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A T.A. Stearns' Virtual Team

Two of the programmers considered entering the technique as an employee suggestion, for which the company pays cash awards. The v...

Analyzing the Works of Michael Porter

Hence, Porter makes a good point in that it is true that even with a superior management paradigm, profitability becomes illusive....

Competition in the Greek Shipping Market

on a life of its own. Greece has long been a maritime nation. The industry was well established long before the current...

African American Women and Breast Cancer

be reviewed closely and research which specifically targets African American women is essential. Interestingly enough, the "numbe...

Eastern versus Western Management

government sent a team to Japan following World War II as a part of reconstruction with the aim of facilitating Japanese manufactu...

Healthcare Industry Managers and Leaders

will become less common. Teams are making more decisions. This serves to replace the increasing importance on mentoring within t...

Manufacturing and Strategic Planning

are reached. One is that there are long lasting Tayloristic production politics which creates an SCC that significantly constrain...

Positive Customer Outcomes and HRM

might be that mom and pop shops have been replaced by Wal Marts. While that is true, Wal Mart prides itself on excellent customer ...

Operations Management and the Saturn Corporation

established in 1991, is a subsidiary of General Motors Corporation (Saturn Corporation, About, 2002). GM actually introduced the b...

Workplace Absenteeism Management

absenteeism, the need for management and control and will make recommendations as to how a company can save itself from the costly...

Decision Support Systems and Management Information Systems Compared

vacation time, benefits accrued and other information is updated according to how the pay period has affected them; then the syste...

Economics and the Influence of Management

Greater production is more profitable only if the product manufactured is also sold, however. Of course companies cannot continue...

Japan and Germany's Human Resource Management Policies

right to reward tenacity over productivity and performance. Right or not, pay based on seniority was the standard in each of the ...

NPOs and Peter Drucker

exceptions, for instance small local organizations do jobs nobody else will do or can do (Gendron, 1996). One such organization de...

Management, Labor, and Strikes

$6.00 per week (Columbia Encyclopedia, 2004). In 1806, the Philadelphias Journeymen Cordwainers union called a strike, however, th...

The 'Panama Affair' and Central America Involvement of the United States' Military

priority in U.S. foreign policy nor one which will occupy our immediate future. To fortify his contention, Lozado notes the speed...

Comparative Analysis of Military Power's Role Throughout History

all-hearing media leech that hovers over some of the most vital - yet dangerous - decision-making processes, broadcasting to the w...

Time Management and Critical Care Nursing

achieved that the critical care nurse may address the bio-psycho-social implications of the event (Alfafara and Hedges, 1996). Fur...

Federal Express Total Quality Management Case Study

their way of life: 1. The level of customer satisfaction increases and satisfied customers bring more business, which ensures the ...

Nursing and the Management of Time

reveal a steady growth in the number of nurses joining unions due to discontent" (Blankenheim 2001, p. 13). They are doing so to l...

An Organization's Successful Change Example

not in terms of the operations or technical change, but that of the attitudes of management, is that the changing environment woul...

Introduction to Operations Management Approaches

used is JIT. The Just-in-Time (JIT) philosophy that emerged in the 1970s has been shown to be an effective strategy to minimize ...

Best Practices in Risk Management and eBusiness Law

screen out the addresses of re-shippers, but cyber thieves have responded by recruiting" (Voyles, 2003; p. PG) others to use their...

Manager Memo and Letter from an Unhappy Trade Show Meeting Attendee

of firm commitments we had at the time that we had to decide on the venue. It appears that attendees are either unable or unwilli...

Main Features of the Windows XP Operating System

one of its latest and more phenomenal accomplishments. Its development, of course, is linked to the development of Windows as a w...

Self Learning and Organizational Learning

want to survive and thrive in an increasingly competitive environment. philosophy but he takes this idea a stage further. ...

South Florida, Pediatric Asthma, and Health Promotion

of increasing costs still further and marginalizing greater numbers of individuals and families who no longer can afford the highe...

Technology and Visionary Design Systems

planning in the manufacturing sector. Product Data Management (PDM) was created in the 1980s as a means of storing CAD document...

Communication Breakdown

employees would find more efficient ways to manage the flow of customer communications, which would ultimately lead to better effi...

A Diversity Managment Article Critiqued

by examining why diversity management is important. In this section of their article, they differentiate between diversity managem...