Essays on Pfeffer

Job Analysis

Job analysis incorporates the collection and analysis of data by analyzing a job in accordance with its tasks, duties and responsibilities (Singh, 2008). The current paper aims to conduct a job analysis and develop job description for the position of a Store Branch Manager and Sales Representative of a retail store. The job analysis has been conducted by observing the tasks and duties performed by the incumbents (Singh, 2008).

Sales Representative

Store Branch Manager Job Description Sales Representatives The sales representative is required to provide services to the customers, retain the existing customers, address their concerns and complaints by incorporating the ...

Business Strategy

Strategic Alliances: A Critical Analysis of Successful Alliances toward Knowledge Creation and Management Introduction Going beyond the current trends in the business literature on strategic alliances, this paper explores ways strategic alliances are helping organizational firms gain competitive edge, more particularly through opening the access to markets and eventually in the creation of knowledge. This is followed by analysis of issues surrounding strategic alliances, current business examples and challenges faced by organizations that form alliances. Finally, we conclude with a brief take on the future of strategic partnership and knowledge creation research.

The Meaning of Strategic Alliance

Since becoming a trend three decades ago, ...

Business Strategy

Strategic Alliances: A Critical Analysis of Successful Alliances toward Knowledge Creation and Management Introduction In today’s business landscape, creating sustainable value for customers and shareholders requires the initiation of an alliance strategy. Strategic alliances are alternative modes of global business operations that small to large enterprises are considering in order to achieve stronger and more effective market presence. Moreover, alliances are a fact of life for business, which needs to align present and future strategy to current radical technological and structural changes, globalization, and increased competitive pressures (Janczak, 2008). Meanwhile, the issues of trust, partner selection, and the ...

Part One

Association in the simplest term may be defined as accumulation of individuals who cooperate for accomplishment of steady destinations by work division (Definition of an Association. 2016). Business associations convey their products in such a way that at the end of the exchange with purchasers, there is a benefit. There are many theories that try to explain the varied elements of business associations. The hierarchical hypothesis focuses on giving an interdisciplinary highlight on different aspects. The first aspect is social association impact on mentality and behavior of affiliate people. The second is Individual activity and quality impact on overall ...

Evidence Based Practice (EBM)

According to Rousseau (2006), EBM is a concept in which decisions are made and policies formulated on the basis of sound evidence. Contemporarily, there has been a notable paradigmatic shift in how medical professionals use scientific research and data analysis in the process of making decisions as well as formulating the policies as mentioned. The role of evidence in decision and policy making in clinical practices has yielded the practical outcomes. Though managers and policymakers have consistently been advised to embrace the use of evidence based management practices, there has been significant negligence in the adoption of this concept. ...

Agency Problems

1. The agency theory is a supposition that tries to develop an explanation for the relationship that exists between principals and agents in a business (Pfeffer and Salancik, 2003). Normally, agency theory involves developing solutions to the problems that might exist in agency relationships, such as problems between the principals and agents of the principals. One aspect of agency theory is separation ownership. The relationship developed between the owners of the company (shareholders) and the agent (directors) in a company creates a separation in the ownership and control of the company. Major companies such as the ones listed in ...

Audience

This paper is directed to the academic audience. It will benefit the academic community associated with the organizational function of human resource management. Specifically, the report would be presented to my tutor. This is done in partial fulfillment of my academic goals. Nevertheless, the information provided in the report has utmost significance to practitioners in the field of human resource management.

Summary

This report focuses on the issue of leadership and management performance in organizations. It begins with the definition of terms that commonly occur within the context of human resource management. It then proceeds to give a brief introduction ...

Introduction:

With the growing possibilities of work opportunities, employees have multiple jobs to choose from. One of the key influential factor to take up the decision of a job change is compensation. It motivates the employees to fulfil the expected roles and objectives assigned to them. Strategic compensation differs in such a manner that here the employee is not considered just as an overhead. The employee’s salary and related monetary benefits are directly related to the strategies that have been formulated to achieve the company’s crucial objectives that ensure the profitability and sustainability of the firm in the ...

Organization Analysis Part 2

Organization Analysis Part 2 The American Public Human Services Association (APHSA) is a national nonprofit organization that has multiple programs to assist families from different backgrounds to improve in their lives. The organization is concerned with issues such as child adoption, child care, child support, child welfare, disabilities, food stamps and temporary assistances for poor families. The organization functions with many affiliates that include American Association of Welfare Attorney, American Association of Food Stamp Directors, among others. The study will carry out organization analysis to find out how the APHSA organization functions (APHSA, 2016). To fully incorporate the functioning ...

To Investigate Knowledge Management as a Source Competitive Advantage in Pharmaceutical Companies

Introduction

While the knowledge economy gains momentum, knowledge management is coming up as an important corporate discipline for all businesses, regardless of the economic sector to which they belong. However, the adoption and implementation of knowledge management is not similar in all industries and vary depending on the industry (DeTienne and Jackson, 2001). For instance, the organizations in the pharmaceutical industry are fighting with many challenges that are of their own kind in the field they are specialized in. In a similar manner, the advantages knowledge management can bring in ...

Abstract

Knowledge management was traditionally taken for granted or prepackaged in a very limited view or interpretation of information. However, this contextual and static interpretation of knowledge management works against contradictory viewpoints that are required for meeting and solving the issues brought about by unstable business environments and conditions. Data is usually organized or arranged into information through the combination of data with the existing knowledge and the self system of an individual to create the mental representation of the information or new knowledge. This new knowledge or mental representation is usually used to solve a challenge or to make sense of a ...