leverage

Examples of leverage in the following topics:

• Financial Structures

  • Understand how to qualify and leverage financial incentives through the Small Business Administration (SBA).

• The Importance of Leverage

  • Management roles are defined by the capacity to motivate and leverage human capital in the organization to achieve efficiency in operations.
  • Leverage, therefore, is about getting more out of a system than is put in, resulting in a value-added proposition.
  • Generally, positive incentives far outweigh negative ones in leveraging employees.
  • To gain leverage, managers must ascertain what opportunities will drive the highest level of productivity in their work groups.
  • Describe how general managerial functions gain leverage in the workplace and how this relates to motivation

• Employee Involvement in Decision Making

  • Managers use employee involvement in key decision making not only to leverage employees' unique skills, but also to motivate them, signaling that their impact on the company is meaningful.

• Employee Career-Path Management

  • Human resource development (HRD) is the central framework for the way in which a company leverages an effective human resources department to empower employees with the skills for current and future success.
  • Organizational development must be balanced during this process, ensuring that the company itself is leveraging these evolving human resources to maximum efficiency.

• The Technology Life Cycle

  • At this junction the goal is to see to the rapid growth and distribution of the invention and leverage the competitive advantage of having the newest and most effective product.
  • By leveraging these models, businesses and institutions can exercise some foresight in ascertaining the returns on investment as their technologies mature.

• Considering Company Size

  • Instead, this is an agile framework aimed at leveraging employees in any and all roles to optimize competitiveness.
  • A divisional structure is also a framework best leveraged by larger companies; instead of economies of scale, however, they are in pursuit of economies of scope.

• The Impact of Culture on Business Operations

  • Denison's model has been typically leveraged to diagnose cultural issues within organizations, and focuses on: Mission, Adaptability, Involvement (team dynamics) and Consistency (values, integration).
  • Through leveraging these models, managers can effectively marry culture with their organizations to create positive and synergistic environments inclusive of varying perspectives and backgrounds.

• Introduction to Influence and Negotiation

  • Influence is exercised through leveraging characteristics or information in a way that affects the judgement of those around us.
  • It could also be reasonably interpreted as leveraging logic, personal, or positional resources to alter the perspective of another person/group of people.

• Methods of Excercising Influence

  • Influence is the way in which individuals affect another's beliefs, values, objectives, goals or viewpoints via leveraging personal or professional resources.
  • Appealing to emotion can include leveraging faith/traditions, advertising mediums that pertain to things people have passion for, presentation, creativity, imagination, pity, sex, violence, or any other empathy-based pursuits to garner a desired reaction.

• The Challenge of Globalization

  • This has resulted in large scale interdependence between countries, as specialization (arguably the root cause of globalization) allows for specific regions to leverage their natural resources and abilities to efficiently produce specific products/services with which to trade for another country's specialization.
  • Management is tasked with ensuring these resources are available to employees and properly leveraged to optimize the geographic reach of a business's operations.