Management Yes, managers are important to organizational success. But this is a logical fallacy question. All organizations, both the successful ones and the utter failures, have managers. So the question isn't about whether managers are important to success -- mathematically there is 100% correlation between having managers and being successful, but also 100% correlation between having managers and being unsuccessful. Then there is the issue of where organizational success comes from. First,

Strategic Framework in BP-Deepwater horizon accident One of the most eminent names in the oil and gas industry is British Petroleum, considered as the largest provider of oil and gas to its customers for transportation, energy for heating and light and retail services for petrochemical products globally. The financial and operational picture of the company's performance is illustrated in table1 below. Performance at a glance for 2010 Facts and figures Sales and other operating

The vision should be forward thinking -- it is a vision into the desire future of the company. The vision is something that the company is working towards. This vision should also be inspiring. If the vision does not inspire, then the stakeholders will not work towards it. A vision should not only provide something to which the company is working, it should also compel them to work towards it. The

Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness How globalization and technology changes have impacted the Apple as a corporation Globalization refers to the possibility of a firm opening up and expanding it in various places whose culture might be different from that of the place that it originally is from. Apple recently launched two of its latest phones. The larger phone is a 5.5-inch "phablet" which is also known as iPhone 6 Plus and has

76). As automation increasingly assumes the more mundane and routine aspects of work of all types, Drucker was visionary in his assessment of how decisions would be made in the years to come. "In the future," said Drucker, "it was possible that all employment would be managerial in nature, and we would then have progressed from a society of labor to a society of management" (Witzel, p. 76). The

Human Resources Managing Organisational Culture The values and behaviors that contribute to the unique social and psychological environment of an organization make up the organizations culture. Organizational culture is the summation total of an organization's past and current suppositions, incidents, viewpoint, and values that hold it together, and is articulated in its self-image, inner workings, connections with the outside world, and future prospects. In dealing with the management of organisational culture, it is