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Business and Management

  • Task one
  • Explain and evaluate how the manager carries out Mintzberg's three managerial roles: the interpersonal, the informational and the decisional roles
  • Interpersonal roles
  • The framework developed by Mintzberg on leadership categorised all the roles that the manager is accountable for executing different but integrated roles. In response to the interpersonal roles, the manager is the figure head whereby he is entitled to support and execute social, ceremonial as well as legal responsibilities (Mintzberg, 2009, p.3). The manager is seen as a source of inspiration whereby he/she motivates and encourages the employees towards achieving the set goals. The employees look up to the manager as the person unleashing all the authorities needed. In terms of executing the roles as figure head, the hr manager of PepsiCo United Kingdom, Morris, facilitates motivation to the employees through encouraging them towards performing their duties in the respective manner. He achieves these through providing gifts and rewards for the best performing employees.

  • Managing business facility
  •                               Table of content
  • Introduction. 4
  • Role of the facility manager5
  • Decision maker of the committee. 5
  • Approving completed projects and budgets. 5
  • Determining profit and loss generated by shared facilities. 5
  • Supervising the maintenance process of facility sharing. 6
  • Methodology. 6
  • Shared facilities. 7
  • Space planning and business needs. 7
  • Space planning. 7
  • Business needs. 7
  • Room allocation. 8
  • Accommodation rooms. 8
  • Lecture rooms. 9
  • Health and safety in shared facilities. 9
  • Health. 9
  • Safety. 9
  • Ethics role in shared facilities. 10
  • Recommendation. 11
  • Conclusion. 11
  • References
  • . 13
  • Introduction
  • West End College entails an institution located in London, United Kingdom. The college shares facilities with the neighboring institution which is the University of Cambridge. Both institutions are located in the same region and offer nearly the same courses. A committee was elected to supervise the process of shared facilities since both institutions reside in the same compound. With this aspect in common the university and the college drafted a memorandum of understanding which governs both institutions towards sharing the facilities. Recently, both institutions decided to come up with a facility management committee which will be responsible of controlling the whole procedure of facility sharing.

  • Managing Business Activities to Achieve Result
  • LO 1   The importance of business processes in delivering outcomes based upon
  •              business goals and objectives
  1. Identify the different functions and the processes in the skincare business and evaluate their interrelationship in meeting the common business goals
  • There are some of the business function and process in the skincare business that help it to meet its goals and objectives.
  1. Procurement, logistics and distribution
  • These refer to the various activities that are associated with storing of various inputs and distribution of the finished products to the customers. These business processes plays a critical role in the management of skin care business since it help in connecting the business to its customer. In addition, it also helps to ensure that the business is able to acquire the required raw materials.

  • Strategic administration of operations, information and finance
  • Performance
  • Role of operation within the company
  • The operations department play important role in promoting the performance of an organization.
  • Implementing
  • First the operation department is involved in implementing the company strategies. This therefore implies that this department is the one of the most critical department in an organization since it helps to ensure that the strategies developed by the management are fully implemented.

  • Human resource planning and recruitment
  • The human resource planning plays an important role in the management of an organization. First it helps to provide quality workforce in an organization. In relation to this, the human resource planning plays an important role in organizing for training of employee. This in turn helps to ensure that the entire workforces are equipped with knowledge and skills. Second, the human resource manager helps to reduce the labor cost in an organization. This is because the human resource manager helps in balancing between the demand and supply of the various materials. The human resource manager also facilitates the raising of skill in the workforce (Krishnamurthi, 2006, p.2).

  • Examine how the approaches of personnel management, human resource management and strategic human resource management would help the company to implement change and overcome resistance to change.
  • Personnel management approach
  • Commodity strategy; this strategy includes the efforts that labor has in production. Labor is a commodity and it should be maintained like other commodities in an organization for better production. Effort of employees is mostly influenced by the wages. In an organization, wages should not decline when the supply of labour is high and increase when there is excess demand for the same (Kumar & sharmar, 2001, p.27).Better and consistent pay attracts workers and reduces the instances of poor turnover.

  • Corporate governance
  • Introduction
  •             The Treasury Wine Estate can be termed of the global wine making company, which is located in Australia. The company is also involved in the distribution of wine into various countries worldwide. History indicates that the company was established back in the mid 1840s with its head quarter was based in the hunters valley. The company serves as one of the best basis of studying the importance of corporate governance in an organization. This is because according to the newsletter from value and broker’s newsletter of October 2012, the company has had a negative sales performance in the international market. This report therefore highlights the importance of corporate governance in an organization. In addition, the report first analyses the criteria that is used in the reviewing the corporate governance in an organization. Moreover, the report also highlights the importance of the application of the principles of corporate governance. The report also provides a review of the company corporate governance. Most importantly the report also highlights various recommendations that the management of Treasury Wine Estate needs to implement in order to improve on their corporate governance.

    • Financial rewards
  • Introduction
  •             In order for various organizations to meet their objective, the top management must ensure that they develop an effective relationship between the organization and employees. The management of an organization can use the reward system in order to motivate their employee. Motivation plays an important role in acting as the driving force in the ensuring that the employee works in order to meet their target. Various studies have shown that motivation helps in promoting positive behavior among the employee in an organization. The management of an organization may use the rewards such gifts, incentives, promotion among others. However this essay mainly outlines the role of the financial rewards in enhancing the employee motivation. In relation to this the essay also outlines the possible benefit of using the financial reward in an organizational performance. In addition, this essay also presents some of the negative effects of using the financial rewards.

  • Financial reward
  • Introduction
  •             In order for various organizations to meet their objectives, the top management must ensure that they develop an effective relationship between the organization and employees. The management of an organization can use the reward system in order to motivate their employee. Motivation plays an important role in acting as the driving force in the ensuring that the employee works in order to meet their target.

  • Organizing the workforce
  • Abstract
  •             Various changes in the environmental factors have affected the way the different organization plan their work force. Most of the businesses nowadays have dropped the traditional method of organizing the workforce. This essay presents some of the possible challenged that are associated with the use of this traditional approach of organizing the workforces. The major reason why various organization have dropped this tradition method of organizing is the fact that this method is based on a wrong assumption that the prevailing market condition will remain for a long period.

 
  • Global information system: Qantas Airline
  • Executive summary
  • Qantas airline is one of the leading airline companies in Australia. Analysis of the company corporate mission it is evident that the company has been committed in ensuring that they provide quality services to their customers. External business relations has helped the company to improve on the service delivery, for instance through collaboration with Dubai based Emirates the company has managed to reach most of the European countries. Despite the company doing well in both local and international market it also experiences problems related to management and technology. This report therefore presents some of the problems currently faced by the company. In addition to analyzing the problems faced by the company the report also presents some of the possible ways that the management of the company need to implement in order to deal with these challenges. Finally, the report also analyses the crowdsourcing and its role in promoting growth and development of the company.

    • Managing the Human Resource
    • Executive summary
    • Various organizations nowadays have adopted the high commitment model of management which mainly emphases on the need to develop organizational commitment among the employee. One of the major assumptions in the high commitment model is that involving the employee in the management can help to lower the labor turnover rate and improve the employee performance. Implementing the high performance model of management can help to improve the overall organization performance and in turn help to ensure that an organization achieves competitive advantage. In order to analyses the role of the high commitment model of management this paper uses the Starbuck as the basis of the study. Analysis of the Starbuck management it is evident that the management of the company has committed effort towards ensuring that they provide their employee with a good working environment. Through involving their employee in the management of the company affairs it has managed to motivate their employee to continue working for the company. In addition, through ensuing that they implement programs to help meet the needs of their employee the company has managed to grow and increase on their market share.

    • Social media and human resource management
    • Mainiero, L., & Jones, K. (2013). Workplace Romance 2.0: Developing a Communication Ethics Model to Address Potential Sexual Harassment from Inappropriate Social Media Contacts between Coworkers. Journal Of Business Ethics, 114(2), 367-379.
    •             The authors of the article mainly analysis the data presented by other authors in order presents his argument on how social media play a role in advancing the workplace romance. In addition the authors also present two cases where the social media played a role in facilitating workplace romance. The article examines the ethical implications from the workplace romance that subsequently may turn into sexual harassment. In relation to this the authors notes that the fear for sexual harassment is one of the major reason why the human resource managers discourages workplace romance. The authors also note that the misuse social media technology such as Facebook may lead to creation of a hostile working environment for the employee since it may impact the behavior of the employee in the workplace. Moreover the authors of the article recommend some of the ethical models that need to be implemented in order to prevent the negative effects due to in appropriate social media contacts. Finally, the authors of the article suggest that the human resource manager needs to ensure that they communicate to the employee the various ethical rules regarding the use of social media.

    1. Type of employee performance appraisals
    2. Impact of religious beliefs in human resource management
    3. Business Context
    4. Failed Business

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