What analytics layers do however is force the issue of performance from just within one organization and shows the impacts (or lack thereof) of collaboration across the organization. Analytics, when used correctly, should be measures of the performa Continue Reading...
In addition, repeating ACSI can provide trend data (Hall, 2002, p. 23+), important to government agencies, but also to new industries. Hall notes that, "Besides the ability of the ACSI to maintain a pulse on customer satisfaction, the ACSI is an ind Continue Reading...
According to Copland (2001), although the following job description is a parody, it is not too far from the truth concerning the current set of responsibilities that confront the nation's elementary school principals: Position Opening: Elementary S Continue Reading...
Strategic Advantage Goold and Campbell's comprehensive study sheds a new light on the ways a company uses to improve its financial results, whether from a quantitative point-of-view (i.e. through acquisitions) or a qualitative one (i.e. through the Continue Reading...
Leadership for Advanced Practice Nursing 1 Staffing is not the main issue in elevating or containing costs: the main issue is retention. High turnover rates in nursing can drive costs up, but proper staffing with an appropriate ratio of nurses to pat Continue Reading...
21st Century Leadership What does leadership mean today? The 21st Century environment presents totally different challenges and needs from the previous centuries with regards to leadership. Studies have shown that emotional and social intelligence a Continue Reading...
Socio-Economic Approach to Management (SEAM) The Main Points of SEAM Process of a SEAM Intervention Finding Organizational dysfunctions and hidden costs Human Potential Intervention Teaching Coaching Human Resources role in the SEAM Process Continue Reading...
Strategic Change Organizations that want to survive, succeed and ultimately undertake good and significant work have to react to the challenges and difficulties presented by the world. One major aspect of this response could necessitate the organiza Continue Reading...
, 2005; Biddle et al., 2009). Companies with more accurate financial reporting and greater control over reporting activities tend to perform better and demonstrate greater cohesion in their operations, as well, and also tend to lean towards more cons Continue Reading...
Business Summaries This chapter addresses the reasons that one should study business and businesses to begin with. The authors make the point that they do not intend for this to be a narrow study that just focuses on particular examples of successiv Continue Reading...
. . political and law enforcement cronyism and corruption. . . And last, an surprising astonishing level of incompetence which symbolizes much of the authorized intelligence- meeting and investigative developments (Block, 1985, p.310). This lack of Continue Reading...
Corporate communications involves not just the message, but the idea that communications are managed, and are connected to corporate objectives (Cornelissen, 2004). Therefore, when communication possibilities were limited, corporate options were lim Continue Reading...
It is carried out under the auspices of the Ministry of Health, acting through the Russian Federation Department of Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance (DSES). DSES is responsible for a wide range of areas of public health, including radiation Continue Reading...
Place less importance on quality of service as a constraint, most marketplace decisions are outside this issue. Arrangement -- is this long-term or short-term? Why? Outsourcing is a relationship, not just a contract. Follow up -- What mutual measu Continue Reading...
Another strategy companies often rely on are franchising their operations to attain economies of scale and global growth at the same time (Altinay, 2007). Franchising however has significant risk as it requires a high degree of branding consistency Continue Reading...
Nowadays, the idea that offshore drilling is safe seems ridiculous. The Gulf spill nowhere compares to drilling disasters that have occurred before including one off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif. In 1969 that discarded three million gallons in Continue Reading...
d.). A need also frequently serves to answer the question motivational psychologists regularly ask as they explore motives that impel the person people to do what he/she does: "What drives people to do the things they do?" Basic concepts of motive in Continue Reading...
Riff Henry B; Hatzes Nanette M. Bramel; Michael H. "Emotional Intelligence and LD in collage students." Journal of Learning Disabilities. 34:1. pg.66-78. Feb 2000. 10/18/01 This article talks about various aspects of emotional intelligence in rega Continue Reading...
People living with mental illness are often marginalized, demeaned, and seen as being outside the normal boundaries of society. For people with BPD, this is doubly painful as it reinforces their sense of worthlessness and victimization, and may eve Continue Reading...
2. Second, the deductibility of mortgage interest and property tax payments serves to lower the after-tax cost of homeownership, also contributing to owners' ability to increase savings or consumption. Many low-income owners may not benefit from th Continue Reading...
The initial list is to consist of ten e-business firms whose basis of selection is pegged on the uniform probability distribution of all the companies selected for the sample pool. So as to come up with a comparable list of data samples, I am to cons Continue Reading...
Thus, we assume that children gifted in the arts are every bit as intellectually endowed as those with academic gifts. The relationships among giftedness, talent development, and creativity are challenging areas of research. Because researchers lac Continue Reading...
Take for instance Red Hat, a leading provider of open source software applications. Its annual report for 2009 reveals an increase in its training and services revenues from $45 million in 2005 to $47 million in 2006, to $59 million in 2007, to $73 Continue Reading...
S." (Liu, 2008) the actual solution to the challenges facing the health care system in the United States is one that makes a requirement of three components: implementing tort reforms; mandating the use of best practices; and driving systemic proces Continue Reading...
My subordinates however disagreed with the project and argued it would require extra work for them to become accustomed with the new system. Once again for fear of upsetting them, I renounced my idea. Form now on, in similar situations I will convin Continue Reading...
The district must then serve as the interpreter of specific and global need for the district, based on its particular composition and the state where needed. (Koppang, 2004, p. 154) Choose two of the eleven major functions as described in the Power Continue Reading...
As this study points out, these encounters can lead to negative situations and even to death, injuries and legal issues. In essence, the relationship and involvement of the police from a formal point-of-view is based on two common law principles. T Continue Reading...
Mobile technology, disease management is the wave of the future, not only for diabetes care but for other health related issues and needs. If an individual can recognize the daily stressors they place upon their bodies, with regard to their disease Continue Reading...
This underscores why hypotheses are so critical for a research design, because as can be seen from the above discussion, they have a direct bearing on the selection of variables, the selection of research strategies, and ultimately how the research Continue Reading...
In their study, "Thinking of Inclusion for All Special Needs Students: Better Think Again," Rasch and his colleagues (1994) report that, "The political argument in favor of inclusion is based on the assumption that the civil rights of students, as Continue Reading...
Corporate Mergers and the Public Good The United States of America, during the last years of the Nineteenth Century, witnessed a rash of corporate mergers. The Industrial Revolution had taken firm hold, and the nation was changing rapidly. Millions Continue Reading...
Expeditionary Air Base Tallil airbase in Iraq Paper I.D.: 46255 Story of an Expeditionary Airbase Tallil, Iraq Airbase The purpose of this work is to research Tallil Air Base in Iraq providing a brief history of the base from the time of Operat Continue Reading...
The World Bank model centers on a five-person team called the Performance Advisory Service or PAS (Yandrick 1995). PAS trains supervisors to analyze work performance and personality problems. The supervisor first determines if a skill deficiency is Continue Reading...
Marine Pollution Law Although the problem of international liability and compensation for pollution caused by oil spills is specifically adressed by the 1969 International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage and the 1971 Internati Continue Reading...
CRM Flight crew resource management is the science of training flight crews to interact and communicate in a highly authoritarian environment while at the same time making use of the intelligence and professional resources of all the members of a fl Continue Reading...
nursing client relationships and how the study is a valid research for practitioners. It has 26 sources in Harvard Style. Research titles must be limited to fifteen words. In this case the author has exceeded the limitation by one count which is ne Continue Reading...
School Finance: Its Economics and Politics School financing in America Revenue sources for federal and state governments Judicial reviews of school finance policy with evolving standards of equality School-based decision making Family choice of Continue Reading...
While digitalization has been shown to positively influence customer satisfaction in organizations in diverse sectors and industries, there has been little scholarly attention to the port industry. Focusing on APM Terminals, one of the largest contai Continue Reading...
