...The Leadership Grid Perhaps the best-known model of managerial behavior is the Managerial Grid®, which first appeared in the early 1960s and has been refined and revised several times (Blake & McCanse, 1985). It is a model that has been used extensively in organizational training and development. The Managerial Grid, which has been renamed the Leadership Grid®, was designed to explain how leaders help organizations to reach their purposes through two factors: concern for production and concern for people (Northouse, 2007). Concern for production refers to how a leader is concerned with achieving organizational tasks. It involves a wide range of activities, including attention to policy decisions, new product development, process issues, workload, and sales volume, to name a few. Not limited to things, concern for production can refer to whatever the organization is seeking to accomplish (Blake & Mouton, 1964) (Northouse, 2007). Concern for people refers to how a leader attends to the people in the organization who are trying to achieve its goals. This concern includes building organizational commitment and trust, promoting the personal worth of employees, providing good working conditions, maintaining a fair salary structure, and promoting good social relations (Blake & Mouton,1964) (Northouse, 2007). The grid theory breaks behavior down into seven key elements such as initiative, inquiry, advocacy, decision making, conflict resolution, resilience, and critique. Initiative...
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...Q1. What is resource based view of a firm? Ans. The resource-based view (RBV) is a way of viewing the firm and in turn of approaching strategy. Fundamentally, this theory formulates the firm to be a bundle of resources. It is these resources and the way that they are combined, which make firms different from one another. It is considered as taking an inside-out approach while analyzing the firm. This means that the starting point of the analysis is the internal environment of the organization. Resources of the firm can include all assets, capabilities, organizational processes, firm attributes, information and knowledge. In short resources can be considered as inputs that facilitate the organization to perform its activities. An organization’s resource should have four attributes to provide the potential for competitive advantage. These form the VRIN characteristics. Valuable - When resources are able to bring value to the firm they can be a source of competitive advantage. Rare - Resources have to deliver a unique strategy to provide a competitive advantage to the firm as compared to the competing firms. Consider the case where a resource is valuable but it exists in the competitor firms as well. Such a resource is not rare to provide competitive advantage Inimitable - Resources can be sources of sustained competitive advantage if competing firms cannot obtain them. Consider the case where a resource is valuable and rare but the competing organizations can copy them easily...
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...BINDURA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE EDUCATION FACULTY OF COMMERCE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS STUDIES MASTERS IN BUSINESS LEADERSHIP (MBL) NAME OF STUDENT: CATHERINE DOMBO REGISTRATION NUMBER: B1230847 COURSE: STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP AND ORGANISATIONAL DYNAMICS COURSE CODE: MBL 512 COURSE COORDINATOR: MR MASHAVIRE ASSIGNMENT: 1 DUE DATE 5/09/12 Execute an analysis of managers or leaders in your organisation on the basis of the leadership grid as was propounded by Jane Morton and Robert Black. The characteristics-traits used to classify the managers – leaders should be established. 1. Introduction It is important to understanding how organisations are managed, how activities of people are directed towards achievement of objectives and goals of the organisation. Managers and leaders are different but have complementary activities. Their activities (managers and leaders) takes place in order to make things happen to get results. 1.1 Difference between a leader and a management To manage means to bring about, to accomplish, to have charge of or responsibility for, to conduct. Management is the process of deciding what to do and then getting it done through the effective use of resources. It is about what managers do to make things happen. They define goals, determine the resources – people, finance, work systems and technology – required to achieve the goals...
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...INDEX Abstract 3 Introduction 4 Performance & Potential 5 Understanding TMS Grid 9 TMS & Appraisal Rating 11 Special Cases 14 The TMS Process 15 Use of TMS Rating 19 Advantages of the System 19 Gaps in the System 19 Abstract This project us gave the opportunity to analyze and explore performance management system at Bajaj Allianz. We have explored the performance appraisal part of the same namely understanding the Talent Management System (TMS) and its use in Bajaj Allianz. How they differentiate between potential and performance and how they rate a team Member on Performance and Potential to finally arrive at the overall TMS rating. Introduction Performance management is the process of creating a work environment or setting in which people are enabled to perform to the best of their abilities. Performance management is a whole work system that begins when a job is defined as needed. It ends when an employee leaves your organization. The soul of PMS is of course the appraisal part. Performance appraisal can be viewed as the process of assessing and recording staff performance for the purpose of making judgments about staff that lead to decisions. Performance appraisal should also be viewed as a system of highly interactive processes which involve personnel at all levels in differing degrees in determining job expectations, writing job descriptions, selecting relevant appraisal criteria, developing assessment...
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...Female Wrestling of Second life……the sexy, the tough, and the brave! I have been a fan of wrestling in Rl since the days of the late great dusty Rhodes, Rick Flare and the Four Horseman, and the late great Rowdy Roddy Piper. I can remember being especially intrigued with the females of wrestling. I enjoyed The Fabulous Moolah dominate prominent reign of the women championship in what is now known as The WWE for 30 years as well as the evolution of the female present in wrestling from Miss Elizabeth to the Bella twins. Once I found out there was a group of ladies in SL that brought the strength of wrestling to the grid, I was eager to dive off the top rope right into their world and find out as much information as I could. My journey begins...
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...[pic] GRADUATE RECORD EXAMINATIONS® Practice General Test #1 Section 3: Quantitative Reasoning Section 4: Quantitative Reasoning Copyright © 2010 by Educational Testing Service. All rights reserved. ETS, the E T S logo, GRADUATE RECORD EXAMINATIONS, and GRE are registered trademarks of Educational Testing Service (E T S) in the United States and other countries. Revised Graduate Record Examinations® General Test Practice Test Number 1 Instructions for the Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning Sections Information for screen reader users: This document has been created to be accessible to individuals who use screen readers. You may wish to consult the manual or help system for your screen reader to learn how best to take advantage of the features implemented in this document. Please consult the separate document, GRE Screen Reader Instructions.doc, for important details. This practice test includes content that some users may wish to skip. For example, some questions require you to complete sentences or longer texts from among several choices. For those questions where it might be helpful to hear the available choices in context, text of the choices in context is included. However, some users may wish to skip this material. Similarly, some questions include detailed figure descriptions that some users may wish to skip because they can get the required information from the accompanying tactile or large print figures...
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...Menu Home Cases Profile Contract Payment Information Update Coverage Minority Diversity Reporting Help Logout Case Number Address Assigned Date New In Process Complete Find Case Number = Find Clear Search Completed Cases Inspection Due Date Schedule Fee Status Menu Snapshot Print Field Notes 02/06/2012 $10.00 COMPLETED(02/07/2012) Print Invite Send Email Case Talk Services Requested AVM Value Focus Photo of house # (located on house, curb, mailbox etc) to verify correct property Photo of the road in front of the property Photo of the subject from the front Instructions The subject address was updated to standard format. Here is the client's provided subject address: 820 BRUNELLOS AVE LAS VEGAS, NV 89123 PLEASE RUSH THIS ORDER • REMINDER: • Client is ordering this inspection to verify the condition of the property. • The clarity of the pictures that you provide will be critical. • The client would like to know about deferred maintenance and damaged areas if any. New client. • Please rush. No invoice is necessary. Payment will be sent to the addressee for fee(s) indicated. Payment reference # 3074371 If data is not available, provide approximations for age, square feet, number of rooms, etc. (indicate when estimated). Reviewers will not approve reports with missing data. Provide comments explaining differences of comps & listings versus subject, if applicable. If you are currently listing this property, have listed it in the past or are in the listing office, you cannot do...
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...less than one second. When there are multiple solutions, the execution time for the obtaining the first solution varies with the number of possible solutions. These results show that the execution time of the program is primarily affected by the amount of possible results. While larger grid dimensions do increase the execution time, the increase is linear if the number of possible solutions is maintained. On the other hand, increasing the number of possible solutions will lead to an exponential growth in execution time. 1 Introduction The goal of this project is to use constraint logic programming in Prolog to develop a logic program capable of solving a decision problem in the form of the 2D puzzle, Hanjie. This puzzle consists of a rectangular grid with ’clues’ on top of every column and to the left of every row that indicate the number and length of gray blocks in that column/row. To achieve this goal, first had to be chosen the data structures that would be used to represent the problem. It was decided to use lists of lists, containing the clues for each column/row in every sublist, and a similar structure for the puzzle grid where every sublist is a row of the grid. Every square of the grid can be either a 0 or a 1 where a 0 represents a blank square and 1 represents a gray square. Our...
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...ESPN’s processing picture? ESPN customers use beside the pc also mobile platforms and soccernet.com and deportes.com to visit ESPN. So for all these platforms ESPN has to use the same personalization system. They want their personalized program to be used in all their systems and platforms. So because of the fact that they want their system to work on different devices and platforms they will have to adapt the system to the different platforms and use more data space to keep al the information accurate. 5. What are the key components in ESPN’s solution? Describe the function of each. ESPN makes use of a relational database that is called the personalization DB. This database consists of 2 specific components called the Grid and the Composer. The grid is using ABM WebSphere eXtreme Scale. It’s effectively and an in memory representation of everything in that personalization DB. The key to this is that it is extremely fast, we are talking about a sub millisecond response time. The next component is the...
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...Answer: Companies can use Second Life as a business tool foe online conferencing, online collaboration, knowledge management and prototyping. Also companies can test new products using Second Life’s 3-D rendering. 2) What kinds of businesses are most likely to benefit from a presence on Second Life? Why? Answer: Retail businesses that are already used to doing business online may find it easy to establish a viable presence on second life. This is because they are used to advertising and marketing to customers online and already have systems in for taking orders, accepting payments, and shipping products. 3) Considering what you have learned about Second Life, how could you, as an individual, create a modest start-up business on the Grid? What goods would you sell? Why would this be a good choice of product? What, in simple terms, would your business plan be? Why would it work? Answer: Considering what I have learned about Second Life, I, as an individual, will first start up my business by figuring what products are mostly used in Second Life. The product that will sell in Second life will be furniture. This will be a good choice because customers or people in second life will need furniture will need furniture for their new homes and offices. My business plan will be to invest in other products and services and wait till my investment grows before cashing out. 4) Visit eBay on the Web and see what Second Life items you can find listed for auction. How would you rate...
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...How dose JK.Rowling adapt her language to suite her audience? In this essay I will be exploring how JK.Rowling adapts her language to suite her audience in two interviews. In the 60 minutes interview JK.Rowling is more serious as her audience is adults, she is also very gloomy and reflective. Whereas in the blue peter interview she is more enthusiastic and lively in order to capture the attention of her audience who are children. Between these two interviews the style of her speech differs greatly. In the interview 60 minutes JK.Rowling starts the interview by saying “I have no nostalgia whatsoever for childhood”. She uses the word nostalgia followed with whatsoever to emphasise to the audience that she has no sentimental longing for the past. This is also an indication that JK.Rowling is not content with her childhood, hence the negativity. JK.Rowling also stammers, uses fillers and false starts, she does this because of the distress she is feeling in reminiscing her childhood. JK.Rowling also uses very few para-linguistic which makes her seem tense. To underline her discontentment in child hood JK.Rowling expresses the point that she would not go back if she was paid. JK.Rowling uses this phrase in a non-literal sense for a vivid effect of her disapproving childhood. JK.Rowling then reveals to the interviewer of how she was bullied as a child, which explains part of the reason why she had no nostalgia for childhood. The interviewer prompts JK.Rowling to reveal more by saying...
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...only source of communication with my family, my boys' teachers and co-workers/bosses. What worries me about our dependency on some technology, is if you had to go back to the day that certain technology did exist like GPS would you remember how to use a map? If you were at the library and the computer system there was down, would you remember how to use the card catalog? I'm sure there are some people who don't even know what a card catalog is. With all that being said I do not think I could live off the grid. Maybe for a week or two vacation. But not for any longer then that. Going off the grid would be good because it would force one to get back in touch with nature. It would give you time to clear your head and unwind. Getting back to the basics of life like years ago when life was simple. It definitely would take a little time to get used to. But would be a nice break. I do not feel that in my profession (human resources), I would be able to go off the grid. I use the telephone several times throughout the day and make multiple copies of...
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...infrastructure. the SMART GRID: an introduction. How a smarter grid works as an enabling engine for our economy, our environment and our future. prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy by Litos Strategic Communication under contract No. DE-AC26-04NT41817, Subtask 560.01.04 DISCLAIMER This report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States Government. Neither the United States Government nor any agency thereof, nor Litos Strategic Communication, nor any of their employees, make any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information apparatus, product, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof, or Litos Strategic Communication. The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or any agency thereof. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. PREFACE It Is A ColossAl tAsk. But It Is A tAsk thAt must BE donE. The Department of Energy has been charged with orchestrating the wholesale modernization of our nation’s electrical grid. While it is running. Full-tilt...
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...“Smart grid” generally refers to a class of technology people are using to bring utility electricity delivery systems into the 21st century, using computer-based remote control and automation. (Office of Electricity Delivery & Energy Reliability, n.d.) A key feature of the smart grid is automation technology that lets the utility adjust and control each individual device or millions of devices from a central location. In December 2007, Congress passed, and the President approved, Title XIII of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA). EISA provided the legislative support for DOE’s smart grid activities and reinforced its role in leading and coordinating national grid modernization efforts. President Obama has announced the largest single grid modernization investment in U.S. history, funding a broad range of technologies to spur the nation's transition to a smarter, stronger, more efficient and reliable electric system. This will promote energy-saving choices for consumers, increase energy efficiency, and foster the growth of renewable energy sources like wind and solar power. Congress enacted the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) to create new jobs and save existing ones, stimulate economic activity, and invest in long-term growth. The $3.4 billion in investments, as part of the Recovery Act, will be matched by industry funding for a total public-private investment worth over $8 billion. (Office of Electricity Delivery & Energy Reliability...
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...deliberation processes has finished and another event (completion of the process) can be scheduled. 1 5 Evaluation: Agents in T ILEWORLD Initially, T ILEWORLD was developed to test different control, particularly commitment, strategies of IRMA agents [9, 8]. 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 B (1) 6/2 A (2) 4/3 B (3) 10/5 2 3 4 A (3) 9/6 5 TGA 6 7 A C A B A A A A C (2) 10/8 OGA C A A A B B C (3) 8/6 B (1) 10/7 A search space and implies a costly deliberation with respect to computing time and memory. The T ILEWORLD scenario we have chosen comprises an 8 by 8 grid, 1000 units of simulation time, and a real-time knob, i.e. factor, of 1. Thus, 1 unit of simulation time should be about 1 second. The grid elements change, e.g. holes and tiles appear and disappear, every 50 time units with a probability of 40%. All agents we tested had a scan range of 5 grid elements, limited, but sufficient fuel, and were planning for two goals simultaneously. Within our implementation of T ILEWORLD scanning requires intensive message exchange. The experiments were run on 2 Ultra 2 machines equipped with about 200 MB each. Each experiment consisted of 15 runs. We first put our algorithm to test using one single agent in the T ILEWORLD....
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