prepare and submit a paper on development plan.

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Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on development plan. Having been into Loughborough expanded my interests and knowledge better. I came to realize that Business Management requires me to be well-rounded. Having numerical skills is an advantage, but there are other traits required of me such as a good market sense, excellent inter personal skills, people skills and management. Along the way, I felt the drive to improve in each area. Most of my subjects became the driving force for me to be always one step ahead of my curriculum. I also took pains in improving my communication skills and became involved in activities that helped me become a good speaker and enabled me to improve my public relations skills. My one year internship in PricewaterhouseCoopers, Hong Kong, gave me the opportunity to put my skills and knowledge into practice, as I became involved in customer management while I assisted in providing accounting and business advice to clients. Being in the workplace challenged me not to make mistakes. Accuracy is one of the goals I had to achieve, being in a situation that allowed me to influence the clients’ business decisions. For one year, I was able to see Business Management on a personal note, seeing firsthand the challenges that businessmen face. Figures, when transformed into useful data, can make or break a business. From then, I had a much clearer vision of what I want to do after pursuing my bachelor’s degree in Business Management. I see myself employed in a Multi National company, rising from the ranks in the span of ten years, most probably specializing in Marketing and Financial Management. My short-term goal includes immediately getting into a post graduate degree in Business Management after my graduation. Pursuing higher studies will translate into obtaining better qualifications so I can land a good job in any of my dream companies. A Masters Degree will also enhance my skills, provide me more opportunities to hone academic skills and hopefully, apply them in a real business setting. I plan to do this by getting an entry level job in the middle of pursuing my Masters Degree. I firmly believe that one can only fully understand the concepts learned in school by putting them into practical use. Having a real job will allow me to do this. To succeed in post graduate school will prove to be a challenging feat to me, but I see no reason why I would fail. Academically speaking, I have sufficient knowledge and experience for me to understand the ropes of this course. My quantitative skills and immense interest in Business will definitely get me across my goals. I also recognize my personal skills that would help me get through graduate school. I am a results oriented person who always has a set of goals, short term and long term, to accomplish. I set my own pace basing on the goals that I have set. I am motivated, self driven, who always strive for excellence in the things I do. I am highly inquisitive, always wanting to go deeper into my interests. Moreover, I consider myself to have above average leadership skills. I have the ability to encourage a group of people towards achieving goals. Further to this, I have special interest in the culture and the arts, which was brought forth by the fact that I have travelled in various countries and immersed into difference cultures.

 

write an article on Intrinsic Motivation at Work. It needs to be at least 2250 words.

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Hello, I am looking for someone to write an article on Intrinsic Motivation at Work. It needs to be at least 2250 words. The company “Innocent Drinks” currently has 47 permanently employed staff and three workers on contractual assignment. Within the six years, the company has opened subsidiaries in Germany, Scandinavia, France, Ireland, Alpine, and Benelux. The company invests heavily in motivating its staff, and, as a result, it has the lowest rate of staff turnover and receives numerous job applications annually (Food manufacture.co.uk, 2005). This case study examines how the management of Innocent Drinks applies different motivation theories within its organizational structure to build the highly motivated and winning team. Application of Motivational Theories in the Workplace The remarkable success of Innocent Drinks is a reflection of the company’s organizational structure and culture. The company’s management places emphasis on staff motivation, but, unlike other contemporary organizations, it integrates motivational theories with a personalized approach that caters for the needs of every employee in the organization (Food manufacture.co.uk, 2005). The importance of highly motivated staff cannot be overemphasized in contemporary organizations. Consequently, organizations apply different motivational theories in order to enhance the performance and commitment of the employees to achieve the company’s strategic goals. Various theories are applied to motivate employees, and Banerjee (1995, p.62) classifies them into two categories, namely needs and process theories. Needs theories include Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, Hertzberg’s motivation and hygiene theory.&nbsp. Process theories include expectancy and contingency theories, and reinforcement and goal setting ones. Maslow’s theory is based on the principle that human beings strive to attain higher levels of achievement and capabilities in their daily activities. In regard to this theory, human beings have five hierarchical needs, and when one of them is satisfied, people become motivated to achieve other unmet needs (Shaw2007, p.92). In an organization set-up, it is important for the management to identify the unmet needs of every employee in order to devise methods of motivating them. The five needs in Maslow’s theory are physiological, safety, social, esteem, and self-actualization. Physiological needs include food, clothing, and other necessities (Thomas, 2000, pp.34-36). When physiological needs are fulfilled, the person’s need for safety becomes more urgent, and the sequence continues until the person attains self-actualization. Hertzberg’s motivation theory is also based on meeting the needs of the employee. The theory classifies employees’ needs into two categories, namely motivational and hygiene needs (Robbins, 2001, p.73). Motivational needs include opportunities that enhance achievement, recognition, exciting assignments, responsibility, and growth and development of the employee. Hygiene factors include a relationship with the supervisors, colleagues, compensation, the organization’s policy, and administration in addition to the prevailing working conditions. Reinforcement theory emphasizes the role of rewards and punishment in influencing the motivation of the employees. Expectancy theory affirms the critical role that inherent characteristics in an employee play in influencing motivation. These include personality, experience, and skills (Robbins, 2001, pp.106-117). In any working place, workers have different needs and interests, and the most challenging work for managers is establishing these aspects in every employee in order to formulate an appropriate approach to the way they have to be motivated.&nbsp.

write an article on Knapps Relationship Model. It needs to be at least 1500 words.

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Hello, I am looking for someone to write an article on Knapps Relationship Model. It needs to be at least 1500 words. The parties are involved in slight communications between each other thus personal judgments would not be accurate. Each person will be concerned with making positive impressions with one another. The physical appearance plays a big role in making a favorable impression during the first meeting. Such physical appearances may include the way of dressing, the perfume they use as well as the overall appearance. There are skills involved in the way one presents him or herself. In business relationships, the parties ask one another about professions, demographics as well as other shared interests (Perlman & Vangelisti 567). In my situation, I was a bank clerk and saw an attractive girl within my job place who was one of our customers. I just saw her within the bank’s premises and planned to approach her the next time she visited the bank. She came and I decided to come out of the counter to meet her, I greeted her and asked her name and thanked her for being our esteemed client. We planned to meet briefly at a certain place three days later. That marked the initiation stage of our relationship.

 

research paper on impact of taylorism and fordism on contemporary management approaches and practices. Needs to be 8 pages.

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Need an research paper on impact of taylorism and fordism on contemporary management approaches and practices. Needs to be 8 pages. Please no plagiarism. There are disadvantages in the application of Taylorism and Fordism framework. For instance, one of the limitations of Taylorism is the absence of autonomy and “lack of flexibility” (Fruijt, 2003, p. 4) which can make jobs become “repetitive” and “boring” (Lucey, 2005, p. 65). On the other hand, Fordism is being criticized for being ineffective when managing business organizations during slow economic growth (Amin, 2003). Even though a lot of modern companies have decided to move away from the use of Taylorism and Fordism when managing people, it is assumed that some forms of management practices and approaches that were introduced under the models of Taylorism and Fordism are still very much applicable in today’s management approaches and practices.

The models of Taylorism and Fordism were very much applicable in managing large-scale manufacturing firms back in the 1980s (Henderson, 2011, p. 8). Furthermore, both models of Taylorism and Fordism focused on how to increase mass production efficiency (Tatli, 2008. Amin, 2003, p. 6. Fruijt, 2003). Considered as a traditional strategy used in management planning, Fordism introduced the concept of “just in case” approach (Alfasi & Portugali, 2004. Amin & Tomaney, 1995, p. 206). In line with this, Fordism’ “just in case” approach is all about stockpiling either parts or finished goods (Waters, 2013, pp. 80 – 81). Likewise, to reduce employees’ turnover rate and work resistance, Henry Ford decided to introduce the need to pay employees a higher wage for their services (i.e. “five-dollar day”) (Vidal, 2011). Fordism also requires the need to separate business ownership with management control, decentralization, acknowledgment of labor unions, collective bargaining, and the distribution of wages based on productivity growth among others (Amin, 2003).&nbsp.Also known as “scientific management”, Taylorism expanded the role of managers when it comes to “planning” and “controlling” the business (Skrabec, 2003, p. 4).&nbsp.