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37th consecutive year of profitability (Southwest Airlines, Fact Sheet, 2010). Meanwhile, other airlines are struggling. Net incom...

(in other words, "my way or the highway") with little input from subordinates. Division of labor is also a part of this particular...

The value and influence of maintenance and the management of facilities is often overlooked when examining the way that strategizi...

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

Catbert is dubbed as the "evil HR director" whose sole mission in life is to create more pressure for and to rain havoc on helples...

refers to this as unfreezing as it is aimed at unfreezing the attitudes of the employees and prepares them for change (Huczynski a...

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

gives a basis for communication, but then there are also issues such as the difficulty in saying no for the Indian culture, even i...

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 ...

(P&G, 2010). The third division is the health and well being which includes snacks and pet foods, this division accounts for 18% o...

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

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...

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

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

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...

process needs to be identified which incorporates individual as well as group and organisational performance management. 2. Perf...

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

Store Fresh food requires careful management. The writer considers the problems that may exist in supply chain management of a gro...

coordinated at a senior level, and the culture of risk management is promoted where everyone in the organization understand the ri...

the subordinates get it wrong, and a project ends up having to be scrapped, or having to start all over again. Zmund...

designed to meet an organizations goals and objectives. Then there is the top-down theory, which states that management doesnt wan...

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

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

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...

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 ...