Essays on Gino

A & F Ltd.: Integrating Learning into Mashup Implementations

I. Introduction Organizations are learning differently. Compared to a conventional model by which individuals, work groups and whole organizations used to learn new business processes, current business practice has opened up new potentials for company-wide learning enabled by ICT platforms and applications. The growing collaboration, communication and sharing learning (and fun) experiences in current business practice is, indeed, both evolutionary and revolutionary. The learning behavior of operating businesses is evolutionary by phasing out older modes of learning (e.g. formal professional development, meetings and water cooler chats) and implementing similar platforms and applications (e.g. interactive, collaborative, user-friendly wikis). Thus, by ...

Ethical Breakdowns

The article at hand provides readers with a powerful insight into causes of unethical behavior that people barely consider as significant. It observes different situations and their consequences in terms of application and adherence to ethical principles. Bazerman & Tenbrunsel are concerned with ‘hidden’ breakdowns of ethics in the organization and their implication on the company’s workforce, overall performance and its financial outcomes. They agree with Nyberg’s (587-598) position and point at the fact that ethics and its principles are crucially important in day-to-day activities. Unethical behavior can be avoided only if both top-management and the staff are ...

Leaders as Decision Architects – a Comprehensive Analysis

Decision-making is one of the focal points in contemporary business management. Moreover, the today’s economies are particularly vibrant and dynamic, making it necessary to make the decisions quickly. In their article ‘Leaders as Decision Architects’, John Beshears and Francesca Gino argue that the decision-making context should be substantially modified. In particular, the authors emphasize that all critical behavioral issues, which surround a decision-making process, should be identified, and the factors, which maximize the chances of errors, should be removed. Special attention is laid to the importance of mitigating the impacts of different emotional biases and poor motivation. Generally, ...

Although many determinants are involved in business decision-making, a significant number of strong scholarly arguments confirm the idea that the main underlying aspects in this regard are motivation of the leaders and their cognitive biases (Monahan, 2000). This essay speaks about the key underlying causes of cognitive biases and poor motivation of company leaders, and speaks about potential solutions in this regard. Cognitive bias is a systemic deviation from rational judgment, i.e. a popular cause, which compels people to think and adopt decisions in an illogical way. At the same time, the practice revealed that in some cases cognitive ...

Abstract

The healthcare environment requires that all stakeholders are aware of the need for change, as well as the best process of implementing that change. As such, it is important to note the specific challenges that face those working in healthcare, as they pertain to the organizations themselves. This paper covers the basics of the challenges that face healthcare organizations to highlight some of the specific challenges that are present in this industry. The specific issues of changes in pay for quality and the changing characteristics of clients are used to highlight why change can be challenging in healthcare. It ...

Gender Bias in Workplace – The Alternative Solutions

Gender bias in workplace is an indication that the culture within the organization needs to be changed and improved. The stated problem of gender bias in workplace is considered one of the common, yet alarming issues in any organizations. There organizational leaders must ensure that the balance treatment between male and female employees is always included in the company’s operational procedure. Otherwise, conflict between genders might arise and positive employee perspectives towards the management might turn into negative ones. Therefore, it is essential that finding alternative solutions for this organizational problem must be done. Any proposed alternatives must ...

Determination of the most appropriate objectives and trade-offs

The identification of the best goals and trade-offs for the project would be influenced by various factors such as the number of workforces attached to the group. The financial efficiency and the ability to assess the company are potential to deliver and also work to enhance profitability. As the manager of St. Hampton’s Hospital, I would ensure that all the customers are entered into the electronic system so as to increase efficiency as well as creating the most appropriate (Lemonis, 2014). I would do a trade-off for the workers ability to work in large numbers to enhance the ...

Morality vs. Ethics

Introduction Several morality and ethics scholars seem to score at the same goal, yet have differences in meaning. For instance, they have correspondences at some respects and defer in others (Bennett-Wimbush, Amstutz and Willoughby 2015, 134). Consequently, this investigation pursues various premises to determine the similarities and differences that exist in their functions to structure the society. In this datum, the advancement of this paper examines these areas using structural, functional and normative tenets of the two in the society and general human interactions. In recollection, it will fundamentally appear apparent from the analysis that the two work to ...

For the vast majority of the history of art, protest has been limited to the written forms. Whether it is the ancient story of Antigone, calling the codes of honor of ancient Greece into question, or Boccaccio’s Decameron, ridiculing the high horse atop which the Catholic Church attempted to perch during the Black Plague, or the portrait of infinite government surveillance in Orwell’s 1984 that still chills readers today, the tradition of protest is much older in writing than in visual arts. This should not be taken to suggest that artists in other genres did not have ...

Introduction

The particular organization that will be focused on in this organizational learning and systems thinking report will be the Fill Support Corporation. I have worked for the said organization in the past and I can still clearly remember the challenging but enriching working experiences I encountered during my stay there. Fill Support is an internet marketing company that hires both virtual and office-based workers to cater the needs of an overwhelming number of internet marketing clients. As an internet marketing company, Fill Support accepts various types of jobs and orders coming from their over 1000 individual and independent clients. ...