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be effective motivators, but they may help to prevent dissatisfaction, and the higher order needs, which start with the need for r...

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

complimentary goods. Jobs may be created as well as eliminated and others may be radically altered. These may lead to increased s...

decentralizing and creating a more autonomous operation during the years before Nardelli took over Home Depot. He was doing the op...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

processes. There are many influences on the way the process takes place, all of which will have an impact on the financial managem...

had not gone to a university but have a wealth of experience and will likely get a job if they have a proven track record. Today, ...

rather than a windows framework of the system. Listening to the users during the development may also have allowed the out of date...

the management of costs. The movement of jobs to developing countries is one way that costs have been decreased, this was until re...

concern for [team members] individual needs and feelings" (Nemiro, 2004; p. 113), and by extension expecting individual team membe...

dependent upon the abilities of those who undertake it to overcome any obstacles found along the way. In a sense, this is obvious,...

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

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

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

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

a change within a health organization to reduce the costs associated with the provision of an essential resource; oxygen, without ...

of the firm. Schechter and Sander (2002) extend a well used business analogy which has been utilized by authors such as Mi...

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

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

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

This paper discusses several related topics. The first is the difference between leadership and management and includes a report o...

all can be outlined and appreciated. For example, if this is a project for a new supermarket it may include all elements from the ...

for compliance with equality legislation; where individuals are expected to blend in to the employee community as a whole (Thomas ...

director (the managers boss) says no. This creates resentment from the senior line managers point of view, who is convinced that t...