The General Dynamics Company

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This paper explains that the company General Dynamics was founded to generate value meant for shareholders through the use of industrial dynamics by harnessing technology which captures motion, energy, potential and development. The author points out that the strength of the company emanates from the expertise of the core technologies, which form the markets addressed, and the accurate implementation of the management's vision for getting the maximum return by fulfilling the requirements of the customer, present and in the future. The paper concludes that strategic planning is the sole path in which a top management impact the manner in which the organization functions; therefore, in an organization like General Dynamics, the planning process undergoes constant improvement, which is executed continually at the tactical stage across the entire company.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Analysis
International Business
Legal, Ethical and Social Responsibilities
Planning to include Strategic Management
Operating Management and Plans
Organizing work and Structure
Work Teams Utilization
Staffing
Employee and Management Development
Motivating Employees
Leading
Conflict Management and Stress
Managing Change
Controlling
Appraising and Rewarding
Operations Control
Conclusion

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"Employee recognition is not a just a pretty gesture to do for people. Employee recognition constitutes a communication instrument which strengthens and rewards the most crucial results people build for the business. When people are recognized effectively, there is a strengthening of the preferred means of recognition, the action and behaviors which is most often desired to be repeated. An efficient employee recognition system is simple, instantaneous and powerfully reinforcing. When the employee recognition processes is considered, this is equally powerful for the organization as well as the employee."

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