Effective Leadership in Cross-Cultural Situations Leadership is no longer a simple phenomenon related to the management of human resources. With increasing diversity and intercultural settings at the workplace, many leaders have to juggle between their standard organizational roles and cultural adaptations that need to be done considering the level of employees ' variety. While traditional authoritarian attitude may fail to keep up employees ' morale, participative approaches might make it difficult
"Globalization" is a term that came into popular usage in the 1980 's to describe the increased movement of people, knowledge and ideas, and goods and money across national borders that has led to increased interconnectedness among the world 's populations, economically, politically, socially and culturally. Although globalization is often thought of in economic terms (i.e., "the global marketplace"), this process has many social and political implications as well. Many in local communities associate
that faced by Honda when it transferred their leadership of several major brands to its operations in North America is centralize in their organization structure which the decision-making come out from their top of the chain company of Japan. They realized that they cannot always do like that anymore, they have to grow an internal and international leadership team. Once they transferred leadership of the brands to North America, the lacking of leadership experience and knowledge in their organization
TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT Literature Review Introduction: Total Quality Management (TQM) involves developing quality and execution of product and service of a company. Customer relish is the main purpose which generates customer attention and satisfies customer expectation. So, it can be said that concentrating on customer fulfillment, total quality management manages peoples and business processes. In other words, Total Quality Management includes performance, appearance, easy accessibility, delivery
Introduction The proper planning and execution of strategy is crucial for any company to develop, especially when the industry is extremely competitive or volatile. Industry evolution brings change in sources and nature of competition (Porter 1979). This essay will analyse the external competitive environment and critically evaluate the strategies employed by Lenovo, a Chinese technological corporation, in dealing with the overall declining trend of the PC (personal computer) market. Case study
was established. Hoshin Kanri as the name originally comes from Japan. Etymology of the name gives the following origins of it “Hoshin = “methodology for setting strategic direction” and Kanri = “administration or management”. Therefore, it may be said that Hoshin Kanri translates into “management of the methodology for setting strategic direction.” (mcts.com, 02.02.16). Historically, the Hoshin Kanri policy was developed in Japan after World War II. “Hoshin Kanri was started in Japanese companies
The concept and practice of teacher leadership have gained momentum in the past two decades. Teachers are assuming more leadership functions at both instructional and organizational levels of practice. Empirical literature reveals effects of teacher leadership practice, teacher leader characteristics, and conditions that promote and challenge teacher leadership. Teachers’ leadership and collective expertise are tightly linked to student achievement. A sophisticated new study has found that schools
Introduction Both the local authorities and central government have roles and responsibilities in responding to crises and disaster situations. However, several catastrophic crises and disaster events over the past decades have casted doubts on the effectiveness of central governments in responding to crises and disaster situations. As such, some scholars and
Globalization is not a unique phenomenon in the 21st century. What is unique about our experience of globalization, though, is the accelerated speed in which globalization has propagated. At a dizzying speed, globalization has left parts of the world more affluent than ever whereas other parts of the world are still swept in vertigo, unable to fully garner the benefits it offers. Despite current polarized experiences and the tradeoff between domestic politics and globalization, the overall results
components of Dell would include the PESTLE factors, different strategies like corporate strategy, business and operational strategy etc., Role of HR in Dell, HR strategy plan being used in organization, different tools which are used for measuring effectiveness of HR strategy and SHRM model used by the Dell. Recommendations Combining all the SHRM models together in the organization, which improves overall growth, globalization would be increased, using tool like balance score card, large scale surveys