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Organizational Strategy And Staffing, John Hausknecht, Patrick Wright
Organizational Strategy And Staffing, John Hausknecht, Patrick Wright
John Hausknecht
In this chapter, we draw linkages between theory and research from strategic human resource management (and its focus on predicting unit/firm performance) with the key issues and empirical findings from the staffing and selection literature (and its focus on predicting individual performance). We organize the chapter around the fit and flexibility framework (Wright & Snell, 1998) to discuss the dual concerns of fitting staffing and selection systems to strategic needs while simultaneously enabling flexibility to respond to future demands. Implications for research and practice explain how such an approach may alter and enhance conventional views regarding staffing system characteristics such …
Regional Jet Aircraft Competitiveness: Challenges And Opportunities, Tamilla Curtis, Dawna Rhoades, Blaise Waguespack
Regional Jet Aircraft Competitiveness: Challenges And Opportunities, Tamilla Curtis, Dawna Rhoades, Blaise Waguespack
Dr. Tamilla Curtis
The regional jet aircraft is a unique market niche. Particularly suitable for providing capacity in the 30 to 90 seat range, these jets are often used to connect smaller airports to network carrier hubs, as well as to fill in during slow periods. The market is currently dominated by two manufacturers: Brazil's Embraer and Canada's Bombardier. Due to the nature of the global aircraft industry, Embraer and Bombardier are largely dependent on the international sale of their aircraft for steady revenue streams. Orders and deliveries of aircraft with fewer than 100 seats have grown rapidly over the past ten years. …
Sentosa (C): Advancing Sentosa’S Strategy Through Integrated Customer Engagement, Jason Woodard, Kevin Sproule
Sentosa (C): Advancing Sentosa’S Strategy Through Integrated Customer Engagement, Jason Woodard, Kevin Sproule
C. Jason Woodard
This case is the third part of a three-part series on the Sentosa Leisure Group based in Singapore. The three cases focus on: Case (A) – Marketing / Analytics Case (B) – IT solution design Case (C) – Long-term strategy Sentosa (C): After successfully answering the ‘big’ questions like how to drive Sentosa’s core revenue and designing a new IT platform, students are asked to tie it all together. How can their learning be used to chart a strategy for the Sentosa Leisure Group? How can they realise the aggressive revenue and profit goals set forward by the board? In …
Strategic Decision-Making In High Velocity Environments: A Theory Revisited And A Test, Kevin Clark, Christopher J. Collins
Strategic Decision-Making In High Velocity Environments: A Theory Revisited And A Test, Kevin Clark, Christopher J. Collins
Christopher J Collins
[Excerpt] A decade ago, Eisenhardt (1989) proposed a model of strategic decision-making speed for firms facing high-velocity environments. This theory, while important at the time, has become even more relevant to the strategy-making bodies of firms in the entrepreneurial millennium. The model differed in important ways from much of the existing literature on decision-making speed (Frederickson and Mitchell, 1984; Janis, 1982; Mintzberg, et al., 1976; Nutt, 1976). Eisenhardt's ideas were based on a series of inductive case studies of eight firms competing in the fast-paced micro-chip industry. As such, it was an important theory-building effort in a central area of …
Entrepreneurial Human Resource Strategy, Christopher J. Collins, Matthew Allen, Scott Snell
Entrepreneurial Human Resource Strategy, Christopher J. Collins, Matthew Allen, Scott Snell
Christopher J Collins
[Excerpt] Entrepreneurship is the process by which "opportunities to create future goods and services are discovered, evaluated, and exploited" (Shane and Venkataraman, 2000: 218). In other words, it is the process by which organizations and individuals convert new knowledge into new opportunities in the form of new products and services. Strategic human resource management (SHRM) has been defined as the system of organizational practices and policies used to manage employees in a manner that leads to higher organizational performance (Wright and McMahan, 1992). Further, one perspective suggests that sets of HR practices do not themselves create competitive advantage; instead, they …
Aldi In Australia, Ingrid Bonn
Aldi In Australia, Ingrid Bonn
Ingrid Bonn
Extract: In 1948, the brothers Theo and Karl Albrecht opened the grocery store ‘Albrecht Discounts’ (Aldi) in Essen (Ruhr Valley), Germany. The store had a simple layout and offered a restricted number of products at a low price. The company grew rapidly, owning 13 stores in 1950 and about 300 stores in 1961 across Germany. In 1961, Theo and Karl divided the company into Aldi North (run by Theo) and Aldi South (run by Karl). The reasons for this division, according to Dieter Brandes, a former managing director of Aldi in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, were different views about how to develop …
Sustainability- The Missing Ingredient In Strategy, Ingrid Bonn, Josie Fisher
Sustainability- The Missing Ingredient In Strategy, Ingrid Bonn, Josie Fisher
Ingrid Bonn
While strategy has been addressed in the literature since the 1960s and sustainability has received a lot of attention recently, there has been little attention paid to the question of how sustainability considerations might be integrated into an organisation's strategy. In this paper a framework that outlines how sustainability can be addressed strategically in organisations is introduced and analysed. It is argued that all three dimensions of sustainability- economic, environmental and social- must be integrated into all aspects of an organisation's strategy and need to be addressed on an ongoing basis.
Outsourcing Impact On Manufacturing Firms’ Value: Evidence From Japan, James A. Belohlav
Outsourcing Impact On Manufacturing Firms’ Value: Evidence From Japan, James A. Belohlav
James A. Belohlav
No abstract provided.
Operational, Economic And Mission Elements In Not-For-Profit Organizations: The Case Of The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, James A. Belohlav
Operational, Economic And Mission Elements In Not-For-Profit Organizations: The Case Of The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, James A. Belohlav
James A. Belohlav
No abstract provided.
Attribute-Based Differentiation Of Alternatives, Jeffrey Keisler
Attribute-Based Differentiation Of Alternatives, Jeffrey Keisler
Jeffrey Keisler
An intermediate step is introduced to the decision dialogue process for decision analysis. Alternatives are refined after they have been generated within a strategy table but before they are subject to more detailed evaluation. Two or more judges create a subjective mapping from alternatives to attributes that will later be mapped to criteria. In strategy tables, each of the alternative strategies consists of a coherent set of choices made across several decisions that are to be coordinated. These strategic alternatives are modified so as to increase their differentiation in the attribute space, rather than in the decision space alone. When …
Legal Issues In Multinational Business Strategy: To Play The Game, You Have To Know The Rules, James A. Belohlav
Legal Issues In Multinational Business Strategy: To Play The Game, You Have To Know The Rules, James A. Belohlav
James A. Belohlav
No abstract provided.
Quality, Strategy, And Competitiveness, James A. Belohlav
Quality, Strategy, And Competitiveness, James A. Belohlav
James A. Belohlav
No abstract provided.