Organization Article Reviews Samples For Students

Introduction

Logistics management is a crucial part of any manufacturing or trading organization’s success rate; the basic essence of logistics management is to organize the movement of goods and services from one place to another by different means of transport such as sea, rail, air or road. For an organization that requires its products to be transported or shipped to another location or a country, logistics costs play a crucial role in the balance sheet. This case deals with the importance of adding logistics costs in the profitability reports of organizations and their products and the reason why it Continue reading...

Introduction

People engage themselves into employment in order to get compensation in monetary terms, and other benefits that come along with employment. Every organization aims at employing the most qualified employees creating a stiff competition in the corporate world. In addition, any employee would like to achieve higher levels of qualification in their careers in order to attract the attention of best paying companies. Human resource management is a global recognized part necessary in running of any organization. Compensation forms one of the most essential human resource tools used by companies in an effort to manage their employees. Compensation system Continue reading...

- I learnt that emotional intelligence is all about how people manage themselves and how people manage their relationships. There five skills that make one emotionally intelligent. The skills include self-awareness, which entails knowing how to make use of own feelings and listen to own self. Managing emotions involve knowing how to control ones emotions and tempers. Motivation, which allows one to stay, focused on the goals despite the setbacks. Empathy entails knowing how people speak to other human beings. Social relationships are another key skill of emotional intelligence. I learnt that emotional part of the brain is more Continue reading...

Accounting control system ensures accuracy and reliability of information required by management for decision making. Accuracy and reliability of information is a prerequisite for management especially when an organization start becoming complex. Reliability and accuracy of information depends on how well the information reflects the economic events which t is based on (ACC, 2014). The financial statements should reflect the fair view of the status of the organization. This means that they have to be accurate. This accuracy can be verified through audit function, accounting information system and the internal controls. A Board of Education is part the management Continue reading...

Introduction

Context of the Article
In regards to the use of figures and diagrams, the writer leads the reader to understand everything by use of figures. The figures provide the necessary data and numbers for the reader to make comparisons and also to understand the subject of discussion in a better way. For instance, he uses through which he presents the conceptual framework in cases where the organization has a new venture and, therefore, must strike a balance its operations for successful survival, operations and also to ensure that it has a successful life cycle. The second instance where the Continue reading...

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Article Synopsis: Lawmakers consider bill to bolster state tourism

The state of Washington is on the way to revitalizing its tourism industry that shows little growth ever since the elimination of state tourism office in 2011. The corresponding bill which is now making its way through the Senate would support necessary marketing and promotion of the Washington state as an attractive tourist destination (Baumann).
Currently Washington is the only state with no state-funded tourism office. This leaves near 155,000 people employed in the tourism industry with no financial support of their promotional activities. Back in 2011 the state allocated $3.8 million Continue reading...

Marriage has changed in the last century. Divorce rates are at all tie highs. Though divorce rates are up and this causes some people to think that there is are increased marriage crisis, Eli J. Finkel believes that this could be interpreted as a positive thing for the institution of marriage. She writes “though marriage has experienced disruptive changes like higher divorce rates, such developments are a sign that the institution has evolved to better respect individual autonomy, particularly for women” (Finkel, 1). In the past marriage as an institution did not hold women as equal partners in the Continue reading...

Description of Wheatley’s Essay

Margaret Wheatley’s Essay “Innovation Means Relying on Everyone’s Creativity” has two central points guiding a wealth of practical knowledge on organizational leadership gained through her experiences. The first is that organizations act in the same way as living organism. The whole of the organization can be seen as a species that will change according to alterations to environmental conditions. The second part of her thesis is “People only support what they create” (Wheatley, 2001). This means that in order to get support for new policies or changes to the organization, everyone within the organization must play a Continue reading...

Article Review

Article Review
Dutch (2013) used the contingency model of strategic human resource management to construct a new framework of human resources, strategy and culture in an organization. The current perspective of the contingency model involves aligning human resource management practices with themselves and with organizational strategy. The article posits that though this view is theoretically sound, there are challenges in its practicality. They fault the contingency model for failing to address the issues that affect both the HRM and strategy. Further, the article indicates that some of the HRM practices might be affected by strategy and vice versa. This Continue reading...

Article Review

Article Review

being the lowest cost producer” presented the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of Ryanair . The air travel organization was pegged as the leading short haul carrier in Europe. The current discourse hereby summarized the SWOT of the organization through an in-depth analysis of the key elements of its internal and external environment.

Strengths

The strengths of Ryanair are identified through the following categories: (1) lowest cost per passenger; (2) lowest fare; (3) offering the largest short haul network; (4) maintaining the newest fleet which provides them with greater fuel efficiency, lowest maintenance costs, and exemplary perceptions from Continue reading...

There are four specific types of communication flows that McPhee and Zaug (2000,2009) have described. The authors believe that the four communication flows are in fact, what organizations are all about. This is because organizations cater to four different kinds of audiences, so communicating with all of these is necessary. The first communication flow is the maintenance of relationships with members through membership related negotiations. The second communication flow is self structuring, i.e. how organizations act as formally controlled entities. The third communication flow is activity coordination. The last communication flow is institutional positioning. (McPhee & Zaug, 2000)
An Continue reading...

Summary of Main Points

The article entitled “How to get paid twice for everything you do, part 2: Value appropriating innovations” written by Roos (2011) presented main points that focus on business model innovations. The model is more comprehensively evaluated in terms of finding out how business practitioners could create value from determined ways of innovation. As such, the business model was apparently examined through the identified four observable platform choices, to wit: device-centric, service-centric, telco-centric, and aggregate-centric . Concurrently, the author further expounded on the constituent parts of traditional business models; in conjunction with the reported business-ecosystem view of the world.
Roos (2011) Continue reading...

Literature Review:Resistance to Change

Literature Review: Resistance to Change
Introduction
This literature review covers three peer-reviewed articles concerning organizational change. The Mento et al. paper (2002) – intended as a guidance document for individuals leading such a change process – draws on three theoretical models of the organizational change process to produce a framework that also takes into account the actual change process existing in a major company. The Barnard & Stoll paper (2010) is itself a literature review, drawing on available evidence to look at the change management process. That paper also looks at existing research on sustainable change and concludes with suggested options for Continue reading...

Where Auditors Fear to Tread Article Review

In the article Where Auditors Fear to Tread, Paul M. Clikeman brings to light the issue of earnings management. Clikeman argues that earnings management should be classified in the same category as fraud because both earnings management and fraud have one thing in common: misrepresenting the organization’s financial performance. Clikeman goes further to allege that the flexibility within GAAP (General Accepted Accounting Principles) allows this subtle form of fraud to take place. He further asserts that this unethical practice is either ignored or even encouraged.
The article also gives some of the reasons as to why managers may Continue reading...

Professional Skepticism means an approach towards accounting which includes a questioning mind and being in a position which questions a possibility of fraud, errors or misstatement and is a critical evaluation of audit evidence. It is essential for a quality audit. Professional skepticism is a skill which is very similar to professional judgment and helps in providing an opinion for an audit engagement. Professional skepticism helps in asking questions which make sure that any information provided is true. It is an approach which is similar to a judgment and auditors with professional skepticism tend to make good decisions as Continue reading...

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Article Title: The performance measurement revolution: why now and what next?
Provide a summary in your own words on the article you requested to read and analyze in the following space.
The article attempts to answer some questions regarding the business performance measurement, especially two questions. 1. What is the relevance of this question now? 2. What research is required for the advancement of the business performance measurement? The article do not stop with questioning, it gives elaborate answer to the questions. For the first question i.e. what is the need for business performance measurement, seven reasons Continue reading...

Leadership traits are a very important necessity in the present corporate environment. This review would focus on certain Organizational Behavior concepts in the article by Alan Murray by analyzing and applying these concepts to illustrations in the article.
In his article, Murray illustrates the five basic traits of leadership along with additional traits as identified in the Implicit Leadership Theory. For instance, Murray gives the examples of Lincoln and Socrates as leaders who possessed all the five basic leadership traits and fit into the ‘leadership prototype’ concept. As per Joan Collins, these leaders had the masculine (personal will) and Continue reading...

Describe the kinds of “big data” collected by the organizations described in this case.

The organizations described in Big data big rewards collect different kinds of big data. The British library collects data about the billions of searches performed by their website visitors. The library also preserves historically significant sites that no longer exist, for example, websites of past politicians. State and federal law enforcement agencies collect big data on all crimes and information about criminals such as suspect’s photos and their past offenses. They also have data on criminal organizations, illegal activities, and crime complaints. Vestas collects big data about the weather and the location they want to set up turbines. Continue reading...

Management

With reference to the members of staff, Barrett is a good listener that is quite willing to accept varying opinions. He is a good listener that distills comments and information well. He listens carefully and can substantiate his suggestions or comments. Barrett is also patient and respectful. This attribute enables his members of staff to challenge him. Additionally, the attribute allows him to invite disagreements from people. He never attacks people individually or diminish their importance.
Barrett gives freedom to members of staff and allows them to do what they deem right. He is loyal, especially on issues of Continue reading...

Question # 1

Summary
This sort of comparison also serves as a benchmarking tool. Due to the gap created, it is imperative to ascertain that the club is putting necessary efforts while establishing budget commitments to attaining the new desired level. Use of the symbolic automobiles to elucidate the strategic mission and vision statement of the club will result in a more modest agreement with regards to the clubs’ positioning after members of the board evaluate the projected costs. This gap directs members of the club to appraise its actual status rather than the ideal, and it demands for constructive participation by Continue reading...

A typical fraudster is a male aged between 36 and 45 years, who is employed by the organization for more than ten years, he is a part of the senior finance position and successfully manages a fraud against his own employers with the help of another perpetrator. There has been an increase of 25% in the cases involving weak internal controls and an exploitation of the same. There are various reasons for an increase in weak internal control which are the tight budgets which force the company to cut on the expenses incurred for internal control, Fraudsters are taking Continue reading...

How would you characterize the current decision-making process?

The decision-making process is ineffective and irrational. The poor decision-making process is the cause of the dilemma at the organization. The meetings held by departmental managers are contentious because they are full of anger and blame. The managers fail to agree concerning the right decision to implement. Man team members lack an opportunity to express their views thus they are forced to accept decisions imposed by the officials. Emma makes a go/no-go decision, and this thwarts the decision-making process at the organization. The communication process between the top executives is inadequate. There is a lack of real leadership during Continue reading...

The process of introducing design in an organization should be easy and the design should start producing its value on the first day of its introduction so that the people involved are kept motivated. Few tips that can help an individual get the best out of a design include keeping the whole thing simple, use of management tools, helping clients to familiarize with details of the design and integrating the design at all its operational levels. Design has been around for many years only that currently, many people have discovered design to be a valuable tool with which they Continue reading...

Introduction

In the competitive business environment, business must employ strategies that will ensure its survival and relevance in the market. The business must make sure its products reach all its consumers both rich and poor in the society. Additionally, it must assess the market to evaluate how its previous strategies have position the business in the market and check whether to employ a new strategy or not. Thus, if the previous strategies have not brought any significant improvement of the business in the market, then it would be wise to change tactics of doing business. One of the strategies a Continue reading...

Question 1

Marketing is the process of preparation and effecting the conception, valuing, promotion, and dissemination of goods, service and ideas. The primary objective is creating of an exchange that will be able to satiate target consumers and organizations. Marketing thus is the criteria of formulating the information that will add substance to the prospects customers and the current users of one's product. It an essential process to an organization since it is a tool that can enable a company to thrive in business. Moreover, satisfaction of customers through marketing, quality product and quick service delivery should be the core components Continue reading...

Leadership is the influence a member of a group holds over other members that help an organization in achieving its goals. The effectiveness of a leader is gauged by the performance of an organization in terms achieving set goals and targets. The success and well being of an organization depend on its leader, and he or she is responsible for steering the company to achieving its goals and objectives. This paper is about the leadership style of Jeff Bezos and how he has managed to stave off stiff competition in online business to raise Amazon to where it is Continue reading...

- There are quite a number of issues that need to be understood before implementing Business Sufficiency, Business Spheres and Decision Cockpits. First of all, implementing these systems would require a lot of investment. Since, the company is planning to implement these systems at the organization; it will require massive investment in terms of software, hardware, and overall system implementation. The second investment for organization will be in terms of human capital investment. All the personnel who are expected to use these systems will have to get training on how to use these systems. Later, they will have to Continue reading...

Abstract

This paper shed light to the main argument and models provided by Michael Toman on his research to determine how environment and natural resource affects the economic growth. Therefore, the paper highlights the problem that the author attempt to solve, and the methodology used. In conclusion, the paper focus on the social science citations that aims to deepen the argument.
The article provides an insight of the relationship between the environment and natural resources and the economic growth. When the modern theories of economic growth were being developed in 1950s and 1960s, the natural resources and environment were not Continue reading...

Management

The problem the article is attempting to solve
The article attempts to look at the emerging trend among the colleges that offer MBA to introduce the Hippocratic Oath for the students as the case of the medical schools. The article attempts to explore the impact of the Hippocratic Oath on the managers and whether it makes sense in the current business environment. The central problems addressed in the article include whether the oath is a requirement for the practice in the management and whether it can lead to improved management. The author attempts to explore the impact of the Continue reading...

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The onset of the implementation of Electronic Health Records has had an effect on the professional and physical autonomy of highly trained professional physicians specifically in the healthcare organizations. Electronic Health Records trigger a certain take by HC professionals contributing to observable changes in Healthcare Organizations following a response from the HC professionals. Their response reflects the data collected from the physicians through interviews. The topic raises a controversy to whether the effects are more constraining due to the managers using the Electronic Health Records to exercise more control (McGimpsey, 2011). Some of the many positive effects that Continue reading...

Challenges in Integrated Healthcare SystemsOrganizations have to follow a good articulation of steps in order to regulate integration of healthcare systems. The primary aim of any healthcare organization is to provide a good medical facility to its patients and thereby increase its profits. The integration of healthcare organizations is a rapidly growing area. It is a viable option to provide best facilities to the patients. It makes their medical visits hassle free as the system brings all the specialties under than one roof and delivers it to the patients as a single package. Hospitals can also reduce the costs Continue reading...

Article Analysis

Leadership in an organization is defined as the ability in of influencing the employees to act on a stipulated manner. The organizational goal safeguarding is the responsibility of the leader as they are mandated by the stakeholders. The leadership cultures in the organizations are based by the level of the performance and technological improvement . The qualities of production are the major consideration in the identification the capability of the leader.
Different cultures are employed in ensuring the company performances are attained. In the contrary to this, the leadership has currently changed as the gender equality has taken the course. Continue reading...

Business Ethics

Article review
In contemporary business practice, completion among organizations is getting very keen especially as several of the communist countries have now adopted the open market system, where price mechanism determines the supply and demands of goods. Furthermore, the expectations and demands from organizations to continue to give back to the community where they operate in terms of social responsibilities and customers satisfaction are very high. Hence, it is expected that quality of service and products are not sacrifice despite these much demands and expectations.Thus, different types of quality were identified, representing stakeholders in contemporary business. These include: social Continue reading...

Article Review

Summary of modern organization theory
Modern organization theories are based on the fact that any organization is adaptive and dynamic to changes in the working environment. Customer sentiment, competition, technology, market diversity are some of the issues that coarse change in any organization. These modern theories are adaptive, multi-motivated, multi-disciplinary, dynamic, and descriptive, among other characteristics (FAO Corporate Document Repository 2013). Modern theories include systems approach theory, contingency or situational approach, and socio-technical approach theory.

Systems approach theory

Ludwig von Bertalanffy, William Ross Ashby among others founded the theory from the 1940’s to the 1970’s. it view an organization as Continue reading...

Modern Organization Theory

Summary of modern organization theory
Modern organization theories are based on the fact that any organization is adaptive and dynamic to changes in the working environment. Customer sentiment, competition, technology, market diversity are some of the issues that coarse change in any organization. These modern theories are adaptive, multi-motivated, multi-disciplinary, dynamic, and descriptive, among other characteristics (FAO Corporate Document Repository 2013). Modern theories include systems approach theory, contingency or situational approach, and socio-technical approach theory.
The systems approach theory pictures an organization as an open and organic system that has several subdivisions that make up the whole structure. The Continue reading...

There is adequate literature which offers an option of trust to build common sense by individual leaders. On the other hand it is intuitive to build organizational trust which is different from interpersonal trust. Today, managers require new models to understand the manner in which they can effectively deal with trust in complex and large organizations. There are some organizations which operate in diverse geographical locations yet managers need to ascertain the achievement of the objectives of the organization.
Most researchers have identified the value of pessimism in today’s organizational context. Managers need to use strategic pessimism and Continue reading...

Part I: Assessment by Criteria

I. Argument or Research Question
- Paper has a clear argument or research question;
- The argument is central to the paper and is well supported;
- Both the “summary” and “analysis” aspects of the lit review are present;
- Literature is organized to support the argument

Strong Satisfactory Weak

5 4 3 2 1
II. Categories
- strong, well-developed categories;
- Analysis of articles in each category is comprehensive and creative;
- Bold, informative section headings present

Strong Satisfactory Weak

5 4 3 2 1
III. Article selection, use
- All articles are clearly represented;
- some method to selection is evident

Strong Satisfactory Weak

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The research focuses on answering two broad research questions. The first question required to determine the relationship between the use of EI competencies of Hispanic employees and the projects outcome that they continuously carry. The second research question was geared towards identifying the EI competencies in Hispanic employees that are the best in predicting individual project outcomes (Art 32).
There has been a great concern towards organizing skilled workers to minimize project losses. Negative emotions on the side of employees have been one of the major contributors of the project failure. Although not all times strategies work, there is Continue reading...

Graphical Information Systems or GIS has been a used as a major tool in successfully managing the protection programs and restoration of the environment. This has been proven because of the interdependency of the ecosystem we live in and the impact of what humans do to the environment. Government and private organizations and citizens who are putting efforts to protect and restore the environment we lived in are currently faced with numerous complex challenges because of this interdependency. A technology like the GIS is a welcome intervention.
What is really GIS and how can it help in managing the Continue reading...

Introduction and business situation

In today’s complex business scenario, leadership has become a topic of intense discussion and scrutiny. Leadership in a small organization is quite different from leadership in a complex, global organization. This article deals with the question of how leaders of large, complex organisations require building teams that can accomplish any outcome of the desired strategic objective. Today’s global organizations need leaders that can simultaneously thrive across different business environments, including emerging economies, turnaround situations and start up operations (Peslter, 2013).

Key Management Issue- How to lead people?

The globalisation of the business has compelled the leaders to tackle several situations simultaneously. The leader must Continue reading...