...Assignment #2 Case: “Allstate Insurance Company” Krystal Goodin October 31, 2010 Leadership and Organizational Behavior Professor: Dr. LAURA POGUE Allstate has an effective goal-setting program because the company is the world's largest publicly held personal lines insurer. It has operations in 49 states and Canada. Allstate sells 13 lines of insurance with auto, property, life and commercial insurance as the major lines. Allstate offers retirement and investment products and banking services. With all these products and services this shows you that they are very effective. They keep growing. Challenging goals have been set. Allstate set goals for diversifying the company. The goal has two major points the internally focused goal which is “unlocking the potential for excellence in all workers by providing them the tools, resources, and opportunities to succeed.” (pg 215) The second goal Allstate insurance set out to achieve is external. Allstate insurance wants to create a more diverse workforce that matches the experiences, background, and sensitivities of the markets it serves. The ability of Allstate Insurance diverse employees can be found in step two. The employees have to master new skills and they are provided with a road map of the critical skills necessary for advancement. (pg 216). The Allstate Insurance diversity employees have to be motivated and exhibit goal commitment in order for achieve their career advance employees have to commit to attending career...
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...STRAYERUNIVERSITY CASE STUDY: ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY SUBMITTED TO DR. DEMETRIUS CAROLINA IN PARTIAL FULLFILLMENT OF THE COURSE-BUS 520 BY MORLU DUWOR STRAYERUNIVERSITY LOWER BUCKS CAMPUS, PHILADEPHIA SEPTEMBER2011 Table of Contents BACKGROUND /INTRODUCTION 1 USING THE MODEL OF GOAL SETTING 1-2 ALLSTATE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE FROM THE DIVERSITY INDEX 3 HIGH PERFROMANCE REWARD SYSTEM THAT MOTIVATE EMPLOYEES3 -4 MOTIVATION BY THE DIVERSITY INDEX AND QLMS4-5 CONCLUSIONS/RECOMMENDATION5 REFERENCES CITED 6 Assignment #2 – Case Study: “Allstate Insurance Company” . Introduction/Background Allstate Insurance Company is America’s second largest personal insurance carrier, insuring one of every eight homes and automobiles in the country. Of its 50,000 employees, 52.2% are women and 24.7% are minorities--14.3% of whom are African American. Allstate boasts a minority representation among executives and managers of 21%, with 66% of that number being African American. In1993 when its president and CEO backed diversity as a "strategic imperative." Allstate officially launched effort. The effort of Allstate Insurance centers around two goals: 1) expanding career and advancement opportunities for women and minorities; and 2) fostering greater customer...
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...Assignment #2 – Case: “Allstate Insurance Company” October 30, 2011 The goal setting seems in line for managers to create and foster a diverse employee arrangement to complete all the company missions. Allstate is a company with a diverse clientele and therefore requires a diverse workforce. One reason is to get a full understanding or appreciation for cultures and people they service and to be able to connect with them on a more personal level. This is the goal for management to achieve. It is the employee’s goal to penetrate their respected market segments. Allstate accomplishes their goals by understanding the strength and importance of a diverse work force. Allstate’s workforce is a multi cultural and multi lingual company which gives them the competitive advantage they need to remain successful. By applying the model for goal setting, we see the companies challenge is to be able to reach a wide and diverse market. The goal is clear for management; they are to assemble a diverse group, penetrate market areas, and complete company objectives. To reduce the difficulty of this, mangers will recruit and hire direct matches for the objectives at hand. The ability of the assembled group to penetrate the market segment solidifies the goal commitment and can reduce the task complexity. With the continued feedback from employees, mangers can assess how they are reaching these markets and how effective their groups are in reaching those goals. Managers can also...
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...Assignment #2 – Case: “Allstate Insurance Company” Ashley Tevis April 28, 2011 Professor Lathan Using the model for goal setting, evaluate Allstate’s goal setting process to determine whether or not Allstate has an effective goal-setting program. From the case study, Allstate seems like a great company to work for. They have the goal setting and employees in mind at all times. Goal setting isn’t always easy, but it is very important for individuals and organizations to set goals. It is important for individuals to set many goals, career goals and personal goals. I know I have set many long and short term career and personal goals. If you work for an organization and you are on a team, the teams set long and short term goals as well. When you are in a team setting, everyone is there for each other; no one is set out on their own to reach that goal. You do it by working together and pushing for the best. By setting goals, it gives the team or individual something to strive for. I think Allstate’s goal setting program is very effective. They have specific steps, Succession programming, development, measurement, and accountability and reward. Each of these steps plays a role in their goal setting. Allstate takes the time to track career development and opportunities among all of their employees through their management information system. Then each employee receives an assessment of their current job skills. This is to determine in the employee needs any skills...
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...A: Constructive Discharge As a Legal Concept As you know, recent company growth prompted us to make production schedule changes after the first of the year. Production employees are no longer working the standard Monday through Friday work week; instead, they are now working four 12-hour days with four days off. The four work days can occur any day of the week, Monday through Sunday. The entire production team is required to work this shift. Because of this schedule change, a constructive discharge claim has been filed against us by Thomas Thompson. Thompson feels we deliberately made his working conditions intolerable, namely because he now has to work on a religious holy day because of our mandatory shift change. Thomas saw the mandatory shift change as discriminatory, and he resigned, believing he had no other choice in order to practice his religion. Prior to the change in schedule, Thompson worked Monday through Friday with two days off on the weekend. This allowed him to observe his holy day on either Saturday or Sunday. By definition, constructive discharge occurs “when the employer, rather than acting directly, ‘deliberately makes an employee’s working conditions so intolerable that the employee is forced into an involuntary resignation’” (Young v. Southwestern Savings & Loan Association, 1975). Claims such as Thompson’s that end up in court are generally tested by applying the reasonable person test. According to The University of Chicago Law Review, “an employee...
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...Pre-Seminar Assignment: ISEG section: 2B Topic: A new insurance company that sells auto/home/small commercial insurance * Competitive Analysis #1: * Name of service: Property and Casualty Insurances * Parent company: Nationwide Insurance Company * 2 or 3 key features of service: Example of a car insurance Personal Belongings covered under a certain amount, 24 hour claim service , replacement car * Estimated age and gender of the target audience: From 16 to 99 years old, it’s a large target * Tag line / Strap line / Slogan of the product: They changed their tagline from “Life comes at you fast” to “Nationwide is on Your Side” in 2009 * Where the product is advertised (which publications, web, literature, etc.) The products are advertised mainly in TV commercial, that you can also see on their website. They also communicate through social media like Facebook, Twitter etc… You can have bad press on it, for example they took off the ads which were next to a commercial against female violence. It leaded to an outcry. * What do you think are the strengths and weaknesses of their advertising (short statement)? Their strength is the fact that they want to be closer with this advertisement, first by the slogan which want to gather people in a way of trust, further in the different TV commercials because we can see different kind of people to reach more targets. They play on a humoristic ton and that’s why they’re different comparing...
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...Unbearable conditions can include discrimination, harassment or negative change in pay. In our company’s case the former employee alleges that enforcement of company’s new shift policy is discriminatory because the policy requires employees to work on a religious holy day. The former employee can establish that constructive discharge occurred only if he can show that our company purposefully created an intolerable or discriminating working environment to quit. The company did not create the new shift policy to discriminate against one or more group of employees with religious belief. The policy clearly stated that due to company’s growth the production demand has to get increased to 12 hour shifts with any 4 days at work from Monday through Sunday. Title VII Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 law makes it illegal to discriminate against someone on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex. The law also makes it illegal to retaliate against a person because the person participated in an employment discrimination investigation, filed a charge of discrimination or complained about discrimination. The former employee is filing law suit under this law that also requires that employers reasonably accommodate employees’ sincerely help religious practices, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the operation of the employer’s business. If the company has to accommodate the employees’ religious practices along with 12 hour shifts then the work load...
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...[pic] |Leadership and Organizational Behavior – BUS 520 | |Student Course Guide | |Prerequisite: None | |Quarter |Fall 2010 | |Meeting Days/Time |Wednesday 6pm-10pm | |Instructor |Karmetria Burton | |Instructor Phone |678 362 0842 | |Instructor E-mail |Karmetria.burton@strayer.edu | |Instructor Office Hours/Location |5-6 pm Wednesdays or by appointment | |Academic Office Phone Number | | |INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL - Required ...
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...ADR Assignment 2 Ashley Graham Shaeffer, Whiting v. Grange Mutual Casualty Company , 1981 Ohio App. LEXIS 14351 In this case Plaintiffs, an injured passenger and his mother, sought review of an order from the Franklin County Common Pleas Court (Ohio), which dismissed their personal injury action and sustained a motion for summary judgment filed by defendant liability insurance carrier.he only contractual duty of Grange to plaintiffs was to pay medical payment expenses pursuant to the terms of their insurance contract. It is conceded that all medical payment obligations were discharged. Grange's remaining duty under the insurance contract was owed to their insured, which was to defend in good faith and to pay any judgment assessed against its insured which was covered under the terms of the policy. If Grange fails to discharge its obligations to its insured, the insured has a claim against Grange for breach of contract. Plaintiffs argue that a liability insurance carrier has a duty outside the terms of its insurance contract to deal in good faith with the public, including those persons injured by the actions of its insured. There may be such a duty, but it does not create an independent cause of action that may be enforced by the injured party through a direct action against the insurance carrier. The Superintendent of Insurance has the power to take action against an insurance company who engages in unfair acts or practices in the business of insurance...
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...M&IS 44045-001 INFORMATION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT FALL 2014 TR 11:00 am - 12:15 pm Room 110 BSA INSTRUCTOR: | Dr. Catherine M. Bakes | OFFICE: | A-405 BSA | OFFICE HOURS: | Mon 2:30-5:00 pm, Wed 1:15-3:45 pm, and by appointment | OFFICE PHONE: | (330) 6721162 | E-MAIL: | cbakes@kent.edu | TEXT: | “Essentials of Management Information Systems, 11th Edition,” Ken Laudon & Jane Laudon, Pearson, 2015, ISBN 9780133741315. | COURSE DESCRIPTION Information technology has changed how small to medium size businesses, large corporations, banks, government agencies, healthcare institutions, and other organizations operate and succeed in today’s global economy. Organizations can use IT to transform themselves, improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their operations, and achieve a tremendous competitive advantage. This course will examine the issues surrounding the design, application, and effective use of information systems. It will show how critical information systems have become for all organizations and take an in depth look at IT best practices. The course will have a real world orientation and focus on the role of IT in finding practical solutions to business problems. It will provide a comprehensive overview of IT applications, current trends, and cutting edge technologies, as well as timely and insightful perspectives. Course highlights will include innovative ways that actual enterprises are using IT in...
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...M&IS 44045-001 INFORMATION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT FALL 2013 TR 11:00 am - 12:15 pm Room 108 BSA INSTRUCTOR: | Dr. Catherine M. Bakes | OFFICE: | A-405 BSA | OFFICE HOURS: | Mon 2:15-4:45 pm, Wed 1:15-3:45 pm, and by appointment | OFFICE PHONE: | (330) 6721162 | E-MAIL: | cbakes@kent.edu | TEXT: | “Information Technology for Management: Advancing Sustainable, Profitable Business Growth,” 9th Edition, by Efraim Turban, Linda Volonino, & Gregory R. Wood, Wiley, 2013. ISBN: 9781118357040 (Softback) 9781118453247 (Binder ready)9781118547861 (E-text) | COURSE DESCRIPTION Information technology has changed how small to medium size businesses, large corporations, banks, government agencies, healthcare institutions, and other organizations operate and succeed in today’s global economy. Organizations can use IT to transform themselves, improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their operations, and achieve a tremendous competitive advantage. This course will examine the issues surrounding the design, application, and effective use of information systems. It will show how critical information systems have become for all organizations and take an in depth look at IT best practices. The course will have a real world orientation and focus on the role of IT in finding practical solutions to business problems. It will provide a comprehensive overview of IT applications, current trends, and cutting edge technologies, as well as...
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...Running head: MANAGED DIVERSITY MANAGED DIVERSITY AND ITS IMPACT IN A MULTI-CULTURAL WORKFORCE WITHIN THE UNITED STATES A MASTER’S CAPSTONE RESEARCH PAPER Presented to Professor Robert B. Donaldson Division of Public Administration Problems in Applied Public Management In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Public Administration College of Business and Public Administration Governors State University By Shari Denise Holloway Winter 2007 Approved: ____________________________________________ Dr. Robert B. Donaldson Date: TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE ABSTRACT………………………………………………………………………….....4 INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………………...….5 WHAT IS DIVERSITY ……………………………………..........................................6 WHAT IS WORKPLACE DIVERSITY ………………….………………….….…….7 Corporate Culture and Diversity ………………………………….……………9 DIVERSITY POLICIES AND PRACTICES IN THE WORKPLACE………………14 Workplace Discrimination ……………………………………………………14 Glass Ceiling ………………………………………………………………….15 Affirmative Action…………………………………………………………….16 Equal Employment ……………………………………………………………17 FROM VALUING DIVERSITY TO MANAGING DIVERSITY …………………...18 MANGING A DIVERSE WORKFORCE: A Multicultural Approach ………………18 DIVERSITY FACTOR (THE ISSUES)………………………………………………21 Cultural Collision ……………………………………………………………...
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...analysis is to support management planning and decision making by identifying, maintaining, and evaluating information,as well as recommending actions. * Legal environment * Entity structure Investment banking is concerned with the primary function of assisting the capital market in its function of capital market intermediation, i.e. the movement of financial resources from those who have them means investors, to those who need to make use of them means issuer for generating profit. Therefore, it can be inferred that investment banks are those institutions that are the counterparts of banks in the capital market in the function of intermediation in resources allocation. Investment banks carried on carious activities it helps companies and governments and their agencies to raise money by issuing and selling securities in the primary market. They assist public and private corporations in raising funds in the capital markets both equity and debt, as well as in providing strategic advisory services for expansion acquisitions, mergers and other types of financial transactions. Investment banks are organized into three categories: front office, middle office and back office. Front office helps customers raise funds in the capital markets and advise on mergers and...
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...M2 discussion managerial accounting Unit 2: Module 2 - M2 Assignment 1 Discussion Discussion Assignment Assignment 1: Discussion—Activity-Based Costing System Activity-based costing is one of the most accurate methods that can be used to allocate overhead. However, it is not often used in many smaller organizations due to the substantial cost involved with its implementation. Using the module readings and the Argosy University online library resources, research the activity-based costing method. Use your research and/or your experiences as a working professional to complete this assignment. Respond to the following: If you have utilized an activity-based costing system in your former or current employment, describe how this system had been used. In your response, be sure to include your experience and position on the effectiveness of the activity-based costing system. Support your ideas by drawing on your readings and scholarly articles. If you have not encountered this type of system in your work experience, assume a company needs to switch to an ABC system. Describe the common cost drivers that could be used. How would the organization identify the cost drivers? How would the organization use them in the implementation of this system? You may use your former or current company for the analysis. Write your initial response in 3–4 paragraphs. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. By Saturday, June 21, 2014, post your response...
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...Nike swoosh into one of the world’s best-known brand symbols. During the 1980s, Nike revolutionized sports marketing. It powered its way through the early 1990s, aggressively adding products in a dozen new sports, including baseball, golf, skateboarding, wall climbing, bicycling, and hiking. In the late 1990s, however, Nike stumbled and its sales slipped. Nike needed to rekindle the brand’s meaning to consumers. To turn things around, Nike returned to its roots: new-product innovation and a focus on customer relationships. This time, Nike shifted toward cutting-edge digital and social marketing tools to interact with customers to build brand experiences and community. Nike is now building communities of customers who talk not just with the company about the brand, but with each other as well. Thanks to efforts like Nike+, along with a host of other new digital and social media approaches, Nike has built a new kinship and sense of community with and between the brand and its customers. The company’s outstanding success results from much more than just making and selling good sports gear. It’s based on a deep-down connection between the iconic Nike brand and its customers. Discussion Objective This discussion will explore the essence and strength of the Nike brand, and the company’s ability to forge kinship and a sense of community with sport lovers everywhere. Indeed, Nike has always blurred the line between brand and experience. As the Nike story demonstrates, in the quest to...
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