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  • Managing White Space

    Managing White Space

    Running head: MANAGING WHITE SPACE Managing White Space at Superior Widget Company Managing White Space at Superior Widget Company Superior Widget Company (SWC) had made a change in the Customer Service Department (CSD) from regional CSDs to a centralized CSD. The SWC’s CEO decided to unfreeze the CSD’s status, when he or she wanted to change the centralized CSD’s policies and procedures, and then refreeze the department with a new status quo. This will

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    Essay Length: 815 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Operations Management

    Operations Management

    Operations Management is the management of systems or processes that create goods and/or provide services. OM oversees the very core of any business and organization. With such a huge impact on the company, OM can literally help make or break a company. There are many businesses out there that have exceptional OM teams and these are the companies that flourish. However, there are some that don't and these struggle from day to day which hurts

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    Essay Length: 438 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Crime Theory

    Crime Theory

    Copyright Blackwell Publishing Jun 2005 [Headnote] The nationwide growth in specialized or problem-solving courts, including drug courts, community courts, mental health courts, and domestic violence courts, among others, raises questions about the role of the state with respect to social change. According to social control theories of the state, especially theories of technocratic or rationalized justice, law is increasingly about efficiency, speed, and effectiveness. Specialized courts, however, take on a social problem approach to crime,

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    Essay Length: 9,691 Words / 39 Pages
    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: regina
  • Management

    Management

    In 1983, in a coffee shop in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Bernie Ebbers first helped create the telecommunications business concept of WorldCom (Moberg, 2003). The company grew quickly through acquisitions and mergers. In June 1999, the company?s shares traded for $64, and Ebbers was a billionaire (Moberg, 2003). During 2002, accounting scandals were brought to the public?s attention, along with SEC investigations for fraud charges against Ebbers, and key senior management of WorldCom. The company went into

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    Essay Length: 289 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Intercultural Management, a Swedish Example

    Intercultural Management, a Swedish Example

    Introduction : Geert Hofstede defines culture as the particular feature of the nations. Thus the nationality is likely to set up the basic values and believes of every one’s mind. A generally accepted definition is that offered by Kroeber and Kluckholm : “Culture consists of patterns, explicit and implicit of and for behaviour acquired and transmitted by symbols, constituting the distinctive achievement of human groups, including their embodiment in artefacts; the essential core of culture

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    Essay Length: 9,404 Words / 38 Pages
    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Artur
  • Game Theory

    Game Theory

    Game Theoryƒ Theodore L. Turocy Texas A&M University Bernhard von Stengel London School of Economics CDAM Research Report LSE-CDAM-2001-09 October 8, 2001 Contents 1 What is game theory? 4 2 Definitions of games 6 3 Dominance 8 4 Nash equilibrium 12 5 Mixed strategies 17 6 Extensive games with perfect information 22 7 Extensive games with imperfect information 29 8 Zero-sum games and computation 33 9 Bidding in auctions 34 10 Further reading 38 ƒThis

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    Essay Length: 950 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Management and Management Systems at an Ameriprise Financial Services??™ Branch

    Management and Management Systems at an Ameriprise Financial Services??™ Branch

    Management and Management Systems at an Ameriprise Financial Services’ Branch My father taught me about the stock market when I was very young and growing up I always had had an interest in investing and the markets in general. After high school, developing a career as a financial consultant seemed very appealing. I found a company, which I will refer to as “XYZ Financial Advisors,” that would sponsor me so that I could get the

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    Essay Length: 1,811 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: regina
  • Change Management

    Change Management

    Change Management Mark Nienke Management 330 Fred Eidson November 12, 2003 Abstract How do people survive in the changing business world today? Some people even excel with the dynamics of change. In today’s business would one must change or be left behind hold the proverbial empty bag. Wonderful leaders create there own opportunities and fight for what they believe in. During a transition teambuilding within a company is one of the most important things

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    Essay Length: 394 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory

    Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory

    Dr. Howard Gardner was the first to suggest the theory of Multiple Intelligence in 1983. This theory suggests that the traditional grading for one’s IQ, which was mostly based on linguistic and logical-mathematical intelligence, was too limited. Instead, Gardner proposes eight different categorizes of intelligent to account for a broader grading system of human intelligence. Moreover, he proposes that each areas of intelligence can have no relations with the other. This idea was highly accepted

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    Essay Length: 793 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Management Therories

    Management Therories

    Identify the different theories of management and discuss their cost benefits for the business you have studied. Management refers to the coordinating activities in a business via planning, leading, organising and controlling in order to achieve business objectives. To produce effective management skills people have created theories as a basis of structure in the business because every business whether it being profitable or non-profitable, small, medium or large needs effective management to succeed. The main

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    Essay Length: 1,089 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Pragmatic View of Watsons Theory

    Pragmatic View of Watsons Theory

    Goals Provide an overview of Dr. Jean Watson's caring theory to the nursing community. Facilitate the understanding of her work allowing nurses to readily apply this knowledge within their practice. Objectives Describe the general aspects of Watson's caring theory. Describe how Watson's caring theory can be applied to clinical practice. Describe the person through Watson's caring lens. Describe the person's health through Watson's caring lens. Describe nursing through Watson's caring lens. Key Words: Watson's caring

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    Essay Length: 1,422 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Theories of Female Deviance and Crime

    Theories of Female Deviance and Crime

    Melissa Bernaudo CRJ 313 Term Paper Women are not more deviant than men; they simply commit different crimes and are evaluated on the same set of sociological theories which were originally developed by men to account for male behavioral patterns. Throughout the history of the criminal justice system, numerous theories have been developed in an effort to explain and possibly even rationalize those actions which society has deemed to be criminal behavior. However, these vast

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    Essay Length: 1,033 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Yan
  • Motivational Theories

    Motivational Theories

    Motivational Theories There are many different ways to motivate. It's amazing how often we use these at work and at home. These five types of motivational theory have been identified as the major groups: need; reinforcement; equity; expectancy; and goal getting. First is the Need theory which focuses on what people require to live fulfilling lives. People need different things. The need will turn into a drive or motivation to fulfill that need and eventually

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    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Janna
  • Teaching Project Management as a Life Skill to Previously Disadvantaged High School Students in Langa

    Teaching Project Management as a Life Skill to Previously Disadvantaged High School Students in Langa

    Teaching Project Management as a Life Skill to Previously Disadvantaged High School Students in Langa The application of project management skills can be a catalyst for real transformation. It can enable previously disadvantaged individuals to create strategies for the successful undertaking of many of the required tasks of daily living. These newfound skills are completely transferable to the work place and in fact can prove to be a valuable asset irrespective of their career choices.

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    Essay Length: 482 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Monika
  • Enterprise Risk Management

    Enterprise Risk Management

    Running head: ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT Enterprise Risk Management F. Bruce Creech MBA560 Marina Fraiqun, Esq. March 21, 2008 University of Phoenix Enterprise Risk Management Organizations are faced with all types of risks. Some risks can be internal or external and can result in total devastation of an organization. The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) was established in 1985 to study issues which could lead to fraudulent financial reporting. These findings were

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    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Jack
  • Case Management Functions

    Case Management Functions

    1. to assess the individual's ability to meet environmental challenges 2. to assess the caring capacity of the individual's family and primary group 3. to assess resources within the formal system of care 4. to enable individuals to use their personal resources in meeting environmental changes and challenges. 5. to facilitate effective negotiation by individuals for resources from families or primary groups and formal service providers. 6. to facilitate effective interchanges between families or primary

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    Essay Length: 353 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Jon
  • Management

    Management

    With the recruiting of Michael Scully who was then the president of Pepsi-Cola, Apple started to grow. Here, Apple made the effort to strengthen its intellectual capital by bringing on someone who is more familiar with consumer want for a product that is refreshing and new, in conjunction to the company’s existing strength of advancing technology. With a combination of Scully’s experience of heading a soft drink company and the pair of Stevens’ knowledge

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    Essay Length: 338 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Edward
  • Cost Management

    Cost Management

    We have one company that operates two businesses. They both manufacture and sell their product. One specializes in unicycles and the other bicycles. Total sales of both businesses are $170 million, $150 million for the unicycle and $20 million for the bicycle. They share a warehouse of 100,000 square feet, 25,000 square feet for the bicycle and the remaining for the unicycle. Total costs were split 50-50. The total warehouse cost is $3 million and

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    Essay Length: 774 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Janna
  • Children Play Definition and Theories

    Children Play Definition and Theories

    In the University of Washington’s The Online Daily student’s newspaper, Alison Dahmen in her two pages article published in 1997 titled “Kids Need Real Freedom to Grow” wrote “Today’s generation lead much more insulated lives,” (Dahmen1) that is they are insulated from the actual freedom to play to, get into trouble, do things that kids are suppose to do. She ultimately concluded that play is no longer play because it has progress from the outdoor

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    Essay Length: 757 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Management

    Management

    Chapter 9 Reading notes I. Communication: Its basic nature a. communication is the process by which a person, group or organization transmits some type of info to another person or organization i. Encoding- the process by which an idea is transformed so that it can be transmitted to, and recognized by a receiver. 1st step on communication ii. Channels of communication- 2nd step, the pathways over which messages are transmitted (telephone, mail, email, etc…) iii.

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    Essay Length: 1,165 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Database Management

    Database Management

    From this class I have learned that there are more then just two database programs. That being said, the company I work for uses one of the more accessible ones, Microsoft SQL Server 2000. Seeing this is for insurance the main uses of the database are for policy creation, policies and written premium. Other uses are help request, change request, and bug reports. Every person that drives has some form of car insurance, or they

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    Essay Length: 343 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Discuss the Strength and Weaknesses of Content and Process Theories of Motivation

    Discuss the Strength and Weaknesses of Content and Process Theories of Motivation

    Question: “Discuss the strength and weaknesses of Content and Process Theories of Motivation” People are an organisation’s most valuable and expensive resources but they are the most difficult element of an organisation to manage. People posses a variety of talents and they will react differently in different circumstances, in fact, they are unpredictable. Unlike machines, individuals are interchangeable which creates problems for organisations, for example, a person may work well one day but not the

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    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Airbus Moves to Rewire Its Management First

    Airbus Moves to Rewire Its Management First

    New York Times “Airbus Moves to Rewire Its Management First” This article addresses the issues that Airbus, a European airplane manufacturing company, is facing in the midst of the worst management crisis of its history. The company, which was formed in 1970 jointly by France and Germany to compete with American rival Boeing, is experiencing production difficulties that are preventing Airbus from releasing the model A380 plane into service on schedule. The main technical problem

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    Essay Length: 691 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Bred
  • Cash Management Paper

    Cash Management Paper

    Abstract Implementing cash management strategies can initiate immense ways to maximize cash flow in a firm. Assessing the current firm’s cash position and evaluating proper investment account options can assist a firm properly in accurately assessing and making fairly reliable predictions at maintaining expenses. Important tools are utilized when describing business performance and financial calculations to meet the expected objectives the firm. Cash Management Paper In today’s world, reliable information is imperative for decision making

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    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Stress Management

    Stress Management

    Stress and Performance Article by L. John Mason, Ph.D. Effects of Stress on Performance Too much stress can contribute to health problems. This is not a new statement. Stress can also reduce your ability to perform at the highest levels. The negative effects of stress can impact profitability and quality of life. The Physical response: The Stress Response will: Increase heart rate, speed breathing or you might hold your breath, tightens muscle to prepare to

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    Essay Length: 897 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Vika

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