Business And Management

What is Organizational Change Management

2011-02-18T21:29:00.000-08:00

Organizational change management (OCM) is a framework for managing the effect of new business processes, changes in organizational structure or cultural changes within an enterprise. Simply put, OCM addresses the people side of change management.

A systematic approach to OCM is beneficial when change requires people throughout an organization to learn new behaviors and skills. By formally setting expectations, employing tools to improve communication and proactively seeking ways to reduce misinformation, stakeholders are more likely to buy into a change initially and remain committed to the change throughout any discomfort associated with it.

Successful OCM strategies include:
• Agreement on a common vision for change -- no competing initiatives.
• Strong executive leadership to communicate the vision and sell the business case for change.
• A strategy for educating employees about how their day-to-day work will change.
• A concrete plan for how to measure whether or not the change is a success -- and follow-up plans for both successful and unsuccessful results.
• Rewards, both monetary and social, that encourage individuals and groups to take ownership for their new roles and responsibilities.

Reference: Organizational change management (OCM)
searchcio.techtarget. com/definition/organizational-change-management-OCM

Article - Total Organizational Development

2011-02-13T02:36:00.000-08:00

Below you will find an example article on How Organizational Development works with Company/Organization with the involvement of HR team or HR Top Managers.

Executive Summary

HR managers that concentrate on developing and marshalling total organizational poise and effective organizational synergy for sustainable high performance are positioning their businesses for long-term corporate growth, success and survival! Total organizational poise is the heart and bedrock of high-performance organizational systems. Fostering total organizational poise in your business is an enduring challenge but worthwhile overall. Doing this requires a different orientation in organizational development. It means total organizational development for effective organizational synergy and sustainable high performance.

Introduction

Developing total organizational poise and synergy is the ultimate HR challenge for long-run corporate success and growth! It is to imaginatively foster the synergy of excellence of people's actualizing attributes and excellence in the facets and interfaces of organizational systems and subsystems for sustainable high performance.

When was the last time you did undertake an organization development project or an organization intervention program?

For Example: There is two scenarios...

If you undertook an organization development project at least over 12 months ago, was the initial organization development program conceived around certain specific burning issues? What did you achieve six months after the conclusion of the program? How much of that did you get one year after? What are the challenges and issues seen as likely to result in, or determine the course of, any subsequent organization development project in, say, three years? What about in five years? How much of these were factored into the design of the initial organization development program? How did the organization development project address and position the organizational or business systems and their interfaces-their quality, functional interdependence, alignment, and synergy? Which explicit principles of sustainable organization development drive the project?

If you recently undertook an organization development project, say, less than 12 months ago consider these questions. What burning issues did you start with? How much effort did you put into getting commitment to drive the intervention program? What did you consider as the overall outcomes of the program? How much of them were you prepared for? What would you say is the proportion of foreseen outcomes (say, good ones) to the unforeseen outcomes (say, bad ones)?

How much consensus did you get on the impact of the intervention program considering the burning issues you started with? How did the organization development project address and position the organizational or systems and their interfaces-their quality, functional interdependence, alignment, and synergy? Which explicit principles of sustainable organization development drive the project?

Implications for Total Organization Development

Issues, and considerations, such as the foregoing inform the model, quality and thrust of organization development. They underpin total' organization development. Which translates to fostering effective synergy of people’s attributes and excellence of integrating systems and facets-together with their interfaces- for high performance? It means using insightful technology and processes to foster effective synergy of organizational systems and subsystems.

Total organizational development involves exploring and nurturing the total poise of all organizational systems and subsystems for ultimate high performance. It helps businesses position the drivers (e.g. attributes, attitudes, talents, and skills), vectors (e.g. mission, vision, values, ground rules and processes) and equilibrants (e.g. methods, technology and tools) operating in organizational or business systems and their interfaces for long-run high performance.

Total Organizational Poise Is Key!

Keen watchers of corporate history and practices will marvel that not many top HR managers are heeding lessons of tokenism, resulting in limited corporate success. This for long arose from poor alignment and lack of effective organizational synergy.

When top managers tend to allow their organizations to remain in a state of partial poise- so long as they are attaining an already defined level of profitability or productivity- their businesses are not motivated to create a vision of long-term corporate excellence. Far too often, and for too long, we see an organization which tends to focus on certain systems to the detriment of others forgetting the interdependent nature of subsystems in an organization.

The ultimate challenge facing top HR managers in a pulsating business environment is how to achieve and maintain total organizational poise for breakthrough performance. When there is total poise in your organization, your people and integrating systems are positioned for high performance on a sustainable basis.

The truth is that the nature of today's competition is beyond technology, but what drives technology, creativity and innovations: the superior essence of the human mind and character. This is where the competition will be-and is being-won or lost!

Top HR managers need to explore and address total organizational poise development if they really care about their ultimate HR mandate. This mandate is simply, to foster effective organizational synergy, through total poise, to assure the future of their organizations in business.

Dr. O. Akin-Ogundeji, is based in Lagos, Nigeria. He holds Ph.D. of the University of London and leads OD Synergy, a team of strategic human resources and organizational development consultants in Africa. He also leads Better Poise (betterpoise. com), promoting people's capacity to be on top of their world and attain sustainable self-fulfillment.

The total organization development brief, OD Synergy Digest (odsynergy. com/od-synergy-digest.html), gives you insight on developing total poise for sustainable high performance in your organization.

Retrieved February 12, 2011: Total Organizational Development Article. The Ultimate Challenge for Top HR Managers Today Dr. Oladele Akin-Ogundeji President, OD Synergy Ltd (odsynergy. com)

Methods of Organizational Development

2011-02-08T20:39:00.000-08:00

Applying an effective organizational development and design methodologies and successful techniques, organizations should focus more in the following areas to succeed in business such as:

• Strategies: Example of these are external analysis, internal analysis, vision, mission, values, differentiation, target markets, level of investment, allocation of resources, and key strategic initiatives

• Structures: Includes in the organizational, group, project, and team culture/norms/values/symbols, lines of authority, communication, degree of centralization, degree of focus, structures, practices, and policies

• Systems: The process of business planning, budgeting, accounting, information, change and transition management, coaching, eLearning, empowerment, learning management systems, knowledge management, problem solving and decision making

• Processes: Required for continuous and updating career development, compensation, internal communications, learning and development, process improvement, performance management, reward and recognition, staffing, job rotation, stretch assignments, coaching, mentoring, action learning, aligned metric systems, accountability, succession planning, and recruiting
Reference:
en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Organizational_structure
managementhelp. org/org_chng/org_chng.htm
fao. org/docrep/w7503e/w7503e05.htm
gov. ns. ca/psc/v2/hrCentre/resources/ode/
managementhelp. org/org_thry/design.htm

Purpose of Organization Development and Design

2011-02-06T20:41:00.000-08:00

• Appreciating the need that Organizations will change periodically to survive and be competitive;

• It is essential for Top Management including all Senior Managers to understand and to adapt dynamic changes in the organizations;

• To be aware on the stage when the need to adopt and to change within the Life-Cycle of an Organization;

• To be able to recognize key factors that effects organizations to change using in particular the followings: Strategy, Culture, Environment, Size, Technology, etc.

• As a tool of understanding and guidance for the Organization toward Design and Development;

• To be able to match the organizational development and design structures with the key business processes undertaken in the operation in all aspect of businesses.

• As a tool to guide and develop cutting-edge solution, with the provision to manage process of the reduction e.g. timescales, cost and disruption.

• To achieve the ability to lead similar OD exercises within your own organizations on future re-structuring purposes;
Reading Material References:
wikipedia. org/wiki/Organizational_structure
bright-training-safety-wear. com/organizationalskillsdevelopment.htm
managementhelp. org/org_chng/org_chng.htm
fao. org/docrep/w7503e/w7503e05.htm
gov.ns. ca/psc/v2/hrCentre/resources/ode/
managementhelp. org/org_thry/design.htm

Organizational Development & Design

2011-02-06T20:31:00.000-08:00

Organizations are complex systems. In order to succeed, companies must respond faster and better than their competition. Successful organizations provide clear direction, motivate employees, align processes, and develop rewards that reinforce positive and sustainable action.
It usually takes a practical and realistic view of an organizational development and design - the initiative should always drive into simple, clear, and measurable business results linking to each key priorities.
Reading Materials:
en. wikipedia. org/wiki/ Organizational_structure
bright-training-safety-wear. com/organizationalskillsdevelopment.htm
managementhelp. org/org_chng/org_chng.htm
fao. org/docrep/w7503e/w7503e05.htm
gov.ns. ca/psc/v2/hrCentre/resources/ode/
managementhelp. org/org_thry/design.htm

What is Organizational Development

2011-01-31T01:49:00.000-08:00

Organizational Development
One of the old and classic definitions of organization development comes from Richard Beckhard’s 1969 Organization Development: Strategies and Models: He said that Organizational Development is an effort:

• How to plan,
• How to organize Organizational-wide,
• How to manage business from the top,
• How to increase organization effectiveness and health through
• How to plan interventions within organizations “processes,” using the behavioral-science knowledge.
OD is also a field of direction and interventions in the processes of human systems (formal and informal groups, organizations, communities, and societies) in order to increase their effectiveness and health using a variety of disciplines, it mostly applied by behavioral sciences. It requires practitioners to be conscious about the values guiding their practice and focuses on achieving its results through people.
Another definition of OD can be defined as the body of knowledge and practice that enhances organizational performance and individual development, that views the organization as a complex system of systems that exist within a larger organizational system, which has its own attributes and degrees of alignment.
Reference:
en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Organizational_structure
bright-training-safety-wear. com/organizationalskillsdevelopment.htm
managementhelp. org/org_chng/org_chng.htm
fao. org/docrep/w7503e/w7503e05.htm
gov.ns. ca/psc/v2/hrCentre/resources/ode/
managementhelp. org/org_thry/design.htm

Collection of Definitions of Management

2011-01-29T22:00:00.000-08:00

In the web, you will find a lot of definitions of Management for Businesses, and put together that best definitions and gather it in 1 presentation to appear as a collection for public knowledge, use and awareness on what truly is the meaning of Management in term of Strategic Business.

• “Management” (from Old French ménagement “the art of conducting, directing”, from Latin manu agere “to lead by the hand”) characterises the process of leading and directing all or part of an organization, often a business, through the deployment and manipulation of resources (human, financial, material, intellectual or intangible)…
en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Management

• The process of getting activities completed efficiently with and through other people; 2. The process of setting and achieving goals through the execution of five basic management functions: planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling; that utilize human, financial, and material resources.
crfonline .org/orc/glossary/m.html

• The process of planning, leading, organizing and controlling people within a group in order to achieve goals; also used to mean the group of people who do this.
booksites .net/download/chadwickbeech/Glossary.htm

• The process of achieving the objectives of the business organization by bringing together human, physical, and financial resources in an optimum combination and making the best decision for the organization while taking into consideration its operating environment.
ucs.mun. ca/~rsexty/business1000/glossary/M.htm

• The guidance and control of action required to execute a program. Also, the individuals charged with the responsibility of conducting a program.
ojp.usdoj. gov/BJA/evaluation/glossary/glossary_m.htm

• Is the organizational process that includes strategic planning, setting; objectives, managing resources, deploying the human and financial assets needed to achieve objectives, and measuring results. Management also includes recording and storing facts and information for later use or for others within the organization. Management functions are not limited to managers and supervisors. Every member of the organization has some management and reporting functions as part of their job. home.earthlink.net/~ddstuhlman/defin1.htm

• Is the activity of getting things done with the aid of people and other resources.
wps.prenhall. com/wps/media/objects/213/218150/glossary.html

• Effective utilization and coordination of resources such as capital, plant, materials, and labour to achieve defined objectives with maximum efficiency.
ecbp. org/glossary.htm

• the role of conducting and supervising a business.
becbiz. com.au/glossary.htm

As you can see, each of them tries their best to give evidents on the function of Management, but for me, each definition above has it’s own function in the corporate world of business entity.

Classes of Emotion Theory

2011-01-28T06:13:00.001-08:00

There are five (5) classes of emotion theory:
1. Adaptive Responses - emotions which are adaptive responses with their specific mental states;

2. Response Feedback - emotions are mental states produced by bodily response states;

3. Neural Systems - emotions are behaviours and mental states due to specific neural systems;

4. Cognitive Appraisal - emotions are mental states that give rise to appropriate behaviours;

5. Frustration and Conflicts - emotions are thwarted aroused actions states in CNS and body.
Sources: William James (1890)Book of Emotions

Types of Organizational Structure...

2010-05-22T22:32:00.000-07:00

The thing, which is challenging more to a business, is the type of task on how to organize the people who are performing the work or a job in an organization.

1. Traditional Organizational Structures merely focus to the functions of a department within an organization. Included with it are the customs and bureaucratic procedures, which have defined by structures to be line-authority for all levels of management.

Two kinds of traditional structures:
• Line Structure defined as a chain of command from which the final approval on decisions comes from the operation officer of the organization, meaning from top to down management structure. A line structure by nature is informal which involves few departments controlling the organization that is decentralized into one top management authority.

• Line-and-Staff Structure is applicable because it always helps the organization to identify a set of guidelines for the people involving for completion of an organizational chart work. This type of structure combines the flow of data/information from the line structure with the staff departments that service, advice, and support them (Boone and Kurtz, 1993).

2. Business Organizational Structure is the area that covers the wide array of policies and rules governing the formation and operation of different kinds of entities by which individuals can organize to do business. Its term used to describe the entities themselves, the area of study examines issues such as how each major form of business entity may be formed, operated, and dissolved.

Organizing?

2010-05-21T22:37:00.001-07:00

Organizing is a group of activities defined, to collect and gather resources in order to implement plans in a highly effective and efficient manner.

Organizing is a broad set of actions, and considered one of the major functions of management.

Planning and Types of Plan

2010-05-21T22:36:00.001-07:00

Planning in short as identifying where, why, when, how, and what.

Types of Plan:

• Career Plan
• Advertising Plan
• Business Plan
• Promotional and Marketing Plan
• Strategic HR Plan
• Leadership Development Plan
• Seminar and Training Plan

Planning?

2010-05-21T22:35:00.001-07:00

Planning is a process of thinking an action ahead of time...

It is also a process of thoughts putting together and proceed into action for future plan.

Function of Management

2010-05-21T22:34:00.001-07:00

Management is a process steps:
1. Planning
2. Organizing
3. Leading
4. Directing
5. Controlling

What is E-Human Resource Management?

2010-05-19T05:37:00.001-07:00

e-HRM is a web-based tool to automate and support HR processes; an opportunity to delegate the data entry; to facilitates the usages; to offer more services to employees and market places; and getting more precise knowledge management;

What is Motivation?

2010-05-16T23:44:00.003-07:00

Motivation is the reason for an action that gives purpose and direction to behavioral aspects of an individual. It is the core of an action, which always has the lasting effects within the person.

2010 Billionaire - Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

2010-05-13T04:25:00.000-07:00

A Billionaire businessman born in United Arab Emirates ranked as the #258, Forbes Business Magazine among hundred's of thousand billionaires' in the world. His worth of billions invested in banking, Mashreq Bank a publicly rated bank institution formed by his late father and family with $8 Billions asset capital at first. He expanded his connection in the business world by investing into real estate, contracting, publishing, cement, petrochemicals and residential care.

Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair is the Speaker of the House for Federal National Council (FNC) located in United Arab Emirates, a UAE parliament. In the year 1990, he was appointed as the CEO of Mashreq Group and makes it happen for the bank to be a world class financial institution.

In his 17 years of management, he made it happen to make 9 times the worth of the bank total assets which risen to $72.6 billions. Because of his vision, the bank received an award to be the "Best Bank in UAE in the year of 2006" & "MasterCard Product Award for UAE E-Gate Prepaid Master Card" Euro-money Magazine. As the year passed by, he continued to lead the growth of his businesses while he is actively supporting charitable institution local and international such as UNICEF, UNISCO, Planet Finance and the UAE Disabled Sports Federation.

Last, but not the least, he was one of the highest-level official from United Arab Emirates ever visit the Vatican met with Pope Benedict and Cardinal Bertone on the 21st of October 2008 and was awarded a special Lifetime Achievement Award, at the CEO of Middle East Awards.

2010 Billionaire - Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud

2010-05-13T04:24:00.004-07:00

A Member of the Saudi Royal Family, head by King Abdullah. A nephew of the King but not included in the House of King's Power of Saudi Arabia. A self-made local and international businessman wherein he got his fortune from investing from different investments of real estate and stock market. Though his fortune dropped from $21 Billions (2009) to $19.4 Billions in the year 2010 he has made it to be included in the top 20 of the Most Richest Businessmen in the world. He ranked as #19 among hundreds of thousand billionaires all over the world. With his way of getting millions and billions, well known billionaires called him as the Arabian Warren Buffet whose ranking in the Forbes 2010 #3.

Prince Alwaleed Bin Taalal Alsaud, son of the late founding king of Saudi Arabia, married the daughter of the first prime minister of Lebanon and got from her 2 siblings. However, he has another 2 children from one of his current wives Princess Deborah. He formed and continuously controlling the highest position in his company (Kingdom Holding Group).

According to the passed reviews, his main billions worth invested in Citicorp's after controlling 4.9% which was the most he could do without declaring any interest in the public. After he bought the stocks of 207m from Citicorp, Prince Waleed invest together with other investor with the Singapore government investor in rising up billions of capital to shore the Citi's capital position. However, his investment together with others plunge continuously that was the time he decided to invest in different levels likes AOL, Apple Inc., Euro Disney, Four Season Hotel etc…

2010 Billionaire - Mukesh Ambani

2010-05-13T04:24:00.001-07:00

At the age of 52, he ranked as the 4th billionaire’s Businessman from the 2010 Forbes Business Magazine, though his millions wealth worth came at first from his father inheritance. Since the time he took over the business of Oil and Gas after his father death, he made his millions into billions in a short period of time. His millions before is billions worth now. His attitudes in managing the business roll him over to be the 4th billionaire’s businessman in the year 2010.

He came from a wealthy family from Mumbai, India married with 3 children, an MBA drop-out of Stanford University and a graduate of Bachelor of Arts at University of Mumbai, India. He owns a team of Cricket in Mumbai, Indians. Mainly, his business came from buying bankrupt companies deals with oil and gas as well as petrochemicals. In the year 1981 he started managing the reliance company till to date, that was founded by his late father, Mr. Dirubhai Ambani. His style of management shows after he was chosen to be the Business Leader for the year 2007 by a public poll in India administered by NDTV. In the span of 2 years he reached the 4th among many billionaires' businessmen in the whole world with a net worth billions of $29.0 billions dollars.

2010 Forbes Billionaire - William (Bill) Gates

2010-05-13T04:23:00.000-07:00

One of the most powerful businessman in the world ranked No. 2 from the recent posted of review, Forbes Business Magazine 2010 released among hundred's of thousand billionaires in the world. He was one of the founders of Microsoft together with his colleague (Paul Allen). Bill Gates created the world's largest company and had made the biggest charitable contribution in terms of the history.

At the age of 17, he invented his first program called "Time Tabling System" from which he received his first earning of $4,200. After that day, he continued to be fascinated with technology and he one day he was at Lakeside, he met his colleague (Paul Allen) who have the same interest he has. Together, they decided to write the first computer language program for a personal computer. After, PC's Maker and MITS, showed interest in their work they both decide to put a business and called it "Microsoft", that was in 1975 the first ever making of microcomputer software during his time in Harvard University.

Five years after when he faced the big break on his company when they signed contract to provide operating systems with IBM-compatible new personal computer. Years passed, Microsoft has given permission to license operating system to other manufacturer that was the time when computers programs and software's grows and slowly becomes part of the business industry.

In the end of 1980's, his partner (Paul Allen) step backed from being in the frontline with Bill Gates in Microsoft. Gates continued to play the key role of Microsoft with his vision and mission, to network computers and depend it all in Microsoft. However, he did not foresee the entrance of Internet outside Microsoft at early 1990's. He founded as well the Corbis Corporation which he becomes a Director, etc…

Few years came; he married Melinda Gates in the year 1994 in a very memorable and romantic day (New Year's Eve). He has 3 siblings. He founded together with his wife the program of "Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation" in the year 2000 while he was actively working as the CEO of Microsoft till 2006. Early 2008 when he decided to step backed from being the CEO and created a position wherein he can work as in a part time only.

He has a lot of investment outside his Microsoft and Corbis Corporation…. He was the richest businessman in the world from 1995-2007 and 2009 (Forbes Business Magazine).

2010 Forbes Billionaire - Carlos Slim Helu

2010-05-13T04:21:00.000-07:00

World Billionaire’s Businessman Standing as No.1, a Mexican entrepreneur and businessman, involves in various groups of companies mainly includes telecommunications, retail, banking and insurance, technology, and manufacturer of automobile parts. He is now the wealthiest Mexican man, the richest Latin American and number one (1) out of many to mention Billionaire's Businessmen in the world, Forbes Business Magazine.

He was born in Mexican on January 28, 1940, 5th among the six siblings of Mr. Yusef Salim Haddad and Linda Helu both from Lebanese Decent. He graduated at Universidad of Nacional Autonoma de Mexico with a degree of Engineering.

He indeed shows his financial success in achieving business through finding undervalued companies and turns it to a profitable one. One of his first businesses was the Telefonos de Mexico (Telmex) which he acquired on the period of privatization (1990) from Mexican government. His construction empire, Impulsora Del Desarrolo y el Empleo, constructed roads and energy infrastructure. He expanded himself especially in the area of telecommunication e.g. local and international calls; mobile phone services; internet services; telephone directory, etc…

Since, he begun his shares in business world, well known and successful businessmen referred him as the 2nd “Warren Buffett of Latin America” however, he is more insisting to himself that he is an “operator of companies, rather just an investor (like Buffet). Like others well known businessman, he has his own weakness (Poor Computer Skills), nevertheless, he pursued to be part of technology, which showed us through his empire in computer retailer companies throughout USA and Puerto Rico with more than 200 outlets. His consistency in managing his business demonstrate a good attitude after he overcome the net-worth billions of Bill Gates (2nd Billionaire Businessman) in Forbes Business Magazine 2010 ranking.

Billionaire's Businessman and Business

2010-05-13T04:19:00.000-07:00

Abstract

In Forbes Business Magazine 2010 released, Carlos Slim Helu ranked as the no.1 among all successful and richest businessmen in the world. William (Bill) Gates, a consistent ranker of #1 from 1995-2007 and 2009 ranked no.2, while Mukesh Ambani the most wealthiest in India ranked no.4, Prince Alwaleed Talal Alsaud a self-made businessman from a royal family in Saudi Arabia ranked no. 19 and the prominent Mr. Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair of United Arab Emirates ranked no. 258.