Leadership and Change Management: A Case Study of Pemancar

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (01) ◽  
pp. 115-132
Author(s):  
Zarifah Abdullah ◽  
A. K. Siti-Nabiha
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Change Process ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Multinational Company ◽  
The Past ◽  
Internalization Process ◽  
Leadership And Change

This case examines the implementation of a new organizational culture in a newly taken-over Malaysian subsidiary by a European-based multinational company. The new organizational culture is geared towards high performance, increased accountability, value creation, and high quality and better communication. However, organizational members who were very much accustomed to their prevailing organizational culture found it difficult to understand the need for them to change as they had done well in the past. The features of the new culture, the structural changes that have taken place and how the organizational members felt about the change process and their reactions towards the change are explicated in the case. The case also highlights the various issues and challenges that took place and which needed to be tackled in the management's effort to ensure the successful integration and internalization process of the change in organizational culture.

Music, Exchange, and the Production of Value: A Case Study of Hindustani Music

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Morcom
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
The Past ◽  
Objective Value ◽  
Hindustani Music ◽  
Theory Of Value

This chapter uses Hindustani music as a case study, developing anthropology’s theoretical work on value and exchange toward the analysis of music. It focuses on the action-based theory of value devised by Nancy Munn (1986) and later developed by David Graeber (2001). Rather than something residing “in the music,” value is viewed as entirely social, and ephemeral, generated by acts and the codification of acts into distinctive patterned aesthetic forms. The chapter refines the analysis through Annette Weiner’s concept of “inalienable possessions,” that is, things which are not necessarily costly or of any objective value, but have gained immeasurable and irreplaceable value to particular groups in particular times and places through “keeping while giving,” and which inscribe lineage, heredity, and history. This enables an exploration of how history and transmission operate in value creation in the context of music and performing arts. The chapter also develops theoretical work on exchange to analyze musical performance, where what is “given” or “received” is intangible and highly subjective, making it particularly unpredictable in its value and with potential for immense excess and thereby implications for obligations, attachments, or even devotion. Thus, the chapter explores how the complex web of behaviors, discourse, knowledge, and skills variously continued, adapted, and discontinued from the past, and with new strands woven in, constantly re-create Hindustani music as an inalienable possession for middle-class audiences, for whom basic templates of value are in many ways radically opposed to those of the original patrons and performers.

scholarly journals Performance Implications of Business Model Change: A Case Study

2015 ◽  
Vol 63 (6) ◽  
pp. 2101-2107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Poláková ◽  
Gabriela Koláčková ◽  
Ivana Tichá
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Financial Analysis ◽  
Business Model Canvas ◽  
The Family ◽  
Before And After

The paper deals with changes in performance level introduced by the change of business model. The selected case is a small family business undergoing through substantial changes in reflection of structural changes of its markets. The authors used the concept of business model to describe value creation processes within the selected family business and by contrasting the differences between value creation processes before and after the change introduced they prove the role of business model as the performance differentiator. This is illustrated with the use of business model canvas constructed on the basis interviews, observations and document analysis. The two business model canvases allow for explanation of cause-and-effect relationships within the business leading to change in performance. The change in the performance is assessed by financial analysis of the business conducted over the period of 2006–2012 demonstrates changes in performance (comparing development of ROA, ROE and ROS having their lowest levels before the change of business model was introduced, growing after the introduction of the change, as well as the activity indicators with similar developments) of the family business. The described case study contributes to the concept of business modeling with the arguments supporting its value as strategic tool facilitating decisions related to value creation within the business.

Upgrading a Large Municipal Sewage Treatment Plant by a Combination of Biological and Chemical Processes

1990 ◽  
Vol 22 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 105-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. H. Hahn ◽  
E. Hoffmann ◽  
A. Kleinschmidt ◽  
R. Klute
Keyword(s):  
Biological Treatment ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Sewage Treatment ◽  
Sewage Treatment Plant ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Chemical Processes ◽  
Plant Performance ◽  
Municipal Sewage ◽  
The Past

The Standards controlling sewage treatment are continuously in development. Thus, upgrading existing plants is a frequently encountered problem. In the past this meant structural changes, mostly in terms of enlargement of existing facilities or addition of new units. More recently the possibilities of improving plant performance through chemicals addition (inducing precipitation and coagulation) with or without intensified biological treatment have been explored. Chemicals addition has become necessary in many instances due to the tightening of standards for phosphorous concentrations in the plant effluent. The present discussion is based on a case study where possibilities and limits of chemical and/or biological upgrading have been investigated. The analysis showed that neither chemical stages nor secondary biological stages alone can guarantee the effluent standards formulated by the water authorities.

The Neoliberal-Developmental State: Singapore as Case Study

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene Dili Liow
Keyword(s):  
Structural Changes ◽  
Developmental State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Hybrid State ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Rationality ◽  
Economic Practice ◽  
Island State ◽  
Form Of Government

Neoliberalism is often regarded as a type of economic practice advocating the primacy of the market and the rolling back of the Keynesian welfare state. Yet neoliberalism does not merely functions as economic tenets. There is also another side to it as a form of government or governmentality. This is the other less-attended to aspect of neoliberalism, and which this paper seeks to highlight. Through the example of the island-state of Singapore, neoliberalism is examined as a set of economic tenets and as a form of governmentality by considering the neoliberal political rationality that forms the basis for their existence. Once a developmental state, Singapore has undergone much structural changes to its economy in the past decade. The economy has gradually been deregulated, liberalised and privatised to conform more to the neoliberal model. However, existing interests embedded within the developmental state prevents a transition to a full-fledged neoliberal regulatory one. Instead what emerges is a type of hybrid state, in the form of the neoliberal-developmental state. It is hoped that by examining this notion of the neoliberal-developmental state, further light can be shed on neoliberalism and its impact on this tiny island-state and vice-versa.

Barriers to Strategic Changes in Organizations: A Case Study

1990 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-46
Author(s):  
S Manikutty
Keyword(s):  
Structural Changes ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Past History ◽  
Strategic Responses ◽  
Business Policy ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Strategic Changes ◽  
Analytical Response

Normative business policy literature assumes a rational-analytical response of organizations to environmental changes. Through a case study of an organization that faced structural changes in its environment and viewing it through cognitive and sociological perspectives in addition to the rational perspective, certain fundamental barriers to strategic changes are identified. These are: prevalence of strong and dominant values in the organization, inability to see threats from the environment when they go against the prevalent beliefs of the key members, the past history, and the social system of the organization. How managers can overcome or minimize the effect of these barriers so that they can make quicker and better strategic responses is also discussed.

From hard to soft: theory and Neolithic studies in Scotland

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 7-19
Author(s):  
Kenneth Brophy
Keyword(s):  
The Past

The Scottish Theoretical Archaeology Group (STAG) conference organisers expressed some doubts about how far theory has changed, and impacted, archaeological establishment and academia in Scotland. In this paper, I will argue that Scotland is certainly not isolated in a theoretical sense, although in the past, Scottish archaeology could be accused of being theoretically conservative, or at least dependent on ideas and models developed elsewhere. A case-study looking at Neolithic studies will be used to illustrate that despite some recent critical historiographies of the study of the period in Scotland, archaeologists in Scotland and those working with Scottish material have been theoretically innovative and in step with wider paradigm changes. The study of the Neolithic in Scotland, it could be argued, has been shaped by theory more than the study of any other period; we are not isolated, but rather part of wider networks of discourse.

THE URBAN MIGRANT FUTURE DESIRE: A STUDY OF REVERSE MIGRATION IN MALAYSIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Nur Huzeima Mohd Hussain ◽  
Hugh Byrd ◽  
Nur Azfahani Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Peak Oil ◽  
Population Mobility ◽  
Reverse Migration ◽  
The Past ◽  
Urban Migrants ◽  
Urban Migrant ◽  
Oil Crisis

Globalisation combined with resources of oil and gas has led to an industrial society in Malaysia.  For the past 30 years, rapid urban growth has shifted from 73% rural to 73% urban population. However, the peak oil crisis and economic issues are threatening the growth of urbanisation and influencing the trends of population mobility. This paper documents the beginnings of a reverse migration (urban-to-rural) in Malaysia.  The method adopted case study that involves questionnaires with the urban migrants to establish the desires, definite intentions and reasons for future migration. Based on this data, it predicts a trend and rate of reverse migration in Malaysia. 

Deskripsi Budaya Organisasi dalam Amal Usaha Muhammadiyah (Studi Kasus Universitas Muhammadiyah Gorontalo)

ARISTO ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Muh. Firyal Akbar ◽  
Sri Handyani Suprapto ◽  
Widya Kurniati Mohi
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Objective Description

This research is generally aimed at strengthening Muhammadiyah union institution in one of Muhammadiyah's business charity in Gorontalo Province, whereas specifically the purpose of this research is to know objective description about reality that happened at campus of Muhammadiyah University of Gorontalo from organizational culture that developed on campus This, taking into account the organizational culture found in Muhammadiyah in accordance with the PHIWM. This research uses qualitative method with case study approach. Data collection techniques used are observation, interview and documentation. Research time started from January to June 2017 From the results show that the employees have not implemented properly. Indicators of hard work still have not shown good results because most employees still do not understand the main duties and functions in work. Discipline indicators are also not well implemented where there are still many employees who enter the campus through the provisions of the time set as well while attending events on campus and when entering the time of prayer still not heed these things. The last indicator is the optimization in the work also has not shown the maximum results because only a few who are able to work effectively in accordance with the work agenda that they set previously.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document