification are likely to be an ongoing source of grievances. Precise Continue reading

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Cognitive Mapping – A Mental Representation Technique

In 1947, Edward C. Tolman at the University of  California at Berkeley,  was doing experiments demonstrating that complex internal cognitive activity occurred even in rats and that these mental processes could be studied without the necessity of observing them directly.  He proposed that rats  have a cognitive map; that ‘in the course of learning,something like a field map of the environment gets established in the rat’s brain… And it is this tentative map,  indicating routes and paths and environmental relationships, which finally determines what responses, if any, the  animal will finally release.’ [Tolman, 1948, p 192] Due to the significance of his work, Tolman is considered to be the founder of a school of thought about learning that is today called cognitive-behaviorism. A cognitive map in the trivial sense is whatever mental or neural mechanism enables an animal to navigate. On this usage, it is tautologous that animals capable of Continue reading

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Impacts of Strategic Change on Organziations

Businesses usually face the complicated process of alternating culture, leadership, values, and structure while executing strategic change. However, no matter how complex these means are, they are performed mainly to advance the company’s strategy to thrive in the future. In other words, strategic changes tend to be conducted in terms of meeting the latest trends in the industry to remain equal with rivaling businesses of a similar sphere. Thus, before implementing such alternation, it is vital to analyze the possible impacts on the other parts of the company operating. Firstly, it is significant to start changes when the business is thriving and not in a crisis. Specifically, any alternations take a considerable amount of effort and funds; hence it might be impossible to perform them with the deficiency of at least one factor. Every employee should be involved in the process of a proper transformation execution and not only top Continue reading

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Case Study on Ethics: The Google Antitrust Case

Google Inc. started two decades ago as a Silicon Valley startup with an innovative way of accessing the Internet. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, CA, and came into the business world in 1997, one year after it was established with its shares offered to the public in 2004 in the most unusual online way. Currently, Google is one of the search engines that are frequently used around the world, which has enabled the company to further raise its market share.  The main product of Google is the search engine, which has enabled it to have global dominance. In addition, the company has other products such as Google Maps., Chrome Browser, Google Drive, YouTube, Play Store, Gmail, and the Android operating system. However, it is worth noting most of the above-named products are offered free of charge to Google users, but customers have to pay to access premium product features. Continue reading

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