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Introduction Organisations identify their objectives and goals, which they seek to achieve through a course of action that they draft out. This course of action, the strategy, can only be achieved as intended if every participant acts as required in executing his or her roles (Clemens & Bakstran, 2010, p. 393). As Beer et al. (2005, p. 446) assert, organisations have to ‘fit’ themselves with the environment, including the strategies, leadership skills, as well as capabilities if they seek to achieve effective operations. This research carries out an extensive analysis of all possible barriers to strategy implementation and offers a remedy for each of the barriers. It borrows from theories and models suggested by scholars, including the silent killers of strategy implementation, organisational fitness, and critical questions that can help managers to address the barriers (Beer et al., 2005, p. 446). Literature Review Critical Questions to help in the Attainment of Objective Business Model Is the interaction within the organization effective? Within the organisation, the leadership plays a critical role in providing direction, offering protection, managing conflicts, as well as shaping norms and conducting orientation (Heifetz & Laurie, 2001, p. 131). However, the most important role of leaders in an organisation should be to enhance adequate interaction through practicing strategic leadership to ensure that barriers to strategy implementation are overcome. As Beer et al. (2005, p. 450) point out, the organisational commitment, as well as purpose is lost when there is poor interaction within the organisation. Managers must promote dialogue with the rest of the organisation’s members to develop common purpose, which is needed for instilling the necessary commitment required to convert purpose into action. This should purposely be geared towards encouraging commitment from every participant in the organisation (Malewicki, 2005, p. 141). Effective strategic leadership that promotes interactivity should focus on five hierarchical levels. These levels include highly capable individuals who make their direct contributions through knowledge, talent, work habits, and high-level skills. The second level should comprise of contributing team members that target achieving the objectives of the group and working effectively within the group. The third level of the hierarchy should include competent managers (Kerr & Werther, 2008, p. 112) whose main ability and contribution are in organising people and resources of the organisation, while the fourth level hierarchy should involve effective leadership. This mainly
Introduction Numerous museums across the USA present a massive volume of artistic works illustrating the development of art both domestically and globally. In particular, the Seattle Art Museum is a well-known reputable institution that owns and displays multiple prominent works of earlier historical periods and modernity. The building of the museum, its exterior, and interior strike a visitor with grand structures, unconventional designs, and space. Being submerged into the atmosphere of light and spacious halls of the museum, one is instantly exposed to an aesthetic experience. One of the most prominent works presented in the Seattle Art Museum is Jackson Pollock Sea Change paint. The story that connects the painting to the museum is fascinating. It presents an important decision of key stakeholders that enabled the only Pollock’s painting in Washington State to be stored in the Seattle Art Museum (Seattle Art Museum, 2014). In 1958, this piece was donated to the Seattle Art Museum by an art dealer and patron, Peggy Guggenheim, the person who launched Pollock’s career in the 1940s (“Sea Change,” 2021). The painting impresses the viewer with its multiple physical and conceptual levels that align with Pollock’s style and trigger spectators’ reflection. The present paper aims at critically analyse Sea Change by Jackson Pollock from the perspectives of the medium characteristics, historical context, interpretive approaches, and biographical impact. Artwork Identification The analyzed artwork title Sea Change was created by an American abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock in 1947. The medium of this artwork is a painting created using oil paint, with gravel, on canvas. The dimensions of the painting are 57 7/8 x 44 1/8 in. (147 x 112.1 cm) (“Sea Change,” 2021). The painting does not present a comprehensive visual matter such as an object, a landscape, or a figure. Instead, the artist uses abstract expressionist te4chniques to layer multiple colors of paint on the canvas. The analysts and interpreters of Pollock’s work at the Seattle Art Museum emphasize that the painting was created in two stages. Firstly, Pollock applied colorful paints of the canvas using conventional brush technique with canvas in a vertical position. It is seen that light-blue and salmon-red colors are dominating in the background (Seattle Art Museum, 2014). After that, the artist applied his style-indicating technique of dripping paint in motion with canvas placed on the floor. The colors of the thickly applied lines and curves on the surfaces of the first payer of the pain
Introduction During the past few decades, there have been several scholarly arguments concerning the universal dilemma of great importance for the future of our planet earth (Correa, P.13). The most significant discussion topics have been on population growth, climate change, food shortages, economic inequality, ecological destruction, and greenhouse emissions. Despite the current civilization apprehension of these problems, attempts to understand their effect on living a sustainable life and there has been hardly any design of urban or rural systems (Correa, P.13). Population and Life Sustainability There was robust population growth in the 20th century due to improved food production, sanitation, and medicine, which improved the sustainability of human life. The human population grew rapidly while food production only grew in small amounts (Kunstler, P.6). Therefore the population growth faced severe and predetermined natural restrictions. We are already experiencing the effects of hyper-population growth and the use of fossil fuel in the form of environmental devastation (Kunstler, P.8). The present is a result of our past actions and therefore the future should be the projection of what we presently do or avoid doing. Great responsibility lies in us whose lives have been affected by the unprecedented experience of land destroyed by the growing human population. We require a clear-cut vision and several goals to be achieved indefinite accuracy (Correa, 13). Our current illustrations, thoughts, and our valuable modern belief structures will yield ecological flexibility, ease of form, and difference in small and large development growth and its reasonable solutions to problems affecting our modern society. Living a sustainable life is not a new idea but a hint of good things to come. In our current dilemma, every flamboyant theory of sustainable life on the planet seems to be failing while people are finding themselves in an extraordinary environmental emptiness (Correa. P.14). Because of this, the human population is beginning to realize that the good practices of the past do not solve the immediate problems of life sustainability. What used to be viewed as important technological or social progress are just less impo
Child welfare system in Canada has undergone tangible shifts due to the intervention of child welfare programs. Despite the detrimental influence of colonization that had last for a century, the contemporary child welfare system has experienced a significant proliferation of funded and government-regulated social services. Introducing action plans in urban areas have also been extended to rural districts, including Aboriginal population. Significant improvements have been presented to the professional field of social work. The new professional realm has provided a strong underpinning for shaping the standards that can be used to analyze traditional childcare practices in an Aboriginal family. Despite the recent improvements, child protection policies were not consistent to meet the demand of the Aboriginal communities. Significant changes started with the introduction of the Indian Act, the Act for the Prevention of Cruelty to and Better Protection of Children of 1981, and the Child Welfare Act of 1922. All these documents have contributed significantly to the child welfare in Canada. The history of child welfare in Canada dates back to the nineteenth century. During this period, children workforce was exploited and some of children were even owned by their parents. At the end of nineteenth century, first attempts were introduced to face children abuse and avert the child enslaving practices. At the threshold of the twentieth centuries, first organizations established orphanages and specialized schools for neglected and abandoned children. In 1981, Children’s Aid Society was established that issued the first Child Protection Act two years later in Ontario (Turner, 2005). The Act addressed the Prevention of Cruelty to and Better Protection of Children; it also promoted protection and assistance to abused children (Turner, 2005). The legal statute at issue was premised on the Children’s Protection Act of 1988 according to which the courts were allowed to place abused and abandoned children in specialized homes. The courts were also entitled to take responsibility for the neglected children and required the municipal governments to cover costs for children’s housing facilities (Turner, 2005, p. 13). In addition, it also introduced regulations ensuring proper training and education. The expansion of childcare services in Canadian provinces has a potent impact on further development of child protection laws. Shifts in child welfare were largely influenced by the changing perception toward children’s engagement in labor market. In particular, the existing regulations encouraged formal education and enhanced the importance of receiving degree in various subjects. More importantly, child care professionals were extremely concerned with family environment in which a child was placed to highlight possible psychological and social problems influencing children’s normal development. In 1960s, the Canada Assistance Plan was implemented to protect low-income families and neglected children (Cleveland & Krashinsky, 2001). Such a policy was handed over to the
The first step of the twelve-step facilitation (TSF) program is acceptance, which means that an addict learns that he or she is powerlessness. According to Nowinski, Baker, and Carroll (1998), the intervention is introduced during the second session. During the first stage of the intervention, the client accepts that he has a problem with alcohol (Nowinski, 2012). The second phase makes the patient realize that the continuous use of alcohol is gradually making life more difficult (Nowinsk, 2012). During the final stage, an addict learns to understand that he or she can no longer control the addictive behavior (Nowinski, 2012). Judging from these steps, it may be concluded that the participants of the TSF program do not accept universal powerlessness; instead, they admit that they do not have the power over alcohol misuse. According to Nowinski (2012), clients learn to stop playing God and admit that they cannot stop drinking alcohol at any time. There are several strategies suggested by the TSF therapy manual designed by Nowinski et al. (1998). First, the participants are offered to reflect upon the concept of powerlessness over alcohol be asking what feelings do they have about the statement. The clients are to be asked to give an example of how people can be powerless and relate to the issue by reflective upon the circumstances that made them feel powerless in the past (Nowinski et al., 1998). Second, therapists are recommended to talk about denial explaining its forms and consequences (Nowinski et al., 1998). The clients should learn about refusing to face facts, minimization, avoidance, blaming, bargaining, and rationalizing (Nowinski et al., 1998). These two strategies can be helpful for finding comfort in the fact that they are not alone, and many other people have come through the same issues.
Introduction The purpose of this research paper is to analyze the impact of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) on BMW, as CRM is one of most effective strategic tools to change the consumer behaviour. This paper concentrates on the number of issues like conceptual framework of CRM, the adoption of CRM framework, CRM in the automobile industry, methodological framework, customer database, the effectiveness of CRM strategy on this company, the position of BMW, and so on. Background of the Problem The Sky News (1) reported that the luxury carmaker BMW has shocked with an 8% of its profit fall due to global financial crisis in 2008, and the company has aimed to overcome the situation by increasing sales, cutting its cost and reducing its staff within 2012. With such a strategic alignment, it is suspicious whether the CRM practice of BMW would be collapsed or cut its existing standard. Under such a background problem, the aim of this research paper is to provide a clear overview of CRM about BMW to identify the best customers and their choice in order to offer best service to retain the loyalty of customers by maximising current and lifetime value of customers. Literature Review This literature review has been organised with following sub-chapters based on prominent authors and outstanding researches by most famous theoreticians of concurrent CRM study- Conceptual Framework of CRM Thompson, A. et al. (223) pointed out that the applicable definition of CRM has generated as a procedure of maximising customer’s values by means of concurrent marketing activities, integrating proper management of customer’s knowledge and information and maintaining long-term relation with them. Starting from nineties, the corporate world has been keeping more emphasis on CRM as a fundamental component of Enterprise Resource Planning and the corporate houses taken huge imitative to standardise and categorise the informational resources with large investment with the aim to enable the corporate firms to prop up CRM as well as e-commerce to generate sustainable growth. The Adoption Framework of CRM Stoner et al (87) added that, there are four obligatory elements, which are essential for triumphant implementation of CRM and the four tools has driven from the theoretical framework of CRM implementation and these are demonstrated in the figure below- Figure-1: Framework of CRM Source: Stoner et al (87) These four essential elements to successfully putting into practice of CRM at any organisation are concerned with – relationship marketing, apposite organisational structure, control of data warehousing and data consumption for customer management, and the four elements generate the framework of CRM necessary for any organisation that intend to implement. The basic principal of CRM has put down on the philosophy
Executive summary The management of human labor is crucial to any organization. Lack of good management has lead to a lot of loss due to sabotage, strikes, go-slows and low quality of services due to employee de-motivation. This paper is a case study for the needs of the employees of Melbourne Aquarium, measured against what the aquarium requires of its staff. To carry out the study, three main methodologies were used. The first step was touring the aquarium and making eye observations. This was important as it gave the research team first hand information about the aquarium. The other second hand information was got from an interview on one of the staff. Though it was hard to get an interviewee, the research team eventually got a security guard to interview. The interviewee sought anonymity. The above information was compared with the materials available from online sources and materials. From these, the research team came out with some findings. The areas covered in this paper include the needs of the Melbourne Aquarium: education, experience, flexibility as well as personality as well as those of the employees; security, contract needs among others. The research team recommended arrangement of seminars where the employees could be informed of the employers requirements and separate seminars where the Melbourne Aquarium management could be informed of the needs of the staff. Increment of the staff was also recommended. Introduction As the name suggests, the aquarium is located in Melbourne along the southern ocean. It borders Yarra River and Flinders Street. The aquarium is one of the biggest in Australia and attracts thousands of tourists annually to it. The aquarium that is owed by the MFS Living & Leisure Group was renovated in 2004 which lead to increase in the labor need of the aquarium. The needs of an employer Education The first basic need of an employer in the tourism industry is relevance education. Academic excellence in most cases is a proof of the ability of an employee to perform in the required levels of professionalism. It is in this line that the company is thought to have placed its advertisement for personnel including academic qualifications as one of the primary requirements. In a recent advert, Melbourne Aquarium announced the post of a financial controller of its system accounts records. In the announcement, the Melbourne Aquarium stated that a person with a master’s degree in finance management and an international certification in the same discipline would have an added advantage in the selection of the qualified candidates (Mylne, Llewellyn, Crittall, 2011, p23). This case is common in all the departments of Melbourne Aquarium. Other departments include human resource management, tour guidance, the crowd control, lifesaving, and strategic managers. However, qualifications in each department vary. For example, a good certificate in life saving skills can e
Introduction The political observers often draw parallels between Brazil and Russia, given two countries’ large size and also the fact that they both are the part of so-called “Second World”. This prompts them to conclude that the foreign policies of Russia and Brazil should share a certain degree of sameness, because these policies are assumed to reflect the particularities of socio-political dynamics in each country. However, it appears that on international arena, Brazil and Russia position themselves differently – whereas Brazil pursues the course of cooperation with its neighbours, Russia never stops considering many of its neighbouring countries as such that fall into the sphere of Russia’s geopolitical interests, rather then fully independent nations. The MSS design, in regards to Russia and Brazil, provided earlier, helps us to understand that we cannot refer to the striking difference between both countries’ foreign policies, as being objective in its essence. After all, Brazil and Russia’s economic potential, military expenditures, the size of population and many other factors seem to closely match each other. Therefore, it will only be logical, on our part, to conclude that, within a context of discussing what defines both countries’ positioning in the field of international politics, we should consider that some hidden factors are at play, which results in Russia and Brazil’s foreign policies being strikingly different. Therefore, in this paper, along with analysing the objective variables of each country’s development, we will also analyse the non-objective ones and will expose them as such that directly affect each country’s geopolitical positioning. The political situation in Brazil Brazil is the largest country
Consumer Behavior Demographic versus psychographic data Basically, demographic data comprise of the household and population figures and information for tenure, education, income, community, race and sex that are for a particular geographical level. However, demographic data is not similar to psychographic data (Hoyer & MacInnis, 2008). Psychographic data consist of lifestyles, attitudes and values information which offer complementary insights. It is perceived that psychographic data are more important as compared to demographic data when seeking to understand the behaviors of consumers. Despite this, psychographic data is solitary insufficient because demographic data is required in various marketing issues like when determining the media mix planning and the target market. Demographic data provide a comprehensive understanding of a particular region’s pertinent information and might assist in devising proper marketing strategies, make future projections and study the buying trends of different consumers. Nevertheless, psychographic data is of great significance in the sense that such information may help marketers not just in understanding the buyers, but also the reasons why they prefer to purchase certain product and services as well as how such commodities fit into the consumers’ consumption habits and overall lifestyles (Hoyer & MacInnis, 2008). Hence, psychographics offer insights that can be used in crafting adverts which focus on the product benefits to the consumer. Consumer Behavior – Demographic variables Pancakes : The consumption of pancakes maybe attributed to the consumer’s age. For instance, young professionals may spare some time for consuming toasted breakfast unlike senior professionals who are not duty bound to wake up early in the morning to go to work. In respect to this, most marketers usually incorporate the ease in consumption of pancakes and the ampl