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Book of the Three Virtues by Christine de Pizan

of women in medieval society, De Pizan wrote two of her most significant works, The Book of the City of Ladies and The Book of the...

An Argument and the Application of Reason

to be true may turn out to actually not be true at all (Logic and Fallacies, 2002). Think of Christopher...

4 Areas of Operations Management

without excessive costs involved. Therefore, the first issue may be raw materials, but this will depend on the business and the ea...

Ratio of Patients to Nurses

to the bill as did many nursing executives, arguing that there was sufficient legislation already on the books that dealt with sta...

Corporate Introduction of a New Information Technology System

of finding a system that would simplify the ordering procedures and manage the buy back system that they had in place. The idea wa...

HR Suggestions

motivating staff to perform to their potential - and beyond. This is a confusion combination, but one that is not a new phenomenon...

Overview of Sleep Hygiene

"The sleeper then progresses backward from stage 4 through stage 2, entering REM (rapid eye...

Characteristics of Leadership Characteristics: Learned, Innate or Both?

as well. Leadership Theories [A brief history of leadership theories which have emerged since WWII should be discussed allowing t...

Three Dialogues of George Berkeley

that sensible things mean those items or realities that can be perceived by the senses of a human being. Philonous states the foll...

Reasons for TQM's Success

implement these in more specialised areas. This is useful to both the student studying TQM as well as the manager that may wish to...

Ongoing Evolution of Human Resources Management

organization, HR likely would not be involved in the discussion at any time. The department would be informed when senior managem...

Academics and College Football

better players than readers. Its a dilemma, with both athletes and institutions caught in the middle (Major Violation: The Unbalan...

Cessna Aircraft's Organizational Development

just won a government contract to provide airmail service. Aircraft had been used during World War I a few years earlier, but the...

Leadership Quality and Followers

consider here is the power a manager has over the disputants" (Viswesvaran et al, 1995, 249). THE FOLLOWER-LEADER RELATIONSHIP ...

Hotel Industry Concepts of Performance and Service

resource based view, they have limited resources that need to be maximised. The measures are there to ensure that there are many w...

U.S. School Safety

such as the physical state of the building and other factors which impact the health of students. Furthermore, it is impo...

An Audit of a Meat Department

well as product safety in terms of handling. Productivity involves workers activities of course, but also whatever initiatives th...

Necessary Qualities of a Prince in Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince

Once on the throne a Prince will have enormous power. But how does he keep this power? Machiavelli addresses this topic by stating...

Total Quality Management and James W. Cortada's Explanation

cultures, one must first understand the classification of culture and leadership. Cortada emphasizes several issues when assessin...

Human Qualities in Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

all the boys are acclaimed as heroes. Jim regrets having missed his chance to be a hero and resolves to be ready the next time. ...

Business Impact of TQM

the meantime, Frederick Taylor added to this by advocating a work design that removed planning and decision-making processes from ...

Total Quality Management's Primary Elements

cultural appeal; how employees are expected to interact; what the organization symbolizes and how focused is everyone upon those v...

Student Achievement and the Importance of Class Size

compared the achievement of students who were in classes of between 13 and 17 students to classes where there were 22 to 26 studen...

4 Questions on Organizational Theory Answered

Theories Senges book, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, largely restates many of the...

Life and Art of Poet Pablo Neruda

from a different era. Considering that he saw some of mans worst atrocities to his fellow man, it is no wonder that his poetry r...

Organizations, Six Sigma, and Total Quality Management

satisfaction, no matter the burden that such a far-reaching objective might have upon the company. Both the customer and the orga...

Health Care Organizations and TQM

the country and that is because for the most part many of the health organizations do utilize Total Quality Management. This mode...

Health Care and Organizational Performance

Zellars and Fiorito commented: "Although being effective seems an obvious requirement of staying in business, organizational effec...

A Case Study of Federal Express

In what has been described as a method of management that stresses its focal point -- and bottom line -- on utmost quality, there ...

Arctic Expedition and Leadership of Ernest Shackleton

with the overall concept, including the extent of ambiguity in relation to definition and assessment. How is an effective leader ...