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Software Quality and Can It Be Measured?

required manner at the required time in a way that is easy for the users to implement and understand. Other qualities that are req...

External Environment Analysis, Decision Making, and Management Processes

and decision when needed. 3. Decision Making Decision-making is an important aspect of any commercial organisation. By lo...

Change Models and Mergers

already has been seen in the change in IT policy as EESTs policy makes way for that of Ouest. The best case scenario,...

English Language Learners and Direct Instruction

students with concepts and ideas that are presented in a disorganized fashion (Stein, Carmine and Dixon, 1998). When this occurs, ...

Betas, Arbitrage Pricing Theory, and Capital Asset Pricing Model

In this theory there is a compensation to be gained form taking this systematic risk, but if a singe company is invested in then...

The Use of the Four Component Instructional Design

This 8 page paper examines the use of the four component instructional design (4C/ID) as a model to design an instructional progra...

Politics of Development in 3 Cities

pivoting around issues concerning one Petersons key areas, that is, the politics of development. A principal point of DeLeons anal...

Transformational Leadership Models

been occurring throughout history. History also indicates that the different forms of leadership used to make transformation may b...

The Model of the Canadian Health Care System and its Application in Other Regions of the World

health insurance through the government, "when we go to access it, its just not there" (Duff-Brown, 2005). But what about th...

Models of Leadership

reflect not the leadership skills themselves, but the way that the leader chooses to use them. In the commercial environment lea...

Finding an Economic Model for a Developing Country

and a open business environment (Huff, 1993). The has been active attraction of foreign direct investment, supported by the way th...

Psychology as an Independent Scientific Discipline

there are numerous disadvantages inherent in restricting psychological investigations to the hard and fast rules of science. Psyc...

The Ethics of Drug Testing

about the validity of such tests, and some go further to claim that constitutional rights are denied. But employers and parents of...

Eight Step Change Framework

differences between and among them. The truly effective change manager will likely draw on a couple of the theories when planning ...

Socio-Technical Systems: A Strategic Overview

become generally more dependent upon technologies, especially from the business process perspective, a new social structure has em...

Advancements Since Gage: How the Brain Supports Cognitive Function

conception that thoughts and reason came from the brain, while emotions came from the heart, or in some cultures, "the gut". Moder...

The Concept of Mercantilism

a significant shift in the way that the supporting military forces were utilized. Prior to the mercantilist period the dominant mi...

Case Study: Nadler-Tushman Congruence Model

is based on systems theory as are most congruence models. It is an attempt to understand the very complex dynamics in an organizat...

A Causal Model of Change

complex of all. The model was developed during the process of dramatically changing British Airways, which was in disarray and nea...

British Airways - Quality of Operations

good definition, but it does not help with a framework, the key is to assess how this may be assessed in a measurable manner....

Shareholder Interests in Corporate Actions

put forward by Friedman with the argument that the responsibility of a business is purely to its shareholders, undertaking actions...

Using CAPM to Value Boeing

6%) = 7.726% If this should be the rate of return we can now use this along with the return that is already...

The Concept of an Efficient Market

of evidence for investment managers and investors gaining consistent above average profits, there is evidence that abnormal return...

Overcoming Resistance to Change

way the employees are told of the change, and possibly involved in it, the way that they are shown it will benefit themselves as w...

Change Theory and Change Management

are transformational change and the classic Lewins change model. Kanter et al.s Ten Commandments for Executing Change The m...

Development: New and Traditional Models

were undergoing an economic boom in the latter part of the twentieth century, many parts of sub-Saharan Africa were still trapped ...

Action Research Model and a Case Study of Napster Inc.

online rebellion against the industry by some of its most important customers7." Indeed, the problem had been that even if the re...

Managing Student Behavior

child has behavior problems because of bad parenting but in many, many cases, the child has experienced good parenting. There is s...

Family Stress, Health, and the ABCX Model

Stress can have a varied impact on families, their cohesiveness, and their resiliency. Stress, of course, can...

BMW, Innovative Leadership

vehicle style released and out to customers. Edmondson writes that BMWs 106,000 employees are "a nimble network of true be...