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  • 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
  • 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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    Essay Length: 1,029 Words / 5 Pages
    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
  • Task Management

    Task Management

    Task Management Graphics and Tables not included Task 1 There is no standard definition of an Information System Requirement. A requirement is a property that is essential for an IT system to perform its functions. Requirements vary in intent and in the kinds of properties they represent. They can be functions, constraints, or other properties that must be provided, met, or satisfied so needs are filled for the system’s intended users (Roger Abbott 1986). Information

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    Essay Length: 6,903 Words / 28 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Top
  • Project Plan for Whitboard Sailboat Race

    Project Plan for Whitboard Sailboat Race

    Project Plan for Whitbread World Sailboat Race This paper describes the project plan for Bjorn Erickson to design and equip his country’s sailboat entry into the Whitbread Sailboat race. It was found that the project plan had met the budget requirements but had not met the timeline requirements. Reducing the timeline without budget is a difficult matter as usually decreasing the timeline costs money. We will show in this paper how time requirements can be

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    Essay Length: 1,789 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Jessica
  • The Concept of Basic-Level Categorization

    The Concept of Basic-Level Categorization

    One characteristics of real world, or natural categories is that they are hierarchical-larger categories contains smaller categories. For example, the category clothing contains pants, and the category pants contain Levi’s. Each of the level contains a variety of objects, but the variety decreases as the category becomes smaller. The largest categories are the superordinate categories, such as tools and clothing. Superordinate categories contain the basic level categories, such as hammer, which in turn contains the

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    Essay Length: 678 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Process of Change Management

    Process of Change Management

    Running head: CHANGE MANAGEMENT Process of Change Management Process of Change Management Organizations large and small undergo change almost on a constant basis. It has been said that the only constant is change. Organizations must change in order to survive in today's global marketplace. Organizations from the smallest of mom and pop businesses to the largest multinational corporations must utilize change management principles. Change management theories are part of the process of change management in

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    Essay Length: 1,860 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Theories of Management

    Theories of Management

    Theories gave organizations a framework for knowledge and a guide to achieving their goals. The Industrial Revolution prompted the need for better supervision of workers to boost productivity within the automobile, steel, and coal industries. It is because of this need that the various theories of management began to take shape. The classical management theory, which came about during the Industrial Revolution, focused on the single best way to perform and manage tasks. This enabled

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    Essay Length: 1,254 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Mike
  • Strategic Human Resource Management in World Airline Industry

    Strategic Human Resource Management in World Airline Industry

    For over 15 years, there has been an ongoing research on HR strategies and competencies differentiating the business performance. Besides this, HR practitioners have focussed their attention on other important questions as well. Bratton and Gold (2007), for example, tries to question what policies and practices make up HR strategies. Is it possible to identify cluster of bundle of HR practices with different strategic competitive models? What is relationship between different clusters of HR practices

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    Essay Length: 2,710 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Artur
  • Case Study of Challenge Disaster - from a Risk Management Perspective

    Case Study of Challenge Disaster - from a Risk Management Perspective

    2.0 INTRODUCTION AND AIMS Organisations nowadays face various external and internal risks such as strategic risks, operational risks, financial risk and environmental risks. Managers tend to focus on those risks with greater uncertainty like natural disasters. However, some risks also bring destructive outcome even they are predictable and controllable. The inherent risks in the management and control system are among those on the list. Because they are “built-in” risks of management and control system due

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    Essay Length: 1,300 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Vika
  • Management Planning and Ethics

    Management Planning and Ethics

    Careful planning is fundamental to success however, the hardest part of creating a business plan is getting the energy together to get started. At first it seems like an overwhelming task. But once you get going you will find that writing the plan is not as tough as it seems. According to business plan.com, there are four essential steps in starting your own business. First, you should keep in mind your audience, for example,

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    Essay Length: 588 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Operation Management

    Operation Management

    1.1 Introduction Inventory management is the direction and control of activities with the purpose of getting the right inventory in the right place at the right time in the right quantity in the right form at the right cost. It determines when to order products, how much to order, identify source of supply in each stocking location. Inventory management includes all activities of forecasting and replenishment. Since inventory is an important element in operation, activities

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    Essay Length: 374 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: July
  • Internet Exploration Project: Search Engine Analysis

    Internet Exploration Project: Search Engine Analysis

    Comparison of Search Engines: Altavista, Yahoo, and Excite Internet Exploration Project: Search Engine Analysis Introduction The use of search engines on the Internet is a very significant aspect towards attaining information ranging from research purposes, like stock quotes, to daily use such as the weather in your hometown. The ability to find information on these engines all depend on experience, knowledge of certain search techniques, and remembering the strengths and advantages of each engine for

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    Essay Length: 1,491 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Marketing Audit Project/keebler Company

    Marketing Audit Project/keebler Company

    Technology: Keebler Company is the first consumer packaged goods division, to utilize the artificial intelligence program. This technology interacts with consumers through instant messaging, mimicking natural conversation to provide recipes based on a person’s stated preferences and mood. Moreover, the program was created by Active Buddy, which has launched other interactive agents such as: Smarter Child, Austin Powers and Elle Girl Buddy (Keebler Recipe Tool. Com). In addition, Keebler made the decision to purse an

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    Essay Length: 3,840 Words / 16 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Yan
  • Management and Leadership

    Management and Leadership

    Management and Leadership Paper The difference of management and leadership is a question that is being discussed more and more in today’s corporate environment. Different views and roles in a business, both share a common bond in the corporate structure. The key distinction between is the way they impact the corporate structure. Persons in a leadership role, set strategic goals for the company; while management implements these goals and aids them to fruition. Strategic goals

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    Essay Length: 1,073 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Leadership and Management

    Leadership and Management

    In today’s world economy companies come and go every single day. It takes good strong leadership and management to guide an organization to success. While many people consider management and leadership to be synonymous they are in reality two different concepts. A person can be a good leader but if he does not know how to manage a company that company will be destined to fail. Also if a person had great management skills but

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    Essay Length: 1,355 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Principles of Human Resource Management

    Principles of Human Resource Management

    PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT MGTPD2001 REFERRAL COURSEWORK AUGUST 2007 Q1 My chosen organisation is a Liverpool Technology College (TC). TC has well established procedures for the management of the organization. These have arisen as a result of staff requiring guidance in fulfilling their roles, students requiring effective supervision, the need to meet statutory requirements, the demands of collective agreements with the Local Authority and the rights and responsibilities outlined in staff conditions of service.

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    Essay Length: 3,194 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Edward
  • Human Resource Managment

    Human Resource Managment

    Human Resource Management Human Resource Management John Miller Columbia Southern University Abstract What determines if employers are to pay out the pension benefits they have promised? If they can’t, what should be done for retirees who are left without their pension benefits? "[CLICK AND TYPE HEADING]" The Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) of 1974 regulates private pensions. This law was established to ensure that private pensions were paid out as promised. In addition, the

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    Essay Length: 260 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Vika
  • Honda Case Study - International Strategic Management

    Honda Case Study - International Strategic Management

    International Strategic Management Case Study Assignment No. 1 Strategy is usually related and sometimes confused by people with planning. But as time course shows in the study of companies, there are different approaches of how a company can develop its strategy. Johnson, and Shcoles, in their book “Exploring Corporate Strategy” had studied the different ways that companies develop their strategy. The authors had formulated and structured three general ways how companies build it, there are:

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    Essay Length: 845 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Artur
  • Managing Employee Retention and Turnover

    Managing Employee Retention and Turnover

    Managing Employee Retention and Turnover Employee retention has always been an important focus for human resource managers. Once a company has invested time and money to recruit and train a good employee, it is in their own best interest to retain that employee, to further develop and motivate him so that he continues to provide value to the organization. But, employers must also recognize and tend to what is in the best interest of their

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    Essay Length: 2,066 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: regina
  • Cross Cultural Management - Dancom Case Study

    Cross Cultural Management - Dancom Case Study

    Drawing on theories of both cross cultural management and motivation, discuss the factors influencing the contrasting behaviour of both the hosting insiders and outsiders at Dancom. What could be done to help the outsiders become more involved? To understand the case we have to first understand the theories of cross culture management and motivation.... we would be later on moving to the introduction and issues at Dancom. The last but not the least would be

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    Essay Length: 2,086 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Managing Group Policies

    Managing Group Policies

    AS A CONSULTANT, I'M CONSTANTLY MADE AWARE of corporate policies. For instance, if I park too close to a building, someone hurries out to tell me, "Those spaces are reserved for employees. You contractors have to park over there." Or if I make a suggestion that veers too far out of a client's comfort zone, a manager usually points at a set of thick, three-ring binders and patiently explains that "things just don't work that

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    Essay Length: 501 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Solid Waste Management Case

    Solid Waste Management Case

    By using Model of Government Intervention, we state the following: 1. Problem: What to do with managing garbage in Toronto. 2. Goal: To reduce the household solid waste in Toronto. 3. Identify the Intervention: to encourage recycling and implement a fine of $100 every time one is caught throwing away something that can be recycled. This offense may be caught through random inspection. 4. Dimensions: i) This intervention is direct: At the intervention is a

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    Essay Length: 319 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Edward
  • New Marketing Manager

    New Marketing Manager

    New Marketing Manager This situation represents possibly the representativeness heuristic, with using the A, B and C's. A is representing a woman, B is representing a Hispanic and C is putting them both into a classification. I feel that my co-worker either does not want a woman in the position, or a person of a Hispanic descendant, or possibly both. Unfortunately, the perfect candidate is both. She has a Master Degree in business, along with

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    Essay Length: 579 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Jack

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