American Journal of Industrial and Business Management, 2013, 3, 229-236 http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ajibm.2013.32028 Published Online April 2013 (http://www.scirp.org/journal/ajibm) 229 Organizational Structure: Influencing Factors and Impact on a Firm Quangyen Tran1,2, Yezhuang Tian1 School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China; 2National Economics University, Hanoi, Vietnam. Email: yentq@neu.edu.vn Received November 3rd, 2012; revised December 17th, 2012; accepted
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Managing Communication ------------------------------------------------- Title Page Page No Introduction p3 1. Task 01: Communication of information and knowledge within organizations 1.1. The key information and knowledge requirement for a range of stakeholders p4 1.2. Systems used for communicating key information and knowledge to stakeholders
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Fröhlich Premise In order to understand better the issues faced by the organization, we have contacted Angelo, who works at Google Headquarters in Dublin in the Sales and Marketing Division. His main responsibility is to assist the AdWords and YouTube Ad clients, and to increase sales of these services. 1. Introduction L. Page and S. Brin founded Google Inc. in 1998 after discovering an algorithm to rank web pages. The company’s mission is to ‘organize the world’s information and make it universally
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s nmnsn m EAR GOVERNMENT COCA COLA SWISSAIR PASSENGERS 50 issue 25. summer 2006 EBF D6PTH By Dominique Turpin, IMD "No comment". Those two simple words can shatter a company's reputation and cost it millions in lost sales. So how can you turn a corporate crisis into competitive advantage? n October 2001, news of potentially harmful bacteria found in a McChicken Burger in Buenos Aires, Argentina, spread across South America via television and the internet. Although no one was
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aloof and impersonal. Balanced Scorecard A popular strategic management concept developed in the early 1990's by Drs. Robert Kaplan and David Norton, the balanced scorecard is a management and measurement system which enables organizations to clarify their vision and strategy and translate them into action. The goal of the balanced scorecard is to tie business performance to organizational strategy by measuring results in four areas: financial performance, customer knowledge, internal business processes
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around the world, including in Indonesia. Production and price used to be priority of fashion retailers to make sure their profit is increase. These strategies do not work effectively in current since the situation is shifting. Costumers are now more critical. They demand more. Seeing this, fashion retailers cannot risk a big loss by abandoning the satisfaction of customers. Customers now are the key of retailers’ success and failure. Positive customer satisfaction increases customer loyalty that will
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Journal of Applied Business and Economics Global Business Management: Current Trends and Practices Michael Wisma Saint Joseph College of Indiana Today, problems associated with global business management have been identified as factors that negatively impact the performance and productivity of multinational corporations and in turn, adversely affect regional and national economic growth. While factors related to logistics and distribution are important when selecting international suppliers
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product life cycle compress, companies are trying to shorten product development cycle times (Griffin, Journal of Marketing Research, Febuary 1997). Nevertheless, faster may not be always good. Intensive research in one firm shows that rapid development times are not correlated with expected commercial success (Utterback M. H., 1995) New product development (NPD) cycle time is critical because life cycle are shrinking, and obsolescence is occurring more quickly than in the past while competition
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Examination Paper Semester I: Organizational Behaviour IIBM Institute of Business Management IIBM Institute of Business Management Semester-1 Examination Paper MM.100 Organizational Behaviour Section A: Objective Type (30 marks) This section consists of Multiple Choice & Short Notes type Questions. Answer all the questions. Part One carries 1 mark each & Part two carries 5 marks each. Part one: Multiple choices: 1. It is the degree to which a person identifies with a
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PART II Fundamentals of Human Resource Management [12:34 14/4/2009 5298-Wilkinson-Ch09.tex] Job No: 5298 Wilkinson: The SAGE Handbook of Human Resource Management Page: 133 133–154 [12:34 14/4/2009 5298-Wilkinson-Ch09.tex] Job No: 5298 Wilkinson: The SAGE Handbook of Human Resource Management Page: 134 133–154 9 Recruitment and Selection Filip Lievens and Derek Chapman RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION Few people question that recruitment and selection are key strategic
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