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Investment Banking and VAR

taken into consideration. The use of VAR is now seen by many as the benchmark of risk management, vice president of Citiban...

HRM's Emergence

al, 1996). However, even with this it may be argued that there was still a level of control in the hands of the workers....

Knowledge Management (KM) Processes

careful to not be blinded by the bells and whistles of technology or the "gee-whiz" factor. Instead, they must be able to determin...

Cai Lan Oils and Fats Industries and Organizational Change

for future success. Many companies can effective manage change, but some with poor leadership cannot. In investigating this phenom...

Walt Disney's Strategic Management

Clearly, competitors in those industries with greater rivalry will need to keep closer tabs on their own competitors. Pizza deliv...

Software Quality and Systems Development

design and improvement of the development process (Ravichandran & Rai, 2000). Developers and project managers actively collaborate...

Investment and Commercial Banks' Management and Risk Assessment

include HSBC (formerly the Midland Bank), Lloyds TSB, National Westminster Bank, (commonly known as Nat West) and Barclays Bank. T...

Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Online Education

classes for working professionals as long as 15 years ago. Today, students are not required to maintain such geographical p...

Max Weber, Henri Fayol, and Frederick Taylor

follow (Foner and Garraty, 1991). Taylors methods were useful at the time, which is evidenced through the surge in productivity ...

Ethics, Analytical and Descriptive

Cross, nd). 3. Analytical ethics. This branch of ethics surveys normative ethics for the purpose of clarifying both its problems a...

Electronic Commerce and Southwest Airlines

advancing the commercial airline industry, for example, Southwest was the first airline to offer a frequent flyer program that off...

Hybrid Management Consistency and Mintzberg's Position

clowns again ... is when they are approaching my car, offering to wash the windshield" (Berry, 2001; p. 23). Countless programmer...

Tesco's KM

personalise the offers which are sent to customers; True personalisation. Gaining loyalty is a difficult process. To this end adve...

Lincoln Community Hospital Forecasting

types, but has succeeded in achieving virtually nothing except for determining that there is little relation between cost and pati...

Executive Briefing on the Concorde's 2000 Crash

Gagne, 1983; Lowe and Masseo, 1986 cited in Emery, Summers and Surak, 1996). It focuses the efforts of all members of an organizat...

Specific Issues Related to Cash Flow at a Small Company

It needs to learn to produce results while using far less financial resources in the process. The case makes no mention of PIs wi...

Management Theories of Revolution, Change, and Turbulence

several government agencies and a few bigger businesses. One way that he advocates businesses fully embrace the spirit of...

Hotel Revenue Management Systems Twenty Five Article Literature Review

article discusses the implementation of the Customer Satisfaction: The Sofitel Vision" program within Hotel Sofitel North America ...

20th Century U.S. Welfare Capitalism and Personnel Management

some argue that they were really not necessary as corporate welfare was a reality. Companies had always taken care of the American...

At Home Employee Management

of how this has been done. Before discussing the actual process of managing telecommuters, it would be helpful to determin...

Political Ideology and Management Style

pointed out in the article itself--to embrace typical customers service ideology, which is not to complain. The author asks if the...

Social Workers Leadership and Management

purposes; cost savings achieved through process improvement; or marketing innovation emerging from a "brainstorming" session. The...

Profile of Waste Management Inc.

The most recent financials available for the company are available in the form of a press release issued on May 2, 2002....

Operations Management and Technology's Impact

manufacturing environment, the operations manager will have the greatest degree of influence and impact in this arena (Obringer, ...

Theorists and Theories of Management

achieving efficient operation. In his well known example of the operation of the pin factory, Smith (1776) describes the division...

Strategic Management Within Harley-Davidson

FUTURE OF THE MARKET The issue with which we will be dealing in the Harley-Davidson Company is the prediction by some industry an...

Technology and Its Impact Upon Management and Production Operations

the risk manager concerning the high rate of assembly accidents, some of which have been quite serious. The number of accidents h...

Capital Budgeting

stock prices have been changing widely. DETERMINING THE COST OF CAPITAL In determining the cost of capital, it would be im...

Management of Criminal Justice

officials by giving them a clear cut series of tasks to accomplish. What this would tend to do, one might state, is to give the of...

United Kingdom's Ethnic Minorities and Management

concerns, we find that the unemployment rates for 1984-1995 indicate that in 1995 8% of whites were unemployed, 19% of non-whites...