Decision Making Case Study: CNN
CNN, The Cable News Network, broadcasts around the clock, seven days a week, internationally. CNN executives and other employees must constantly make decisions about what news should go on the air and how it should be gathered and presented.
Dealing With Unsatisfactory Job Performance
When an employee's job performance is sub-par, it is the manager's responsibility to inform the employee. Ideally, once the problem has been pointed out, the manager and the employee establish objectives for improvement, along with strategies that w...
Decision Making and Delegation Case Study: CNN
In order to facilitate the free flow of information, CNN cultivates an open and collegial atmosphere. While the company needs clear lines of authority to make decisions about rapidly breaking news, CNN executives generally try to temper their formal...
Decision Making
Mercy Hospital and Medical Center has utilized a decision making model called shared governance, which transfers clinical decision making from management to staff members who work directly with patients. This model encourages employees to build cons...
Decision Making Models
Managers sometimes use computer models to help them analyze their options under varying conditions and circumstances.
Social Responsibility and Profitability
One reason some organizations are hesitant to adopt social responsibility programs is cost. The argument here is that profit is the cornerstone on which a business is built, and that additional responsibilities only jeopardize the efficiency of prof...
Sources of Conflict
Some view conflict as an inevitable outgrowth of the combative side of human nature. In the business world, a basic source of conflict is competition for resources or recognition within an organization. But conflicts can also be driven by outside so...
Organizational Structure: Traditional vs. Non-Traditional
Although specific organizational designs vary from company to company, there has been a broad trend away from what might be called mechanistic organizational designs toward more organic ones. Mechanistic designs depend on centralized authority and m...
Japanese and American Production Models
As long as other countries lacked industrial capacity, especially following World War II, U.S. companies could absorb tremendous inefficiency and still compete. All that changed when the Japanese developed new methods of integrating various aspects ...
Informal Communications Network, The
The informal communications network plays a powerful role in any organization. Communication of this nature frequently takes place prior to the formal communication process and is often driven by personal relationships.