Imperative Focus
30 Sep 2011 Leave a Comment
in Imperative Focus Tags: area, avoid, concept, cult, culture, deal, decision, develop, difference, employee, fashion, focus, happen, hop, immoral, imperative, important, influence, issue, job, know, leadership, morality, need, old, order, Organization, own, personality, priority, regard, revolt, right, run, service, stand, success, thing, tight, work
Developing the right working culture and becoming tightly focused should be priority areas for an organization but, in order to make right decisions, there are some things we need to know.
- Do differences in the way organizations are owned influence the way they should be run?
- Where do organizations stand in regard to morality and can an organization be immoral?
- Is the concept of service important to an organization’s success?
- How should we deal with the issue of job-hopping?
- Should we avoid personality cults?
- What happened to good old-fashioned leadership?
- Are the employees revolting?
My Consultancy–Asif J. Mir - Management Consultant–transforms organizations where people have the freedom to be creative, a place that brings out the best in everybody–an open, fair place where people have a sense that what they do matters. For details please visit www.asifjmir.com, and my Lectures.
Relationship Determination
29 Sep 2011 Leave a Comment
in Relationship Determination Tags: analyze, ask, between, center, circle, column, Customer, decision, determination, Matrix, moderate, possible, record, relationship, requirement, review, satisfy, single, square, strength, strong, symbol, take, technical, triangle, voice, weak, work
Find out the strength of relationship between customer voices and technical requirements. Technical requirements are taken one by one and analyzed with each of customer voices by asking “By working on this technical requirement will it be possible to satisfy this voice of the customers.” The decisions are recorded in the center of the matrix using symbols: Triangle = Strong Relationship, Single Circle = Moderate Relationship, Square = Weak Relationship.
The relationship column is then reviewed to see if there are any customer requirements with no relationship symbols or only weak symbols.
My Consultancy–Asif J. Mir - Management Consultant–transforms organizations where people have the freedom to be creative, a place that brings out the best in everybody–an open, fair place where people have a sense that what they do matters. For details please visit www.asifjmir.com, and my Lectures.
Cost Drivers
28 Sep 2011 1 Comment
in Cost Drivers Tags: actual, amount, carry, concept, consumption, cost, dead, define, downtime, driver, efficiency, engineer, Expenditure, handling, improve, include, incur, inventory, limitation, maintenance, operation, output, over, overhead, overstock, paid, price, process, protection, recourse, requirement, revenue, stock, system, time, under
Cost Drivers
The concept of cost drivers can be defined in the consumption or expenditure of recourse or the limitations incurred on revenues. They include:
i. Price
- Amount actually paid
- Price protection
ii. System & Processes:
- Time
- Overhead
iii. Inventory
- Carrying costs
- Overstock & dead stock
- Handling costs
iv. Requirements
- Over-engineered
- Under-engineered
v. Operations
- Maintenance costs
- Operating efficiency
vi. Revenues
- Downtime
- Improved output
My Consultancy–Asif J. Mir - Management Consultant–transforms organizations where people have the freedom to be creative, a place that brings out the best in everybody–an open, fair place where people have a sense that what they do matters. For details please visit www.asifjmir.com, and my Lectures.
De-Stress Without Distress
26 Sep 2011 Leave a Comment
in De-Stress Without Distress Tags: acupuncture, answer, antidote, art, biofeedback, control, critical, crowd, distress, easy, effect, effective, fashion, follow, free, health, hobby, humor, imagery, improve, include, Latin, learn, life, master, music, option, People, place, placebos, please, positive, problem, reason, relaxation, Response, save, search, sedative, side, significant, stress, symptom, today, tomorrow, tranquilizer, unfortunately, word, workplace, wrong
Stress is a significant problem in the workplace and many people are searching for effective antidotes. Unfortunately, most look in the wrong places. The answer is not to follow the crowds who take sedatives or tranquilizers, but to take control. It is for this reason that options to control your symptoms are critical to learn. They include:
- Relaxation Response
- Biofeedback
- Music
- Art
- Fashion
- Acupuncture
- Positive Imagery
- Placebos (Latin word = I shall please)
- Hobbies
- Humor
All these options are easy to master and free from side effects. They will improve your health today, and may even save your life tomorrow.
My Consultancy–Asif J. Mir - Management Consultant–transforms organizations where people have the freedom to be creative, a place that brings out the best in everybody–an open, fair place where people have a sense that what they do matters. For details please visit www.asifjmir.com, and my Lectures.
Self-Directed Work Teams
25 Sep 2011 Leave a Comment
in Self-Directed Work Teams Tags: assignment, autonomous, broad, control, cost, cross, Customer, deliver, design, direct, employee, entire, external, extra, feeling, flexibility, great, group, help, internal, job, layer, manage, management, master, member, need, outcome, ownership, permit, process, Product, reduce, responsibility, responsible, segment, self, share, team, whole, work
A self-directed work team is a group of employees responsible for an entire work process or segment that delivers a product to an internal or external customer. Sometimes called self-managed teams or autonomous work groups, self-directed work teams reduce the need for extra layers of management and thus can help control costs. Such teams are designed to give employees a feeling of ownership of a whole job. With shared team responsibility for work outcomes, team members often have broader job assignments and cross-team to master other jobs, thus permitting greater team flexibility.
My Consultancy–Asif J. Mir - Management Consultant–transforms organizations where people have the freedom to be creative, a place that brings out the best in everybody–an open, fair place where people have a sense that what they do matters. For details please visit www.asifjmir.com, and my Lectures.
Learning from Market Leaders
24 Sep 2011 Leave a Comment
in Learning from Market Leaders Tags: AMAX, apply, area, assure, autonomy, Baxter Travenol, believe, broad, business, capability, care, coal, committed, competitor, computation, computer, computing, concern, conduct, constructive, control, Control Data, Corning Glass, corporation, Customer, data, dedicate, desire, diversify, doctor, domain, education, electronic, enhance, entrepreneurial, equal, especially, finance, gas, general, geographic, gold, growth, hardware, health, Hoover Universal, image, improve, improvement, include, individual, industry, information, iron ore, Johnson & Johnson, lead, leader, learn, life, magnesium, manufacturing, market, Micro, molybdenum, mother, multi, natural, nickel, nurse, operation, opportunity, patient, petroleum, philosophy, phosphate, policy, potash, principle, Product, profit, provide, prudent, public, Quality, relate, Resource, respect, responsibility, responsive, self concept, service, silver, strong, success, Sun Company, survival, technology, throughout, total, tungsten, ultimate, unit, Use, world, worldwide, zinc
- Customer Market: We believe our first responsibility is to the doctors, nurses, and patients, to mothers, and all others who use our products and services. (Johnson & Johnson)
- Product Service: AMAX’s principle products are molybdenum, coal, iron ore, lead, zinc, petroleum and natural gas, potash, phosphate, nickel, tungsten, silver, gold, and magnesium (AMAX)
- Geographic Domain: We are dedicated to total success of Corning Glass Works as a worldwide competitor (Coming Glass)
- Technology: Control Data is in the business of applying micro-electronics and computer technology in two general areas: computer-related hardware and computing-enhancing services, which include computation, information, education, and finance. (Control Data)
- Concern for Survival: In this respect, the company will conduct its operation prudently, and will provide the profits and growth which will assure Hoover’s ultimate success. (Hoover Universal)
- Philosophy: We are committed to improve health care throughout the world. (Baxter Travenol)
- Self Concept: Hoover’s universal is a diversified, multi-industry corporation with strong manufacturing capabilities, entrepreneurial policies, and individual business unit autonomy. (Hoover Universal)
- Concern for Public Image: Also, we must be responsive to the broader concerns of the public, including especially the general desire for improvement in the quality of life, equal opportunity for all, and the constructive use of natural resources. (Sun Company)
My Consultancy–Asif J. Mir - Management Consultant–transforms organizations where people have the freedom to be creative, a place that brings out the best in everybody–an open, fair place where people have a sense that what they do matters. For details please visit www.asifjmir.com, and my Lectures.
Context for Reinventing the Corporation
23 Sep 2011 Leave a Comment
in Context for Reinventing the Corporation Tags: best, Competition, context, continue, corporate, corporation, Demographic, education, emergence, employee, entrepreneur, force, grow, health, importance, individual, information, intuition, issue, management, market, middle, mismatch, need, reinvent, Resource, revolution, rising, seller, shift, society, strategic, system, variegate, vision, whittle, women, work
- The shift in strategic resource from an individual to an information society;
- The coming seller’s market and the new competition for the best employees;
- The whittling away of middle management;
- The continuing entrepreneurial revolution;
- The emergence of the new variegated work force;
- The demographic revolution of working women;
- The growing use of intuition and vision;
- The mismatch between our education system and the needs of the new information society;
- The rising importance of corporate health issues.
My Consultancy–Asif J. Mir - Management Consultant–transforms organizations where people have the freedom to be creative, a place that brings out the best in everybody–an open, fair place where people have a sense that what they do matters. For details please visit www.asifjmir.com, and my Lectures.
Sexual Harassment
22 Sep 2011 Leave a Comment
in Uncategorized Tags: ability, activity, affect, create, discrimination, employee, employment, environment, gain, general, harassment, hostile, individual, involve, issue, job, member, nature, occur, offensive, opposite, Organization, perform, problem, problematic, protect, recent, recognition, sex, sexual, undermine, unpleasant, unwanted, work
Sexual harassment is any unwanted activity of sexual nature that affects an individual’s employment. It can occur between members of the opposite or of the same sex, between employees of the organization, involve an employee and a non-employee. Although such an activity is generally protected under sex discrimination, in recent years this problem has gained more recognition.
Sexual harassment creates an unpleasant work environment for organization members and undermines that ability to perform their job. For many organizations, it’s the offensive or hostile environment issue that is problematic.
My Consultancy–Asif J. Mir - Management Consultant–transforms organizations where people have the freedom to be creative, a place that brings out the best in everybody–an open, fair place where people have a sense that what they do matters. For details please visit www.asifjmir.com, and my Lectures.
