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Final Management

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Thinking strategically   Means to take the long-term view and to see the big picture, including the organization and the competitive environment, and consider how they fit together.  
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Strategic management   refers to the set of decisions and actions use to formulate and execute strategies that will provide a competitively superior fit between the organization and its environment so as to achieve organizational goals.  
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Three levels of strategy in organizations   Functional level, business level, corporate level.  
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Purpose of strategy   Achieving a competitive advantage • Exploit core competence • Build synergy • Deliver value  
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Functional level strategy   pertain to the major functional department within the business unit. Involves all the major function including finance, research and development, marketing, and manufacturing.  
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Business level strategy   pertain to each business unit or product line. Strategic decision at this level concerns amount on advertising,.action and extend of research and development, product changes  
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Corporate level strategy   pertain to the organization as a whole and the combination of business unit and product line that make up the corporate entity  
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three decision-making types of models   classical model, administrative model, political model  
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Classical model   based on rational economic assumptions and manager's belief about what ideal decision making should be; This model has Verizon within the management literature because managers are expected to make decisions that economically sensible  
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Administrative model   is considered to be descriptive, meaning it describe how managers actually make decision in complex situations rather than dictating how this should make decisions according to a theoretical ideal  
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Bounded rationality   means that people have limits, or boundaries on how rational they can be  
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Satisficing   means that decision-makers choose the first solution alternative that satisfying minimal decision criterion  
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Intuition   represents quick apprehension of decision situation based on past experience but without conscious thought  
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Political model   Useful for making nonprogrammed decision when conditions are uncertain, information is limited, and our managers conflicts about goals to pursue or what course of action to take  
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Coalition   Is an informal alliance among managers will support a specific goal  
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Coalition building   Is the process of forming alliance among managers  
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Personal decision style   refers to the distinction among people with respect to how they evaluate problems, generate alternatives, and make choices  
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Directive style   is used by people who prefer simple, clear-cut solution to problems  
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Analytical style   likes to play consider solution based on as much data as they can gather  
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Conceptual style   like to consider a broad amount of information  
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Behavioral style   often the style adopted by manager having a deep concern for others as individuals  
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Organizing   the development of organizational resources to achieve strategic goals  
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Chain of command   is the unbroken line of authority that means all employees in an organization and shows who reports to whom  
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Unity of command   means that each employee is held accountable to only one supervisor  
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The scalar principle   refers to it clearly defined line of authority in the organization that includes all the employees  
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Authority   is the formal and legimate right of a manager to make decision, issue orders, and allocate resources to achieve Organizationally desired outcomes  
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Characteristics that distinguishes Authority   Authority is vested in organizational positions, not people Authority flow down the vertical hierarchy Authority is accepted by subordinates  
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Responsibility   is the duty to perform the task or activity as assigned  
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Accountability   the mechanism through which authority and responsibility are brought into alignment  
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Delegation   is the process managers use to transfer authority and responsibility to positions below them in the hierarchy  
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line department   perform tasks that reflect the organisation's primary goal and mission  
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Task department   include all those that provide specialized skills in support of line departments  
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Line of authority   instant people in the management position have formal authority to direct and control you need get subordinate  
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Staff Authority   is narrower and includes the right to it dries, recommend, and consul in the staff specialists area of expertise  
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Span of management   is the number of employees reporting to a supervisor  
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Tall structure   has an overall narrow span and more hierarchical levels  
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Flat structure   has a wide span, is horizontally dispersed, and has fewer hierarchical level  
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Centralization   means that decision authority is located near the top of the organization  
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Decentralization   the decision authority is pushed downwards to lower organizational level  
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Departmentalization   Is the basis for grouping positions into the apartment and department into total organization  
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Departmentalization five approach   Traditional approaches; Innovative approaches Functional divisional, and matrix ; Use of team and virtual networks  
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Functional structure   the grouping of positions into department based on similar skills, expertise, work activities, and resources use  
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Divisional structure   occurs when department are group together based on similar organizational output  
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Matrix approach   combines aspects of both functional and divisional structure simultaneously in the same part of the organization; It evolved as a way to improve horizontal coordination and information sharing  
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Two-boss employees   Those who reports to two supervisors simultaneously, must resolve conflict demand from the matrix bosses  
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The matrix boss   Is the product or functional boss, who is responsible for one side of the matrix  
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Top leader   oversees both the product and functional chain of command. He is responsible for the entire matrix  
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Team approach   probably the most widespread trained all the Parchemin organization in recent years, it gives managers a way to delegate authority, push responsibility Tulore levels, and be more flexible and responsive in the complex and competitive global environment  
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Outsourcing   means farming out certain activities, such as manufacturing or credit processing  
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Virtual network structure   means that the firms subcontracts most of its major function to separate companies and coordinates their activity from small headquarters organization  
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Coordination   refers to the quality of collaboration across department  
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Reengineering   refers to the radical design of business processes to achieve dramatic improvement incost, quality, service, and speed  
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Task force   is a temporary team or committee designed to solve short-term problem involving several department  
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Project manager   is a person who is responsible for coordinating The activities of several departments for the completion of a specific project  
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Differentiation strategy   the organization attempts to develop innovative products unique to the market  
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Cost leadership strategy   the organization strives for internal efficiency  
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Two Structure strategies proposed by Porter   Differentiation and Cost Leadership Strategy  
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Service technology   is characterized by intangible outputs and direct contact between employees and customers  
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Digital technology   is characterized by use of Internet and other digital process to conduct support business operation  
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Small-batch production   firm produces goods in batches of one or a few pregnant designed to customer specification  
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Mass production   this technology is distinguished by standardize production runs  
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Continuous process production   the entire workflow is mechanized in a sophisticated and complex firm of production technology  
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Organizational change   defined as the adoption of new idea or behavior by an organization  
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Disruptive innovation   refers to innovation in products, services, or processes that radically change and in industry's rule of the game for producers and consumers  
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Reverse innovation (Trickle up innovation)   The process of creating innovative low-cost product for emerging markets and then quickly and inexpensively repackaging them for sale in developing countries  
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Ambidextrous approach   Means incorporating structures and processes that are appropriate for both the creative impulse and for the systematic implementation of innovation  
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Product change   a change in organizations conduct our service outputs  
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Technology change   use a change in the organization's production process, how your organization does its work  
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Three critical innovation strategies for changing product and technologies   Exploration  
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Creativity   refers to do generational novel light ideas that might need to perceive means or respond to opportunities for the organization  
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Idea incubator   Provide a safe harbor where Ideas from employees throughout the company can be developed without interference from company bureaucracy or politics  
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Cooperation   refers to creatine condition and systems to facilitate internal and external coordination and knowledge sharing  
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Internal innovation   Successful innovation requires expertise from several department simultaneously  
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Horizontal linkage model   Shows that research in various departments within the organization simultaneously contributes to the new product and technology  
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Fast cycle team   Is a multifunctional, and sometimes multinational, team that works under stringent timeline and is provided with high level of resources and empowerments to accomplish an accelerated product development  
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External innovation   Organization looks outside their boundaries to find and develop new ideas  
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Open innovation   Means extending the search for a commercialization of new ideas beyond the boundaries of the organization and even those of the industry  
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Crowdsourcing   Is an open innovation approach used by threadless and other companies, tap ideas from around the world and lets thousands of people participate in the innovation process via Internet  
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Entrepreneurship   means that managers put in place processes and structures to ensure that new ideas are carried forward for acceptance and implementation  
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Idea Champion   is a person who sees the need for and champions productive change within the organization  
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There are four in organizational changes   inventor, champion, sponsor and critic  
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New venture team   is a unit separate from the mainstream organization that is responsible for initiating and developing innovation  
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Skunkworks   a separate informal, highly autonomous, and often secretive group that focuses on breakthrough ideas  
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New venture fund   provide financial resources from which individuals or teams can grow to develop new ideas, products, or businesses  
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Culture change   pertains to the organization as a whole, basic mindset from an organization focused on collection and compliance to the one dedicated to informing, indicating, and servicing customers  
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Training and development   is one of the most frequently used approaches to change peoples mind  
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Organizational development   is a plans, systematic process of change that uses behavioral science knowledge and techniques to improve an organization's house and effectiveness through its ability to adapt to the environment, improved internal relations  
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Unfreezing   is the staging which people are made aware of problems and the need for change  
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Change agent   a specialist who contracts with an organization to help managers facilitate change  
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Refreezing   staging which people have incorporated new values, attitudes, and behaviors into their everyday work and the changes become institutionalized in the culture  
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Implementation   is the final process to be manage in the change  
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Need for change   is a disparity between actual and desired performance  
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Force Field analysis   is a technique for determining which force drives the proposed change and which forces restrain it  
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Communication education   They are used one solid information about the change is needed by users and others who may resist implementation  
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Participation   involves users and potential resisters in designing the changes  
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Negotiation   is a more formal means of achieving in cooperation. It uses formal bargaining to win acceptance and approval of the desired change  
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Coercion   means that managers can use formal power to force employees to change  
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Human resources management   referring to the design and application of formal systems in an organization to ensure the effective and efficient use of human talent to accomplish organizational goals  
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The strategic approach recognizes three key element   - All managers are involved in human resource management - Employees are viewed as assets - Human resources management is a matching process, integrating the organization strategy and goals will the correct approach to managing capital  
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Human capital   referred to the economic value of the combined knowledge, experience, skill, and capability of employees  
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Discrimination   occurs when some applicants are hired or promoted based on criteria that are not job relevant  
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Affirmative action   requires that an employer take positive steps to guarantee equal employment opportunities for people with in protected groups  
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Contingent workers   are people who work for an organization, but not on a permanent or full-time basis  
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Telecommunicating   means using a computer or Telecommunicating equipment to do work without going to an office  
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Finding   Uses the matching model, which the organization and the individual attempt to match the needs, interests, and values that they offer each other  
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Human resources planning   is the forecasting of human resources needs and project matching of individual with expected vacancies Recruiting (talent acquisition)  
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Job analysis   is a systematic process of gathering and interpreting information about the essential duties, tasks, and responsibilities of a job, as well as about the context within which the job is performed  
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Realistic job preview   D's applicant all pertinent and realistic information, positive and negative, about the job and the organization  
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E-cruiting   recruiting jobs applicants online, it dramatically expense the organization recruiting reach  
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Selecting   in this process employers assess applicants characteristic in an attempt to determine the fit between the job and the applicant characteristics  
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Application form   is used to collect information about the applicants education, previews job experience, and other bar ground characteristics  
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Interview   is used as a selection technique in almost every job category in nearly every organization  
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Employment test   there are many types of employment tests to assess candidates on various factors considered important for the job to be performed  
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Cognitive ability test   measures and applicants thinking, reasoning, verbal, and mathematical abilities  
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Physical ability test,   measures the quantity such as strength, energy, and endurance maybe used for jobs such as delivery  
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Assessment center   present a series of managerial situation to a group of applicants over a two or three day period  
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Online checks   gauging whether the candidate is right for the company rice seeing what the person has to say about himself on the blog; Training and development  
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Training   refer to teaching people how to perform related task to their jobs, while development means teaching people brother skill that are not only useful in their present job but also prepare them for greater responsibilities in the future  
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On the job training   an experienced employee is asked to take new employees under beeswing and show newcomers how to perform the job duty  
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Corporate University   is it in-house training and education facility that offers broadbase learning opportunities for employees throughout their career  
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Promotion from within   Helps companies retain and develop valuable people  
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Mentoring and coaching   An experienced employee guides and support cucumber or less experience employees  
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Performance appraisal   Comprises the step of observed raising and assisting employees performance, recording the assessment, and providing feedback to the employee  
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Stereotyping   is a performance evaluation error that occurs when managers places and employee into a class or a category based on one or a few traits or characteristics  
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Compensation   refers to all monetary payments and all goods or commodities use in lieu of money to reward employees  
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Wage and salary systems   The most common approach of employee compensation is job base pay, which means linking compensation to the specific task an employee performs  
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Compensation equity   this can be done with job evaluation, which refers to the process of determining the value or worth of job within an organization through an examination of job content  
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Pay for performance   Mean dying at least part of compensation to employees effort and performance, whether it be through merit-based pay, bonus, team incentives, or various gainsharing or profit sharing plan  
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Cafeteria plan benefit packages   allows employee to select the benefit of greatest value to them  
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Rightsizing the organization   Refers to intentionally reducing the company workforce to the point where the number of employee is deemed to be right for the company's current situation  
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Exit interview   is an interview conducted with departing employees to determine reason for the departure and learn about potential problem in the organization  
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Three generation workforce   baby boomers, heading to retirement and increasing number  
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Generation Y   sometimes called millennials characterizes ambitious and lacking loyalty and eager for quick success  
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Generation X   The generation in the middle, struggle with reduced guarantee of their finances  
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Aging worker   baby boomers continue to affect the workplace  
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Growth in Hispanic and Asian workers   the greatest increase in employment will occur with Asian it's by next ; Hispanic will make up 17% of the workforce by 2018  
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Woman out to numbering men   beginning in 2010 women will outnumber men in the work place  
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Growth in foreign born population   between 1980 and 2008, about 29 million immigrants enter the United States, will nearly 1/3 estimated to be unauthorized  
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Diversity   is defined as all the ways in which people differ  
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Better use of employee talent   Companies with the best talent are the ones with the best competitive advantage  
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Increased understanding of the marketplace   the diverse workforce is better able to anticipate and respond to the changing consumer needs  
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Enhance breath of understanding in leadership positions   Homogeneous top management teams tend to be myopic in their perspective  
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Increase quality of team problem-solving   the team most diverse background bring different perspective to a discussion the result in more creative ideas and solutions  
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Prejudice   is the tendency to view people who are different as being deficient  
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Discrimination   acting out there prejudicial attitudes to order people or the target of their prejudice  
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Stereotype   rigid, exaggerated, irrational beliefs associated with a particular group of people  
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Value differences   means recognizing cultural differences and seeing these differences with an appreciative attitude  
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Ethnocentrism   Is the belief that one's own group and subculture are in Herincou be superior to other groups and cultures  
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Ethnorelativism   is the belief that groups and subcultures are inherently equal  
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Pluralism   describe an environment in which the organization accommodates several subcultures, including employees will would otherwise feel isolated and ignored  
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Glass ceiling   is a new invisible barrier desecrates woman from top management position  
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Opt out trend   Getting off the fast-track long before it comes into view  
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Cultural competence   is the ability to interact effectively with people of different culture  
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five steps to implementing a diversity plan   uncovering diversity problem in the organization, strengthen top management commitment, two solution to fit balance strategy, demand result and revisit the goals, and maintain momentum to change the culture  
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Multicultural teams   Are made up of members from diverse nation, racial, ethnic and cultural background  
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Certainty   means that all information the decision-maker needs is fully available  
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Risk   Means that the decision has clear-cut goals and that good information is available, but the future outcome associated with each of alternative are subject to chance  
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Uncertainty   means that managers know which goals you wish to achieve, but information about alternatives and future event is incomplete  
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Ambiguity   Is by far the most difficult decision situation. It means the goals to be achieved or the problem to be solved is unclear, alternatives are difficult to define, and information about the outcome is unavailable  
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Programmed decisions   involve situation that occurred often enough to enable decision rules to be developed and applied in the future  
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Nonprogrammed decisions   are made in response to situations that are unique, are poorly defined and largely unstructured, and have important consequences to the organization  
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Decision   A choice made from available alternatives  
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Decision-making   is the process of identifying problems and opportunities and then resolving them. It involves efforts both before and after the actual choice  
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