Category: ‘Business Management’

The Benefits Of The Organizational Culture Questionnaire

August 23, 2011 Posted by Kantatasamsara

Many companies use the organizational culture questionnaire to improve their companies. It helps to have a better understanding of the employees and their attitudes towards others. It can gather a variety of information that can help a company move forward.

This questionnaire helps bridge the gap between people. Corporations looking to make a change will use this to help better understand what people think and how their workers will adapt or are adapting to the changes. It is a critical aspect in companies. It guides employee’s actions and reactions on every level of the company. By hitting all the levels everyone will be able to understand how different styles work.

By taking this survey it will help you to understand yourself and others, which makes for a better working relationship. The most important aspect of this survey is to help each person understand their own cultural profile and how it relates to others and to other companies.

Cultural misunderstandings are counterproductive and can be harmful especially to a business wanting to expand. Without even knowing different issues may arise. Different ethnic groups may have differing opinions on major issues. After the survey it is better able to be understood how different people feel about several subjects. These differing opinions can affect how employees will work.

This questionnaire measures corporate culture. Some aspects of this survey include individualism, power distance, time management, achievement and certainty. Individualism is the extent to which action is taken for the benefit of the individual or the group. It determines how often employees are working alone or with a group or a team. Power distance is the type of interactions workers have with supervisors and if the employees can make decisions for themselves or if their supervisors control every action and have the final say. (more…)

Management of a Family Business

May 15, 2011 Posted by Kantatasamsara

Management of a family business can be broader and greater challenges than managing a traditional company. Money highlights 10 points in the book as a guide for employers to recognize relatives in the country where they have to strengthen the management at their companies.

1. Separate rooms of the family and business
“The family relationships should not be condemned to depend on the performance of the business and at the same time, business decisions must not be defined by the events of family environment,” argues the consultant Edgar Suarez. Many family businesses make the mistake of joining the family’s problems with the company, resulting in rivalries and conflicts. Children may feel annoyance from minor in the subjects of the company when his father used to bring them home. The greatest assets of a business family are the union and good relations, to be protected in isolation from the interests and development of the company.

2. Maintain relations of equity in the company
Countless family businesses are ruined because the family took the company not as a responsibility but a privilege. That is, for them the company is a right that an economic entity. This causes huge difficulties. Employees are demotivated to see preferential treatment for members of the family. In Colombia, about 70% of family workers is not going through a selection process. Therefore, the keyword is meritocracy. Suarez Serna and recognize the importance of each of those comprising a family business and provide recommendations for parent-child relationships, children, employees, spouses, business, among others.

3. Understand the weaknesses of their management
Family companies are made with a lot of heart and little tactic, says Luis Conde, company founder Amrop Hever. That is, the management of a family business is often weak in areas such as investment and professionalism of human talent, use of advanced practices, and research and development. Relatives in Colombia Employers often fear to hire qualified people because they think they can lose control of their companies. Therefore, as explained Ignacio de la Vega, director of the International Centre of Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, “in the context of globalization that are facing family businesses today is fundamental change of mindset and prepare for change and growth” . (more…)

In Elements Of Project Management

April 10, 2011 Posted by Kantatasamsara

There are some factors that must be taken into account in the early stages of the project, in particular management elements, including:

First Planning
At this point, careful planning early, before the project. The project includes:

* Time in the design, such as to create a project schedule, which must be approved customers. Timeline of the process in detail from the concept, design, FA, production, depending on customer needs. What is certain is here seen as a professional designer and appreciate the time limit.

* The design, which make a clear workflow. Stage at thusto defined in detail, this, that, well, until, until, with the result that the client can not go back it is a great step in the right of prior approval, if it is the next step. whose names are usually made in the form of agreement should be signed by the customer for each phase of the project.

* Financial Planning / Budgeting. Often called the bid price quoted. And ‘fees calculated in detail in the circuit design Fee / other costs such as paper, printing, printing, photography, and other issues related to the design created. This does not happen to a loss of economic designers. Since the materials and costs and expenses, such as those above do not include tax design.

2. Orginizing
Manage all elements of the project. Because, of course, the project involves a lot of time and energy. Control in the hands of the designer, if he is number one. “Who-should-be accountable to what” you must set the correct project. (more…)