Essays on Clutterbuck

Introduction

Leadership skills are critical in situations where a firm intends to conduct a succession of its leadership on a periodic basis. Leadership competencies are necessary skills in ensuring a smooth flow in leadership succession and in the development of the potential of the employees who will help an organization attain its vision (Delbridge, et al. 2007, p. 42). The current trend is characterized by seasoned managers and leaders who are retiring from their business ventures thereby creating a gap that needs to be filled through practical leadership training and mentorship. The aim of this paper is to examine the ...

Introduction

The human resource department is considered responsible for setting the cultural tone of a company. They issue policies and raise awareness of the current workplace legislation and educate employees on the right way to discharge their duties. HR is also responsible for attracting and retaining high-quality professionals. Obviously, the workplace will lose its savor without the important role of the HR department. In today’s workplace, soft capitalism has been effectively wielded by the organization as an invaluable human resource management tool. Soft capitalism as opposed to hard capitalism is employee centric and has a strong relationship with emotional ...

Introduction

This report is based on the key findings established after going through the case study of Intercontinental Hotel Brisbane. The hotel consists of 1019 rooms and is situated in a prime location in Brisbane. The workforce at the underlying hotel comprises agency workers (coming from Asian and some other foreign countries) and directly appointed employees. The company has recently introduced an automated system based on a software application called Optii to appraise the performance of their employees in order to make them utilize their full potential. The question is how far Optii has been successful in dealing with the ...

In the automobile industry, there are several manufacturers of the different brands, makes and models of the vehicles used by almost anyone globally. Different people require different vehicles that suit their needs. These vehicles are brought for a purpose; depending on the consumer needs. This consumer needs vary geographically, demographically, psycho-graphically and in terms of customer behavior . Each of these factors can be broken down further into smaller segments. This is a diverse market with different needs and qualities. Marketing using the same strategy would be detrimental. A form of marketing therefore has to be devised to take advantage ...

Introduction

Entities of health care recognize revenue for which a little portion of the total amount is billable or billed or the final collection is not assured reasonably at the time the services are rendered. There have been concerns raised by the constituents that these kind of accounting practices lead to gross-up revenue for unexpected amounts to be collected in the end. To add to it, due to the fact that entities of health care make their own decisions as far as bad debts and adjustment to revenues is concerned, the decisions are different from one another and it is not ...

The Catholic persecution in Ireland was a five-century quest to eliminate the Roman Catholic faith in an island where the religion has been deeply entrenched since the time St. Patrick introduced the faith in the second half of the fifth century. The Roman Catholic religion has been, until the 1540's, Ireland's religion until Henry VIII broke away with the Church. He instituted the English and Irish reformations in an attempt to rule over the church. Compared to other anti-Catholic movements that spread throughout Europe during the Reformation, the different aspects of Irish Reformation were primarily triggered by shifting government policy. ...

Exceptional Human Diversity

Diversity in many aspects of life is a very wide and interesting topic. In fact, nature itself attests that differences are very evident and cannot be simply ignored. Concerning humans, diversity can be manifested in a wide range of categories: race, gender, ethnicity, religion, ability, family structure, socioeconomic status, and many more. And for countless generations this reality has always been called into mind, allowing everyone to think thoroughly about it, as to how each one of us should respond to it. Today, however, this reality seems to be not yet completely addressed; discrimination in many areas of society still remains. ...

1. Informal Networks Atkinson & Moffat (2005) describes informal networks as a relationship between colleagues that develops after the realization of the gains derivable from such a network. Informal networks keep employees connected in a context that is only well understood among them (members of the same network). As opposed to formal networks which are regulative, informative-instructive, or integrative or innovative, informal networks are inherently are known to change with time (Anderson, Ones, Sinangil, & Viswesvaran, 2001). Research has shown that these networks are less innovative and are by all means not regulative.

Conventionally, the presence of informal networks has always been justified ...

Project Team Progression

Forming: I participated in a team working on a history assignment. It was a responsible and difficult task that required skilled project management. Due to a perfectly chosen leader of the group, who knew the subject rather well and was using helpful techniques, it wasn’t too hard for us to achieve success. At the first stage, forming, there was a lot of excitement over the assignment, but not all the members of the team knew each other and understood the peculiarities of the project. The leader did everything in the right way, by introducing the members to each other and defining objectives of ...