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Management Theories and Operations Management
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The ability of a firm or organisation to adapt and adopt new practices is often key to the survival as well as essential to increase productivity and efficiency. In this 22 page paper an holistic view of the way that different tools, concepts and models may be used in order to develop the operations of a manufacturing organisation to improve its overall output may be approached. The paper looks at leadership styles and how they will have a major impact on the attitude of employees and the culture of the organisation. Many companies have found simply changing management style to empower employees but still retain control can give many benefits. The paper also considers operational approaches such as TQM (Total Quality Manangment) and 6 Sigma as well as Porter’s Value Chain concepts that, if implemented with the right leadership and support from the employees, can help to add value to a firm. The bibliography cites 13 sources.
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Management Theories and Operations Management
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The ability of a firm or organisation to adapt and adopt new practices is often key to the survival as well as essential to increase productivity and efficiency. In this 22 page paper an holistic view of the way that different tools, concepts and models may be used in order to develop the operations of a manufacturing organisation to improve its overall output may be approached. The paper looks at leadership styles and how they will have a major impact on the attitude of employees and the culture of the organisation. Many companies have found simply changing management style to empower employees but still retain control can give many benefits. The paper also considers operational approaches such as TQM (Total Quality Management) and 6 Sigma as well as Porter’s Value Chain concepts that, if implemented with the right leadership and support from the employees, can help to add value to a firm. The bibliography cites 13 sources.
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Management Theories That Can Be Observed In A Fast Food Restaurant
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This 8 page paper looks at scientific management and human relations management models, discussing the underlying concepts of the models and considering their advantages and disadvantages as well as their applications in the fast food industry. The bibliography cites 7 sources.
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Management Theorist -- Dr. William G. Ouchi / His Life & Work
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A 5 page research paper on William Ouchi, author of Theory Z: How American Management Can Meet the Japanese Challenge. Dr. Ouchi is a graduate school management professor at UCLA who is both academically and civilly active. His best known work, Theory Z, was published in 1981 when American business was still scratching their collective heads in trying to understand the Japanese advantage. Dr. Ouchi pointed out that advantage, which was revealed to be a Japanese commitment to democratic leadership that resulted in increased quality, increased productivity and decreased costs while making workers at all levels full partners in business. In short, the underlying management philosophies inherent in any successful Total Quality Management (TQM) application. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Management Theorists and Organizational Structure
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A 10 page paper discussing the management philosophies of Max Weber, Henri Fayol, Luther Gulick and Lyndall Urwick, then applying them to a current organizational problem at the Chubb Group. Alterations at Chubb were motivated by late-century societal changes in that few women were part of the workforce when all these authors were publishing their concepts. Though the problems superficially are very different, management of them is not. The paper concludes that even with the changes that have occurred in the past hundred years, the concepts remain valid and applicable to today's business. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Management Theory & Practice / Why Teams Do Work
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This 15 page paper supports the position that work teams do improve efficiency, effectiveness, quality of performance and job satisfaction of the members of the team. Several elements in this paper will serve to help organizations when deciding to establish work teams, specifically, the steps for assuring success of teams are offered. Additionally, research clearly demonstrating the effectiveness of work teams is reported. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Management Theory & Practice / Why Teams Don't Work
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A 15 page paper on what is wrong with the teamwork approach to organizational management. The writer details common pitfalls and lists reasons why this method is not nearly as productive as so many believe it is. Problems with role identification in the corporate hierarchy, lack of cooperation among team members and barriers to effective management are among the many difficulties cited which result from the teamwork approach. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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Management Theory & Practice / Working In Teams
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An 8 page paper discussing the evolution of work teams in business. J Edwards Deming was able to lead American manufacturing to quality and teamwork, but he had to do so through the Japanese. It was the Japanese who developed the concept of working in teams from Demings' beginning theories, but it was the US influence and ability to implement creativity that has led to the development of today's concept of teamwork. Businesses have found some problems with the teamwork approach, such as how to evaluate individual performance, but those problems are being resolved as the concept of true teamwork continues to evolve. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Management Theory / Does the Present Build on the Past?
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A 5 page paper discussing the ways in which current management theories build on those preceding them. While terms like the virtual organization, the networked organization, and the boundaryless organization are new, their underlying philosophies are not. Not only have these philosophies been used before, but they have been used before this current century. The "new" organization is gravitating to a structure very similar to that common more than a hundred years ago. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Management Theory and Theorists
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A 10 page paper discussing the glaring lack of use of current management theory in a hotel and in a management conference being held at that hotel. The paper begins with a case study not included here but discussed at length. Examination of the facts of the case in conjunction with the views of management theorists of both the past and present indicates that management needs to be more directly involved with those front line employees that provide so much of the organization's character. Theorists included are Bernard, Drucker, Adam Smith, Taylor, Durkheim, Marx, Fayol, Follett and others. Bibliography lists 19 sources.
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