Reference No: OB0229TECPages: 9Published on: 14, March, 2018
Abstract: In our problems lie our greatest opportunities. Appreciative inquiry creates a dialogic environment that excites imagination. The appreciative conversations that take place one to one, in small groups, and in ever larger circles, serve to build trust and strengthen relationships allowing for the disruption of old patterns of thinking. This ... More
Reference No: OB0086TECPages: 8Published on: 1, January, 1976
Abstract: The note attempts to highlight some of the definitions, theories, functions and the emergence of a leader. The issue whether the leader and leadership is a property of the group or is the characteristic of an individual is discussed. Fourteen functions that a leader can perform and its relationship with ... More
Reference No: OB0114Pages: 10 Published on: 1, January, 1980
Abstract: Dr Shekhar joins Navjivan Enterprises as a Behavioural Scientist in the Personnel Department, and, within a month of joining, resigns and leaves the organization. The factors responsible for his resignation are examined through a series of interviews with Dr Shekhar, and a few others associated with his work. The case ... More
Reference No: OB0123TECPages: 10Published on: 1, January, 1980
Abstract: This article is aimed at discussing role and stress. It gives a brief discussion about role, and discusses in detail stress and its relation to role. The term "role" is defined and its various meanings are brought into focus. The various stress?inducing factors within the individual and also in ... More
Reference No: OB0181TECPages: 7Published on: 1, January, 1990
Abstract: The note discusses the concept of organizational change, characteristics of change and different approaches to managing problems of resistance, control and power while introducing change, The note also discusses competencies and attributes of an internal change agent. ... More
Reference No: BP0163TECPages: 4Published on: 1, January, 1980
Abstract: This note gives the authors' observations, based on their experience of simulated job interviews of forty IIMA students of the Managerial Oral Communication course in the academic year 1979-80. It provides information on how the interviews were structured, the theme of the interviews, preparation made by the students for the ... More
Reference No: OB0189(A)Pages: 22Published on: 4, September, 1996
Abstract: The case documents the process of negotiating the sale of a ship over five months. The case highlights the intricacies of international negotiation involving brokers, and straddling different countries, cultures, languages and time zones. ... More
Reference No: PSG0045Pages: 16Published on: 1, January, 1982
Abstract: The case traces the evolution of a rural health project in a backward district. It describes the reasons for the project team's work in this field and identifies its activities and their interrelationships. Managerial responses in terms of charges that have taken place in the project over time are presented. ... More
Reference No: OB0202Pages: 2Published on: 30, April, 2008
Abstract: The case is in the form of an exchange of letters between the principal of a school and its teachers. The principal has ordered that teachers should spend their twenty minute free time during recess in the school canteen and have tea with the students. The teachers find the order ... More
Reference No: OB0024(C1)Pages: 10 Published on: 1, January, 1964
Abstract: A description of the relationship between the rolled products sales manager and the production manager. Students analyze how the nature of their tasks contributes to their inability to coordinate. ... More
Reference No: COMM0017EXPages: 4Published on: 29, March, 2017
Abstract: The HRD Department at Apogee Ltd had launched a newsletter Apogee Connections in an electronic format about 180 months back. Although meant to be a bimonthly that would initially begin as a quarterly publication, it has so fact had only three issues. The newsletter seems to have not gained much interes ... More
Reference No: OB0231Pages: 12Published on: 8, June, 2018
Abstract: The case describes the dilemma faced by Meera Nair, chief manager at PhoenixWay – a consultancy firm that has successfully grown over the years. There is a silent conflict in the personalities, work styles and attitude of Meera Nair and Mohit Dubey, her contemporary looking after client relationships. Nair finds inconsistencies ... More
Reference No: OB0099TEC(Part I & II)Pages: 5, 4Published on: 1, January, 1976
Abstract: During the process of socialization, an individual acquires his role identity. He learns the boundaries of the role, the "oughts," "musts" and the "shoulds" of the system. In terms of organizations, socialization can be interpreted as an attempt to modify previous behavioural dispositions of a new entrant. Failure to achieve ... More
