(DeLong, & Ager, 2005) Bill Bailey’s concerns regarding the merger indicate that he feels that the merger would financially benefit the orchestra much more than it would benefit the opera. Bill may be able to successfully avoid the merger if he were to concentrate on illustrating the negative equity that the merger would bring to the opera and also on the fact that the opera really doesn’t need the orchestra in order to succeed. Because of this perceived inequality in regards to the merger outcome, Adams’s Equity Theory of Motivation would be a good choice to oppose the merger. “Defined generally, equity theory is a model of motivation that explains how people strive for fairness and justice in social exchanges or give- and- take relationships. As a process theory of motivation, equity theory explains how an individual’s motivation to behave in a certain way is fueled by feelings of inequity or a lack of justice, (Kinicki, & Kreitner, 2010) The opera is financially stable, has a sizable endowment fund, and has successfully expanded the number of its annual performances from three to four.
The USO does not have this flexibility and could not operate within their current successful business model. Another concern for Mr. Bailey was that the UOC would not maintain is identity if merged with the USO. The possibility of the UOC becoming a tier-one arts organization with the merger was the only positive possibility initially realized and this would need to out whey the initial concerns (DeLong, 2005). Mr. Bailey could use content theories of motivation to oppose the merger based on his initial reaction to the idea of a merger. Content theories are based on concept that motivation is primarily based on a need.
While he has a good reputation and ideas for evolving the strategic direction of the theater, I believe they are self-centered in their motivation and would put the theater in the red for longer than Mr. Phillips would be willing to stay. I get the impression that if the board is unwilling to fully support the vision of Mr. Phillips, he will want to look for greener pastures. The investment to realize the “Phillips plan” would be huge and the theater would be taking all the risk if Phillips was not willing to make a commitment to the theater. He is known to have had a “stormy” relationship with the Stratford and is looking to get out of his contract with them if they don’t show “more evidence of support for his ambition”. Robin Phillips is essentially trying to use Theater London as a stepping stone to further build his reputation and is not interested in the position if he doesn’t get the money and full autonomy he is looking for, nor does he seem particularly committed to the long term welfare of the theater.
1. How would you define “Frozen Preferences” and what is the impact of this concept on strategy formulation, alternative analysis and recommendation? • Managers don’t like to make major strategic changes once decisions have been made (except in the case of overwhelming evidence) as they will look unprepared and ineffective and their creditability is damaged • Frozen preferences o Management has made a decision and over time analysis shows that their decision may not be the best choice o However they feel compelled to maintain their current strategy even if it is not the best course of action. • As management preferences becomes a larger part of the organization (personnel changes, budgets etc), it becomes more and more difficult to change direction. o A tendency to avoid reversing changes even if it was not the best choice o In reality, past expenditures are sunk costs and the organization should use a clean slate to look at new choices, but to the manager, this will come at great personal loss.
The Imperial secretary Sang Hongyang declares “abolition of these measures is not expedient.” This statement means that Legalists believe the policies are necessary to keep the empire running and that it is not practical to abolish them, for then the treasuries would be depleted and funding for defense for the soldiers would be obsolete. Then he goes on to explain how “equitable marketing” was established and how it contributes to their country. Before this system, the people would send respective products as tributes to support the country, but the Legalists think that people are untrustworthy and should be governed by laws to force them to do good. They came up with this set of laws, i.e. setting up transportation offices, forcing the people to send their goods to these places because the government did not trust the quality of the products sent from the people.
On the contrary this shows that the disputes between these factions may imply that the King was weak and not in control thus significantly threatening the stability of government . However the rivalry between factions could not be seen as an significant threat to Henrys government because a more important factor jeopardised the stability of the government. Foreign Policy dominates during the last years of Henrys VIIs reign. The difficulties in Scotland contributed greatly to financial complications thus effecting the stability of the government and shadowing the rivalry between reformist and conservatives which would suggest that the threat was not major. Henry was exposed to the pull of the factions but a new aristocratic approach to the government strengthened the conservative faction however with the arrest of Duke of Norfolk (1547) and the dismissal of Gardiner from the Privy Chamber the reformists gained the much needed advantage .
Unintended effects/consequences of the policy (if not yet in effect,, what might they be)? An obvious unintended effect of regulating mental health parity could result in an employers’ option to stop providing health insurance to their employees altogether if they believe the additional two to three percent premium cost is too high. “One destructive consequence of the competitive approach (in a market based economy) tends to be that deprived groups perceive each other as threats to their respective, narrowly defined, interests, and do not realize that the real threat to their joint interests is the principle of inequity which pervades the entire structure and the fabric of society” (Gil, 1990. pp. 189). Another unintended consequence of this mental health parity bill could be blatant discriminatory hiring and firing practices of people with known mental health
This refusal to agree with each other and frequent 'slating' of the decisions was not the appropriate conditions for a democracy, as many people would be unhappy for a majority of proposed arrangements. It is argued that an autocracy worked better in this situation as one person was able to finalise decisions, avoiding unecessary conflicts in the Reichstag. Therefore, almost by default, Germany appeared to work as a democratic system. The year 1908 marked the event of The Hottentot Election. The Centre Party joined the SPD in voting down government plans for a railway that would ruin the lives of the colonists that had settled down in the way.
Larkin points out a problem and offers a solution but does not defend it because it is an insolvable problem and does not have a solution. His solution would end mankind. However, in offering this completely insane solution he is saying that there is no solution to this problem and that people are just going to have to live with their faults. Swift creates an illogical plan to solve the economic problems of Ireland. He is also to use valid arguments to defend it.
Disadvantage: * Technical evaluation after price negotiation causes an unfair price competition during auction between high quality suppliers and low quality suppliers. Suppliers with low quality may have lower cost structure comparing to high quality suppliers. Without setting the quality standard before the auction, it is likely that the auction winner may not be able to meet Casturn’s technical evaluation. * The cross-function time at step 5 have veto power. Even though this practice reduces the chance of making a bad re-sourcing decision, it wastes lots of time and energy from CMC and engineer team, and may discourage nominated supplier.