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Performance, Efficiency, and Port Operations

opened up to whatever ship happened by (Hill, 1991). The advent of container shipping has brought about the need for closer conta...

Windows LINUX and UNIX Implementations

all other services), packet filtering, file system security, and security monitoring. Each of these topics is addressed below. ...

Strategic Audit Analysis of Wal Mart

and grocery stores and 540 Sams Club warehouse stores (Biesada, 2004). Despite the sluggish economy, Wal-Mart realized a 4.8 perce...

Nike Strategic Analysis

In eleven pages Nike is examines in an analysis of its strategies and financial performance with IFE, EFE matrices and a SWOT anal...

Dallas and Fort Worth's 4 Live Musical Performances

to consume him. The audience could not help but to be drawn into his world for a while. Audience/Atmosphere The audience itself...

Literature Review of Athletes and Carbohydrates

Yet literature on the idea of carbohydrates and the athlete continues to be mixed, especially with the recent introduction of low-...

Investment in Delta Airlines Assessment

difficulties, the 2001 figures were poor, the operating margin was -11.5% and the 2002 figure was a lower loss at -9.8% the twelve...

History and Financial Performance of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co.

2004). Operations also take place with the core brand name of A & P, in Canada operations take place under the name Dominion In Mi...

Teen Drug Use and Its Effects

people 21 and older * Underage drinking costs the United States more than $58 billion every year - enough to buy every public scho...

Business History and Management

to improve its efficiency in steel making, or rather in the scheduling of steel making. The company maintained its own mines for ...

8 Points of a Productivity Audit

take form. During necessary organizational strategy revisions, the mission statement is one of the first documents addressed; by ...

Borealis String Quartet Concert Report

constantly surprising the listener with Beethovens powers of invention and resourcefulness (Steinberg, 1994). Interestingly, bef...

Waltham Motors Division Performance

is directly related to the number of units it produces. In his report, the accountant takes great pride in pointing out that Walt...

Task Management Monitoring and Standards

need to be made by reference to all the requirements of the end product,. For example, looking at an IT product and the use of inf...

Financial Performance of Delta Airlines from 1998 through 2002

percentage. This is the level of revenue that remains when all of the direct costs for producing the goods or services are deducte...

Traditional Education versus Distance or Online Education

education (The Higher Learning Commission, 2003; Online Education Resources, n.d.). The purpose of accreditation is to assure pro...

Art and Fashion Crossover Phenomenon of Hussein Chalayan

a small area of this, with the arrangement of colours and textures. However, we are arguing that the cross over may be greater tha...

Contemporary Organization and Human Resource Management

development. While many employees join a company with some very good skills (which is why they were hired for a particular job), m...

Examination of DCDW Corp.

buying direct from the manufacturers. The company operates with two main sectors, the corporate sectors, any consumer sales will b...

Investment Portfolio Development

the market operates. The market place works on a system of expectation and well as logical influences. If it is believed by a brok...

Sources of Opportunities and Their Implications on New Product Performance in the Emerging Internet Connectivity Market Methods' Critique

are formed, the firm will achieve better new product performance in the subsequent year" (Soh, 2000; p. 16); 4.. "The impact o...

Religious Rituals of Judaism and Christianity

offers the marriage contract, and the woman accepts: this is a contractual obligation which can only be broken by death or divorce...

Operations Management and Small Business

is costly and too little results in lost sales and a decline in customer goodwill. It is not easy to calculate the amount of inven...

Classrooms That Are Graded versus Nongraded

ideas concerning education. Rousseaus thoughts were very different. Rather then seeing the mind of the child as a blank slate, Ro...

Sustainability Polices In Europe - A Conclusion

terms of the strategies that support sustainability. For example, since 2000 energy intensity has decreased by 1% per annum in the...

Addressing Employee's Maslovian Hierarchy of Needs

not possible to adequately meet the "higher" categories of needs until those in the "lower" categories are met. Moving level by ...

Leadership Skills and Community College President Performance - A Research Proposal

That said, a few quality studies have been carried out to attempt to isolate which particular leadership skills have the most impa...

The Mean As A Measure Of Central Tendency

population, however there is the potential for error in a sample mean (Curwin and Slater, 2003). By looking at the way that thi...

Workplace Commitment and Transformational Leadership

A typical response laments the lack of cohesion and "togetherness" in a workplace that results from estrangement from leadership. ...

Systems of Performance Management

elements that must be present in any performance management system is "planning"; work must be effectively planned out such that p...