Organizational Behavior

Organizations have distinct structures and cultures that influence their direction and reactions to change. Your director is thinking about proposing a new process for sales that represents a fairly large shift in the way things are currently done. The director would like to meet with you to discuss any possible resistance to th ...continues

Introduction to Operation Management

Need help with the following question. Explain what is a value chain give an example that you have participated in. Identify the obvious non-value-adding wastes and comment on how they affect final customer.

Cultural differences in Business Ethics

What are some of the cultural differences in business ethics to consider when entering the global marketplace and can you provide an example?

"Don't try to catch a falling knife."

How about this one "Don't try to catch a falling knife." What does that mean?

Non-Retirements Benefits

How can you asses the advantages to participants and employers provided by non-retirement benefits other the normal medical, dental and vision plans? Can you please give a minimum of five examples? What are some factors that employers use to decide which non-retirement benefits to offer their employees. Please be precise an ...continues

Introduction to Social Psychology

Overview: Please review the scenario below. You will use this in each unit of the course. In this scenario, you are Director of Operations for Faraday Enterprises and have worked for the company for three years. As a director, you have nine salaried employees and three hourly employees at the corporate office with you, as w ...continues

Understanding the Social World

Your department was just given a new project to pilot and rollout to your organization. The project involves assembling a cross-organizational team that will be given the responsibility for reviewing different payroll systems that Faraday Enterprises can use, and choosing the best payroll system to implement. You've chosen Sus ...continues

Cognitive Dissonance

You've been asked by the Marketing Department to give them feedback from your customer service area about customer complaints and issues concerning their new product-an "All-In-One" coffee maker, toaster oven, and microwave. Although your department has collected specific information concerning likes and dislikes of customers ...continues

Helping managers to change their working style

Leadership Challenge: AS a leader of my client organization, I observed a lack of flexibility and a slow decision-making process in many of the departments. I believe that I ams not serving my customers well, and have decided to move to a team environment and to push many of the decisions to the lowest possible levels. In othe ...continues

Leadership Challenge: Juggling Cultures-Women in Saudi Arabia

Culture, gender, and leadership can be closely intertwined. In most cultures, even Western cultures, leadership is associated with males. This is even more the case in many Arab Muslim countries where women play a limited role in public and business life. As a leader of a business division, you face the choice of selecting th ...continues