Abstract This management essay has answered four different questions in the light of relevant articles. The questions are related to the challenges which managers face in a transnational business environment; the attitude of firms towards sustainability and corporate social responsibility; the flow of goods, resources, and information while developing a coordination system in a transnational organization; and managing the boundary, managing the knowledge flows, and providing strategic direction in cooperative ventures. Q. No. 1: the Flow of Goods, Resources, and Information while developing a Coordination System in a Transnational Organization In this faced-paced and competitive business environment, organizations need to develop strong networks with their customers, supply chain members, and strategic business partners in order to compete with their industry rivals in the most effective and profitable way. The biggest challenge here is to identify the core areas where they can invest or allocate their precious resources to get full advantage of the attractive opportunities from the market. When these organizations succeed in developing strong business relationships with their key stakeholders, the result comes in the form of innovation. Innovation as the Competitive Advantage: Birkinshaw, Bessant, & Delbridge (2007) have found that innovation is one of the biggest achievements an organization can make in the presence of a stiff competition or highly uncertain
Management in healthcare institutions obtains presentations that pertain to workers’ injuries and illness costs. The figures acquire adequate support from the management provided that the data cites credible and the right references. However, researchers lack adequate hard data and research backing to defend direct and indirect cost ratios that they frequently utilize in relation to the safety-related literature.
The article “The Case for Fitting In” compares to my idea of conformity because I think that it means how you change your opinion due to social pressure. My idea of conformity relates to the article because it was talking about how when people were in a group and someone said the wrong answer they usually went with it. “Each subject saw 18 sets of lines, and the group answer was wrong for 12 of them” this proves that most of the time people went with the group rather than going with their personal opinion. I think that the article really compares with my definition of conformity because I think that it causes you to change your opinion and sometimes causes you to choose wrong answers. I also strongly think that the article agrees with me because
People around the world consume numerous goods every day. There are several things that determine what quantities and how frequently they are consumed and those influences can either work in tandem or act individually to influence a person. It is these foundations that set an average for what consumers will purchase and the volume of goods to be created by agriculturalists and industrialists. This is known as economic consumption patterns, and these patterns are carefully studied by economists. With the data that they glean from this assessment economists can then use that information to provide the economy with data
Innovation is a cornerstone for any organization aspiring to set their visions high. The accentuation of an enterprise that needs to develop technology expeditiously would be: advertisement insights, analysing major trends and the need of a flair for professionalism which often brings us to crowdsourcing alternatives. "Innovation is: production or adoption, assimilation, and exploitation of a value-added novelty in economic and social spheres; renewal and enlargement of products, services, and markets; development of new methods of production; and establishment of new management systems. It is both a process and an outcome." (Edison & Torkar, 2013)
This research intends to explore innovation at an individual level, but in a context, where the roles and functions of an organization appear eminent either as a promoter or an inhibitor of innovation.
Transnational organizations also have flexible and ever-changing structures. Their managers incorporate innovation and strategies for the corporation as a whole. Unification and coordination goals are achieved by corporate culture, shared values, vision, and management style. It offers a high level of differentiation, while ensuring that a global organization can coordinate activities and transfer knowledge across various functional areas and geographies (Daft, 2010).
As the articles states that "research suggests that skills learned in playing an instrument may mirror effective reading" (Cho, D. L., & Vitale, D. L., 2014). I agree with this because you need to learn how to read the music notes, just like you have to learn how to read to read a book. So, when a child is learning to play an instrument they gain knowledge and skills that could be used in many other ways. Also, learning to perform music has many other skills that you could use in other subjects and in the long-term because when you learn to play a musical instrument you gain skills that improve your capabilities of your memory (Cho, D. L., & Vitale, D. L., 2014). They will also gain teamwork skill because when you play an instrument you are most likely part of band and also, in order to make music you need to work with others (Matthews, M., 2011). Also, increasing coordination, hand eye coordination because when playing an instrument, you need read the notes and play the instrument at the same time. How I can incorporate art into the curriculum is by playing music in the classrooms this is a great way to incorporate music a little bit at a
The authors of this journal Alina Coman, a professor in social sciences and communication and Corina Sas, who has a PhD human computer interaction, believe that stigma of mental illness negatively impacts the people with mental illness leading them to avoid mental health services. This idea ties right in to what I will be discussing in my article. The avoidance of getting help from professionals is one of my reasons as to why stigma of mental health is worsening them. This stigma is making it harder for the mentally ill to seek treatment. Throughout the journal, they support their claim by presenting a novel strategy which is really useful because the they present scenarios and poems that express the emotional world mentally ill people face.
I believe that everyone could benefit from reading the two articles if they don’t already know what is going on or what has been going on in the US regarding law enforcement and the prison system. “The Right Choices” article digs fairly deep into the fact that there’s a disproportionate amount of black people in prison compared to other races. I feel as though some people are so quick to come to a conclusion that ‘black people must commit more crime’ when in actuality the systems basically target black people and people of color as a whole.
The following section was entitled “What Does Developement Tell Us,” and in it, Jeffery described the developmental phases of Astyanax because “evolutionary changes proceed through alterations in development.” By describing the different phases, Jeffery was able to point out the places where the development of the eyes in cavefish morphologies is different from the surface-dwelling fish. The first phase of eye development in both forms of the Astyanax is the appearance of optic vesicles, and with this appearance and other simultaneous mechanisms, the eye primordia, consisting of the lens vesicle, an optic cup with an inner retinal layer and an outer retinal pigment epithelium layer, and optic stalk, forms. I found it extremely important
“a consumer buying a car may not be informed fully about the safety features of various models or may not have adequate information to evaluate the importance or usefulness of various options (e.g., antilock brakes, four-wheel drive, side cross beams to reduce the damage from a side collision). The information asymmetry about those models or features is common and may allow an "aggressive" sales person to exploit the buyer's ignorance” (Englander & Moy, 2003).
Tidd and Bessant (2009) argued that “Unless an organization is able to move into further innovation, it risks being left behind as others take the lead in changing their offerings, their operational processes or the underlying models that drive their business”.
Innovation is the process by which ideas are created, selected and implemented to bring about profitable change to organisations. Innovations come as a result of an identified need for organisations to change their current processes, activities or operations. Andriopoulos and Dawson (2009) explain that organisational change is ‘new ways of organizing and working’. They explain that change occur in two dimensions – movement of state and scope of change.
2) Chesbrough, H., W., (2003). The era of open innovation. MIT Sloan Management Review 44 (3): 35–41.
Innovation offers the companies a competitive advantage. Presently and within the future, more than any time in history, the key to competitive advantage is innovation. However innovation will facilitate businesses meet all of their strategic challenges, not simply competition; to illustrate, in confronting accelerating rates of change, globalization, apace advancing technology, a additional numerous workforce, associated a modification from an industrial to a knowledge-based economy. Meeting all of those challenges helps the firm attain competitiveness, and meeting these challenges suitably depends on innovation. Innovation allows a firm to workout its challenges in distinctive ways in which build competitive advantage either through relative differentiation, a relative low-priced position, or few acceptable level of each. Innovation cannot assure success, however success cannot be achieved within the end of the day without it.