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The Strategic Use of Human Resources

in order to ensure that they have the resources needed in the way that they undertake workforce planning (Hansen, 2008). These are...

MIDLIFE CRISIS IS NOT A FALLACY

Fear of aging, loss of independence and being looked at as old and doddering all preys upon the mind and can instigate the need to...

The Uninsured in America: A Crisis in the Making

it affect a massive percentage of the American population and is, quite literally, often a matter of life and death. The latest st...

Adversity Management and the Case of John Hancock

seen as undermining work-place equality (Rijamampianina and Carmichael, 2005). Therefore, managing diversity has to be undertaken ...

Johnson & Johnson - Saving the Company

have destroyed the company. Instead, it handled the matter so well that it has become a legendary case study in how to respond wel...

WISDOM MANAGEMENT, KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND DIFFERENCES

In recent decades, much has been made about the learning organization, knowledge workers and the importance of knowledge managemen...

Operations of Major Airline

37th consecutive year of profitability (Southwest Airlines, Fact Sheet, 2010). Meanwhile, other airlines are struggling. Net incom...

Implementing Performance Management within an Organization

definition is given in Dransfield (2000), which states that performance management "is a process which is designed to improve orga...

A STUDY OF CLASSICAL AND CONTINGENCY MANAGEMENT THEORIES

organization being vertical, or hierarchical. Decisions are made by executives, while employees comply with those decisions, under...

Implementing Performance Management

process needs to be identified which incorporates individual as well as group and organisational performance management. 2. Perf...

Nullification Crisis Conflict (1828-1832): Was There a Winner?

because of the tariff, the British would be purchasing less of the Souths most important cash export - cotton. This ignited alrea...

The Relevance of Maintenance and Management of Facilities in Strategizing

The value and influence of maintenance and the management of facilities is often overlooked when examining the way that strategizi...

Project Management and the Influence of Organizational Politics

definition of organizational politics. The concept of politics is present in all aspects of everyday life, Aristotle argued that t...

Diversity Management - Theory and Practice

Konrad (et al., 2005), argue workforce diversity is a recognition of differences within the employee base, some of which may be vi...

Disaster Planning and Response

The writer reviews the document “Dimensions of Crisis Impacts: Humanitarian Needs by 2015” and considers some of the potential pro...

TOYOTA MOTOR CORP: ACCELERATION TO CRISIS

whether it has done well in handling the issue. Though Toyota has taken some important steps to ensure that quality can be built b...

Differences Between Leadership and Management

he said that management is about "coping with complexity [while] leadership is about coping with change" (Bencivenga, 2002). Tea...

A University Strives for Quality

There are seven categories in the criteria for this Award. These are: leadership, strategic planning, focus on customers and the m...

SOCIAL IMPACT OF THE HOUSING CRISIS

that this particular type of crisis doesnt happen again. As with anything along this magnitude, we cant put the blame on just the ...

Managing Knowledge in Schools

tacit knowledge internalizes it. Tacit knowledge lead to explicit concepts through things like metaphors, models, analogies or fro...

Analysis Large Corporation in India

school in the 1880s, 1920s and 1940s (Barnett 2010). This school emphasizes efficiency (Barnett 2010). The behavioral school emerg...

LABOR RELATIONS AND HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

workforce," Abbot notes (p. 63). Basically, HRM activities are strategically oriented to the organizations goals and objectives an...

Sales Management

are many ways to motivate a sales force. Carmichael (2009) suggests: set clear expectations which tells the people exactly what is...

HRM as a Self Descriptive Term

way of performing a task, this was seen in the well known studies at Bethlehem Steel works, it was also seen in the work of Frank ...

Why Did the Credit Crunch Happen?

Greenspan to Bill Gates, while the view that a non-Greenspan that he has a role to play in creating the financial crisis, the asso...

The Benefit of Formalized Processes in an Organization

finance management, human resource management and IT processes. The value and advantages of formalizing and documenting those proc...

JIT, TQM, Quality

Companies who adopt JIT usually gain all of these benefits, which gives them a competitive advantage. Adopting the JIT philosoph...

Managing Conflict in Brazil

only on getting what they want; this is a win-lose situation; accommodation where each person places the needs and wants of the ot...

Human Resource Management at a Telecommunications Company

high level of reliance on technical skills of relatively few employees as well as services standards, at both customer contact poi...

Exchange Rate Issues

takes place, theoretically having a potential impact on creating a point of payments equilibrium. As the currency weakens the pric...