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Financial plan outlining how funds in a given period will be obtained and spent.

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How well a product performs as its intended to.

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Network applications established within an organization to help guide managers in their decision making.

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The ability to influence others so that they respond to orders.

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Physiological (food, water), Security (free from harm), Social (love, friendship), Esteem (desire for respect), & Self-actualization (maximizing your potential).

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Inner state causing individuals to learn in a way that ensures the accomplishment of same goal.

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Rationale for linking leadership styles with various situations to ensure effective leadership.

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Directing the behavior of others towards accomplishment of an objective.

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Groups are fully focused on solving organization problems and meeting assigned challenges.

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Sharing information without using words to encode thoughts.

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Self-awareness, self-motivation, empathy for others and adeptness in building relationships.

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Interprets and enforces federal laws prohibiting discrimination.

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Strong internal focus with a high degree of flexibility & discretion.

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A situation where more than one individual is responsible for completing any one activity.

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Determines the number of possible relationships between a manager and subordinates.
n= known number of subordinates

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Describes the management system that includes detailed procedures & rules,  a clearly outlined organizational hierarchy & interpersonal relationships among organizational members.

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Developing product that customers perceive as being different from competitor's product.

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Best Sexy Funny Banned Commercial Compilation

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TopComedyVideo presents Top 5 Pepsi vs Coke commercials

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I picked the quote below because I had never thought of intuition as a discovery.

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Predicting future environmental happenings that will influence the operation of the organization.

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Is a standing plan that furnishes guidelines for taking action that is consistent with reaching organizational objectives.

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Is defined as a set of characteristics of a given group of people and their environment. It also is the way a person thinks, acts, and interacts.

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He describes culture with five main categories: power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism & collectivism, masculinity & feminity, and short term/long term orientation.

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"China is expected to become the largest food and beverage market globally within the next five years."

http://newsroom.kelloggcompany.com/2012-09-24-Kellogg-Company-And-Wilmar-International-Limited-Announce-China-Joint-Venture

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I would love to work for an international company and travel the world ^_^

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A close-minded belief that does not consider diversity valuable.

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Both society and the workforce have processed enough to view women as leaders.

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This picture cracked me up! Reverse mentoring is a process that pairs a senior employee with a junior employee for the purpose of work transfer.

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This image perfectly sums up the broadness of
diversity.

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He defined ethics as our concern for good behavior.

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This provides increased profits, increased productivity, and increased innovation.

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The code of ethics is a formal statement about how the organization should act and make decisions.

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This was one of my favorite discussion topics. Here's the article I reviewed:

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Fast-food chain wants to boost recycling, buy more of its food, supplies from socially responsible sources

McDonald's Corp. is setting new bars for everything from how it sources food to how much healthy food it serves as it tries to do a better job of connecting with socially conscious customers.

Chief Executive Don Thompson announced the strategy this week at a biannual convention for franchisees and others who work with the world's largest restaurant company. The corporate social responsibility and sustainability framework focuses on goals McDonald's aims to achieve by 2020 in five areas - food, sourcing, planet, people and community.

McDonald's targets have the potential to lead to big changes at its more than 35,000 restaurants around the world and the massive network of suppliers that sell it everything from beef to boxes. They could also lead to higher sales if they catch on with diners, a boost McDonald's could use after turning in a string of disappointing results.

"We do have a track record of really good work, but now it's a new era. We're raising the bar on this," said Bob Langert, McDonald's vice president of corporate social responsibility and sustainability. "Our customers care. They want to do business with people and companies that have the same values about people, society, environmental issues (and) the sourcing of our products."

Some restaurants already make sustainability part of their push. Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc., which McDonald's once invested in, touts its "food with integrity" in ads and mentions sourcing on its menus. Until now, McDonald's largely has not promoted efforts such as recycling almost all of its used oil into biodiesel fuel, or getting whitefish only from fisheries that are verified as sustainable.

Among its goals, McDonald's wants to get all of its fiber-based packaging from sources certified by an environmental group or verified as recycled fiber, up from roughly 14 percent now; increase recycling at its restaurants to 50 percent, from roughly 36 percent; and double the amount of fruit, vegetables, low-fat dairy products or whole grains it sells. It also plans to develop goals next year for reducing salt or sodium, sugar, saturated fat or calories across its menu.

It makes sense for companies to focus their social responsibility strategies on their core product areas, which for McDonald's means focusing on food, said Aron Cramer, president and CEO of Business for Social Responsibility, which advises businesses on such efforts and counts McDonald's as a member.

A large number of companies started to be more public about their social responsibility targets and achievements around 2000, and got a wake-up call in 2005, when two major bellwethers - Wal-Mart and General Electric - made big, public environmental commitments, Cramer said.

"The trick is always in setting goals that are ambitious, not guaranteed to be achieved, but within reach," he said. "I think McDonald's has done a pretty good job of setting targets that fit that description."

The company has been trying for years to stand out as a better corporate citizen. It came under fire decades ago over packaging, including its Big Mac containers, which are now fiber-based.

"We were really a big focal point back in the late '80s for packaging waste, representing a disposable society, the polystyrene clamshell. That was the first time McDonald's was ever really under attack for a societal issue," Langert said.

This is McDonald's ninth corporate responsibility report. It published the first one in 2002. The goals are largely for the Oak Brook-based company's top nine markets, which account for about 70 percent of its revenue: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.

McDonald's also plans to source all of its coffee and palm oil from suppliers that are verified to support sustainable production. It estimates that about 25 percent of the coffee it currently buys is sustainable.

Getting palm oil from tropical areas such as Indonesia and Malaysia can threaten rain forests. Palm oil is used in some McDonald's restaurants for frying and by some suppliers to par-fry chicken and potato products, and is in items such as baked goods and sauces.

The company estimates that about 14 percent of its palm oil already supports sustainable sources. Now it wants all of the palm oil it uses to be certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil or be covered by the purchase of GreenPalm certificates, a program set up to encourage sustainable production.

"Regardless of the type of commitment, it does send a signal, and it creates additional demand for sustainable palm oil, which is really important," said Bambi Semroc, senior strategic adviser for the Center for Environmental Leadership in Business at Conservation International.

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McDonald's sets new sustainability goals

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Fast-food chain wants to boost recycling, buy more of its food, supplies from socially responsible sources McDonald's Corp. is setting new bars for everything from how it sources food to how much healthy food it serves as it tries to do a better job of connecting with socially conscious customers.

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You need to be a people person in order to be successful management.

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They "play an important role in the production process to a great extent as the success of the economy of a country is determined by the amount of natural resources held by a country within its borders."
source: http://www.readyratios.com/reference/accounting/raw_materials.html

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Assigning tasks/delegation help make your organization more effective and efficient.

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I always thought of planning as scribbling or writing out steps in detail. What I've learned is that it's all about choosing, outlining, and indicating.