The Manager Of Subway Supacenta On Improving Management

23 Mar 2015 02 May 2017

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Subway SupaCenta Manukau wanted to explore and research about the possible factors that are influencing the customer service satisfaction. The research report included the current trends and circumstances that may or may not affect the performance of the Subway SupaCenta. The researcher did a pilot study to explore and examine the possible problems and factors that has adverse effects on the overall customer service satisfaction. After a ...

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Job Description In Infosys Technologies

23 Mar 2015 02 May 2017

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Introduction This is a study of employee motivation and job satisfaction in Infosys Technologies Ltd. India and attrition rate. In the forthcoming sections, I will walk you through the issues faced by Infosys employees regarding the company's policy and work environment and factors leading to the de-motivation of employees and high attrition rate. Job satisfaction comes with various factors like work environment, salary, designation, promotions, higher management, ...

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Why Organization Should Be Concerned With Labour Turnover

23 Mar 2015 02 May 2017

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Any business needs a source of labour to function. This axiom applies equally whether we rely solely on a basic economical model of the firm, with labour as one of the four factors of production (Bannock, Baxter and Davis 1988), or a Marxist account, which emphasises 'labour power' (Marx 1867 / 1946: 169), or subscribe to more complex models of organizations, which place importance on intellectual or ...

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Theories And Practice Of Leadership: Nissan

23 Mar 2015 02 May 2017

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When making major changes in a business, efficiency, adaption and human relations need to be considered and the trade-offs between these that might be affected. Efficiency was improved by closing 5 of the factories in Japan and eliminating 21,000 jobs to maximize production and reduce wastage. To simplify the production process Ghosn reduced the number of car platforms by 50% and the number of power trains by ...

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Study Of Mohammed Al Barwani Llc

23 Mar 2015 02 May 2017

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Omani called Mohammed AL Barwani has lost his wealth in contracting sector but after that he become an international oil millionaire Owner, chairman and founder of Mohammed AL Barwani LLC (MB) one of the greatest company in oil and gas sector service not in Oman only but also Middle East. Because of his success in oil and gas production in Oman he award honorary friendship for his ...

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Global Supply Chain Management And Logistics Of Nokia

23 Mar 2015 02 May 2017

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At Nokia, they work hard to anticipate risk, demonstrate company values, enhance our governance practices, increase employee satisfaction, and look after the environment and communities where we do business. They expect the companies in our supplier network to take a similar ethical business approach and to demonstrate progress and achievements in these areas as well as in educating and overseeing the practices of their own suppliers. Their ...

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Being A Manager But Not A Leader

23 Mar 2015 02 May 2017

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A manager is a person with a job of overseeing one or more employees or department to ensure these employees or departments do their job or assigned duties as required. A manager helps others to get more done by motivating the employees, providing directions , making sure the employees working together towards a common goal, and providing feedback. A new manager may be responsible for a small ...

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Food Borne Illness: Safety And Hygiene

23 Mar 2015 02 May 2017

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Food borne illness (also food borne disease and colloquially referred to as food poisoning) is any illness resulting from the consumption of contaminated food, pathogenic bacteria, viruses, or parasites that contaminate food, rather than chemical or natural toxins. Causes Food borne illness usually arises from improper handling, preparation, or food storage. Good hygiene practices before, during, and after food preparation can reduce the chances of contracting an ...

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Remuneration as a Managers tool to Motivation

23 Mar 2015 02 May 2017

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This dissertation is based on a concept of human resource management, which is an important aspect for the success of the firm. The research topic of this dissertation is 'Investigate the impact of Remuneration to motivate employees in the Fast Food Industry: A Case Study of McDonald's'. Remuneration is one of the main tools to appraise the performances of the employees, which ultimately motivates them to work ...

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Absenteeism In The Workplace

23 Mar 2015 02 May 2017

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"The term absenteeism means the deliberate or habitual absence of an employee from work place." It create a big problem in an organisation when employees misses too many days off from work and in these situations other employees have to cover their work who are off from work and the work simply does not get gone in a well manner. The company must find out that the ...

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Business Ethics: An Oxymoron

23 Mar 2015 02 May 2017

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Moral problems arise when organizations are faced with issues related to bribery, conspiracy, theft, marketing policies, corporate acquisitions, investments, payments to suppliers, hiring, ¬ring, retraining employees, falsi¬ed reports, concealment of debts, insider trading, perks to executives and outsiders, and so on. Moral problems also arise when a ¬rm tries to cut costs, e.g., building a dam (which will block a river that canoeists and vacationers have been ...

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Business overview and analysis of Qantas airlines

23 Mar 2015 02 May 2017

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In 1920, Qantas was started in Queensland. It is consider as the second oldest airline all over the world. The name QANTAS officially comes from the Queensland And Northern Territory Aerial Services limited. In 1931, in association with Imperial Airways, Qantas started an Australia-UK service on an experimental basis to provide mails to Darwin and the first passenger service was started in 1935 from Brisbane to Singapore. ...

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Overview Of Tata Steel Pre Merger

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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TATA Steel, earlier known as TISCO, is the iron and steel production company which is the flagship concern of the TATA group, India's largest private corporate group. Tata Steel was established by Indian Parsi Businessman Jamsetji Tata in 1907. As of 2005, TATA Steel was Asia's largest private sector steel company. The company was also recognized as the world's best steel producer by World Steel Dynamics in ...

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Running Head Microsoft Diversification Strategies

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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Abstract The purpose of this essay is to examine Microsofts diversification strategies based on thorough competitive analysis. With the use of strategic tools and the application of those tools in the competitive context, it was discovered that Microsoft has strategically protected itself from its competitors in various markets. However, there are still areas which Microsoft could invest into if they intend to regain their super-competitiveness which was ...

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The best practice Human Resources Management paradigm

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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Outline briefly what is meant by the best practice/high commitment HRM paradigm, and critically review this as a way of looking at HRM. Provide examples from different practice areas of HRM to support your answer, and indicate clearly the key methodological issues that recent research has addressed. Answer: I have attempted this question in four parts. The first part deals with the definition of human resource management ...

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Study of naza automotive manufacturing

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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More and more today's companies are seeking ISO 9000 certification in order to help them compete in international markets. The purposes of each organization need ISO is to compete among competitors in the domestic market and international companies (Berreksi Youcef, 2006). By the way, some of the companies which did not have ISO certificate also become success in international market such as company in China by produce ...

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The pros and cons of performance appraisal

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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Summary Performance appraisal is used abundantly in most of the modern organization today, related to evaluation and appraisal system of employees. It is a critical tool used by managers and supervisors in employee development. We assume that there are several approaches and system of performance appraisal. The most common traits of performance appraisal vary from graphical ratings of employee performance to behavioral methods of appraisal. ...

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Theories Of Management And Leadership On Strategy

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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Different Management and Leadership theories are adopted by the organisations to achieve their goals. Leaders possess a certain type of skills, which enables them to follow any theory in a given situation. The decision making process need to be flexible enough to adapt any kind of environment since outcome from it will be have a great impact on organisation, that impact can be on strategy, goals or ...

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Refinery And Petrochemical Integrated Development

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development is considered as the largest petrochemical complex project currently in the region of South East Asia. RAPID project is located in Pengerang, South Eastern of Johor state. As the main investor, PETRONAS proposed RM60 billion investment for RAPID project. The major production of RAPID is the crude oil refinery with refining capacity of 300,000 BSPD. The crude oil refinery will act as ...

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Comparing Eastern And Western Management Styles

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Background: The Global Balance of economic power has been shifting for a few decades. Chinese managers are setting the management agenda for China and are poised to do so for the rest of the world. During the past few decades, the topics within Western and Chinese managerial practice have attracted significant attention from both academe and industrial world. Various surveys and research have been conducted to investigate ...

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Importance Of Career Anchors

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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Edgar Schein, one of the founders in the field in modern organizational psychology, pointed out that, every one of us has a particular orientation towards work. As a result of which, we all approach our work with a set of priority and certain values. This concept is known as 'Career Anchors'. It represents one's combination of perceived career competence and includes talents, motives, values and attitudes that ...

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Reasons For Strategic Decision At Thai Airways

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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An inspired and carefully considered business strategy can be used to guide a company to achieve greater profitability and success, as it is known that strategy can be viewed as plan, ploy, pattern, position and perspective (Kourdi 2009, p3). To those companies that rely on low price to attract customers, such as budget airlines, business strategy plays a significant role in their business. However, business strategy should ...

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An anaylsis of the Contingency theory

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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During 1950 and 1960, some small group decision making developed the idea of contingency theory. At the end of 1950s, academic schools began to utilize the contingency idea into organization theory(Donaldson 1996). The term "contingency theory was created, it challenged the traditional management notion: finding the one best way to organize(Hatch & Cunliffe 2006). Together with special and united notion of subsystems, the contingency theory drew theorists' ...

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Environment As The Primary Stakeholder

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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This research report will examine a number of different perspectives that consider the importance of the environment as a stakeholder, and the consequences of both business and society ignoring it. The following report uses Bp Billiton as a case example, with evidence to prove of the consequences of disregarding the environment. The Bp oil spill was a major issue which affected the environment dramatically, but also caused ...

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Working And Leading People

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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Cindy an entrepreneur who has started her own business of interior decorating. A highly component and creative interior decorator. Cindy established working relationships with most of the major home builders in her community. At first she worked for her own as an independent decorator, then because of dramatic changes in demand she decided to open her own company. She hired a secretary, bookkeeper and four interior decorators ...

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Importance Of Corporate Social Responsibility

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is rapidly gaining importance for businesses all over the world. Over the decades, the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has continued to grow in importance and significance. It has been the subject of considerable debate, commentary, theory building and research. In spite of the ongoing deliberations as to what it means and what it embraces, it has developed and evolved in both ...

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Strategic Management Organisation

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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Strategic management is a concept which is now employed in all organizations, and many authors have tried to define strategic management. Quinn (2003) defines strategy management as “A strategy is the pattern or plan that integrates an organisation's major goals, policies and action sequences into a cohesive whole”. A well formulated strategy helps to position and allocate an organisation's resources into an inimitable and viable posture based ...

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The Meditech's problems

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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(Q1) What are Meditech's problems in introducing new products? In manufacturing all products? § Whenever a new product is introduced by meditech, the customers seem to get frustrated because of the service problems faced by them. This phenomenon seems to occur every time the company introduces a new product. This has really frustrated the customers. There is a continuous shortage of supply when a new product is ...

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Study On The Visionary Of Leadership

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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A leader has a vision, humility and courage to learn and grow constantly and develop a vision of the future and a plan to achieve the vision by setting a direction which takes him to the success. Leadership makes ability in a person to do what they don't like and then they like to do it. In the Morden world only study of management will not help ...

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Emotional Intelligence, Productivity: Performance Of Employees

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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An organization with a good leader will always succeed. These leaders are highly dedicated, honest, creative, fair, assertive, and disciplined. To sum it up they must require high Emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence allows individuals to perceive and control emotions. It allows them to communicate clearly and passionately. It is the key ingredient to be great leaders because it allows built a special relationship between staff and leaders. ...

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Impact Of Mobile Phone On Work Life

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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Impact of mobile phone on work-life balance of field workers Abstract This research report is an exploratory study of impact of mobile phone on work performance, productivity and personal life of field workers. Are field workers able to take the advantage of mobile phone and related new technologies to improve their work life balance or they finding it difficult to manage their work ...

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Organization is a social arrangement

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Organization and Organizing Organization is a social arrangement which pursues collective goals, controls its own performance, and has a boundary separating it from its environment. We especially feel that organization are large, older, famous and those who have good management. But to construct such an organization we need to first think how to organize, as it could lead to organisation failure. We have seen larger companies who ...

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Case Study On Samsung Electronics Journey

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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Samsung Electronics is a Korea-based customer company that provided electronics. This case study looks at the journey's that Samsung went through, they went from a company focus on manufacturing to well known for the excellent product designs. The case discusses how the company came about to use the design as a way to differentiate themselves and create a competitive advantage. It also describes the actual steps that ...

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Leadership Styles Of Laissez Faire

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Tata Steel completed its £6.2 billion (US$12 billion) acquisition of Corus Group at a price of 608 pence per ordinary share in cash on 2 April 2007.The first set of financial results for Corus since becoming a subsidiary of Tata Steel were for the 15 months ending 31st March 2008. Consolidated Financial Highlights 2007-08* (1) How would you describe the Leadership and the leadership style of the company ...

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Performance Appraisal Method: Which Is Most Suited?

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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The purpose of the study was to evaluate the best performance appraisal method which is most suited in V Mart retail limited by doing a comparison between the two methods adopted by the company i.e. ranking method in low level management and middle level management and 360 degree method at top level management, so to find which is the efficient method from the two methods. Context of ...

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Software Technology Parks of India | Management essays

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) is a government agency in India, established in 1991 under the Head of Communications and Information Technology, that manages the Software Technology Park scheme. It is an export oriented scheme for the development and export of computer software, including export of professional services. It provides physical infrastructure, including dedicated high speed connectivity to technology parks, freedom for 100% foreign equity investment ...

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Effects Of Succession Planning On Employee Retention

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Proper succession planning helps an employee to get their work done as well as to sustain the employees in the most effective and efficient manner. This study also highlighted that for any particular job what are the organizational commitment, job security, job content which leads to self-esteem, leadership and staying in the organization for a longer time period. The study is intended to answer the question of ...

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Critical Analysis Of Two Research Papers

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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INTRODUCTION The central feature of globalization is the growing integration of national economies, evidenced by an increase in cross-border flows of trade, investment and financial capital (Porter, et al., 2006). In other words, not only are people investing more abroad, but also firms are operating across national borders. From a business perspective, globalization is the tendency to conduct business activities on a worldwide scale and to integrate ...

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Essential Ingredients Of Industrial Democracy

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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Workers participation in management is in essential ingredient of industrial democracy. The concept of workers participation in management is based in "Human Relations" approach to management which brought about new set of values to labour and management. Traditionally, the concept of Workers' Participation in Management (WPM) refers to participation of non-managerial employees in the decision-making process of the organisation. Workers' participation in management meets the psychological needs ...

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Rolls Royce: A Brief History

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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Rolls Royce is a luxury car and aero engine manufacturer founded by Charles Stuart Rolls and Henry Royce back in 1904. Henry was the brains behind the car making business, and Charles whose interests included flying decided he would try his hand at building aircraft engines. During the First World War, luxury cars were exactly that, a luxury, that only a few people mainly the aristocracy could ...

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Human and physical resources

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"RATIONALE BEHIND THE STUDY" Industrial progress is an outcome of mainly of the human and physical resources of the production. Sufficient progress has been made in the sphere of physical input such as capital and technology. Despite rapid development in technology the desired level of economic development and social welfare are yet to be achieved! One of the main causes of failure has been underutilization of human ...

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Leadership Effectiveness And Personal Managerial Qualities

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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Leadership is about knowing the pros and cons of change, and comprehending the interplay of oneself and others. Leadership is the perception of one's connectedness both personal and business wise, thus leadership is about being self aware and choice-decision making. Thus, it is a process where a person influences a team to accomplish there objectives, and direct those objectives to be more coherent for the organisation, this ...

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The Daimler Chrysler Failed Merger

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In this case, we are going to present the general importance of the human resources during an MA process and we will see a concrete example with the Daimler Chrysler failed merger. Mergers and acquisitions represent ways for companies to grow, develop strategic positioning, acquire technologies and talents and develop synergies. However, more than 80% of the mergers and acquisitions done failed to produce any benefits while ...

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Low employee motivation: Causes and effects

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Discuss the causes and effects of low employee motivation & Consider solutions to this problem. 1. Introduction With financial crisis sweeping across the world, many companies have recognized that low employee motivation has become a crucial issue all over the world. This essay will discuss through its causes, effects and solutions in order to analyse low employee motivation. Argyle (1972, p.84) indicates that there are several reasons ...

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Stakeholder expectations and corporate social responsibility

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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Stakeholders can be primary or secondary (Clarkson, 1995). Primary stakeholder groups comprise of employees, customers, investors, suppliers, government, and community with whom the corporation may have a formal, official or anybody who has claimed on the firm's even though it is not significant. They consist of both internal and external stakeholder groups. Internal stakeholders comprise of employees and investors which are shareholder or bondholder, external stakeholders are ...

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Supply Chain Risk Management

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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A global supply chain is subject to various types of supply and demand uncertainties existing at different nodes of the supply chain giving rise to a variety of risks that can lead to disruption. Companies that stay on top of supply chain risk make their businesses more resilient. They can enhance the company's competitive position, support growth and produce measurable returns. Many companies have recognized this and ...

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Effectiveness of expatriates remuneration in shell

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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Under the Applied Research Method I have discussed the effectiveness of the expatriates' revenue. I have selected the Shell Company which is having globalised business network and there are lot of expatriates are working under the Company. Through this research wanted to achieve & identify effectiveness of expatriates' remuneration in Shell. After establishing the key objective and specific objectives I have realised limitations of the study. Under ...

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Corporate strategies of Skanska Construction

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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Strategic planning and strategic management have attracted continuing interest from both researchers and executives over past decades. Strategic decision making although recently taken into account in the construction industry is one of the key drivers of success. Since construction is a project-based and highly fragmented industry, corporate strategies are difficult to develop. Studies so far point out the significance of project management competencies in delivering successful projects, ...

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Performance management a systematic process can be improved

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The performance management system is part of the human resources function today and serves as the means to indicate what is expected of employees and to appraise performance of the employee and the organization as a whole. Such an assessment is not made on-the-fly but is instead developed by the application of a carefully designed system that defines what is expected, measures performance, and makes adjustments in ...

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Cross Cultural Communication Skills

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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In today's world, way of doing business is constantly changing. This rapid shift could be due to integration of world market through globalization, mergers and acquisitions, Multinational Corporation, legal and regulatory pressure, diverse customer base, and increase in complexity of jobs (Williams and O' Reilly, 1998; Seymen, 2006; Langevoort, 2004; Sturm, 2001). Specifically in UK the composition of working population and employment criteria has changed too fast ...

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A detailed risk assessment

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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Health and Safety - Risk Assessment This assignment will consist of a detailed risk assessment on a wet/dry heat area within a spa. It will incorporate what a risk assessment is and what it is for, also a risk assessment procedure and the possible dangers that could occur in the work place if the health and safety rules are not followed. A basic knowledge of health and ...

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A Case Study Of Guaranty Trust Bank UK

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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Abstract The purpose of this study is to examine and gain more understanding of the relationship between the dimensions of organizational culture and the level of employees' job satisfaction. A total of 30 employees of Guaranty Trust Bank were used as the sample size. The primary source of data collection was the questionnaire administered to obtain the perception of the employees regarding the culture at their work ...

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MNC Multinational Corporation

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Analysis of MNC Behavior Introduction Multinational corporation (or transnational corporation) (MNC/TNC) is a corporation or enterprise that manages production establishments or delivers services in at least two countries. Very large multinationals have budgets that exceed those of many countries. Multinational corporations can have a powerful influence in international relations and local economies. Multinational corporations play an important role in globalization (Bartlett et al). Multinational corporations can be ...

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Employers seeking employees relations in a non union environment

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A union is an association of workers established to improve economic and social conditions. The union's basic job is to bargain with employers to determine the best wages and working conditions for its members. Most unions can provide employment services, insurance, and certain benefits also. In the United States there are no formal ties between the government and unions as there are in other countries. They may ...

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Frederick Winslow Taylor And His Scientific Management

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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Mini biography of Frederick Winslow Taylor and his key publications and theories Mr Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was an American industrial engineer who sought to improve industrial efficiency. He was also known as the Father of Scientific Management. He was born on 20 March 1856 into a wealthy family in Germantown, Philadelphia. Due to his deteriorating eyesight, Taylor left law school and started his apprenticeship as a ...

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FEMALE ENTREPRENEURSHIP

23 Mar 2015 01 May 2017

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To analyze the problems faced by many Indian women entrepreneurs to attain a sustainable position in the business world in India and how they are suppressed by the male society. Also, this research will highlight the women entrepreneurs who faced the difficult situations and emerged as successful entrepreneurs by creating a strong identity of their own in the male dominant society of India proving their credentials in ...

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The nature of teams and groups

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The essay begins with an attempt to define the nature of teams and groups and considers the differences between the two. This is followed by a discussion of why teamwork is important to contemporary organisations. After which, the conditions necessary for effective team working is discussed drawing on Tuckman (1965) model of group development. Then a discussion of group processes that lead to ineffective teamwork are considered. ...

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The Concept Of Strategic Outsourcing

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Define and explain the concept of strategic outsourcing in the context of designing and reconfiguring supply chain structures; discuss the decision process of outsourcing and influencing factors; explore what might be the difficulties and barriers in its operational implementation; and finally summarise the key benefits and potential risks. Elucidate the critical importance of supplier relationship management for the supply chain competitiveness; by finding and referencing to a ...

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Business Level Strategy Versus Corporate Level Strategy

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The past two years have been a turbulent time for the global automobile industry. Worldwide sales have plummeted, resulting in massive layoffs and cost cutting measures. Even established players were not spared as all scrambled to minimize losses. This report examines the problems faced by the automobile industry since the crisis and discusses the strategies used by successful car makers like Honda. 2.0 LIMITATIONS OF THE REPORT ...

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Managing And Resolving Conflict In A Team

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The process of identifying and resolving conflict is researched and documented. The topics researched were what conflict is, its causes, how it is managed, and how it impacts the workplace. Not all conflict is negative; conflict can be positive if resolved properly. The ideas or suggestions derived from conflict resolution can lead to creating new and productive processes. If managers are trained and aware of conflict management, ...

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Primary Source And Secondary Sources Of Conflict

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Communication is neither the message transmitted also no message itself. This is mutual understanding, exchange receiver. The communication needs in business must be effective. Communication is the essence of management. The basic functions of management (planning, organization, staffing, guidance and control), can not be good, there is no effective communication. Business communication involves constant flow of information. The feedback of business communication is an integral part in ...

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Airline Cabin Crew Resources

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Cabin crew forms an important part of flight operation. They take the responsibility of the people aboard an aircraft. For a long time, cabin crews have been criticized for taking causal approach to aircraft safety leading to death of thousands of people. It is due to increased incidences of human error in aircraft accidents that led to development of Crew Resource Management (CRM) concept. Thanks to CRM, ...

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Contingency Theory And Hofstedes Five Cultural Dimensions

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Nowadays, organizations exist in the competitive business environment where there's rapid development which lead to high failure rate and difficult to stand up among the strong competitive environment. Turbulent business environment caused lots of organizations to face bankruptcy; however, there are still many successful organizations which have great success through their hard work. For those successful organizations, the main objectives are to maximum their competitive advantage and ...

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The Relationship Between Leadership Style And Employee Engagement

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Introduction Organizational effectiveness is essential in today's fast growing organizations where competitiveness is the main feature of the contemporary business. Leadership is the main determinant of organizational effectiveness and is the major identifier of an engaged workforce. The most common leadership style is the Traditional leadership style which is administered in almost all companies of the Petroleum Sector in Egypt with its public companies, joint companies and ...

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Green Marketing In India

23 Mar 2015 28 Apr 2017

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This paper explains the concept, importance, challenges of green marketing. It also includes some green marketing cases and its future in India. Green marketing is a new concept which has developed particular importance in the modern market. Green marketing is the marketing of products that are presumed to be environmentally safe. Other similar terms used are Environmental Marketing and Ecological Marketing. Firms may choose to green their ...

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Positive And Negative Publicity Strategies

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In today's world, image and reputation of a business is critically significant than past due to increased market competition and also, with developed technologies, the consumers can be more easily evaluate to particular brand of product or organization. Therefore, it is essential that businesses and organizations have understanding of the effective and strategy public relation for healthy and positive new development. Successful public relation can be give ...

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The Co Operative Movement

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Introduction In the today's growing world Co-operatives do activities for the development of agriculture, small industry marketingandprocessing, distribution and supplies. The progress report of co-operatives in the State is very good and contribution to agricultural progress has particularly been significant. For the purpose of Green Revolution, these Co-operatives introduced various schemes for the conversion of villages into towns and also the construction of go downs. The ...

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The Relationship Between Leadership And Employee Performance

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The purpose of the study was to examine the effect of leadership on employee performance considering the five factors of leadership development that are coaching, training and development, empowerment, participation and delegation. Therefore these form the independent variables that are affecting employee performance which is the dependent variable. The hypotheses stated in the study are relating leadership to employee performance considering these five different factors. Since this ...

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The Resource Based View Of A Firm

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This report reviews the empirical studies of the resource based view (RBV) and examines the benefits and limitations of RBV as the "best" strategy route in the developing a firm's strategy. By having a clear and focused strategic intent, it mobilises an organisation towards achieving the desire position. Firm would be able to achieve sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) by analysing its internal and external environment using the ...

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Why Is Effective Communication Important?

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Introduction: Effective workplace communication skills are among the skills we assume every worker picked up along the way. The problem is that not all the communication skills and habits we picked up at home, in school or social circles are appropriate in the workplace. Some people would be fired immediately if they communicated in the workplace the way they do at home or among friends. Understanding how ...

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Why are organisations reluctant to invest in training?

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The aim of this paper is to identify all there is to know about training, the impact it has on both firms and employees and then, the reason why, although it is beneficial provision to business growth, still some organisations and individuals are not willing to accept the idea of investing in training and development. In order to come to that claim, it is necessary to mention ...

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Compare And Contrast Different Approaches

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The internationalization of business activity is getting progressively essential and inevitable. Of considerably significance is thus also the globalization of human resource management. Nowadays, an increasing and sufficient flexibility of companies is required as well as the ability to react to local circumstances and market constraints. Hence, in order to facilitate the process of adaptation to global developments in corporations, and especially in the Human Resource vicinity, ...

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Resourcing and supporting organisation growth

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Over resent decades, a number of studies have shown a positive relationship between high efficiency human resource management (HRM) policies and practices, and organisational performance (Heynes & Fryer, 2000:240). HRM is therefore seemed to be the major factor to differentiate between success and failure of the organisations in today's world. This because it involves in how to manage people who work for the company, and whose roles' ...

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Southwest Airlines 2002: An Industry Under Siege

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Government regulations and directives that were passedforced Southwest to adjust and even totally revamp their original strategies drastically which proved difficult for them. Regulations on baggage handling, for example, required Southwest to add crews simply to meet its turnaround requirements and abandon its cost-savvy plastic boarding passes for purposes of tracking customers which ultimately goes against their strategy of free seating. These changes affected the way the ...

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Exxon Mobil aims, objectives and analysis

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Exxon Mobil is the largest international oil and gas company that holds industry-leading inventory of global oil and gas resources and also the largest refiner and marketer of petroleum products. They constantly look ways to find better, safer and cleaner ways to deliver the energy. Exxon Mobil was formed on 30th November 1999 by merging Exxon and Mobil. Petroleum refinery has developed in respond to changing demand. ...

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Employee Development Plan

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Employee Development Plan Running Head: EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT PLAN Abstract With the nation’s economic turmoil still lingering it is more important than ever to develop plans that will encourage employees to remain with the company. Employee turnover is a crucial issue when it comes to the current economic standing of America. Each time an employee leaves the company the company loses the money it spent training and developing ...

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Rewarding African workers: A case study

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Introduction Socometal is joint ventures were 52% owned by French company and 48% by Senegalese it deals with metal container and can. 150-800 are working in the company for the past 20 years with the profit of $144 million. Analysis In this case study we can find three important people they are Diop is a Senegalese engineer (Asst Production Manager), Mr Olveir Bernard is a production Manager ...

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A Study On The Hofstede Model

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Hofstede stated 5 Cultural dimensions which can be used to investigate national preferences. To explain the variation of cultural dimensions in different countries, a chart illustrating all 5 Cultural dimensions is shown in Hong Kong, China and USA. Detailed explanations are given below: Power distance is the distance in the approach between the subordinates and seniors in an organization. The high Power Distance countries make use of ...

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The Influence Of Michael Porter

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The field of strategic management is complex and multi-faceted. Strategic management has been defined in many different ways. The basic tenet of the Positioning School is that strategies are generic positions in a competitive marketplace and are based on analysis by a consulting firm. Michael Porter, indisputably one of the most influential thinkers on management and competitiveness in the world laid the groundwork for strategic positioning in ...

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Study On Reliance Industries Limited

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The Reliance Group, founded by Dhirubhai H. Ambani, and is one of the largest private sector companies in India, with businesses in the energy and materials value chain. Reliance Group's annual revenues are in excess of US$ 58 billion. The flagship company, Reliance Industries Limited, is a Fortune Global 500 company. Reliance activities span exploration and production of oil and gas, petroleum refining and marketing, petrochemicals (polyester, ...

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Do flexible work timings increase the morale and motivation level of employees?

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INTRODUCTION As this is the research methods assignment so I did research on my selected topic which is "Do flexible work timings increase the morale and motivation levels of employees?" and come to know with different findings that what are the advantages and disadvantages of flexible working hours, and what other peoples opinion regarding that etc. So this research project put out to inspect the spirits and ...

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Human resource management in international expansion

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In today's global environment when expanding a business in to another country IHRM would play a handle new key role. There can be identified very clear 6 differences between domestic and international HRM. They are more HR activities, need for broader perspectives, the more involve with employees personal life, risk exposure, broader external influence, changes in emphasis as work force mix of expatriates and locals. IHRM is ...

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Advantages and disadvantages of mergers and acquisitions

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Mergers and Acquisitions can be described as a step taken by any two organizations to make a more valuable company rather than two separate companies. Although the terms 'merger 'and 'acquisition' are used very closely, but they are different. When one company takes over the other, the target company is taken as non-existent and the buyer company takes over the company continues to trade the stocks with ...

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How to identify unmotivated employees

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How to identify unmotivated employees and help them become motivated: Some strategies for managers. An employee who is well motivated is able to produce better results quicker and is also much more creative. There are many problems that exist in the workplace. Motivation is a subject that everyone will come across and it is common to be placed in a situation where you will need to work ...

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Pestle analysis of IT

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY We are using the term information technology or IT to refer to an entire industry. In actuality, information technology is the use of computers and software to manage information. In some companies, this is referred to as Management Information Services (MIS) or simply as Information Services (IS). The information technology department of a large company would be responsible for storing information, protecting information, processing the ...

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Factors influence cohesiveness of teams

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Introduction: Cohesiveness in the teams especially in Top Management Teams (TMT) is one of the most significant factors that influence the Superior Performance (SP) and strategic competitive advantage of the organization. There are many factors that influence cohesiveness of teams and this essay is especially going to focus on an organizational factor, Top Management Style (TMS).Many researches proved that TMS is a crucial factor which influences the ...

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The Effect Of Work Motivation On Job Satisfaction

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This study attempts to develop the effect of work motivation on job satisfaction on two big mobile telecom organizations zong and ufone. The questionnaire was developed to measure the correlation of work motivation and job satisfaction. Total number of observations was sixty and the mean for JS and WK was 3.53 and 3.99 respectively. ANOVA result was 0.042 that was not a significant level for the model ...

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Employee Safety And Health

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The topic that we choose for our assignment in Human Resource Management is employee safety and health. Nowadays, safety and health is a significant issue for an organization to its employees. What is meant by safety and health for employees? Firstly, safety means the condition for employees are being protected from getting any danger, risk or injury in a working environment during the working hour. Meanwhile, health ...

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Problems Faced By Petrochemical Industry

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Quality plays a significant role in the development and success of any organization or product. UK is recognized as a core of the creation of petrochemical and other associated products of petrochemical. There is high demand for petrochemical products all over the world; so quality assurance and quality management are very important in petrochemical industry in order to exist in the global economy. There are many petrochemical ...

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The Concept Of Sustainability

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Introduction The concept of Sustainability currently is been paid more and more attention. The idea of Triple Bottom Line (TBL) which Economic, Social and Environment or Profit, People and Planet (PPP) are concerned not only from societies or non-government organization (NGO) but also from all stakeholders; shareholders, investors, employees, customers, etc.. As there are many studies on corporate sustainability, corporate social responsibility which many of them shown ...

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Attractiveness Of The Discount Retailing Industry

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In a context of post World War II, there was an economic boom in the USA, driven by the baby boom. The families needs increased, and discount retailing stores started to appear. Their main aim was to operate within low prices, to be able to offer everyday products at a very affordable price. In order to analyse the attractiveness of the discount retailing industry in the USA ...

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The Purpose Of Air Traffic Control

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This strategic human resource planning project is a view of Air Traffic Control in Canada from its inception in early 1939 to today. It has fallen under the umbrella of several masters during the past 71 years beginning with the Federal Department of Transport, and then The Ministry of Transport, followed by Transport Canada and finally NAV Canada, where it broke away from its former Crown Corporation ...

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Inventory Management: Amazon

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Executive Summary The purpose of this case review was to study the case titled 'Amazon.com's Inventory Management' written by Ms. Purnima Pillai and analyzes three different topics of discussion and presents an analytical prescription for each of them. Research on the case study is based on analyzing the pre-required questions and studying various articles, seminar papers, Magazines and Case Study's with an overall view about E-Retailer's Inventory ...

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Types Of Leadership Styles Sun Tzu

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2. Sun Tzu said that "a general must see and know alone, meaning that he should be able to see and know what others can not. Seeing what others do not see is called brilliance, knowing what others do not know is called genius. Briliant geniuses win first, meaning that they defend in a such way as to be unassailable and attack in such a way as to ...

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The Practice of Leadership investigation and questionnaire

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The research we have discussed has described transactional leader. What is the difference between transactional and transformational leaders? (4) 1. Transactional leaders are leaders who ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Transformational leaders are leaders who ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Transformational leadership is built on top of transactional leadership. You cannot have transformational without transactional leadership. 4. The evidence supporting the advantage of transformational leadership over the transactional is tremendously impressive. 5. A Table Comparing Transactional and ...

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Psychological contract breach effects and violation on employees

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Abstract The goal of this study is to examine the influence of personality on the relationship between psychological contract breach and violation and its respective impact on employees work-related outcomes such as turnover intentions and counterproductive work behaviors. In this paper, personality was assessed on the basis of the Five-Factor model of personality (Goldberg, 1990) that is comprised of the following dimensions: Extraversion, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Emotional Stability ...

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Literature review of corporate social responsibility theories

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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), also known as corporate citizenship, responsible business, or sustainable responsible business is all but a form of corporate self-regulation integrated into a business model where companies manage the business processes to produce an overall positive impact on society. Arguably, business and society are interwoven where society has certain expectations regarding business, thus, implying that firms have responsibilities towards society. Hence, being a steward ...

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Low Cost Airlines The Operations Strategies

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Since the late 1970, the United State introduced an airline deregulation to the aviation industry. The airline deregulation of US had led other countries including European countries to adopt the same strategy. The deregulation strategy allows commercial airlines to price their service, choose their route and destination freely. Moreover, the act had provided a golden opportunity for airlines to reduce cost as they are allowed to cut ...

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Performance Measurement Approach Adopted At Ethiopian Airlines

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The report presented here with focuses on the amendments that the CEO needs to follow in enhancing the use of the BSC that is already in place within the airline for the past three years. The BSC is adopted to help managers and co-workers monitor their performance both in financial and non-financial terms. The following is the organizational structure of Ethiopian Airlines as of writing this report. ...

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Malaysia Airport Holdings Berhad Mahb

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The Malaysia Airport logo is a composition of three elements - a control tower, a runway and an aircraft flying skywards. The runway with its four threshold reflects Malaysia Airport as being systematic in its approach, dynamic, efficient and customer-dedicated. The diagonal "airways" signifies Malaysia Airport's tenacity to remain an ever progressing organization. The airport tower signifies Malaysia Airport's high standards of efficiency and excellent service. The ...

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