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Financial Performance of Shell Oman

The writer looks at the performance of Shell in Oman comparing the firm to two other firms; Al Maha and Oman Oil. The ratios exami...

"Lady Lazarus", Performance Art, and Suicide

Suicide and self-negation as performance art are examined in a critical analysis of Sylvia Plath's 1962 poem, "Lady Lazarus" in a ...

Performance and Risk Associated with the London Stock Market

This five page paper examines the performance of the UK stock market between December 2007 and December 2012, using the FTSE 100 i...

Managing Change

There are many different change theories and models. this paper reports on several including Kotter's, Lewin's, Aitken and Higgs, ...

Quality Improvement and Decision Support Systems

Lastly, it will go into detail on the actual design and implementation of such a system, and address the value it might deliver to...

Nursing Home Falls and Performance Improvement

falls. Of course, performance measures must utilize meaningful metrics if the performance they measure is to be of any use to the ...

Quality Improvement and Performance Measurement

what areas of the organization are receiving what amount of funding, as well as how much revenue is generated by each of the areas...

High Employee Performance Rewards by Employers

expected and an expected payment (Bowen, 2004). The turkey and then, the bonus shortly had no effect on performance (Bowen, 2004)....

5 Journal Articles on Performance Appraisal Approaches

2002, p. 54). This article points out the employee may be left more confused if he/she receives excellent ratings from peers but...

Hospital Nurses, Employment Stress, Performance, and Social Support Among Other Nurses

considered one of a number of high stress jobs, and stress is problematic, causing inefficiencies, high staffing turnover rates an...

An Analysis of the Performance and Strategies of the 3i Company

shareholder funds of -?142 million (3i, 2005). The profit that was made included a realised profit form sales of investments of ?9...

Project Teams' Impact Upon Organizational Culture

striving to achieve positions and conditions virtually irrelevant to the needs of the business and the needs of those working in a...

FEMA's 2005 Debacle

1,000 DHS workers, a painfully brief window of opportunity that would have afforded a much more comprehensive rescue response had ...

Assisting Poor Employees and Rewarding Good Ones

sure that their employees "feel that they are an integral part of the organization" (Wiens). "Each individual should understand [...

Performance of HMOs

GNP had increased to 15 percent and had topped the $1 trillion mark for a total of more than $4,000 for every citizen of the count...

Performance Enhancement Drugs and the Risks They Pose

a "six pack" of rippling abs, has led to "a new body image known as muscle dysmorphia, or reverse anorexia, a condition in which m...

Drugs That Enhance Athletic Performance

were barred from the first Olympiad in Greece due to illegal ingestion of animal protein" (p.27). The reason why these drugs are f...

Analysis of McDonald's Performance

Wrapper To Show Fat, Calories, Wall Street Journal, Vol. 246 Issue 88, pB1-B3, 2p This article looks at the operations of McDonald...

Performance and Strategy of Hasbro Inc.

and then absorbing them into the Hasbro portfolio, this is a strategy that has been actively pursued for over the last ten years a...

'Tikkun Olam' and Commitment of Jewish Athletes

World War II after the Japanese bombed military installations in Pearl Harbor. He volunteered for active duty in the Marine Corps...

Oxfam America Financial Analysis

use to achieve the aims of the organizations. However, on the accounts the good causes are all shown as expenses as they take up t...

ESL Instruction and Internet Learning Programs

It must be recognized that ESL and TESOL premises are based in a pedagogical ideology that is the linked to second language instru...

Rewards, Training, Appraisal, and Incentive Rewards in Personnel

"The measures for the balanced scorecard are driven by an organizations mission and strategy -- they are not merely a makeshift co...

Accounting at Three Companies

seen with the balance sheets. The figures for former years of 2002 and 2001 in the Microsoft figures may vary from the last report...

Employee Performance and Circadian Rhythms' Influence

if they are in the middle of a major project. As more and more workers become involve in a twenty-four hour work force, the concer...

United Kingdom Stagecoach Group Transportation Company

(in millions) 1502 1798.7 Net profit 95.8 -500.2 Net profit margin (%) 6.38 -27.81 It is worth noting that this figures include e...

Assets and Equity Return of Dell Computer

on equity. The equity has increased and as such we can see the main reason for the increase in the increase in the net profit. If ...

Delta Airlines' Projection and Financial Analysis

-34.65%. Short term measures to reduce costs in 2004 have incurred additional costs. If we compare this to the industry as a whole...

Adidas and Nike

to internal events, Nike is a growing company and looking to enter more markets. Several areas came online, including Russia and a...

Financial Analysis of Starbucks Corporation

This indicates the level at which direct costs account take up revenue. Gross profit 2001 2002 2003 2004 Revenue (a) 2,649.0 3,28...