...Leading and managing change in organizations: Importance of human resource capacity building Term Paper (Individual Assignment) MCP 2135 – Leading and Managing Change in Organizations MBA in Human Resource Management Semester II – 2010/2012 Course Director : Prof. Sudatta Ranasinghe Professor of Management Name of the Student : Gamini Hettiarachchi Student Registration No. : 110046980 Date Submitted :16.05.2011 Word Count : 1662 words, 5 single side A4 pages Leading and managing change in organizations: Importance of human resource capacity building Term Paper (Individual Assignment) Abstract This term paper addresses human resource capacity building as a strategic instrument in leading and managing change in organizations. After describing the process and the basic steps in leading and managing change, the article has taken an effort to identify the role of leaders and the managers to derive a conceptual frame of reference to develop arguments in strategic importance of human resource capacity building in the process of leading and managing change in organization. To meet the challenges, negative as well as positive, HR capacity building is needed in most of the steps and stages in the process of leading and managing change in organizations. Further, developing human capacities has highlighted as one of the major roles and core functionalities of leaders and managers. Viewing human resources as human capital and beyond, the term paper argues that without...
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...Impact assessment of capacity building and training: assessment framework and two case studies Jenny Gordon and Kevin Chadwick Centre for International Economics, Canberra February 2007 The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) operates as part of Australia’s international development cooperation program, with a mission to achieve more-productive and sustainable agricultural systems, for the benefit of developing countries and Australia. It commissions collaborative research between Australian and developing-country researchers in areas where Australia has special research competence. It also administers Australia’s contribution to the International Agricultural Research Centres. ACIAR seeks to ensure that the outputs of its funded research are adopted by farmers, policy makers, quarantine officers and other beneficiaries. In order to monitor the effects of its projects, ACIAR commissions independent assessments of selected projects. This series reports the results of these independent studies. Communications regarding any aspects of this series should be directed to: The Research Program Manager Policy Linkages and Impact Assessment Program ACIAR GPO Box 1571 Canberra ACT 2601 Australia tel +612 62170500 email © Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research GPO Box 1571, Canberra ACT 2601 Gordon, J. and Chadwick, K. Impact assessment of capacity building and training: assessment framework and two case studies. Impact Assessment...
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...Chapter 9: Capacity Planning and Facility Location Overview This chapter defines capacity planning and location analysis and explains the steps and factors considered when making these types of decisions. The relationship between capacity planning and location analysis is described. The use of decision support tools for capacity planning and location analysis is described. Answers to Discussion Questions in Textbook 1. Explain why capacity planning is important to a business. Having the wrong level of capacity causes negative effects. Too much capacity means that are costs are higher than they should be since we are paying for more land, equipment and a larger building than we need. Not enough capacity negatively affects the level of service provided to our customers. 2. Explain the differences between design capacity and effective capacity. Design capacity is the maximum output that can be achieved using temporary measures, such as overtime and subcontracting. Effective capacity is the maximum output that can be achieved under normal conditions, including realistic work schedules and regular staff levels. Effective capacity is usually less than design capacity. Effective capacity is what we can achieve over long periods of time, while design capacity can be reached on a short-term basis. 3. How is capacity utilization computed, and what does it tell us? Capacity utilization is the actual output divided by the capacity times 100%. It...
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...the market. We penetrated the market by building factory in Fardo and building warehouses to the respective regions, Caleopeia, Sorange, Entworpe, Tyran. Another component that we had to consider was finding the optimal cost to increase market share and increase our profit margin. Discussion on the logistics will be discussed thoroughly, which affected our decision points and our overall outcome. There are a few questions we needed to answer before we built a road map to our strategy i.e. figuring out where to build the factory and warehouse, estimate the demand of the four regions and Fargo region, should we change capacity, adjust ordering point with respect to quantity, and also adjusting the parameters made to ordering point. Some of these decision points was made according to what information we had on hand for instance we needed historic data to forecast the demand. However, other regions we did not have historic data to use so at the end of year 2 we were able to gather that information and used it to our advantage. With some of this information we were able to implement a strategy as long as it was parallel with our decision points. Our basic strategy was to make sure we were in full capacity daily, finding the most optimal cost, and letting the market decide how much to sell as opposed meeting the demand. We were not able to completely meet all our demands. That would be impossible. Our ultimate goal was to have the capacity and produce in a timely fashion. Below we...
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...EDU 675 Week 1 DQ 1 Building Capacity in the Collaborative Process – What’s Your Focus (NEW) To Buy This material Click below link http://www.uoptutors.com/edu-675-new/edu-675-week-1-dq-1-building-capacity-in-the-collaborative-process-whats-your-focus Building Capacity in the Collaborative Process – What’s Your Focus? The sharing of ideas can be a beneficial process during collaboration (Atweh, Kemmis, & Weeks, 1998; Goleman, Boyatzis, & McKee, 2002). Those researchers and professionals in the field who support collaborative learning strongly believe that sharing ideas with others “increases interest among the participants but also promotes critical thinking” (Gokhale, 1995, para 2). Further, “collaboration lets you share responsibility and combine the knowledge, creativity, and experiences of others” (Unknown (n.d.) Often, when we collaborate through the exploration and insightful sharing of each other’s ideas, we can systematically improve upon our own. As a way of further developing your action research and communicating your ideas to your classmates, you now have the opportunity to accomplish both while providing feedback to your class peers. The purpose of this process is twofold. First, it promotes your critical thinking and, second, it gives you an opportunity to share your experiences in the research design. In summary, the process of providing collaborative feedback builds capacity in your thought process and in the implementation of your action research...
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...EDU 675 Week 1 DQ 1 Building Capacity in the Collaborative Process – What’s Your Focus (NEW) To Buy This material Click below link http://www.uoptutors.com/edu-675-new/edu-675-week-1-dq-1-building-capacity-in-the-collaborative-process-whats-your-focus Building Capacity in the Collaborative Process – What’s Your Focus? The sharing of ideas can be a beneficial process during collaboration (Atweh, Kemmis, & Weeks, 1998; Goleman, Boyatzis, & McKee, 2002). Those researchers and professionals in the field who support collaborative learning strongly believe that sharing ideas with others “increases interest among the participants but also promotes critical thinking” (Gokhale, 1995, para 2). Further, “collaboration lets you share responsibility and combine the knowledge, creativity, and experiences of others” (Unknown (n.d.) Often, when we collaborate through the exploration and insightful sharing of each other’s ideas, we can systematically improve upon our own. As a way of further developing your action research and communicating your ideas to your classmates, you now have the opportunity to accomplish both while providing feedback to your class peers. The purpose of this process is twofold. First, it promotes your critical thinking and, second, it gives you an opportunity to share your experiences in the research design. In summary, the process of providing collaborative feedback builds capacity in your thought process and in the implementation of your action research...
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...some examples of services that are high in credence qualities. How do high credence qualities affect consumer behavior for these services? Discuss. 3. Describe the non-monetary costs involved in the following services: a) Health services b) Home loans 4. Select a service organization of your choice a) Identify its patterns of demand. Do demand levels following a predictable cycle or change randomly? What are the underlying causes of these variations? b) What is the nature of this service organization’s approach to capacity and demand management? c) What changes would you recommend in relation to its management of capacity and demand? Why? 5. Why do customers switch service providers? Can you do anything as a marketer to prevent the customers from switching? Discuss. 6. (a) Explain the importance of branding of financial services giving suitable examples. (b) Explain the importance of physical evidence for an educational institute. 7. The GATS conceives of services as being traded internationally through four modes. Explain these four modes and give specific examples of each. Q1) What are the implications of the services marketing triangle? Explain giving suitable examples. Ans:- Services Marketing Triangle is a model for the relations between company-personnel-customers. It focuses upon making and keeping promises to customers. Points of the Triangle Each side of the service marketing triangle...
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...student feedback and leadership a report on the 2006 leadership for excellence in learning and teaching project (le67) developing Multi-level leadership in the use of student feedback to enhance student learning and teaching practice http://emedia.rmit.edu.au/altclgp/ 2009 Project Leader Professor James Barber – Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Project Manager Associate Professor Sandra Jones – Director Learning & Teaching Unit Project Officer Brenda Novak ISBN 978-1-921426-36-0 Student Feedback and Leadership A Report on the 2006 Leadership for Excellence in Learning and Teaching Project (LE67): Developing Multi-Level Leadership in the Use of Student Feedback to Enhance Student Learning and Teaching Practice 2009 Project Leader Professor James Barber - Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Project Manager Associate Professor Sandra Jones – Director Learning & Teaching Unit Project Officer Brenda Novak Report written by: Associate Professor Sandra Jones and Brenda Novak. Case studies written by: Dr Mali Abdollahian, Ian McBean, Geoff Outhred, Dr Kate Westberg. Photographs - Copyright © 2009 RMIT University Photographers Margund Sallowsky and Kate Ebbot unless otherwise stated. ISBN 978-1-921426-36-0 Support for this project has been provided by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council, an initiative of the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. The views expressed in this report do not necessarily reflect...
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...Research and Analysis Market Potential for SHGs Conclusion Annexure - Market Survey Responses Acknowledgments I am grateful to Hindalco Industries Ltd for permitting me for 3 weeks Internship in Rural Development Department. Thanks to Mr Avijit for his support and guidance throughout the internship period. I would also thank Mrs Rajshree Verma for mentoring me in this internship. I also appreciate the employees and staff of Aditya Birla Rural Technology Park and Mahila Mandal Renukoot for their support and assistance in the entire process. Finally I would thank the WeCare team in NMIMS for providing me with this opportunity of gaining knowledge about the social issues faced by the society and how a company like Hindalco extends its capacity to curb these issues. Executive Summary This report is the study of market potential of products which are made by SHGs which are part of the Rural Development project of Hindalco, Renukoot. A brief summary of the development work and the thrust areas for which Hindalco works on is also covered as part of this study. Training and development activities done in the local communities to develop the competency of the people are also covered in this report. Market research of Gift Items and Handicrafts was done in the retail stores in Renukoot. Analysis of the...
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...Women in development (WID) is an approach to development projects that emerged in the 1970s, calling for treatment of women's issues in development projects. Later, the Gender and development (GAD) approach proposed more emphasis on gender relations rather than seeing women's issues in isolation.[1] Ever since the First World Conference on Women in Mexico City in 1975, approaches to «women's issues» have changed considerably. Development agencies, including FAO, first advocated the Women in Development (WID) approach, which was useful in making the importance of women's productive work more clearly visible, as well as in recognizing women's essential role in development. This approach focused on using development resources to improve women's conditions, for example through projects for women. However, the WID approach tended to focus solely on women as a separate, homogeneous entity and to ignore the basic structure of the unequal relations between women and men. Because it failed to take into account the wider social and economic context, WID often ignored the issues of how men might be affected and how important gender interactions are. | Over time, WID evolved into Gender and Development (GAD), which focuses on analysing the roles and responsibilities that are socially assigned to women and men, the social relations and interactions between women and men, and the opportunities offered to one and the other. The GAD approach defines gender and the unequal power relations between...
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...Fire Hazard Management of Dhaka City: Addressing Issues Relating to Institutional Capacity and Public Perception Md. Monowarul Islam* Neelopal Adri** Abstract Dhaka City has been experiencing high rate of urbanization since the last few decades. Presently, more than 11 million people are living in Dhaka City. The development trend of Dhaka is deliberately shifting vertical direction to cope with the extensive population pressure. Nowadays, high rise buildings are being constructed in every parts of the city but in most cases the dwellings are being constructed without maintaining the planning rules and regulations. Fire hazard vulnerability of Dhaka City dwellers has been increased due to reckless building construction and nonconformation of Fire Protection Act, 2003. Dhaka City has been experiencing many fire accidents at present and in most cases lack of proper precautionary measures along with the institutional inefficiency, insufficient equipment support and lack of public awareness are causing this situation more complex. Existing planning rules and laws are also insufficient to the present context of Dhaka City. As most of the dwellers do not know how to use the fire fighting equipments, in most cases all the precautionary measures for combating fire generally go into vein. Therefore, institutional reform, strengthening of capacity at individual and institutional level are needed in order to reduce fire hazard risks of Dhaka City...
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...Explain Corporate Scenarios and then describe how they can have an effect on the formulation and implementation of a firm’s strategy. Business scenarios are an imperative strategy that may be utilized preceding, and as a key info to, the improvement of the structural engineering, to determine the qualities of the Technical Architecture specifically from the abnormal state prerequisites of the business. They are utilized to recognize and comprehend business needs, and along these lines to infer the business prerequisites that the building design advancement needs to address. A business situation is basically a complete portrayal of a business issue, both in business and in building terms, which empowers singular prerequisites to be seen in...
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...Reflection Organisational legitimacy, capacity and capacity development Mobilising against hunger and for life: An analysis of Derick W. Brinkerhoff capacity and change in a Brazilian network John Saxby Pretoria, South Africa Discussion paper No 58A June 2005 European Centre for Development Policy Management Centre européen de gestion des politiques de développement Study of Capacity, Change and Performance Notes on the methodology The lack of capacity in low-income countries is one of the main constraints to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Even practitioners confess to having only a limited understanding of how capacity actually develops. In 2002, the chair of Govnet, the Network on Governance and Capacity Development of the OECD, asked the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) in Maastricht, the Netherlands to undertake a study of how organisations and systems, mainly in developing countries, have succeeded in building their capacity and improving performance. The resulting study focuses on the endogenous process of capacity development - the process of change from the perspective of those undergoing the change. The study examines the factors that encourage it, how it differs from one context to another, and why efforts to develop capacity have been more successful in some contexts than in others. The study consists of about 20 field cases carried out according to a methodological framework with seven components, as follows:...
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...Principles Mandatory September 2011 The Nestlé Management and Leadership Principles Principles Mandatory September 2011 Issuing authority Chief Executive Officer Target audience All employees Approver Executive Board of Nestlé S.A. Repository All Nestlé Principles and Policies, Standards and Guidelines can be found in the Centre online repository at: http://intranet.nestle.com/nestledocs Copyright All rights belong to Nestec Ltd., Vevey, Switzerland. © 2011, Nestec Ltd. In case of doubt or differences of interpretation, the English version shall prevail. Design Nestec Ltd., Corporate Identity & Design, Vevey, Switzerland Production Altavia Swiss Paper This report is printed on BVS, a paper produced from well-managed forests and other controlled sources certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). Table of contents 3 4 5 6 7 CEO message Nestlé – A people-inspired company Leading the “Nestlé way” A decentralised and aligned organisation A mutual commitment The Nestlé Management and Leadership Principles 1 2 The Nestlé Management and Leadership Principles CEO message Nestlé – over its long historical development from a small town operation to the world’s leading Nutrition, Health and Wellness company – has demonstrated an exceptional capability to adapt to an ever-changing external environment. The core values and principles that have guided this journey and are fundamental to our Company’s success are articulated in the Nestlé Management...
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...Library Philosophy and Practice 2008 ISSN 1522-0222 Importance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Making a Heathy Information Society: A Case Study of Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State, Nigeria Monday Obaidjevwe Ogbomo Esoswo Francisca Ogbomo Department of Library and Information Science Delta State University Abraka, Nigeria Introduction There is widespread research interest in information and communication technologies (ICTs). According to Crede & Mansell (1998), ICTs are crucially important for sustainable development in developing countries. Thioune (2003) notes that for the past two decades most developed countries have witnessed significant changes that can be traced to ICTs. These multi-dimensional changes have been observed in almost all aspects of life: economics, education, communication, and travel. In a technologydriven society, getting information quickly is important for both sender and receiver. ICTs have made it possible to quickly find and distribute information. Thoiune (2003) indicates that many initiatives have taken at the international level to support Africa's efforts to develop a communication infrastructure and. These efforts are designed to enable African countries, including Nigeria, to find faster ways to achieve durable and sustainable development. Helmut (1998), cited by Akpore (1999), states that of the technological changes that have influenced our lives in recent years, information technology (IT) has...
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