8615 (2) Spring 2019
8615 (2) Spring 2019
8615 (2) Spring 2019
Tools
Here is a list of some the tools and the last name of the author next to them:
• Behavioral Systems Engineering Model – M. Malott-2003
Behavior Analysis is a scientific discipline that studies the behavior of individuals. Behavior
Analysis maintains that behavior is the product of individual's interaction with his or her
environment (e.g., physical environment, social environment, genetic environment) and the
history of that interaction. All social organizations are comprised of individuals' behaviors
and their products. Systems Analysis is a scientific discipline that studies the operations of
complex systems such as organizations, and focuses on the interactions between parts of
those systems. A system can be understood as interrelated components or parts that
interact toward a common purpose. Accordingly, the behavior or functioning of one part or
parts affect(s) the behavior or functioning of other parts. In systems analysis, a system is not
considered to be reducible to its parts. Therefore, the parts can only be understood in terms
of their interaction with other parts of the system.
Behavioral Systems Analysis draws upon basic and applied research on behavior and the
research and practice in Organizational Behavior Management, Performance Management
and Systems Analysis. Behavioral Systems Analysis views organizational performance as a
scientific subject matter. From this perspective, an individual's behavior in organizations is a
naturally occurring phenomenon. Moreover, the discovery orderly relations between
behavior and the system in which it occurs gives us opportunities for Behavioral Systems
Applications to improve individual and system performance.
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Total quality management (TQM) consists of organization-wide efforts to install and make a
permanent climate in which an organization continuously improves its ability to deliver
high-quality products and services to customers. While there is no widely agreed-upon
approach, TQM efforts typically draw heavily on the previously developed tools and
techniques of quality control. TQM enjoyed widespread attention during the late 1980s and
early 1990s before being overshadowed by ISO 9000, Lean manufacturing, and Six Sigma.
1. Customer-focused
The customer ultimately determines the level of quality. No matter what an organization
does to foster quality improvement—training employees, integrating quality into the design
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3. Process-centered
A fundamental part of TQM is a focus on process thinking. A process is a series of steps that
take inputs from suppliers (internal or external) and transforms them into outputs that are
delivered to customers (again, either internal or external). The steps required to carry out
the process are defined, and performance measures are continuously monitored in order to
detect unexpected variation.
4. Integrated system
Although an organization may consist of many different functional specialties often
organized into vertically structured departments, it is the horizontal processes
interconnecting these functions that are the focus of TQM.
• Micro-processes add up to larger processes, and all processes aggregate into the
business processes required for defining and implementing strategy. Everyone must
understand the vision, mission, and guiding principles as well as the quality policies,
objectives, and critical processes of the organization. Business performance must be
monitored and communicated continuously.
• An integrated business system may be modeled after the Baldrige National Quality
Program criteria and/or incorporate the ISO 9000 standards. Every organization has a
unique work culture, and it is virtually impossible to achieve excellence in its products
and services unless a good quality culture has been fostered. Thus, an integrated
system connects business improvement elements in an attempt to continually
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6. Continual improvement
A major thrust of TQM is continual process improvement. Continual improvement drives an
organization to be both analytical and creative in finding ways to become more competitive
and more effective at meeting stakeholder expectations.
8. Communications
During times of organizational change, as well as part of day-to-day operation, effective
communications plays a large part in maintaining morale and in motivating employees at all
levels. Communications involve strategies, method, and timeliness.
4. Coaches and builds a team, so that it is more effective at achieving the vision.
Leadership brings together the skills needed to do these things. We'll look at each element
in more detail.
ISO 9001 is underpinned by the 8 Principles of Quality Management. They’ve been the
guiding principles for the most popular quality standard; ISO 9001. But they’re also useful
resources for any management professionals who want to implement or improve their
existing quality management programme.
Just as you’d expect, customer focus is the first principle: just where it should be. It covers
both customer needs and customer service. It stresses that a business should understand
their customers, what they need and when, whilst trying to meet, but preferably exceed
customers’ expectations.
As a result, customer loyalty increases, revenue rises and waste reduces as the businesses
ability to spot new customer opportunities and satisfy them improves. More effective
processes result in improved customer satisfaction.
PRINCIPLE 2: LEADERSHIP
Without clear and strong leadership, a business flounders. Principle 2, is concerned with the
direction of the organisation. The business should have clear goals & objectives, and its
employees actively involved in achieving those targets.
The benefits are better employee engagement and increased motivation to satisfy customer
needs. Research shows, if employees are kept ‘in the loop’ and understand the business
vision they’ll be more productive. This principle seeks to rectify employees complaints about
‘lack of communication’.
An organisation is nothing without its staff whether part-time, full-time in house or out-
sourced. It’s their abilities that maximised to achieve business success.
Employee motivation and increased innovation and the benefits here. When people feel
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valued, they’ll work to their maximum potential and contribute ideas. Principle 3 emphasises
the importance of making employees responsible and accountable for their actions.
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Q.3 Discuss in detail ‘individual level of change’ and its relevant approaches. (20)
Answer:
Individual sources of resistance towards a change exist in the basic human tenets or
characteristics and are influenced by the differences in perception, personal background,
needs or personality-related differences. It is important to understand those triggering
factors or issues which refrain individuals from endorsing change or extending their support
and cooperation towards any change initiatives at an organizational level.
Criticizing the individuals or the teams for not being supportive in the stages of transition or
compelling them cannot be an effective solution for implementing change smoothly or in a
hassle free manner.
The resistance towards change at an individual level can be due to various reasons:
Whether they appreciate the overall end product of change and it’s outcome on
them
What will be the possible cost change on the individual in terms of potential risks
involved, pressure to develop new competencies and disruptions
The following factors explain why individuals may pose resistance towards change:
Habits: We individuals are influenced by our habits in our ways of working and
accept or reject a change depending upon the effect which a change may have on
the existing habits of the individuals. For example, change in the office location
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might be subjected to resistance from the individuals as this might compel them to
change their existing life routine and create a lot of difficulties in adjustment or
coping with the schedule. The individuals might have to drive a longer way for
reaching their office, or start early from home for reaching their office in time, etc.
Fear of the Unseen and Unknown Future: Individuals develop inertia towards the
change due to the fear of unknown or uncertainties in the future. This can be tackled
through effective communication with the participants of change and making people
aware of the positives of change and the course of action which individuals are
expected to follow to cope with the changing requirements successfully.
Fear of Losing Something Really Valuable: Any form of threat to personal security
or financial security or threat to the health of the individuals may lead to fear of
losing something precious as a result of the implementation of change.
Selective Processing of Information: It can be considered as a filtering process in
which the individuals perceive or make judgments by gathering selective information
which is greatly influenced by their personal background, attitude, personal biases or
prejudices, etc. If an individual maintains a negative attitude towards any kind of
change, then they are having a usual tendency of looking at the negativities
associated with the change and involve all the positive aspects of it.
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A Rigid Belief that change cannot bring about any facilitating change in the
organization and it only involves the pain and threats to the individuals.
Now, we will look into the organizational factors which result in resistance to change.
Ignoring all the interconnected factors which require change or lack of clarity in
understanding the ground realities.
Inertia from the Groups: Groups may resist change because just like individuals,
groups equally follow set behavioural patterns, norms or culture and as a result of
change the groups might have to change their existing ways of conduct or
behaviour.
Possible threats to Power, Resources or Expertise can also result in resistance towards
an organization level change. Any kind of devolution of power or transfer of
resources from some agency or group to some other agency or a group will
definitely lead to a feeling of fear or inertia towards a change initiative.
In the end, it can be concluded that any kind of change will surely involve heavy resistance
at the individual as well as organizational level. But through effective communication during
all stages and consulting, desirable outcomes can be ensured by breaking all the possible
barriers or resistances towards a change. What is more important is identifying the main
source of resistance and accordingly developing action plans for dealing with it.
For minimizing the resistance towards the change employee participation and involvement in
the overall process plays a crucial role in building acceptability and seeking the cooperation of
approach and
complete involvement of all the stakeholders, play a decisive role in
implementing strategic decisions and determining the success of change.
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Answer:
Learn the correct way to use objectives when creating lesson plans, with this
article of advice. New teachers will find this resource particularly valuable as the
article explains and demonstrates how your objectives are your “road map” of
your lesson. A well-planned lesson with objectives will lead to successful learning
in your classroom. The crux of a good lesson plan is its objectives. Using a
roadmap analogy, getting to your final destination (Carbondale, Colorado, for
example) is your objective. In a lesson plan, the final destination (identifying
iambic pentameter or listing important events in the life of Benjamin Franklin, for
example) for your students is the objective(s) of the lesson. To take the analogy
one step further, objectives are what drive a lesson. They power it forward. Most
important, everything you do in a lesson must be tied to one or more objectives.
Every activity, every instructional devise, every teaching resource, and every
means of evaluation and assessment must be linked to the lesson’s objective(s).
Writing good objectives will be challenging at first. However, everything in the
lesson must revolve around the objectives; thus, you must construct them with
care and attention to detail. A well-crafted objective has two components:
to realize Lee’s defeat at Gettysburg). Action verbs in your objectives help you
assess students and be sure they know or can do what you taught them. These are
just a few sample verbs (among hundreds possible).
Applications
There are three fundamental applications where WBM tools can provide a
significant benefit: individual device configuration and management, Web
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For example, a staff member out on the manufacturing floor troubleshooting the
network may need to access a particular management application. Through a Web
browser running on any convenient PC or laptop computer, the technician can
access the necessary application and continue the troubleshooting process. This
reduces the time and effort to do the job.
submit an online trouble ticket and follow it through to resolution. The corporate
intranet offers a simple, effective method for distributing this type of information
to people who do not normally have ready access to traditional management
systems.
Web-
Web-Based Management Approaches
There are two basic strategies for implementing WBM: the proxy solution and the
embedded approach. While these methodologies can be used in combination, each
has advantages.
Enterprise networks can make use of both proxy-based and embedded Web
server capabilities. Large organizations can avail themselves of the enterprise-
wide monitoring and management capabilities that are only provided with the
proxy solution. The proxy solution can also manage SNMP-only devices. In
conjunction with proxy-based servers, large corporations could also benefit from
embedded Web servers because of their simple set-up requirements and their
ability to manage new devices.
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The embedded Web server approach is especially well suited for managing
small branch offices. These networks are relatively simple and typically do not
require powerful management systems or need enterprise-wide views. Users at
these remote locations usually are not familiar with device-control and network
procedures. Embedded Web servers allow these users to become operational
quickly with minimal instruction. Although the plug-and-play nature of Web-
based devices simplifies installation and minimizes troubleshooting, they do not
necessarily limit device-level capabilities.
Components of WBM
CGI is not a language, but a protocol used to access database information. For
example, a WBM application may need to display the current number of
incomplete work orders. This data could be stored in the database of a proxy
workstation. A CGI application can be used to query the database and to format
an HTML page on-the-fly to display the information.
Java applets, which can be called from either a proxy or embedded Web
server, can be used to:
■ Display real-time data that can be updated from polling and traps
Because Java can produce applications that are portable across UNIX, Windows,
and other environments, a JVM can be embedded in an end device and the device
agent can then execute Java code. Code can be distributed dynamically, ported
from a management proxy to devices, and ported between devices or components
within a device.
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The use of Java within an embedded agent can increase management capabilities
by enforcing policy-based management or security rules. For example, assume an
administrator wants to enable remote network access between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00
p.m. Traditional methods, such as SNMP sets, have been used to enforce such
restrictions but at the cost of increasing network traffic and with the difficulty of
scaling to handle thousands of devices. While a device-resident agent could
perform this function, agent releases are typically infrequent. An embedded agent
with a JVM could independently create the scheduling routine and dynamically
distribute the policy to restricted devices, eliminating the need for an agent
release.
Standards
There are several standards efforts underway that attempt to address the
functionality, interoperability, security, and performance issues of Web-based
management. What makes standards so difficult to achieve is that the current
proposals are vendor biased. If the differing views of vendors can be reconciled
and a single standard agreed to, the Web browser may emerge as the key building
block of tomorrow’s network management console.
Last Word
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The advent of intranets that provide enterprise-wide data has spawned two main
Web-based management approaches: the proxy Web server method and the
embedded Web server approach. While both methods can be used together,
generally the proxy method is more useful for larger enterprises that want to
complement their workstation-based management systems. The embedded server
method is better suited for small groups that do not need the complex functions
offered by the first method.