Management

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ольга Гапонова ◽  
Olga Gaponova ◽  
Любовь Данилова ◽  
Liubov' Danilova ◽  
Юлия Чилипенок ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Conflict Management ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Organizational Changes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Basic Functions ◽  
Basic Approaches ◽  
Independent Work

Structurally, the book includes 59 short chapters, United in 14 thematic blocks. They include such traditional sections as: the concept, essence and content of management; basic approaches to the study of the history of management; basic functions of management; connecting processes; basics of conflict management; organizational culture; management of organizational changes; social responsibility and ethics of business organizations; management consulting, etc. But the form of presentation of the material is unusual – it is a programmed textbook, designed mainly for independent work of the student and equipped with a system of constant self-control.

Challenges of Implementing Western Talent Development Models in a Collectivist Organizational Culture

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 517-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Christina Lucas ◽  
Alexandre Ardichvili ◽  
Silvia Pereira de Castro Casa Nova ◽  
João Paulo Bittencourt ◽  
Caroline Carpenedo
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Human Resource Development ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Talent Development ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
History Of ◽  
Hrd Professionals

The Problem In Brazilian business organizations, talent development (TD) programs are often based on models borrowed from Western countries. However, there are significant cultural barriers to successful implementation of such transplanted models. Research on TD in Brazil is scarce, especially, research on adoption of imported models and frameworks. The Solution This article is based on a case study of TD practices of a large Brazilian steel company that has a long history of human resource development (HRD) and a unique organizational culture. Our study suggests that this Brazilian company’s TD system is based on a combination of several well-known North American models. However, the implementation of the TD system that is based on meritocratic principles does not fully align with an organizational culture characterized by high power distance, paternalism, collectivism, and the emphasis on personal relationships over merit. We suggest ways of addressing the identified misalignments and point out the necessity of tropicalizing the implementation of TD models, which implies embracing Brazilian cultural traits and contexts. The Stakeholders The main audience for this article includes executives, managers, and HRD professionals executing TD strategies in organizations from emerging market economies and/or in firms doing business in emerging markets. In addition, the article will be of interest to scholars specializing in international HRD and talent development.

scholarly journals Organizacijska kultura kao čimbenik uspješne provedbe organizacijske promjene

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stipe Belak ◽  
Ivana Ušljebrka
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Readiness To Change ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Organizational Changes ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
A Minor ◽  
And Behavior

This paper theoretically proves that the organizational culture is a key factor for a successful implementation of organizational changes. Looking at the dynamic environment in which today's business organizations exist, it is clear that organizational changes have become a necessity needed for their survival. It does not matter whether it is a minor improvement of the peripheral segment of the organization or its complete transformation – what is inevitable is the change of the human factor. Since man is by nature an inert being, likes security, routines and certainty, it tends to oppose any changes, especially when it comes to radical changes in which his participation is minimal, if any. In such a situation, in order to reduce the human resistance to changes to a minimum, and achieve the willingness of employees to change, it is necessary to influence their attitudes, mindset and behavior. The organizational culture plays a key role in this process. The organizational culture through its values, beliefs, customs and norms shapes the behavior and attitudes of people within an organization, influences the readiness to change, as well as its later successful implementation. The paper concludes that the manager, prior to the implementation of organizational changes, should carry out a cultural analysis and then institutionalize those organizational values that encourage the construction of a positive attitude toward organizational change, as well as the building of organizational commitment and the trust in the management.

Responding to Social Responsibilities and Ethics - A Study of Refractory Industry in Odisha

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saikat Gochhait
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Ethical Practices ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Modern Business ◽  
Industrial Markets ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Profit Maximisation

Businesses work in a wide social environment in which they have a responsibility to a range of stakeholders including the community. The term Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) refers to the responsibility that modern business organizations have to creating a healthy and prosperous society. Ethical practices in refractory marketing help marketers distinguish between right and wrong behavior. Adherence to ethics is essential in industrial markets as mutual trust among buyers and sellers is the key to long-term success. Marketing has evolved from a production-centric approach to a societal marketing approach that lays greater emphasis on the ethical issues in marketing. With the advent of globalization, corporations continue to evolve, grow in power, and influence the process of consolidation. Corporations are in positions of power that allow them to do greater damage to others when they act unethically or socially in an irresponsible manner. The rights theory encompasses a variety of ethical philosophies holding that certain human rights are fundamental and must be respected by other humans. The economic theories of the firm cannot be segregated of ethical considerations as they have crucial impact on how the firm concentrates on economic power, formulate the rules of law. Profit maximisation has always been the driving force and an undercurrent behind the development of corporate. But profit is not made in vacuum, it always has an associated cost, some of which is always externalized (Rhee, 2008). Corporate law has an ethical foundation and the debate on values necessarily revolves round the activities of the firm. This research paper on the basis of secondary sources of data collected from reports, research papers and Internet, focuses on corporate social responsibility (CSR) of TATA Group with reference to Tata Krosaki Refractories Ltd, Bajoria Group with reference to IFGL Refractories Ltd (Odisha), OCL Refractories Ltd, Sarvesh Refractories, and Manishree Refractories (Odisha). The study intends to understand the scope of corporate social responsibility and get an insight in CSR and ethical practices in the light of the case study of the refractory industries in Odisha.

Business student attitudes toward corporate social responsibility: a Vietnamese study

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Hauthikim Do ◽  
Chee Chuong Sum
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Student Attitudes ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Context Sensitive ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Practical Implications

Abstract Globally, organizations are increasingly embracing corporate social responsibility (CSR) to strengthen competitive advantage. Although CSR is recognized to be context-sensitive, the literature is still lacking studies that examine CSR in different contexts, particularly non-western ones. Our study adds to a deeper understanding of CSR in Vietnam by identifying the predictors of CSR attitudes of business students. Vietnam has rich cultural, social, and economic characteristics that offer new theoretical perspectives and insights on the contextual nature of CSR. Our findings showed that CSR attitudes related positively to idealism and student seniority, and negatively to materialism and male students. A positive CSR–relativism relationship was uncovered. Spirituality related positively to the importance of CSR to business sustainability and negatively to CSR's importance to short-term competitiveness. The findings have theoretical and practical implications on the understanding and practice of CSR that would benefit CSR researchers, business organizations, and education institutions.

Alcoholism: A Social Construct

1982 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 361-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kari Poikolainen
Keyword(s):  
Alcoholics Anonymous ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Disease Model ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Loss Of Control ◽  
Disease Concept ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
Basic Assumptions ◽  
Collective Control ◽  
History Of

Alcoholism as a specific disease was discovered about 200 years ago in North America. The disease is thought to be characterized by loss of control over drinking and by certain “symptoms,” supposed to occur in a typical order during the “natural” history of the disease. The basic assumptions of the disease model are, however, untenable. Despite this, the model is still viable. There are at least four reasons for this: (1) The medical profession, originally against the conception of alcoholism as a disease, has been made to accept the disease concept, (2) Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) strongly believes in the disease ideology, (3) the disease model may relieve the moral stigma attached to socially unacceptable drinking, and (4) societies in which individual rights are highly esteemed prefer self-control to collective control. The benefits and disadvantages of the disease model should be reconsidered.

Young Adult Reports of the Victim–Offender Overlap in Intimate and Nonintimate Relationships: A Nationally Representative Sample

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce G. Taylor ◽  
Elizabeth A. Mumford ◽  
Weiwei Liu ◽  
Mark Berg ◽  
Maria Bohri
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Management ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Verbal Aggression ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Management Styles ◽  
Conflict Management Styles ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Degree Of Overlap

Little is known about the role of conflict management in explaining the victim–offender overlap. This article assesses the victim–offender overlap for adults (18-32) in intimate and nonintimate relationships, covering their relationship with their partner and with friends and acquaintances/strangers. Controlling for conceptually important variables, we explore whether different conflict management styles are associated with a respondent being in the victim-only, offender-only, both, or neither group (separately for verbal aggression, physical abuse for intimate and nonintimate relationships, and sexual abuse for intimate relationships). Data are from a nationally representative panel of U.S. households ( N = 2,284 respondents of whom 871 women and 690 men report being in an intimate partnership). We observed a high degree of overlap between victimization and offending across our abuse measures. We found a range of modestly consistent set of risk factors, for example, conflict management styles and self-control, for the victim–offender overlap for partner and nonpartner abuse experiences.

The Historiography of the Qur'an in the Muslim World: The Influence of Theodor Nöldeke

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-68
Author(s):  
Morteza Karimi-Nia
Keyword(s):  
Muslim World ◽  
Valuable Contribution ◽  
Apparent Lack ◽  
Muslim Scholar ◽  
History Of ◽  
Great Scholar ◽  
Independent Work

Almost 75 years after the initial publication of Theodor Nöldeke's Geschichte des Qorâns, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Zanjānī (1892–1941), an Iranian religious scholar, made a brief reference in the final chapter of his Tārīkh al-Qurʾān to an edition of Nöldeke's work revised by Schwally, Bergsträsser and Pretzl. He described Nöldeke as a great scholar and his Geschichte des Qorâns as a valuable contribution. Al-Zanjānī’s work also included an outline of Nöldeke's discussion on the order of the revelation of the suras. It is probably safe to say that al-Zanjānī’s book is the first independent work on the history of the Qur'an by a Muslim scholar. This fact leads one to wonder about the apparent lack of previous interest in the historiography of the Qur'an among Islamic scholarship. The present paper seeks to address this question and offer an overview of historiographical scholarship on the Qur'an contributed by Muslim writers both before and following Nöldeke

Presidential Address: Go to the Principal's Office: Toward a Social History of the School Principal in North America

2007 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Rousmaniere
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
North America ◽  
Social History ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
School Principal ◽  
Organizational Changes ◽  
School Based ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many

Of the many organizational changes that took place in public education in North America at the turn of the last century, few had greater impact on the school than the development of the principal. The creation of the principal's office revolutionized the internal organization of the school from a group of students supervised by one teacher to a collection of teachers managed by one administrator. In its very conception, the appointment of a school-based administrator who was authorized to supervise other teachers significantly restructured power relations in schools, realigning the source of authority from the classroom to the principal's office. Just as significant was the role that the principal played as a school based representative of the central educational office.

scholarly journals E-GOVERNMENT SUCCESS FACTORS FROM A BUSINESSES PERSPECTIVE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A CASE OF JORDAN

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
AnasGhassan Kanaan ◽  
Shahizan Bin Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Success Factors ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
The Public ◽  
Government Services ◽  
Internet Information ◽  
History Of ◽  
Global Growth

This paper presents a study which examines several e-government success factors in Jordan. Due to the pace of globalization and rapid global growth of technology and the Internet information, many governments around the world have turned their services from traditional services into e-government services. Were the citizens, business organizations and other stakeholders are served via the internet. Jordan is one of the rare countries in the Middle East with a history of commitment to good governance and ICT-related initiatives. In recent years, Jordan’s efforts to provide e-government services to the public have been recognized. But still Jordan faces the problem of low usage levels of these electronic services, plus several scholars addressed that several studies were conducted from citizen perspective but few for businesses perspective. For a better understanding of e-government and its influence on the society as all and on the business society in particular the researchers carried out this study to identify the success factors which affect e-government adoption in Jordan, also to investigate the factors that determine business organization satisfaction towards e-government in Jordan. In this paper the researcher will discuss four factors that affect the success of e-government services from businesses perspective in Jordan as followed: e-service quality, perceived usefulness, trust, personalization.

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