Student name: Farah Ahmed
Student ID: 3262523
Course name: Organizational Behaviour
Course number: ORGB 364
Assignment 1
Part A
1. Marketing specialists at Napanee Beer Co. developed a new advertising campaign for summer sales. The ads were particularly aimed at sports events where Napanee Beer sold kegs of beer on tap. The marketing group worked for months with a top advertising firm on the campaign. Their effort was successful in terms of significantly higher demand for Napanee Beer's keg beer at sports stadiums. However, the production department had not been notified of the marketing campaign and was not prepared for the increased demand.
The company was forced to buy empty kegs at a premium price. It also had to brew some of the
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These factors create certain expectations and requirements for organizations, which in turns determine the organization's direction and strategy. Whereas internal environment is made-up of several internal subsystems. Internal subsystems work together systematically and drive the organization in the direction which is in conformity to external environment demands; thereby making the organization effective and a good fit with external environment. (McShane & Steen, 2012, p.6)
Open systems perspective also suggests that organization's efficiency is equally important to it's success. An organization is efficient when it produces more outputs with less then normally required inputs, and when it's internal subsystems have good coordination among them. But this is difficult in reality. Because there are some negative elements in subsystems such as miscommunication and hostilities, which undermine efficiency of organization. These elements cannot be eliminated as subsystems of an organization are also open systems and organization gets affected by them also. (McShane & Steen, 2012, p.6)
According to the open systems theory (McShane & Steen,2012), The subsystems of organization Napanee Beer were not operating efficiently, because there was absence of diligent communication between the marketing group and the production team. Production department was unaware of the increased demand for the product and could
6. Many drug safety research studies are sponsored by pharmaceutical companies that would financially benefit if the results of the study are favorable. Is this an example of a potential confounding factor?
The manager will need to ensure that they have the correct level of rapport with their employee. Too familiar in nature may be misconstrued as forward and harassing in the wrong context. However no personal rapport whatsoever may provide the receiver of the information with the impression that the sender of the information is just not interested. A fine line must be weighed up for each individual. When a good rapport has been achieved, then the person will uncritically accept suggestion or advice which they are given.
In this paper I will be talking about the U.S. beer industry and in short an overview of the brewing industry worldwide. I will talk about the barriers to entry, economies of scale, government intervention, pricing, current market trends, product differentiation, and imports. The focus being mainly on the U.S. brewing industry oligopoly. The U.S. brewing industry has three major players: Anheuser-Busch, SAB Miller, and Coors/Molson. Anheuser-Busch is currently the largest brewer in the world, producing over 100 million barrels a year. Anheuser-Busch currently owns over 50% of the market in the United States, with Miller trailing behind at 20% and Coors at about 11% with the rest of the market occupied by imports and craft breweries. When analyzing any industry, how easy it is for newcomers to enter the market is a great importance. If there are high barriers to entry
1. The pressure announced on last night's television weather broadcast was 29.92. Explain how this was measured and give the units. Would this be considered an unusually large or low pressure value?
1. Describe two examples of important things that financial planning skills can help you do, and explain why these things are important to you personally. (4-6 sentences. 2.0 points)
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) passed in 1967. It was intended to protect the older half of the workforce from age discrimination in the workplace. Several of the major provisions of the ADEA include: protecting what a worker has earned in his/her tenure, allowing workers to oppose practices that are considered unlawful by the ADEA without consequence, and prevent employers and employment agencies from discriminating
2. Draw a flow diagram of the unit operations involved in sugar refining and at each step write a brief sentence explaining what is occurring. Use the information from SKIL site to develop your flow chart. Since the information does not start from the beginning of the refining process, please include an extraction step (extraction is explained in your textbook). Either milling or diffusion is
The company benefits from open systems theory because it takes into account modern cultural changes and needs.
The teacher has to be responsible for designing the scheme of work, lesson plans, obtaining up to date qualification handbooks, agree individual learning plans, carrying out risk assessments, write realistic aims.
Offer- This is defined as a clear manifestation of willingness to enter an agreement made by another person with full understanding that their assent to the bargain is an invitation and is concluded.
Read the following short essay, and then write a 3-5 page response (12-point font, double-spaced, normal margins, no cover page, no binders). Your response should do the following three things: (1) state what the main conclusion of the essay is; (2) state what the most important premises (including sub-conclusions) are—i.e., state which premises are most important if the argument is to rationally convince its audience; (3) evaluate the quality of the argument, giving detailed reasons to justify your evaluation. For purposes of evaluation, assume that the speaker is a contemporary Canadian philosopher and the audience is a group of students in Introduction to Philosophy.
Internal environment -: in the internal environment the factor that are within the company impact on company in which the internal structure of company comes under the internal environment. The structure of beer industry it is on the top 4th position in the world and good brand name in the market but there is one factor that impact on the company process that was variable cost is high to make the beer that effect the production of beer the another aspect was local taste difference in different countries and
I have provided Harvard style references for all the ideas, empirical evidence and other materials I have used.
The internal environment is made up of factors within the firm itself. Examples include employees, company policy, capital assets, the firm's structure and the firm's products (materials). These factors can be controlled by the firm.
I believe that in todays economical and industrial environment, a systems approach is increasingly important. A working system can help a company run smoothly and efficiently. An example of a successful system is Walmart and their renowned supply chain system. A failed system is the reaction to the Katrina disaster management which is still having a lasting effect along the Gulf coast.