...EMBA Class 2012-2013 MGMT 907 - Managing Human Resources Course Notes II Mithat KOC 020120255 mithat.koc@gmail.com Integrating the Organization 1. Culture and the Informal/Voluntary Network 2. Formal Teams 3. Integrators 4. Matrix Design 5. Cells and Networks 2d -Assess Internal Fit : Systems Which systems optimize the employee performance -To keep the employee in the loop... Recruitment Performance appraisal Rewards Additional sys (inform. Mang.) 2d -Assess Internal Fit : Culture Culture : values Climate : Practice Key Themes Dominant culture vs sub cultures Espoused versus real cultures Case Nestle , espresso is a completely different organization . ALTO CHEMICAL EUROPE (ACE): ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE CASE STUDY Stabilizer market situation Shrinking , Drop off in consumption 600.000 tons x 1.000$ prices vary to month 30% over capacity competition KEY STRATEGIC ELEMENT Profitability $40 to $80 (4% to 8%) Price Leadership (set by HQs) Non-price sensitive acc. - wire/cable (2% contribution to cost = 4% of 2% for these customer) - small / medium Raise volume Tin (we have it) Give customer expertise Sales Management Reponse - Ideas (Dramatic change in behaviour) More work , new customer aquisition , convert to tin Accept loss of price authority Service oriented selling Incentives (not based on volume any more) What should Graaf do to pursuade the Sales Management ? Change reward system Explain the why ( face to face meeting) costs of old strategy / behaviours versus...
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...Commonwealth of Australia Copyright Act 1968 Notice for paragraph 135ZXA (a) of the Copyright Act 1968 Warning This material has been reproduced and communicated to you by or on behalf of Central Queensland University under Part VB of the Copyright Act 1968 (the Act). The material in this communication may be subject to copyright under the Act. Any further reproduction or communication of this material by you may be the subject of copyright protection under the Act. Do not remove this notice. For more information please contact copyright@cqu.edu.au CASE 6 Tesla Motors and the U.S. Auto Industry (Case B) Michael Janovec Georgia Institute ofTechnology Frank T. Rothaermel Georgia Institute ofTechnology LON MUSK, CEO of Tesla Motors, sped past the security guard in his brand new Tesla Roadster without waving . Despite his reputation as a brash leader, Mr. Musk normally took the time t0 exchange pleasam tries in the morning . Today, however, Mr. Musk's mind was traveling a mile a minute. The company had just filed its first annual 10-K with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and Musk had an important meeting with Tesla's board of directors at the end of the week to discuss the company's future. As Mr. Musk walked into his office, a photo caught his eye. It was a picture of him ringing the opening bell at the NASDAQ on June 29, 2010, the day that Tesla went public. As he looked at the picture, he thought about how that day had changed...
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...Introduction to Information Management IST621 Summer 2014 Research and Reflection on IM Success and Failure Syracuse University School of Information Studies Dexi Kong Success case #1: Yo, an English slang is now the name of a widely successful app. How it works? Nothing but sending “Yo” to your friends--Stupid but simple. The app, which debuted in April, has been downloaded two million times, according to Or Arbel, the chief executive. "We Yo with co-workers alerting them that a meeting is starting; I Yo with my wife as a 'hi' during a busy day, I Yo with friends, without any more expectation or need than a Yo back." -- Investor of Yo John Borthwick As much as $10 million. That is the valuation investors have assigned to the new smartphone app. ere is how it success, from my personal perspective. Usefulness is the success metric of any technology rather than capabilities. Say, we need alert someone of something. A phone call might be too intrusive or unnecessary, a text message is not noticeable enough, an email may be even more ignorable. Fortunately, now we have Yo, that could help us fill this gap, fill those tiny moments that we don’t want it to be ignored but would rather not bother others by making a phone call. Technology is meant to simplify people’s life. By using this app, we can save lots of words by simply saying “Yo”. Under certain context, it’s not necessary to “make things so clear”, both the massage deliver and receiver knows what’s...
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...and Locations Units of Credit Summary of Course Course Aims and Relationship to Other Courses Student Learning Outcomes 3 LEARNING AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES 3 3 3 4 4 6 3.1 Approach to Learning and Teaching in the Course 3.2 Learning Activities and Teaching Strategies 6 6 4 7 ASSESSMENT 4.1 Formal Requirements 4.2 Assessment Details INDIVIDUAL ASSESSMENTS 7 7 8 4.2.1 Individual Written Assignment (25%) 8 4.2.2. Quiz (total 20%) 9 4.2.3. Individual Participation (10%) 9 4.2.4. Peer Evaluation and Team Reflective Journal 10 4.2.4.1. Peer Evaluation (weighting marks on group assessments) 10 4.2.4.2. Team Reflective Journal (5%) 10 4.2.5. Team Case Analysis (15%) 11 4.2.6. Team Simulation Performance (25%) 12 4.3. Late Submission 14 14 5 COURSE RESOURCES 14 6 COURSE EVALUATION AND DEVELOPMENT 15 7 COURSE SCHEDULE 16 PART B: KEY POLICIES, STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES AND SUPPORT 17 8 PROGRAM LEARNING GOALS AND OUTCOMES 17 9 ACADEMIC HONESTY AND PLAGIARISM 18 10 STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES AND CONDUCT 18 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Workload Attendance General Conduct and Behaviour Occupational Health and Safety 18 18 18 19 business.unsw.edu.au CRICOS Code 00098G 10.5 Keeping Informed 19 11 SPECIAL CONSIDERATION 19 12 STUDENT RESOURCES...
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...and Locations Units of Credit Summary of Course Course Aims and Relationship to Other Courses Student Learning Outcomes 3 LEARNING AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES 3 3 3 4 4 6 3.1 Approach to Learning and Teaching in the Course 3.2 Learning Activities and Teaching Strategies 6 6 4 7 ASSESSMENT 4.1 Formal Requirements 4.2 Assessment Details INDIVIDUAL ASSESSMENTS 7 7 8 4.2.1 Individual Written Assignment (25%) 8 4.2.2. Quiz (total 20%) 9 4.2.3. Individual Participation (10%) 9 4.2.4. Peer Evaluation and Team Reflective Journal 10 4.2.4.1. Peer Evaluation (weighting marks on group assessments) 10 4.2.4.2. Team Reflective Journal (5%) 10 4.2.5. Team Case Analysis (15%) 11 4.2.6. Team Simulation Performance (25%) 12 4.3. Late Submission 14 14 5 COURSE RESOURCES 14 6 COURSE EVALUATION AND DEVELOPMENT 15 7 COURSE SCHEDULE 16 PART B: KEY POLICIES, STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES AND SUPPORT 17 8 PROGRAM LEARNING GOALS AND OUTCOMES 17 9 ACADEMIC HONESTY AND PLAGIARISM 18 10 STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES AND CONDUCT 18 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Workload Attendance General Conduct and Behaviour Occupational Health and Safety 18 18 18 19 business.unsw.edu.au CRICOS Code 00098G 10.5 Keeping Informed 19 11 SPECIAL CONSIDERATION 19 12 STUDENT RESOURCES...
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...FRANK T. ROTHAERMEL DAVID R. KING Tesla Motors, Inc. January 1, 2015. Elon Musk, chief executive officer (CEO) of Tesla is taking it easy on this New Year’s Day. While having his coffee, he scrolls through some recent issues of The Wall Street Journal on his iPad. A headline from one current story jumps out at him, “Gasoline prices have declined for 88 consecutive days, the longest streak of falling prices on record.”1 The slide in gas prices, which began in September 2014, also happened to coincide with the slide in Tesla Motors (TSLA) stock. With increasing oil, and therefore gas, prices, people had an incentive for purchasing electric cars. Now with gas prices drop- ping, the incentive to buy would start to become less of one, and the demand for the product would probably drop. This was one of the challenges facing Musk on this New Year’s Day. In addition to hav- ing to contend with lower selling costs due to rising production, Tesla was also confronting increasing competition and economic headwinds that were likely going to lower the demand for electric cars. Musk is a serial entrepreneur longing to leave a legacy, and he believes that Tesla just might be the company that will help him leave his mark. He has a large profile already and has been described as “Henry Ford and Robert Oppenheimer in one person,” as well as “Tony Stark, the eccentric inventor better known as Iron Man.”2, 3 (In fact, Musk made a cameo appearance in Iron Man 2.) But, with sev- eral pressing...
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...been possible unless so many persons contributed to it. The first person I should give my gratitude is Prof. dr. Cong Lixin in Beijing Normal University. It is she who recommanded me to my promoter - Prof. dr. Martin Valcke. Based on the cooperation contact between the two universities, I have the opportunity to start my journey in Ghent University. The fantasty journey started from Year 2007 gudided by the Prof. dr. Martin Valcke. I am heartily thankful to my promoter Prof. dr. Martin Valcke and my co-promotor Prof. dr. Annemie Desoete, whose encouragement, supervision and support from the preliminary to the concluding level enabled me to carry on the research project. My deepest gratitude is to Prof. dr. Martin Valcke. I am not a smart student who always give him so much revision work. It is extremely fortunate for me to have a promoter who is characterized by energy, enthusiasm and patience. Some excellent ideas will arise from his brain sometimes which make us think his synaptic connection in his brain is very strong. His face is always full of real warmth on the research. His cheerful spirits and bubble laughter infect me and encourage me to get through the difficulties. And, he generously supported me to get access to the schools and gave...
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...Social Media Marketing Abstract Keywords: social media marketing, advantages, electronic word-of-mouth (e-WOM), disadvantages. Introduction Marketing is a well-built methodological science and is continuously changing its rules to adapt to the new developments. Internet development and especially social media is one of the recent changes that happened to the market and it has a major impact on the communication between the firms and customers. Internet helps people to share, to create, to adjust content, and to get informed. It has certain characteristics (Peterson et al., 1997) such as: * Stores vast amounts of information at different virtual locations inexpensively * Distributes, searches, and organizes the information powerfully and inexpensively * Serves as a transaction medium * Low cost and easy entrance * Serves as a physical distribution medium for certain goods such as software. Social media is different from traditional media as it provides quality, regularity, usability, proximity, and eternity, which makes it efficient for the firms. According to a report from the Center of Marketing Research (CMR), more large companies are using social media to promote their brand online (Belicove, 2012). The introduction of social media to the market has changed the way businesses operate and advertise. The largest mediums have been pages such as Facebook, Pinterest, FourSquare, Youtube, and Twitter. In 2012, the yearly report showed that large companies...
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...Candidate: Sign ……………………………… Date……………………………….. …. RECOMMENDATION Supervisors: This proposal has been submitted for examination with my approval as supervisor Dr. Vincent Adunga, Department of Biochemistry and molecular Biology, Egerton University. Sign: …………………………………………Date: …………………………………… ABSTRACT The development and spread of insecticide resistance in the population of Anophene species, a major vector of malaria in Kenya, presents a serious threat to the progress made in malaria control interventions. This has significantly contributed to negative gains in eradication of mosquito population that spread malaria hence increased cases of deaths due to the disease. With this resistance to insecticides on the rise, surveillance of the target population for optimal choice of insecticides is a necessity. The objective of this study is thus to assess the level of insecticides resistance in malarial vectors population along river Njokerio in Egerton University region using the WHO susceptibility test. Three sentinel sites will be selected from the region and mosquitoes larvae sampled and reared to adults in the laboratory. Two to five days old mosquitoes will be assessed for resistance levels by exposing them to the discriminating doses of Deltamethrin (0.05%) and...
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...members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens in order to help them better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries. Founded in 1921, CFR carries out its mission by maintaining a diverse membership, with special programs to promote interest and develop expertise in the next generation of foreign policy leaders; convening meetings at its headquarters in New York and in Washington, DC, and other cities where senior government officials, members of Congress, global leaders, and prominent thinkers come together with CFR members to discuss and debate major international issues; supporting a Studies Program that fosters independent research, enabling CFR scholars to produce articles, reports, and books and hold roundtables that analyze foreign policy issues and make concrete policy recommendations; publishing Foreign Affairs, the preeminent journal on international affairs and U.S. foreign policy; sponsoring Independent Task Forces that produce reports with both findings and policy prescriptions on the most important foreign policy topics; and providing up-to-date information and analysis about world events and American foreign policy on its website, CFR.org. The Council on Foreign Relations takes no institutional positions on policy...
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...Public Disclosure Authorized WPS6107 Policy Research Working Paper 6107 Public Disclosure Authorized Financial Literacy around the World An Overview of the Evidence with Practical Suggestions for the Way Forward Lisa Xu Bilal Zia Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized The World Bank Development Research Group Finance and Private Sector Development Team June 2012 Policy Research Working Paper 6107 Abstract Financial literacy programs are fast becoming a key ingredient in financial policy reform worldwide. Yet, what is financial literacy exactly and what do we know of its effectiveness? This paper collects insights from the literature thus far and summarizes global evidence on financial literacy, its correlates, and existing and upcoming causal investigations. The authors conclude with a synthesis of policy advice and practical suggestions for the way forward in this fast growing area of research. This paper is a product of the Finance and Private Sector Development Team, Development Research Group. It is part of a larger effort by the World Bank to provide open access to its research and make a contribution to development policy discussions around the world. Policy Research Working Papers are also posted on the Web at http://econ.worldbank.org. The author may be contacted at bzia@worldbank.org. The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development...
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...University of World and National Economy Department: Economics in English STUDENT PAPER Topic: Old Spice (Social Media Impact on Marketing) Year 2012 Content 1 What is Social Media 2 2 Classification of social media 3 3 How does social media work 4 4 Why is social media so popular 5 5 Social media and marketing 6 6 Old Spice – the Company 7 7 Marketing Strategy 8 8 The beginning of “Smell like a man, man!” campaign 9 8.1 It’s not about Social 10 8.2 Define the right strategy before defining the digital agenda 11 8.3 Leave room for experimentation, even failure 11 9 The Post-Old-Spice principles of social media marketing 11 9.1 Create a persona that is strong and on point 11 9.2 Seed social networks with invitations to interact 12 9.3 Engage the engaged, the famous and the influencers 12 9.4 Personalize the response and people will compete for inclusion 13 9.5 Make it episodic and easy to share 13 9.6 Keep the videos simple and short 13 9.7 Promote it with tie-ins offline 14 10 Conclusion 14 11 Sources 15 What is Social Media It is a revolutionary way of communicating with the audience. It includes web based and mobile technologies, making communities, organizations and individuals interact. Social media is defined by Michael Haenlein and Andreas Caplan as: "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0 and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated...
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...April TRAINING EXECUTIVE EXECUTIVE BUSINESS SIMULATION MARKET RESEARCH MARKET RESEARCH PACKAGE FOR THE EUROPEAN PASSENGER AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY 2009-2010 Release 9 MARKET RESEARCH MARKET RESEARCH PACKAGE FOR THE EUROPEAN CAR INDUSTRY THE EUROPEAN CAR MARKET The European motor industry is the world's largest car market, having exceeded the US market in total units sold (excluding light trucks). It is also an extremely competitive arena. Some of the patterns to emerge from this market over the last few years are listed below. 1. Sales Figures1 Historical and Current The last strong rise in sales was in 1998 (14.3m), continuing into 1999, however, in 2000 sales fell by 2.2% (14.7m) and stayed at this level in 2001. In 2002 sales fell by 3%, 2003 saw an increase of nearly 5% but this was a result of an expanding marketplace, in reality there was another fall of 1% when comparing sales in the same EU member countries. 2004 saw a genuine 2% increase in registrations, remained stable in 2005, showed a substantial 4% rise in 2006 but then the percentage increase dropped to 1% in 2007. In 2008 European car sales figures were easily the worst for over a decade: 14.6m in extended Europe, 13.6m in the core economies, a drop of 8.2% and 8.1% respectively over 2007 figures. Gloomy forecasts for 2009 proved to be well founded with the whole market falling by a further 0.7% to 14.5m, however, the market excluding the new EU countries did show a 0.7% improvement to 13.7m...
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...THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ST. AUGUSTINE, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, WEST INDIES FACULTY OF ENGINEERING & ENGINEERING STUDENTS’ SOCIETY Technical Report Writing Workshop Facilitated by: Halcyon Lawrence March 03, 2007 Table of Contents Topic 1: The Communication Model ............................................................................. 4 Topic 2: Five Cs of Technical Communication .............................................................. 7 Clarity ............................................................................................................................. 7 Structural Clarity (document level) ............................................................................ 7 Stylistic Clarity ........................................................................................................... 7 Grammatical Clarity.................................................................................................... 7 Contextual Clarity....................................................................................................... 7 Conciseness..................................................................................................................... 8 Document level Conciseness ...................................................................................... 8 Paragraph/sentence level Conciseness........................................................................ 8 Concreteness ......................................
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...Executive Summary Tesla Motors started with the objective of facilitating the growth of the electric car by making compelling vehicles first began with the Roadster, a solely electric operated sports car to complete with high performance supercars to prove that electric technology was viable and an electric car didn’t have to be boring.Tesla then expanded its technological advantage to the luxury sedan market. The Model S, a zero emission and sustainable luxury sedan, was then introduced as their second electric car in 2012 to compete in the performance luxury sedan segment. The Model S won numerous awards. Tesla Motor is aiming to make the electric car mainstream and build Tesla Motors as a brand. Thus Tesla is the only automaker that sells zero-emission sports car in serial production at present. This report will cover marketing plan for Model S electric car in Canadian market focusing Vancouver area. As per survey data, it appears Tesla have recently opened their 2nd Canadian store in Vancouver in May 2014. The first Canadian store was opened in Toronto in Nov 2012. The growth strategy for Vancouver area will be market penetration. Tesla’s goal is to accelerate the world’s transition from gasoline powered vehicles to electric mobility with increasingly affordable electric cars. To achieve this goal, Tesla have following current strategies; * Business level Strategy: A focused differentiation strategy because their customers are mainly from middle and upper...
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