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Employee Turnover Corporate Culture
1,102 wordsIn 1999 employee turnover shot to its highest level in nearly two decades. On average, 1. 2 % of the workforce left their jobs each month last year. This did not include departures due to layoffs, downsizing, or departures of temporary staff. Job turnover is soaring for a few reasons. One is definitely the strength of the economy. If companies need to find workers they can raise salaries, which increases the likelihood that someone will leave a job for one that pays more. Another reason is the l...
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Understanding Of Human Nature Theory Y
1,048 words... rewards are those of self-respect and personal improvement. It assumes that under certain conditions, the average human being not only accepts responsibility, but seeks it as well. Workers are imaginative, creative, intellectual, and clever. "Rather than emphasize authority, direction, and close supervision, Theory Y emphasizes a relatively free managerial atmosphere in which workers are free to set objectives, be creative, be flexible, and go beyond the goals set by management. A key techni...
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Participative Management Decision Making
1,808 words... in the displeasure that they experienced. The new work design also created a pipeline that empowered the employees themselves to have a positive effect upon the composition of the groups, to which they were subjected. This also fit with the new philosophy that recognized that work is a large part of the employees lives (case 6). In this methodology, also an employee suggested idea, the workers [would] interview prospective hires. This is an effective tool regarding team composition, because ...
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Reorganization Of The Cjncb Tax And Revenue Department
1,348 words... tical configuration of the organization. After weighing a functional structure model verse a matrix structure model, it is evident that a functional model would work best. The functional model would require a rearrangement of the existing structure, where as the matrix model would require total and complete restructuring. The total and complete restructuring of a matrix model would be to difficult to implement with existing employees, and would require a large reduction in force followed by ...
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Martin Luther King Jr Black Power Movement
1,849 wordsNicholas Sheldon November 20, 2000 Although Stokely Carmichael was not the first to use the phrase Black Power, he was the one who made it famous. Carmichael was a widely renowned man of his generation and the Black Power Movement, and his presence in the fight for African American equality in the American mid 1900 s is a role of unforgotten importance. Carmichael achieved a great deal of celebrity was due to his severe criticism of Martin Luther King Jr. 's peaceful approach to the problem of r...
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Pornography Defenders Rape Myth
2,274 words... a. Linda Lovelace), was presented to the public as a liberated woman with an ever present and unfulfilled appetite for fellatio. What isn't known to the general public is that during the making of the movie, she was hypnotized to suppress the natural gagging reaction, was tortured when caught trying to escape, and also held at gun-point by her boss, who threatened her with death (Itzin 22). Ms. Marchiano did escape and when her story was told, it was repeated by a number of women in the porn...
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Living In Poverty Mass Communication
2,298 wordsIn Africa today, Theatre-for-Development (Tf D) is widely viewed as both an effective and appropriate medium for communicating development-orientated information at the grassroots level. Capable of functioning on multiple levels, theatre encompasses many types of learning ranging from the transmission of practical skills through to the advancing of political and social consciousness. As such, various styles of theatre are being used by both government and non-government agencies as a tool for ta...
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World Bank Report 1999 Development 2000 2001
1,137 wordsStarting from the year 1990, the international community has set up plans to eliminate poverty in the world by the year 2015 with a set of specific goals to be achieved by that date. These goals were set up according to the studies done beforehand, that showed where and what the major poverty areas and problems in the world were. These studies explained that although the poverty problem was extensive, there were several factors of which the crisis was mainly constituted. The first problem was ex...
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Consequential Ist Actively Involved
1,046 wordsRestorative justice facilitators today are taught to cringe at the word retributive. We learn that retributive justice is the antithesis to restorative principles, and is a necessary evil at best. However, the logic behind this assumption is flawed, and hence not conducive to the optimum restoration that restorative justice ideally hopes to achieve. In this paper, I will endeavor to show that retribution, especially a specific sub-category of retribution: institutionalized revenge, are not antit...
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Taking Place R Amp
1,640 words... ions are answered and concern is shown for employees (Hirschhorn & Gilmore, 1992). It is also very important that top management be very honest and open about the reasons that the downsizing is taking place (Hirschhorn & Gilmore, 1992). This will help to avoid much of the distrust that will normally come from finding out that jobs are about to be lost (Hirschhorn & Gilmore, 1992). If the company can communicate its vision and surviving employees see the personal control that they...
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Merger And Acquisition Transition Plan
1,222 wordsToday, we were called into the boss's office and told that our company was about to go through a major restructuring. In two weeks, the organization will be merging with a national conglomerate and it is our job to get the "troops prepared", as she put it. She stresses to us the importance of effective leadership and communication. She would like for us to establish and initiate a plan that will help the employees with the transition. Luckily for us, we just completed a seminar on organizational...
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Safety And Health Occupational Hazards
1,698 words... to employees. Working also in a clean dry atmosphere also improves safety. In any working place the surrounding should be clean and dry free from moisture which can bring about diseases. This can be achieved by employees ensuring that the environment in which they are is safe. However, some workers work in a cold misty environment. Care should be taken to ensure that they are safe. There must wear gloves and books with heavy clothing to keep them warm all the time. Further individual behavio...
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Country Lovers Vs A Meeting In The Dark
2,562 words"Country Lovers" vs. "A Meeting in the Dark" (1) Before the collapse of Soviet Union in 1991, the book publishing practice in this country was based on one simple principle only the books of ideologically committed authors would be allowed for public release. No matter how untalented a particular writer might have been, his literary creations would still be published by millions of copies, for as long as they contained panegyrics to the ideas of workers solidarity, racial equality, dictatorship ...
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Dominant Culture Critical Theory
2,167 wordsCultural Democracy Through the process of examining more fully the link between culture and power, it becomes quite evident that in order to move toward a genuinely laboratory form of cultural democracy there must exist in theory and practice an emancipatory political construct on which to build a critical bi cultural pedagogy. This is particularly true given the asymmetrical power relations in American society. Significant to this discussion is the notion of student voice and empowerment and th...
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Transactional And Transformation Leadership
1,933 wordsTransactional and Transformation Leadership Writers on leadership typically point to the wide range of definitions of this phenomenon and proceed to examine a sample of them. However, as Bryman points out, the problem is that there is no consensually agreed one. Nevertheless, this writer does suggest that there is a fair degree of concordance concerning the nature of leadership in the literature which focuses on the study of leadership in organizations. He proposes that the common elements in th...
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Organizational Culture Analysis Ford Motor Co
1,471 wordsOrganizational Culture Analysis Ford Motor Co. The new economy is a knowledge-based economy without borders, where the race is between companies and locales over how to learn faster and organize more flexibly to take advantage of technology-enabled market opportunities (Best, 2001). Organizational culture has been referred to, in general terms, as the organization's unique personality and its system of values; what it stands for. Aspects of corporate identity include values, the collective uncon...
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19 Th Century 20 Th Century
2,172 wordsThe word "motivation" is often used to describe certain sorts of behavior. A student who studies hard and tries to get top grades may be described as being "highly motivated", while her friend may say that he is "finding it hard to get motivated" to study for an exam or to start an assignment. Such statements imply that motivation has a major influence on our behavior but they do not really tell us how. Motivation can be defined as a concept used to describe the factors within an individual that...
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Radical Feminism Female Empowerment Order
405 wordsThe word feminism has many connotations. Some include lesbian, femina, man-hater, and baby killer. It is interesting to note that all these words convey a negative feeling. It is rare to hear feminism described as female empowerment or as an organized activity on behalf of womens rights and interests, which is how it is defined in the dictionary. Why has feminism taken on such a negative meaning? In this course, feminism has been defined as female empowerment, the recognition of oppression, and ...
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Anti Defamation League Louis Farrakhan
2,405 wordsRace and religion are two concepts in American culture that can really tie people together, or clearly separate them apart. A group forged by strong common roots in both race and religion can be a powerful societal force, if it wants to be. The Nation of Islam is a small but growing religion in America that has become somewhat of a social movement because of its strong and radical ideas on race. In this paper, I will try to explore the beliefs of the Nation of Islam, and the ramifications it cou...
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Organizational Structure Employee Motivation
2,685 wordsCJNCB TAXATION AND REVENUE AUDIT DEPARTMENT CJNCB Taxation and Revenue Department is responsible, to the residents of the state, for watching over how tax dollars are collected, managed and expensed. Guidelines include; restrictive acts of law, rules and regulations, accounting principles, policies, procedures, and sound management practices. Audits are the mechanism by which we apply professional auditing standards to detect whether monies are collected, managed, or expensed outside of those re...
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