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management as far more than just ensuring that there is a diverse workforce, it may be argued that it is aimed at defeating work p...

2005). Especially important when it comes to embracing and implementing a TQM (or Six-Sigma Quality System or ISO 9000 or any othe...

forming and implementing strategy; and the successful examination of the question of what business the company is in. Effect of Co...

a question: "Have we done this before?" (Mobley and Humphreys, 2006; p. 33). Galen and OptiMotors top-producing salesperson...

empowerment and the taking of responsibility. Though it might seem as though these two are at the opposite end of the spectrum, le...

though the value chain rather than directly in the product (Thompson, 2007). As the times are getting more competitive and the bar...

gain from such an accomplishment. The result is that GMs market share has dipped below 20 percent for the first time in its histo...

near Clemson, South Carolina takes its water from a local stream; uses it; treats it; and returns in cleaner than it found it. Ai...

net operations profit compared to the year before where net operating profit was $117, this has now increased to $1,000. The fall...

term Coca-Cola and penned the script that we all know so well today (The Coca-Cola Company, Heritage, 2006). Pembertons first fora...

an 8 percent decrease from the same quarter a year ago (Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, 2008). Company stores were down by 11.1 percent, p...

must still beef up its reward program with a demonstrable return on investment. This involves better customer targeting. T...

television scenes. The concert was a follow up to a highly successful record that was released the previous Christmas with the tra...

to employees on a shop floor. This is a very versatile tool that can be adapted to any company in any industry or be targeted towa...

However, no matter what level of marketing takes place, the message will only remain in place and become the new associations if t...

less to produce, the company will have an advantage afforded by superior profits. To compete in the long term Porter has argued th...

but only in "parts." The authors relate the story of a favorite illustration of inventor Buckminster Fuller who would hold up his...

2002). The emphasis was on the "us" word, and the author was struck by how the rigorous detail to customer service is so strong at...

in the organization. Human resource management only slightly resembles the form it occupied even a generation ago (Bowin and Harv...

a logistics firm offering a range of heavy transports and logistics services. Based in Bahrain the firm specialised in project log...

company has seen 126 consecutive quarters of profitability (Waste Industries USA, Overview, 2006). One of the companys primary st...

disposable incomes to allow them to purchase the product. * The UAE has a highly developed infrastructure for ecommerce, providing...

the team, but for the good of the sport as a business. Obviously, sports is big business, and for all large businesses, adminis...

(i.e., Europe and Japan), competitors are likely to have interest in alliances and be operating with an eye toward globalization. ...

the problem, we can then define the outcome - which is that such a lack has meant huge numbers of returns, complaints about the co...

to place a grocery order online and have it delivered to his home in the metropolitan areas in which Webvan operated. In the days...

alliance in Italy to reduce the transportation costs, and we see the use of agents in Russia and also direct exporting though a di...

the conceptual perspectives of theorists like David Kolb, who asserted the value of understanding experiential learning, and Kolbs...

tells his readers to "undrape," because, to him, no one is guilty of shame or worthy of being discarded (line 145). Everyone and e...

is hard on any company; both on the employees who are cut from the staff and those who are left behind to pick up the slack. Its e...