This brief paper discusses the book by Stephen C. Lundin, which deals largely with motivating workers and developing productive attitudes.
Learning Theory in Organizations, Part I
This paper discusses how to assess and meet the need for employee training within organizations.
Leadership Theories: Trait and Contingency Leadership
This papers discusses two theories of leadership, the trait and contingency styles.
Methods of Effective Supervision in Current Industries
This paper looks at several different effective managment techniques that foster a more productive workplace, specifically discussing the success of Hewlitt-Packard in utilizing effective supervision.
Review of “Delivering Organizational Excellence by Employee Values Management,” by Phil Bowden.
This article discusses the concept of organizational success in terms of employee motivation.
Organizational Culture in the Grocery Industry
A description of the components of organizational culture in a grocery store chain, and discussion of possible changes that might improve product and service quality.
A description of the components of organizational culture in a grocery store chain, and discussion of possible changes that might improve product and
Explains the role of customers in a grocery store atmosphere. Discusses how to identify the degree of customer satisfaction and recommends ways to improve customer relations.
Employee Development in a Grocery Store
Describes an employee development plan for grocery store employees.
Economic Well-Being of FBOs
This paper investigates the problems thatFixed Based Operators (FBOs) have faced in the past, and what their future might be.
Forms of Thinking and Managerial Responsibilities
This paper discusses the concept of critical thinking, and examines the way in which outside forces, particularly gender and culture, can influence managerial behavior.
Global Labor Union Climate
This paper compares unions in the U.S. to those workers represented by an international union organization, and concludes that the issues are similar.
Organizational Communications – Microsoft
This paper examines some of the communications styles used by Microsoft and how they have contributed ot the company’s success.
Use of DISC Communication Style to Staff A Department
How businesses can make use of Disc Communication styles to effectively staff their departments; includes discussion of emotional types, teams, example.
The Pullman Strike
This paper examines the Pullman Strike of 1894, describes the conditions that led to the action, and the outcome of the strike.
Industrial Unionism
A discussion of the tenets of the industrial unionism movement, with particular emphasis on the role of Eugene Debs and his reasons for supporting and encouraging the movement. Also presents...
International Environmental Protection Law
This paper examines the issue of environmental protection in the international marketplace.
The Ludlow Massacre
This paper examines the Ludlow Mining Massacre in which 20 people were killed in a Union vs. Enterprise dispute. This event represents one of the most brutal conflicts in labor relations in the...
Networking and Corporate Culture
This paper discusses networking, and how it can be used to find employment as well as understand corporate culture.
Personal Qualities for Sales Success
Much of the ability to be successful in the sales profession comes from the attributes a person brings to their work. When combined with appropriate training and support, personal qualities lend...
Proving Discrimination
This paper examines the issue of workplace discrimination by detailing one case in particular, using information found on the Internet.
Living with Stress: Job Stress
This paper examines the problem of stress at work.
Employee Privacy Rights
This paper explores some of the ways in which employers monitor employees, and suggests that excessive monitoring may be counterproductive.
Gung Ho!
This paper examines the book Gung Ho! which is a handbook for developing employee enthusiasm and increasing productivity. It compares this book to Zapp, another such manual.
Managing for Profitability
Discussion on managers’ responsibility to focus on profitability as the purpose of any for profit business.
Decision-Making
This paper discusses methods for decision-making found on an Internet site
L’Oreal Case Study
Written analysis of L’Oreal’s entry into the European shampoo market. Identifies key issues and makes recommendations to management.
Quality in the Grocery Industry
Defines quality and quality management in a grocery store chain workplace. Discusses the relationship between corporate quality and culture, and identifies barriers to implementation of quality...
Case Study: International Health Insurance (IHI)
Discusses ways in which IHI can stay on top of its industry in the face of increasing competition
CEO Tools
This paper discusses the tools useful to a new CEO for managing conflict, diversity, culture, and change within an organization.
Multinational Corporations
This paper discusses the issues that must be addressed as an American company prepares to go global.
Human Resources Management
This report features a description of the fundamentals of human resources management, including discussions of such responsibilities as recruitment, training, employee discipline, compensation and...
Sales and Marketing Management
A description of some of the fundamental responsibilities of sales and marketing managers, including recruiting sales staff, leadership of sales staff, determining what training is needed, and a...
Legal Analysis of Diversity in the Workplace
A description of the legal issues surrounding diversity in the workplace, with a close look at federal laws that prohibit discrimination and a number of illustrations of actual discrimination...
Violence in the Workplace
A description of actions that constitute workplace violence, their costs (as in decreased productivity), and measures managers and supervisors can and are taking to prevent them.
Employment Gender Discrimination
This paper will discuss and review the issue of employment discrimination based on an individual’s gender, or the practice more commonly known as sex discrimination.
Management of Microsoft Corporation
Provides an analysis of the management practices of the Microsoft Corporation. Management practices unique to Microsoft include the company's tradition of regularly moving employees from...
Ergonomic Workstations
A discussion of the elements involved in the design of ergonomic workstations, including statistics on their effectiveness and cost. Finally, a solution is provided for dealing with the concerns...
Stress Management Review
A review of eight articles on stress management, including discussion of their themes, important conclusions, implications for business managers, and usefulness.
Business Ethics in Sales
A discussion of ethical issues with regards to sales, including new challenges to consumers posed by Internet commerce.
Diversity and Favoritism in the Workplace
Introduction: Business is by nature, competitive. Employment is a beast that evokes an arc of emotion, with joy and disappointment being the two extremes. The employer, the employee, and the...
Delegation and Empowerment
This paper will discuss delegation, why it is important to an effective manager, why some managers fails to delegate, and how managers can become better at delegation.
Downsizing and Deregulation
This paper will examine the effects of downsizing in large corporations, with emphasis on the telecommunications industry.
Cross-Cultural Management Communication
Introduction: As the United States enters the 21st century, the need for managers to be aware of the differences in how different cultures communicate in the workplace is becoming ever greater....
Cultural Impact on Performance in the Workplace
This paper will discuss the impact of cultural diversity on performance in the workplace, particularly how goals and objectives are established, how to go about accomplishing those goals, and how...
Coke and Pepsi
Introduction: Currently, Coke and Pepsi are experiencing the effects of the public’s growing indifference to colas (Kramer, 1999). It seems consumers are interested and willing to try one, or...
Managing Conflict
Discusses how managers handle conflict situations in business and delineates several types of conflicts and conflict behaviors.
Total Quality Management
Provides a basic definitive overview of the structure and components of TQM, including the workplace effects of this popular management philosophy.
Hiring the Right Prospect
Argues that hiring the wrong person is costly to the company in many ways. Selection processes are laid out here to prevent the wrong hire.
Motivation and Management of a Salesperson
Discusses the role of motivation in business, including psychological analysis, and management's involvement.
Five Functions of Management
Examines the 5 integral functions of management; planning, leading, organizing, controlling, and implementing.
Employee Testing
A detailed explanation of employee testing, including its purposes and reliability.
Capital Budget Management
Details the use and contents of a capital budget in the context of managing a project.
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Discusses techniques for solving labor-management disputes, such as arbitration and mediation, focusing on the ADR and their history and methods.
Sexual Harassment
A thorough discussion and analysis of sexual harassment in the workplace. Includes discussion of applicable legislation and a definitive legal background.
Human Resources Management and Diversity
Agues that diversity in Human Resources management is necessary to make an organization competitive. Also, asserts that surveys might be a good tool to measure the effectiveness of a diversity...
The Character of Women Managers, Diversity and International Influences
Discusses how the female managerial style encourages participation and democratic action in a company. Argues that this style may be more suitable to international management.
Total Quality Management at Texas Instruments
Discusses how Texas Instruments pioneered the implementation of TQM in an effort to empower its employees and enhance customer service.
Continuing Education in the Workplace
Supports the thesis that continuing education, the return of career adults into college education settings, is imperative to work advancement, supporting both professional and personal growth. Also...
Disclosure and Its Application to the Modern Workplace
Using Michael Crichton's novel Disclosure as a basis, this paper examines the representations of females in the corporate workforce, compared to the fictional workplace as portrayed in the novel,...
Strategic Human Resource Management (HRM)
Human Resource Management involves activities such as environmental scanning for new threats and opportunities, internal human resources analysis and evaluation, planning, and organizational...
The Management Function of Planning
Investigates the role of strategic planning in organizations. Argues that it is more difficult to plan today due to the rapidly changing business environment. Furthermore, the old method of...
The Microsoft & Apple Organizations
Compares the Microsoft and the Apple Organizations, their culture and why they seem to be two technology-based companies almost opposite. Microsoft is portrayed as the pillar of success, efficient...
The Distinction Between Leadership & Management
We have come to the point where the terms manager and leader are interchangeable However, there exists a distinction between managers and leaders. Being a manager does not automatically imply being...
Management and Implementing the SEI Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
Discusses the CMM for software as it relates to the maturity of software in 5 stages. Includes an executive summary, discussion of implementation, and summary recommendations.
Age Discrimination in the Workplace
Examines the discrimination faced by individuals age 40 and over in either keeping their long time jobs or exploring other employment opportunities. Ageism will also be explored in the context of...
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Discusses the effects of sexual harassment on the office atmosphere.
Deregulated Utilities and Information Resource Management
Argues that deregulated utilities must use IRM under certain conditions as they are in organizational transition and examines how structural changes in the company and technological issues must be...
Employee Theft and Fraud
Deals with the various types of employee theft and its results. In addition, the report analyzes what companies are doing to prevent fraud.
Cultural Diversity in the Workplace
Discusses cultural diversity in the workplace and details various demographic groups that have traditionally been excluded from the workplace. Also explains how these groups are now being...
Humor in the Workplace: Positive Effects
Examines the burgeoning use of humor in the workplace and its effect on productivity and stress reduction. Some of the companies utilizing this technique are discussed, such as Sun Microsystems...
Survival of the Organization and Training
Discusses how any organization needs training to survive and argues that human resources must integrate new training methods to train individuals regarding technology, legal matters, cultural...
Total Quality Management (TQM)
Provides a thorough explanation and analysis of the approaches, benefits, and future outlook of the implementation of TQM in health care. Also defines the structure and philosophies of TQM.
The Technical Industry: Knowledge Workers and Social Impact
Argues that the globalization of knowledge work is a threat to American jobs and democracy as the American worker is being trained to become a knowledge worker. Also discusses the lack of training...
The Paperless Workplace
Discusses the paperless work place as the wave of the future. With new software and hardware and given cost savings to companies (and trees) paper is becoming non-existent in the workplace.
The Ethics of Sexual Harassment
Discusses sexual harassment in the workplace with a focus on the ethical issues.
Communication Problems
Examines the various types of problems that managers and their employees may experience in dealing with one another, and which may have a significant impact on the working relationship.
Effective Listening in the Workplace
Discusses the importance of effective listening in the workplace and its effects on productivity and efficiency.
The Organization Man
Discusses the introduction of the term organization man and what this type of behavior has come to mean in the workplace.
The Contribution of Human Relations Management
Discusses the role of Human Relations Management, and argues that they must contribute to the business strategy of the firm to reach productivity and quality goals. Also discusses international HR...
Management in the 21st Century
Discusses how managers must use the talents of all the workers around them to be successful in the 21st century. Also explains how the conventional structure of the corporation will become...
Pre-Employment Testing
Provides an in-depth look at the history and types of pre-employment tests. Specific emphasis is put on the relationship between these tests and the inventory losses among retailers.
Corporate Dress Code's Effects on Stress Levels and Productivity
Provides insight into this issue by discussing corporate policy trends, the silicon valley as an example, the down-dressing of corporate America, crucial variables to consider, current trends and...
Smoking Kills You While You Eat
This paper takes the position that smoking in restaurants and bars poses significant health risks not only to the customers but, especially, to the employees. Makes the argument that revenues of...
Organizational Management
Discusses various theories and ideas in regards to management-employee relations and improving an organization's functioning.
Production and Operations Management
Discusses how efficient production and operations management depends upon many elements in order for a company to be competitive including planning, information management, production capability,...
Effects of Budgeting on Management
Details how managers use budgeting to make their companies more efficient.
Effective Management of a Global Corporation
An essay which describes needs to do business globally and the management functions necessary to be successful.
Stress in the Workplace: A Case Study of Police Officers
A detailed analysis of police stress and the effects and dangers associated with this stress.
Hotel Staff Motivation
Discusses employee motivation in the hotel industry and how the hotel business, along with every other type of business in the country, has attempted for some time to implement industry-wide...
The Retirement Problem in the United States
This paper will examine the retirement problems that the U.S. is due to face, examining 401(k)'s, 403(b)'s, 403(b)(7)'s and 457's in depth. The report looks at how money grows over time,...
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