Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Risk Control Strategies: Human Resource Challenges
Nida Mahmud; Shafiq-Ur Rehman; Usama Habib; Zunaira SaqibCase IVEY-9B14C051-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyIn late 2005, Risk Control Strategies, a canine training security company in Islamabad, Pakistan was formed. To ensure that the company was a class apart in security provision, the company founder designed an induction procedure based on employee referrals followed by a thorough two-month training program that encompassed both pure theory and practical dog-handling sessions. The extensive training increased employees’ market value, and they often...Starting at €8.20
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Teaching Executives the Ancient Art of Persuasion
John S. McCallumArticle IVEY-9B14TD05-ELeadership and People ManagementExamining texts by William Lewis Safire and Garth Stein, this article puts forward the value of persuasion and rhetoric for executives. A significant task of executives is persuading people to commit to a corporate plan. Shareholders must be convinced to buy stock. Lenders must commit to loans and debt. Customers need to commit to products. Employees and suppliers must give their best efforts. To get commitments from stakeholders, executives can ...Starting at €8.20
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Management Costs at CHIP: A Way Forward for a Pakistani NGO
Zunaira Saqib; Nabiha KhattakCase IVEY-9B15M046-EStrategyThe three founding members of the Civil Society Human and Institutional Development Programme (CHIP), a Pakistani not-for-profit organization, need to determine how to satisfy management and operational costs. CHIP is a mainstream development organization in Pakistan, with a focus on Human and Institutional Development. CHIP became successful by maintaining high standards of management practices. Such standards require regular financial support t...Starting at €8.20
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Training and Development at RVA: A Nonprofit Organization
Zunaira SaqibCase IVEY-9B12C032-ELeadership and People ManagementThe case is about a non-profit organization located in Manchester, England. As a regional association helping smaller voluntary organizations and groups survive and grow, the organization itself depends on fundraising and donations and runs on project-based funding. The projects normally run for three to five years. Hiring and training new employees every two to three months is common. Due to project timelines, employees leave as soon as they fin...Starting at €8.20
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SYIT: Changing the Corporate Culture
Maria Khan; Khurram Rehman Alvi; Zunaira SaqibCase IVEY-9B18C004-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyOn February 1, 2013, the managing director of software development firm SYIT, sat in his office and gathered his thoughts on his new organization. Based in Islamabad, Pakistan, SYIT was a new entrant in the offshore software development industry. Its managing director had expended months of effort to move the entire project team from his previous employer to his newly formed company, but the real challenge lay ahead. SYIT needed to reduce the cul...Starting at €8.20
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SYIT: Changing the Corporate Culture - Teaching Note
Maria Khan; Khurram Rehman Alvi; Zunaira SaqibTeaching Note IVEY-8B18C004-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for product 9B18C004.Starting at €0.00
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Management Advice from a Dead Socialist
John S. McCallumArticle IVEY-9B16TE02-EStrategyWant an easy way to become a better leader in the age of uncertainty? Read philosophy. It helps remind us about what we should instinctively already know: to never be afraid to ask questions. As Bertrand Russell said: “To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.” Brexit should drive business leaders to review exi...Starting at €8.20
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Followership: The Other Side of Leadership
John S. McCallumArticle IVEY-9B13TE07-ELeadership and People ManagementIf leadership is important to performance, then followership must be too, yet followership is a comparatively neglected concept. This article defines followership as the ability to take direction well, adhere to a program, be part of a team and deliver what is expected. In fact, how well followers follow is almost as important as how well leaders lead. The article identifies eight qualities of followers. 1) Judgment: The key is knowing the differ...Starting at €8.20
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Football Fumbles, Business Blunders and Naked Leadership
John S. McCallumArticle IVEY-9B15TE01-ELeadership and People ManagementBeing a business executive is about leading, competing and winning — which is why sports stories can be valuable reference points for decision making and motivating. Take, for example, the National Football League’s Super Bowl XLIX, which was lost due to a terrible judgement call by the Seattle Seahawks coaches that provides a vivid illustration of something that is critical to business success — the willingness of leaders to listen, and the will...Starting at €8.20
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Neglecting the Motherload of Economic Stimulus
John S. McCallumArticle IVEY-9B19TE02-EStrategyBusiness investment is a gift to growth that keeps on giving, which is why Canada needs to get serious about BI incentives.Starting at €8.20