Entries by Daphne Hanson

Adaption of a biblical story

Dr. Apple is the principal of a small elementary school in a metropolitan school district.  One of her best teachers asked her first-graders to make a poster depicting things for which they were thankful.  One student made a poster expressing thanks for Jesus.  Posters were displayed in the school’s hallway.  The student’s poster was removed […]

The entrepreneurial orientation (EO) dimensions of innovativeness

Explain how the Samsung Electronics case illustrates the entrepreneurial orientation (EO) dimensions of innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk-taking and how they can be combined to create competitive advantages for entrepreneurial firms. What is the difference between focused and dispersed approaches to corporate entrepreneurship? Which best represents Samsung Electronics? Explain your answer.  

Business analytics in finance and risk management

Business Analytics is all around us and is strongly embedded into our daily lives. A marketing catalog for clothes emailed to us is developed using an analytics model analyzing our preferences and previous purchases. Financial institutions use a scoring model developed using analytics to predict whether a borrower will default on a loan. Your cell […]

Planning and delivering on an HRM strategy

For more than 10 years you have been a human resources manager at a welding and machining company that has remained fairly stable. The business has 20-25 employees, most of whom have been with the company for nearly 25 years. Your firm has built a reputation of quality, and the relationships of your long-time employee […]

The role of leaders in creating learning organizations

Leadership and the role of leaders in creating learning organizations, and describes leaders as designers, teachers and stewards. Discuss which aspects of the “new work” with which you agree and/or disagree. How do his comments impact your views of your own leadership? How have your views of leadership changed over the term? What did you […]

The impact of technology on economic growth and development

Impact of technology on economic growth and development Information Systems (IS) play a critical role in supporting, supplementing, and automating many of our professional and personal lives, including business decision-making, shaping and transforming industries, and contributing to deep societal and economic change.  The impact of technology on economic growth and development, electronic globalization, and the […]

Concepts and Applications of Information Technology

Purpose of this Assignment The Class Project is the most significant assignment in this course, Concepts and Applications of Information Technology. As such, it accounts for 40% of the course points. This assignment is comprised of two deliverables; a SWOT Analysis and a Presentation. The SWOT Analysis is due in Week 4 (worth 15% of […]

The importance of HR policy

You have been successful in securing the contract, and you have a lot to do. The management priority is to have a Human Resource plan in place as soon as possible, but you feel that an HR policy is equally important, if not more. Therefore, you have decided to create the outline of the HR […]

Herzberg’s motivation-hygiene theory

Oftentimes, employees would get to hear wonderful advice from the management of organizations. One such piece of advice is that employees must leave all personal issues upon entering the premises in the workplace. Often times too, and more so if the managers or executives are familiar with Organizational Behavior (maybe because they took Organizational Behavior […]

Evaluation of the MBA program

Propose a training evaluation plan for consideration by the Faculty of Business Administration, assume you have been hired as a consultant to provide a program evaluation of the MBA program at the Toronto school of management. Your proposal should provide an outline of the evaluation, indicating the steps and activities associated with each step. Please […]