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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...

Transportation and Logistical Management

are needed urgency in another country then speed is of the essence and air carriage may be used, but if the goods are heavy this c...

Personal Gap Skills and Knowledge Assessment

day-to-day basis, often without the ability to prepare. The management of products and services is a novel week area. This requi...

Six Images for Change

nurturer. Sharif (2010) takes this further and brings in the type of change such as intended change, partially intended, and unint...

Implementing a Long Term Quality Management Strategy at Hotel Escargo

service environment and the role of the employees is of paramount importance, as they are a key element in the provision of the se...

Change Readiness With Examples

in the organisation [sic], transition is in the mind of people" transition is far more difficult but change will not happen withou...

Congestive Heart Failure, A Change Proposal for a PICU

(Mitsnefes, 2008). The survival rate for children with CKS is low, as children receiving dialysis live between 40 and 60 years les...

Issues Concerning Projects

to define the scope of the project during the initiation phase (Reh, 2010). It is also important to define what will not be includ...

The Passenger Train Industry as an Oligopoly

order to overcome potential problems associated with monopolies. Many railway industries had been nationalized, this facilitated l...

Summary and Application of Management Principles

and its major points In this chapter, Fayol (1984) describes fourteen principles of management that are applicable to the task of...

Strategies for Lesson Planning

be able to apply them outside the classroom. Prior knowledge is has a great deal of influence on how a student interprets new know...

Market Issues

off potential competition (Nellis and Parker, 2006). This provides some protection for new entrants, and it may be argued is likel...

Exploring Learning Management Systems - Skillsoft

topics such as database administration, web design, and more, and some 70 courses centered on intense high-expertise areas such as...

An Organization's Successful Change Example

not in terms of the operations or technical change, but that of the attitudes of management, is that the changing environment woul...

Introduction to Operations Management Approaches

used is JIT. The Just-in-Time (JIT) philosophy that emerged in the 1970s has been shown to be an effective strategy to minimize ...

Main Features of the Windows XP Operating System

one of its latest and more phenomenal accomplishments. Its development, of course, is linked to the development of Windows as a w...

Self Learning and Organizational Learning

want to survive and thrive in an increasingly competitive environment. philosophy but he takes this idea a stage further. ...

South Florida, Pediatric Asthma, and Health Promotion

of increasing costs still further and marginalizing greater numbers of individuals and families who no longer can afford the highe...

Technology and Visionary Design Systems

planning in the manufacturing sector. Product Data Management (PDM) was created in the 1980s as a means of storing CAD document...

Communication Breakdown

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

Decision Support Systems and Management Information Systems Compared

vacation time, benefits accrued and other information is updated according to how the pay period has affected them; then the syste...

Economics and the Influence of Management

Greater production is more profitable only if the product manufactured is also sold, however. Of course companies cannot continue...

Strategic Management of US Airways

US Airways became the first airline to seek voluntary bankruptcy protection (Airfinance Journal, 2002). Its primary debt was in ai...

National Territory and Human Resources

territory." Many of the authors agree with the assessment that as long as national cultures are different, cross-national differen...

Medical Doctors and Nurse Practitioners Conflict Management

the elderly. The Nurse Practitioner announced in its July 2000 issue that reports of the AMAs petition had been received as...

Manager Memo and Letter from an Unhappy Trade Show Meeting Attendee

of firm commitments we had at the time that we had to decide on the venue. It appears that attendees are either unable or unwilli...

Best Practices in Risk Management and eBusiness Law

screen out the addresses of re-shippers, but cyber thieves have responded by recruiting" (Voyles, 2003; p. PG) others to use their...

U.S., Mexico, and Cultural Perspectives on Management

can be seen as nothing more than the relaying of facts. Adler (2001) provides an example of this cultural politeness in the form ...

China, Japan, and Europe Changes in Management

principle to be a need for consensus among all parties, neither predetermined by a contractual relationship nor by class distincti...

How to Motivate Employees Who Have Survived Downsizing

The studys authors concluded that "If perception of the workplace has much to do with employee productivity and effectiveness, the...