The document discusses the case method approach to teaching and learning. It describes case method as using real business situations to help students develop analytical skills like problem identification, solution development, and decision making. The case method involves studying a case, identifying problems, investigating issues, analyzing solutions, and making recommendations. It aims to teach independent and cooperative thinking, introduce realism, demonstrate business issues, teach research and decision making. Analyzing cases strengthens various skills like understanding, deduction, evaluating consequences, and presenting conclusions. The steps outlined for case analysis include multiple readings to identify key facts and problems, defining the problem, setting objectives, outlining alternatives, evaluating pros and cons of options, and recommending and planning a decision.
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BRIEF TO ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGEMENT THEORY
HISTORY OF ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGEMENT THEORY
INTRODUCTION TO ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGEMENT THEORY
DEFINISTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGEMENT THEORY
WORKS OF HENRY FAYOL
PRINICIPLES OF ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGEMENT THEORY
COMPARISON OF ADMINISTRATIVE VS SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT THEORY
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why measure performance
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the value concept
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measure what matters
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lead indicators as value drivers
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financial performance can be measured by
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internal business process measures
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the objectives of six sigma
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difference between tqm and six sigma
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malcolm baldrige national quality award
Administrative management theory and comparison of administrative vs scienti...ErTARUNKASHNI
BRIEF TO ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGEMENT THEORY
HISTORY OF ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGEMENT THEORY
INTRODUCTION TO ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGEMENT THEORY
DEFINISTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGEMENT THEORY
WORKS OF HENRY FAYOL
PRINICIPLES OF ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGEMENT THEORY
COMPARISON OF ADMINISTRATIVE VS SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT THEORY
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Written Case Analysis Model
Step 1. Problem Identification. The first step in your written analysis is to explicitly identify the major problem(s) in the case in one or two clear and precise sentences. For example, "The major problem in this case is a 15 percent increase in employee turnover compared to last year's rate." Herbert Simon, who received a Nobel Prize for his work on management decision making, has defined a problem as "a deviation from a standard." In other words, one way to identify a problem is to compare some desired state or objective with the actual situation. A problem or series of problems may prevent the organization from reaching its objectives or goals. A key point here is that in order to define a problem, there must be some type of standard for comparison. Possible standards include the organization's stated objectives or goals, objectives or goals of competing organizations, or standards based on normative prescriptions from human resource management theory.
It is important to remember that problems reside in the present. The problem is here and now!
Step 2. Identify the Causes of the Problem. Before proposing alternative solutions, the decision maker must have a clear understanding of the underlying causes of the problem. HRM problems are usually embedded in a larger context. This means the decision maker must examine internal and external environmental factors over time to isolate causal factors. Causes of problems tend to be historical in nature. To formulate a solid understanding of the specific causes, you should search for root causes and use relevant course concepts and theories to better define them. The "question syndrome" approach may be beneficial here: Why did the problem occur? When did it begin? Where does it occur? Where doesn't it occur? What effective HRM practices should the organization be using? What has the organization failed to do? What are the antecedents of the problem? Posing these questions will help you to probe beyond the symptoms to the root causes of the problem.
The process of identifying the causes of a problem is very much like hypothesis testing. You should set forth possible causes and then test them against the facts in the case. In writing this section, it is important to present a plausible discussion of the causes so as to convince the reader that your analysis is correct.
Step 3. Select Criteria. Your decision criteria serve to allow you the opportunity to evaluate each of your alternatives using the same measures. Many of the criteria that you will utilize in making HR decisions are qualitative in nature. There is a short list presented in your packet. In reality, all of these come into play. But importance to any problem will be different, which will require you to prioritize these for each different case. We will prioritize this list and use the most important three for each set of alternatives.
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PART ONEHow to Analyze a Case Study Knowing how to anal.docxdanhaley45372
PART ONE:
How to Analyze a Case Study
Knowing how to analyze a case will help you attack virtually any business problem.
A case study helps students learn by immersing them in a real-world business scenario where they can act as problem-solvers and decision-makers. The case presents facts about a particular organization or decision. Students are asked to analyze the case by focusing on the most important facts and using this information to determine the opportunities and problems facing that organization, the people within the organization or decision. Students are then asked to identify alternative courses of action to deal with the problems or decision they identify.
A case study analysis must not merely summarize the case. It should identify key issues and problems, outline and assess alternative courses of action, and draw appropriate conclusions. The case study analysis can be broken down into the following steps (FICER):
Facts- select the most important facts surrounding the case.
Issues-identify the most important issues in the case
Courses of action-Specify alternative courses of action.
Evaluate- each course of action.
Recommend- the best course of action.
Let's look at what each step involves.
Identify the most important facts surrounding the case.
Read the case several times to become familiar with the information it contains. Pay attention to the information in any accompanying exhibits, tables, or figures. Many case scenarios, as in real life, present a great deal of detailed information. Some of these facts are more relevant than others for problem identification. One can assume the facts and figures in the case are true, but statements, judgments, or decisions made by individuals should be questioned. Underline and then list the most important facts and figures that would help you define the central problem or issue. If key facts and numbers are not available, you can make assumptions, but these assumptions should be reasonable given the situation. The "correctness" of your conclusions may depend on the assumptions you make.
Identify the key issue or issues.
Use the facts provided by the case to identify the key issue or issues (or decision) facing the person(s) or organization. Many cases present multiple issues or problems. Identify the most important and separate them from more trivial issues. State the major problem or challenge facing the company or person(s). You should be able to describe the problem or challenge in one or two sentences. You should be able to explain how this problem affects the strategy or performance of the organization or person(s). You will need to explain why the problem occurred.
Specify alternative courses of action.
List the courses of action the company or person(s) can take to solve its problem or meet the challenge it faces. For instance, for information system-related problems, do these alternatives require a new information system or the modification of an existi.
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Take Test: Grammar Quiz: Joining Clauses with Semicolons
QUESTION 1
Review: Below, you should see a sentence fragment, or a dependent clause masquerading as a complete sentence. Correct the sentence fragment by eliminating the subordinating conjunction. Write the corrected sentence in the box provided.
Because the stock market crashed.
13 points
QUESTION 2
Review: This time, correct the sentence fragment by adding an independent clause. Write the ENTIRE sentence in the box provided.
After the stock market crashed, . . .
13 points
QUESTION 3
Review: Below, you should see two clauses. Combine them properly into a single sentence using SUBORDINATION. Remember to use a comma if necessary.
Bonnie and Clyde blasted their way out of the bank and through the police blockade.
They barrelled down the highway across the border.
13 points
QUESTION 4
Review: Below, you should see two more clauses. This time, join them using COORDINATION.
In Mexico, the lovers were safe.
They missed the excitement of their high-crime lifestyle.
13 points
QUESTION 5
Join the clauses using a semicolon.
The couple returned to the United States the following spring.
They were dead before the year was out.
16 points
QUESTION 6
This time, join the clauses with a conjunctive adverb along with a semicolon. You can put the conjunctive adverb wherever you like, but remember that where you put the conjunctive adverb determines the number of commas you need.
Today, Bonnie and Clyde are remembered as romantic figures, striving for love and freedom.
They are also remembered as America's first homegrown terrorists, willing to kill for personal pleasure.
16 points
QUESTION 7
Write a sentence that combines two independent clauses using a semicolon and a conjunctive adverb. Remember to use commas appropriately, depending on where you place the conjunctive adverb.
How to Analyze a Case Study
Included in these cases are questions to help you understand and analyze the case. You may, however, be assigned other case studies that do not have questions. This Hands-on Guide presents a structured framework to help you analyze such cases as well as the case studies in this text. Knowing how to analyze a case will help you attack virtually any business problem.
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A case study analysis must not merely summarize the case. It should identify key issues and problems, outline and assess alternative courses of action, and draw appropriate conclusions. The case study a.
A Guide to Case Analysis
I keep six honest serving men (They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When; And How and Where and Who.
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readers at the scene of the action and familiarizes them with all the relevant circumstances. A case on strategic management can concern a whole industry, a single organization, or some part of an organization; the organization involved can be either profit seeking or not-for-profit. The essence of the student’s role in case analysis is to diagnose and size up the situation described in the case and then to recommend appropriate action steps.
Why Use Cases to Practice Strategic Management?
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A student of business with tact Absorbed many answers he lacked. But acquiring a job,
He said with a sob,
“How does one fit answer to fact?”
The foregoing limerick was used some years ago by Professor Charles Gragg to characterize the plight of business students who had no exposure to cases.1 The facts are that the mere act of listening to lectures and sound advice about managing does little for anyone’s management skills and that the accumulated managerial wisdom cannot effectively be passed on by lectures and assigned readings alone. If anything had been learned about the practice of management,
it is that a storehouse of ready-made textbook answers does not exist. Each managerial situation has unique aspects, requiring its own diagnosis, judgment, and tailor-made actions. Cases provide would-be managers with a valuable way to practice wrestling with the actual problems of actual managers in actual companies.
The case approach to strategic analysis is, first and foremost, an exercise in learning by doing. Because cases provide you with detailed information about conditions and problems of different industries and companies, your task of analyzing company after company and situation after situation has the twin benefit of boosting your analytical skills and exposing you to the ways companies and managers actually do things. Most college students have limited managerial backgrounds and only fragmented knowledge about companies and real-life strategic situations. Cases help substitute for on-the-job experience by (1) giving you broader exposure to a variety of industries, organizations, and strategic problems; (2) forcing you to assume a managerial role (as opposed to that of just an onlooker); (3) providing a test of how to apply the tools and techniques of strategic management; and
(4) asking you to come up with pragmatic managerial act.
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Transforming Singapore’s Public Libraries Case Questions
· Why did Singapore decide to change its libraries? How significant was the change, and how would you characterize it from a strategic perspective? What is the equivalent to this change for a typical for-profit company?
· Who was the Singapore library system’s “customer”? What was the “product”?
· How did the type of service delivered and the service levels change?
· What important elements of the library system didn’t change? Why? Was this a failure in change management or was it intentional?
· What were the key components of the change effort? Why were they important? Do they relate to one another?
· Was the order in which things happened important? Why or why not?
· Reengineering often fails. Did this reengineering succeed? If so/if not, why?
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(Attendance of live or recorded session each week is mandatory - weeks 1-5)
Based on the Live Classroom study session this week, answer the following questions in depth. (20 points)
1. What information did you find to be the most beneficial information during this presentation?
1. As you participated in the session, what area(s) did you find most confusing and need to focus more on to ensure success with the CMA Exam?
3. What additional resources are you using to assist in preparing you for the CMA Exam? Provide specific resources.
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A Guide to Case Analysis
I keep six honest serving men (They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When; And How and Where and Who.
Rudyard Kipling
(
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)n most courses in strategic management, students use cases about actual companies to practice strategic analysis and to gain some experience in the tasks of crafting and implementing strategy. A case sets forth, in a factual manner, the events and organizational circumstances surrounding a particular managerial situation. It puts
readers at the scene of the action and familiarizes them with all the relevant circumstances. A case on strategic management can concern a whole industry, a single organization, or some part of an organization; the organization involved can be either profit seeking or not-for-profit. The essence of the student’s role in case analysis is to diagnose and size up the situation described in the case and then to recommend appropriate action steps.
Why Use Cases to Practice Strategic Management?
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STRATEGY:
Core
Concepts
and
Analytical
Approaches
)
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A
Guide
to
Case
Analysis
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A student of business with tact Absorbed many answers he lacked. But acquiring a job,
He said with a sob,
“How does one fit answer to fact?”
The foregoing limerick was used some years ago by Professor Charles Gragg to characterize the plight of business students wh ...
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Principles of Management - Case Analysis
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CASE ANALYSIS
Introduction
Case study has developed into a very effective method
in improving an individual’s ability to analyze a
situation, establish premises, arrive at valid
conclusions, decide on courses of action and
visualize consequences and results.
The case method is a highly effective instructional tool
used in business schools all over the world. In this
method, you will study a case or a business situation,
identify the problem or problem areas, investigate the
problem, analyze possible solution, and make
recommendations. The case analysis is usually
presented in writing; however, for classroom purposes
it may be presented before the class, after which
oral discussion ensues.
Schnelle (1967) gives the following as
Objectives of the Case Method:
1. To teach students to think independently but at the
same time to work cooperatively in team-like situations
2. To introduce realism into formal instruction
3. To teach by demonstration, the infinite variety
of goals, problems, facts, conditions, conflicts,
personalities which occur in the business world
4. To teach decision-making
5. To teach the importance of business research as a
tool for use in problem-solving
6. To present descriptions of actual business
situations to familiarize students with business
principles and methods as they are employed in the
world affairs
Why are we using the case method? Case
analysis demands the exercise of a number of
language and language related skills. It entails the
ability to understand analytically what is read, make
deductions, analyze situations, foresee consequences
of decisions, and make conclusions, generalizations
and recommendations. Furthermore, the writing up of
the case analysis entails the ability to put the above in
a form that the reader can readily understand. The
oral presentation of cases demands the exercise of
vocal and platform techniques, the proper use of
visual aids and the ability to answer questions or
defend analysis.
The case method allows the students to learn and
exercise a lot more skills other than teaching methods.
A case is often nothing more than a “chronology of
events” (Schenelle 1967:15), reading a case should
not be taken lightly. The reading process is
considered so important that many authors recommend
that this should be done at least three times. The
second reading gives the reader a chance to
correct whatever misconceptions he may have formed
during the first reading. Analysis should be started only
after the third reading.
There is a host of factors or conditions that cause it
and a number of ways to solve it. Solving cases is
similar in that the problem may be:
1. Hidden among other facts and related problems;
this makes problem identification complicated.
2. Approached from different angles, depending on
whose point of view the analyst is going to take:
e.g. the employee, the employer, or the consumer
Steps in Solving Case Analysis
A lot of preliminary work needs to be done before an
analyst is ready to write a report on a case. The
following steps are suggested to be able to come up
with a satisfactory analysis.
1. Read the case for the first time to get a general
idea of the situation and the problem.
2. Read the case the second time; this time to
correct the wrong impressions which may have arisen
after the first reading, and get more solid idea of the
problem situation.
3. Read the case the third time; this time take note of
the pertinent facts which may hold the key to
problem identification and solution.
Define the problem. This step is crucial to the whole
analysis. The kind of problem you solve will depend
on the kind of problem you have identified.
Set your objectives for the solution of the problem.
“What do I want to accomplish?” - is the question
that you need to ask yourself. Put it another
way, you should decide the characteristics of the
solution you want.
Outline the alternative courses of action. A problem
may be solved in many ways. Enumerating possible
courses of action will eliminate the possibility of leaving
out other solutions which may work well with the
problem.
Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of each
alternative course of action. If possible, express these
in terms of savings and losses.
Recommend a decision. After the alternatives
have been examined, and those which produce more
disadvantages than advantages have been
eliminated, recommend that the alternative which
offers more advantages than disadvantages be adopted.
Suggest specific steps to implement the decision.
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As you can see, from the above steps. Solving case
problems is a complicated process. Solving cases is
like solving problems in the actual world of affairs.
Case problems enable students to analyze fairly realistic
situations (i.e., one which he could encounter at
work) and receive the benefit of feedback from his
classmates and teachers concerning his analysis of the
situation and his proposed plan for dealing with it.
Therefore, you should not take the activity lightly.
There might not be a perfect way to solve a
problem but the “rightness” or “wrongness” of the
solution will depend on the amount of time spent on the
analysis and the seriousness which the analyst
invests in the problem.
Cases may vary in length as well as the manner in
which the problem is presented
Case Analysis Format
A case report or analysis usually contains the
following ( Schenelle: 1967)
1. Letter of transmittal
2. Summary of recommendations
3. Report proper
This format, however, may vary but may include the
following:
1. Background
2. The Analysis Report
a. The Problem – clear and concise statement
of what should be addressed
b. The Objective – based on the problem
statement, what are the things that MUST
be done to immediately address the problem;
and what are the WANTS that may help
better address the problem
c. Areas of Consideration – urgency vs.
importance. Some issues may appear to be
urgent, but upon closer examination are
relatively unimportant, while others may be far
more important (relative to solving our
problem) than urgent. Try addressing issues
that are more important than urgent.
Important issues are those that have a
significant effect on:
profitability,
strategic direction of the company, source of
competitive advantage,
morale of the company's employees,
and/orcustomer satisfaction
d. Courses of Action – find out the cause and
effect of the problem/s; it would be difficult
to come up with a corresponding course of
action if the cause to the problem is
unknown. Try including its advantages and
disadvantages. In coming up with courses of
action, consider the 7Ms of management. And
remember to make them realistic. Remember,
it is supposed to solve the present problem, not
generate a new problem.
e. Recommendation – is where decision-making
matters. Amongst the listed courses of action
which one should be implemented.
f. Plan of action – based on the given
recommendation, what will be the next
step? What are the things/processes that
should be done?
g. Potential Problem – is the concern/s that might
happen when the recommendation has been put
into action.
h. Contingent Plan of Action – alternative action to
be done if potential problem arises
3. Exhibits
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