spent the past 20 years trying to understand how some companies are able to sustain superlative performance. It may seem surprising that of the seven factors Collins identified as essential to take a company from good to great, he chose to focus on leadership in this 2O01 piece. However, even a casual rereading of the article will convince you that he was right to do so. Collins argues that the key ingredient that allows a company to become great is having a Level 5 leader: an executive in whom genuine
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Term paper Topic: Feudal System Of Japanese Manufacturing. Members: Rittik Mondal Sachit Aggarwal Harsh Faujdar Rishi Gupta Prawal Pandey Vineet Anand Nishant chohla Dharmendra Mahjani Surya Prakash Shubham Patel Contents: ● Main paper: Feudal System of Japanese Manufacturing) ● Paper 1: Industrial subcontracting and structure in Japan: evolution and recent trend ● Paper 2:The Evolution of Japanese Subcontracting
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A Little Bit of Soul and a Lot of Success* IN the fall of 1983, a young man from Houston, named Michael, enrolled in the University of Texas intending to major in pre-med as his parents had wished. While taking classes, he continued the business he had begun in high school, upgrading personal computers for friends and teachers—this time out of his dorm room. By the start of the second semester, he had made enough money to move himself (secretly) and the business to a condo. By semester's end,
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The Leadership Quarterly 22 (2011) 121–131 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect The Leadership Quarterly j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e : w w w. e l s ev i e r. c o m / l o c a t e / l e a q u a Do transformational leaders enhance their followers' daily work engagement? Maria Tims ⁎, Arnold B. Bakker, Despoina Xanthopoulou Erasmus University Rotterdam, Institute of Psychology, Department of Work and Organizational Psychology, Rotterdam, The Netherlands a r t i c l e i n f o
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Journal of Management http://jom.sagepub.com/ New Venture Teams: A Review of the Literature and Roadmap for Future Research Anthony C. Klotz, Keith M. Hmieleski, Bret H. Bradley and Lowell W. Busenitz Journal of Management published online 26 June 2013 DOI: 10.1177/0149206313493325 The online version of this article can be found at: http://jom.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/06/26/0149206313493325 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: Southern Management Association
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QUESTION 1: What examples does the case give of links between Branson’s strategy for Virgin and the environment in which it operates? The Virgin Group Ltd is a group of separately run British companies with the Virgin brand under the leadership of English celebrity business tycoon Sir Richard Branson. The core business areas are travel, entertainment and lifestyle, among others. Richard Branson’s strategy comes from his deepest inner beliefs; “in principle there were no product
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the last 15 years. Today, entrepreneurship research is some of the most widely cited in the management discipline, with leading journals dedicated to its study and well-recognized conferences supporting its development. The methods employed and the theory foundations used in entrepreneurship today are consistent with mainstream management research. However, entrepreneurship research can still be critiqued as almost exclusively focused on North American and European research sites. The exploration of
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Compensation Does one size fit all? Compensation Does one size fit all? Due date: 6 November 2013 Leadership & People: Tutor: XXX Prepared by: Stephanie Gartrell Student ID: XXX Due date: 6 November 2013 Leadership & People: Tutor: XXX Prepared by: Stephanie Gartrell Student ID: XXX Executive Summary Designing and implementing a compensation package that rewards all staff according to
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Equity Theory attempts to explain relational satisfaction in terms of perceptions of fair/unfair distributions of resources within interpersonal relationships. Equity theory is considered as one of the justice theories. It was first developed in 1962 by John Stacey Adams, a workplace and behavioral psychologist, who asserted that employees seek to maintain equity between the inputs that they bring to a job and the outcomes that they receive from it against the perceived inputs and outcomes of others
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Mälardalens Högskola School of Sustainable Development of Society and Technology EFO703 Bachelor Thesis in Business Administration, 15 hp Managing Selection and Retention of Employees A Case Study on Länsförsäkringar Bergslagen Sisi Jin 880223 Kazi Sraboni Quader 880705 Supervisor: Magnus Linderström Examiner: Ole Liljefors June 7, 2011 Acknowledgements We, the authors, are grateful to all of those who made this thesis possible. We first appreciate each other for contributing with
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