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KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT: FAD, REALITY OR BOTH?

help employees become more productive and efficient in their working activities. In recent decades, human resources studies have m...

Rudolph Guiliani's Leadership

this sort of preparation that is important in respect to leadership in a very general sense and the author brings this out in the ...

Total Quality Management and Customer Service

First, customers want quality and theyll pay what they think is fair value to obtain it. This is a basic premise of any type of ma...

Customer Relationship Management in the Public Sector

and the way that needs are met. However, there are some significant differences with the commercial environment. Firstly, this is ...

The Importance of Dominant Logic in Human Resource Management

the belief that individuals or companies can embrace limiting perspectives, those that generally drive operations, decision-making...

The NFL Lockout: A Lesson in Strategic Management

the direct result of an ongoing disagreement between management, represented by the owners of the NFL, and employees, represented ...

Courage in Management

may be argued as being a general term it incorporates a number of different theories and approaches. When considering virtue, and ...

Business Decisions and Statistical Analysis

it is often necessary for organizations to make decisions in the absence of certainty. Practically speaking, certainty is almost t...

Questions on HR Management

example used to increase production capacity due to sudden increases in demand. Croucher and Brewster (1998) argue that this model...

Important Issues in Project Management

role of the project manager? * Are there differences in the skills needed by project managers undertaking different types of proje...

CRM IMPLEMENTATION AND ITS IMPORTANCE

of sales and marketing technology, was ready to introduce the "enhancement" to the sales force. Irwin and her staff planned to mak...

WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT: AN OVERVIEW

time, in days, it takes a company to convert its resource inputs into cash flows - according to the above, GM has it over Toyota. ...

Types of Power within an Organization

hierarchy chart. Senior managers may simply control centers of communication, which it is argued makes formal power the only real ...

Sports Training and Expectancy Theory

forthcoming if s/he performs as the manager expects (Expectancy Theory, n.d.). "Vroom suggests that an employees beliefs ab...

How Employees Can Be Managed To Provide A High Level Of Services To Customers.

Model Zeithaml (et al, 2006) has presented a comprehensive model that looks at how leadership and culture will impact on the serv...

Financial Issues; Market Efficiency, Sources of Capital and Dividend

not mean that it is an accurate theory. To assess this we need to look at the theory and how it can be justified and then consider...

Diversity Management; Problems and Benefits

management as far more than just ensuring that there is a diverse workforce, it may be argued that it is aimed at defeating work p...

AMORTIZATION AND DEPRECIATION

the term. With any loan payment, the initial payments are mainly put toward interest. As more and more payments are made, the paym...

PLANNING, STRATEGY AND OPERATION

take a scenario in which were on a managing team of a home-improvement company. Weve been charged with launching a new company web...

DECISION-MAKING, RISK MANAGEMENT AND GLOBAL BUSINESS

even domestic firms with no overseas operations are involved in this, as its likely that their customers, suppliers or partners ha...

eStrategy Implementation Questions

by an entire enterprise, experts are unanimous in agreeing that enterprise strategic planning initiatives wont be successful, unle...

Self Concept and Personality

was. In addition, children from abusive families are likely to grow into abusers themselves. Now, were not intimating that...

Commerce Decisions and Choiceboards

the product is pretty much produced from scratch); a different way to market (by selling first, then producing, rather than produc...

Communication Breakdown

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

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...

Virtual World and Electronic Commerce

quite sophisticated and "a large number of potential users may interact with each other" (Shen, Radakrishnan and Georganas, 2002; ...

Excalibur, Beowulf, and the Concepts of the Chosen and Divine Kingship

protect and guard the warrior, but in this case, it represents the king protecting and guarding the nation against all intruders t...

Philosophy Defined by Philosphers

explain why this is so. Descartes also questioned the ability of a dreamer to know whether or not he is dreaming. Many people do a...

Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

is "largely agricultural and the political life is local" (Deflem, 2001). The Gesellschaft, on the other hand, is "organized at th...

McCann Erickson's Project Implementation and Corporate Culture

new bar codes on its texts and this could entail a major project involving many aspects of the business. In the insurance industry...