Essays on American Management

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Research and practice have indicated that both managers and employees dislike performance appraisal. Due to this growing problem, performance appraisal has declined in popularity, especially for organizational managers who have to conduct the evaluations or be evaluated at the same time. One of the reasons why managers hate performance evaluation is the negative impacts it can create in an organization and potentially affect the achievement of the organizational goals. For instance, those on the receiving end of a performance appraisal process can develop a negative attitude towards other employees who were seemingly favored. They could also exhibit declined performance ...

2016-06-06

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Nowadays, project management today is an acknowledged field of professional activity. Methodology and project management tools are widely used in the areas of project-oriented activities, especially in creating new products and services, in targeted changes within individual organizations and companies (Dinsmore and Cabanis-Brewin, 2011). The increasing complexity of economic processes, increasing the number of control subjects, and constraints that are available at our time, such as the unstable operation of the economy, a sharp reduction in public investment, stable, high inflation rate and others lead to that currently required projects ...

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The paper will review contemporary management practice involving a case study of one UK’s power and energy Services Company named Energy Co. One topic from HRO 383 curriculum that is related to the contents of the case is the company structure. The thing that relates this topic to the content of the case is the company’s leadership hierarchy that the case discusses. Therefore, the mentioned issue of staff resistance towards change results from the way the leadership of this company approaches the change process. The case study indicated the Energy Co. has been through a process of ...

With the financial predicament still rampant, the American model of management which has come under greater inspection. The recent financial predicament was heralded by a number of corporate scandals such as Enron, WorldCom and the impoverishment of the American auto business. But as compared with some numerous companies from the developing nations, they succeeded in supporting flourishing international development while having little conventionality with the set of guidelines of management in effect across the Atlantic. But the billion dollar question begs says Mauro (2009, p. 167). Is this the closing stages of the American model of management? And is it ...