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Accounting Tools That Help Non-Accountants Make Capital Investments Decisions

sales will recoup the investment, the payback period, These have value is looking at he amount of sales that need to be made and t...

Diversity Management - Theory and Practice

Konrad (et al., 2005), argue workforce diversity is a recognition of differences within the employee base, some of which may be vi...

A STUDY OF CLASSICAL AND CONTINGENCY MANAGEMENT THEORIES

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

Implementing Performance Management

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

MANAGEMENT COMPARISONS: CLASSICAL AND CONTINGENCY THEORIES

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

The Relevance of Maintenance and Management of Facilities in Strategizing

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

Implementing Performance Management within an Organization

definition is given in Dransfield (2000), which states that performance management "is a process which is designed to improve orga...

Large Event Risk Management

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

A Tool Against Child Abuse

This paper considers A-1654, a new New Jersey law requiring the education of new parents about what constitutes child abuse and ho...

Perodua SCM

of the firm. Schechter and Sander (2002) extend a well used business analogy which has been utilized by authors such as Mi...

Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return As Investment Assessment Tools

that can be used compared to other potential investments. The internal rate of return takes a similar approach, in seeking to cre...

The Strategic Use of Human Resources

in order to ensure that they have the resources needed in the way that they undertake workforce planning (Hansen, 2008). These are...

WISDOM MANAGEMENT, KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND DIFFERENCES

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

Operations of Major Airline

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

Object Oriented Database Systems (OODB)

by no means efficient. Ahn and Kim (2002) write that the upper layers of an OO database management system "should be adapted to t...

Mental Attitude and Tools for Back to School

be time consuming, but is especially beneficial for students who do not have a grasp of computer technology or who are more tactil...

Tools of Strategic Assessment

Porter identifies are the existing competitors, the threat of new entrants, substitute products (or services), and the power of pu...

Abraham Maslow, the Hawthorne Studies, and Management's Human Relations School

impact on both the quality and productivity of the workplace. It showed that any environmental changes, could, in the short term i...

Financial Comparative Analysis of HCA Inc. and Tenet Healthcare Corp.

birth though to death with general and acute facilities as well as specialised facilities such as cardiology, oncology, orthopaedi...

Kentucky Fried Chicken and Quality Management

from the drive-through window (DTW) operation. In the DTW, it seemed as though service was hugely slow. Adding to that, t...

Reviewing an Article on Managing Across Cultures

the author says little and claims that there is no direct literature to report. Of course, this is not unusual because sometimes s...

The Functions of Upper Management

was by Socrates, in a political context. The study of military strategy is ancient, examples include; Sun Tzus The Art of War; (ci...

Theories Useful in Assessing the Motivation to Hedge

Hedging is a form of risk management, the writer looks at a number of different theoretical ideas which may be used to assess why ...

Web Based Application Tool and Cross Platform Programming Language Known as Java

to view pages which contain applets and the applets code is transferred to their systems and executed by the browsers Java virtual...

The Knowledge Curve in the context of Change Management

information to bring value to the company, to clients and to the general public (Havens and Knapp, 1999). Also of issue in determi...

Value of Leadership

century, and now in the early twenty-first, there is a tendency to treat human resources as more valuable than ever before. Each a...

Evolution of Management from the 1950s through the 1990s

has heightened both production and attention to human capital and likely, these trends will continue through the twenty-first cent...

Operations Management and IT, TQM, and JIT Effects

* Manufacturing flexibility is essential (Green and Inman, 2000). * Customers define quality (Green and Inman, 2000). * Team effor...

Quality Costs

so as to enable production and service at the most economical levels which allow full customer satisfaction" (Feigenbaum, 1999). ...

Approaches to Conflict Management

mind. Your opponent might change your mind. More important, if your opponent had used Rogerian persuasion on you to enlist your ...