I have just been nominated as the President of my Sorority and in the Sorority we do a lot of philanthropy work. I can help raise a lot of money but im not sure who to help out. I would prefer to help out smaller organizations, ones that really need help. I have a big heart and want to do some good this year. Any suggestions?

http://www.aidingorphanages.com lists projects that need to be completed for orphans worldwide. You can choose the project that best suits you. The projects that need to completed are both big and small.

this depends on ur interest.both of them r ok.

Please also highlite that what is meant by ‘Leadership Style’ and ‘Employee Motivation’

Leadership style influence level of motivation. However, throughout a lifetime, man’s motivation is influenced by changing ambitions and/or leadership style he works under.
A person’s motivation is a combination of desire and energy directed at achieving a goal. Influencing someone’s motivation means getting them to want to do what you know must be done.
in the words of Harry Truman:-
"Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better"

Can any ony Identify both a goal and a strategy for an organization.

A goal is your intended result, where as the strategy is the method in which you attempt to achieve that goal.

For example, say my division’s sales goal was $11 million versus a previous year goal of $10 million (a 10% increase). Our strategies for that $1m in increased sales would be increasing sales through existing customers by X amount, finding new customer sales of X amount, losing some sales of X amount due to the economic conditions, and maybe X amount of sales from a new product or redesigned products. All those X’s would net to the $1m.

Most of the time we would show this comparison in a waterfall chart and give examples of our marketing and sales programs that make up the strategy. A direct mail program to existing customers showing how much better we are than our competitors might be the underlying strategy combined with another one courting new customers showing how great our products and services are.

A) primary
B) secondary
C) tertiary
D) quaternary
E) all of the above

E) all of the above

Due to communication problem things have been going wrong in my father’s Organization.
the morale of employees is all time low, most of the people are appling for new job. Sickness records are extremely high, Due to staff attitude, supervisors are frustrated that they can not pass information upward, only recieve from high.
So, communication between department section is very poor, the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing.

Write different methods of communication available. And explain in 2000 words how each of these could be used effectively within the organization to solve the problems being experienced.

You may not know for sure that the problem is in communication, since there could be a culture of finger pointing, a sense that higher ups indulge in unfair practices.

It is normal that top managers direct lower levels what to do, are not interested in advice from below. Only if top managers approve of such a plan, a company can get a score card for top leadership, which has statistics on how the lower echelons are doing.

It can have things like percentage scrap this week, volume of customer returns, and reasons given most often.

There can also be a suggestion box for written improvements.

Some companies send an annual survey to their customers asking that we be rated for how good we doing in pricing, speed of delivery, quality, responsiveness, etc. list any major complaints.

The results then go to people who manage what we do for that customer (that did a return) then we have a meeting to review how we doing to improve the score.

There is a concept of total quality management, with tools like ISO 9000, that work towards identifying what ought to be improved, measuring how we doing, making one improvement at a time, continue the measurement to make sure we don’t back slide. It is heavily dependent on written documentation that the standards are being attained.

Within a company, there are often many methods of communication that different people have different comfort levels with. Many, but not all the workers may have connection to a computer system that supports various messaging. You trying to do your job, and you interrupted by messages. That does not make for an efficient work force.

Thus if the messages come through some instant message approach, through phone calls, PA system, there can be an excess of interruptions that are not good for the overall worker productivity.

e-mail is better … people not have to check it when it arrives, check it occasionally … but different people have different skill levels when it comes to being concise yet all relevant details

Most companies have periodic meetings. During the meeting nothing else in the company is getting done, so they need to be occasional, like once a week or so. Usually they held in person in a conference room, sometimes have an agenda, sometimes a discussion leader, almost always a limited number of topics to be resolved. There are ways to have meetings over speaker phones, video conferencing, but generally these not as satisfactory as in person.

Whatever record keeping system is being used, if it is well integrated, and the people trained in its use, then whatever info needs to go from one department to another, gets there through the system.

I have a murphyism about rules regulations and systems in any corporate organization.They are the glue that ensures the quality of the cooperative communication of the work force team.

If there are not enough rules, not good systems, then everyone is doing their own things, flying off in all directions, no team effort. Not enough glue.

Too much glue, and the organization is all gummed up, stuck on rules, instead of focused on working effectively on joint team efforts.

The quality of the rules, to help foment cooperation, without the too much or too little, that has to do with good management guiding the rule making, and training the staff in whatever the needs of the organization.

What is an example of a situation in which an organization would use a push strategy? What is an example of a situation in which an organization would use a pull strategy?

there’s is no particular situation to use push or pull strategies in black and white.

But marketers use push strategies in the early periods of a new product launch, new competitor entrance, sales declining due to lack of interest of the product, to motivate retailers and their sales force to sell the product

when the demand is decreasing within consumers we can use pull strategies. at sales declining in a short period of time… the options are advertising, sales promotion towards the consumers, draws competition

managers* and receive dividends according to the number of shares they own? What is this called?

A Corporation

lets assume you have say..100 members in your org. and you have to send them info from say "word", Excel, and power point. You have the newest and latest software in a powerful machine with Vista Ultra. You decide to make that info known by placing it on a disc so you can distribute it to the other members.
You use the Vista built in software to create the DVD disc.
Here’s the problem:
NOT EVERY ONE may have the same equipment or programs! Many of your org. members may have older programs that will not recognize the newest Word, Excel, or Power Point! Some may not have a DVD reader, or Vista Ultra!
Its best that you make your info available in the format that the majority can read! Thats why it’s important for a "management" staff set up parameters so that All members can get the info promptly without having to incur major expenses! I know about this as I belong to a national Org. and our National Educational Officer has sent out numirus disc most of us cant read!

I work with retail sales databases (Access, SAS, DBF, Excel) and GIS data. I realize I would be much more efficient if I adhered to a conventional method of directory organization. Any suggestions on where to start?

Hi, you might want to look at Database Normalisation.

Its a process to make your databases more efficient and reduce redundant data.

Many tutorials on the net, I had a great one bookmarked but its down at the moment.

Bookmark this link and try in the future or just search for other tutorials http://phlonx.com/resources/nf3/