Human Capital Background
Organizational Development
Organizational Culture
Motivation
Leadership
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What is Human Capital?
It's a collection of resources—all the knowledge, talents, skills, abilities, experience, intelligence, training, judgment, and wisdom possessed individually and collectively by individuals in a population.
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What is Organizational Development?
It's a field directed at interventions in the processes of human systems in order to increase their effectiveness and health using a variety of disciplines, principally applied behavioral sciences.
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What is Organizational Culure about?
It includes an organization's expectations, experiences, philosophy, and values that hold it together, and is expressed in its self-image, inner workings, interactions with the outside world, and future expectations.
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What is Motivation?
Internal and external factors that stimulate desire and energy in people to be continually interested and committed to a job, role or subject, or to make an effort to attain a goal.
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What is leadership?
The act of inspiring subordinates to perform and engage in achieving a goal.
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What does the conceptual alternative to human capital that Pierre Bourdieu offers include?
it includes Cultural capital, social capital, economic capital, and symbolic capital.
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What is Focus on the whole Organization about?
it's focus on the organization as a whole so that it can respond to change effectively.
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What is philosophy about?
They are the beliefs of the company and the line that is going to guide everything about the organizational culture.
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What is Micromotivation about?
Organizations create a set of material rewards, social and psychological incentives for workers to generate behaviors that allow them to meet their needs and achieve organizational goals.
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Mention the three styles of leadership
Autocratic, Democratic and Laissez-faire
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In modern technical financial analysis, What does "balanced growth" refer to?
It refers to the goal of equal growth of both aggregate human capabilities and physical assets that produce goods and services.
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What is Learning by Experience about?
Participants learn by experiencing in the training environment the kinds of human problems they face on the job.
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What are values about?
They are basic behaviors that the company expect in their employees.
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Mention 3 examples of micromotivation
The opportunity to get a promotion and wage incentives and the "employee of the month"
300
When the Autocratic leadership style colud be useful for the team?
Where quick decision-making is key, this particular leadership style might work well.
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What does OECD mean?
Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development
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What is Feedback about?
It encourages participants to understand a situation and take self correcting actions
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What is Mission about?
It defines what an organization is, why it exists, its reason for being.
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What is Macromotivation?
It's a process where society transmits messages that the individual has internalized and letting him to get an idea about himself and about the work, influenced by the levels of individual motivation.
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Mention one negative aspect about Democratic Leadership Style
With more people involved, decisions might take longer to implement.
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Why did the OECD ecouraged the goverments of advance economies?
To embrace policies to increase innovation and knowledge in products and services as an economical path to continued prosperity.
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What is Contingency Orientation about?
OD is usually said to be situational and contingency oriented. It's flexible and pragmatic, adapting actions to fit particular needs.
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What is Vision about?
It defines the optimal desired future state - the expectations of the company.
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Mention an example of Macromotivation
Japanese workers have to show their company spirit even if those extra evening hours don’t amount to anything productive getting done.
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When does the Laissez - Faire Leadership Style could be our best option to use?
Employees are independent and also responsible for maintaining control of their work, plus at a particular skill-level, where they do not need a push from their superiors.
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