...Management Research in India: Roughly between March and June, business schools carry a vacant look. The first-year-going-on-second-year MBA batch leaves for its summer internships to the corporate world whereas the faculty gets temporary relief from teaching and can concentrate on the other vital role incumbent on them — management research. This essential mandate of a b-school to pursue knowledge creation has largely been overlooked by the public eye amidst the expression surrounding placement salaries and admission cutoffs. It provides a guide to what various leading academics think about their subject, explains why it is a topic of debate and provides some background to what you will be learning on your Masters’ or diploma course. It identifies the potentially significant contributions that can be made by Masters’ students to management knowledge through carrying out research projects, and discusses the need for a critical approach in all management research and thinking. • Mass Market: A mass market can be defined as a term used for the largest group of consumers for a specified products. A mass market is broad in nature and is not categorized by demographics. Mass market is the extreme opposite of niche markets. To explain a mass market, it can simply be compared with a niche market. A niche market is one where a very small market segment exists. Example – Tractors are a niche market. They are applicable only to agricultural lands But a mass market on the other hand...
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...[Learning And Management Development]- HRM4060 Management Development Program – Wal-Mart [Eruemulor E. Stanley]- M00517817 [School Of Business Studies] [5th may 2014] Executive Summary This report entails the problems pertaining to the Wal-Mart, which was faced by the organisation due to their diverse workforce, vast geographical difference, and management of resources. This report contains both primary and secondary data analyses, where secondary data was collected through libraries, books, scholarly articles, peer journals and articles. Whereas, the primary data was collected from 20 employees of the Wal-Mart, where series of open ended questions were asked from them. The survey aimed to identify the current problem faced by the Wal-Mart and how those problems are affecting the employees of the Wal-Mart. In the report, different management development activities that have been employed within the Wal-Mart, where to overcome the problem, future strategies are also suggested, along with the benefits that will be laid on the organization. These development programs include, diversity management, manager - employee relationship, employee involvement and feedback, bridging gap between today and tomorrow, focus on individuality and matching skills with goals. The estimated cost for the program will be £100,000, which will be spent over a year’s time. Therefore, this report is based on the human resource, organisational resources, and management of all these resources efficiently...
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...1. In dollars-and-cents terms, why did Jennifer Shroeger want to reduce turnover? UPS operations prime objective is to find a way to overcome their fifty percent a year turnover rate in which cost them over millions of dollars per year. As Jennifer Shroeger was promoted to district manager, she observed that high turnover rate results in an increase of recruiting, selection, and training costs, could disrupt the efficient running of an organization when knowledgeable, experienced personnel leave, and replacements found and prepared to assume positions of responsibility; this ad up to dollars and cents because of productivity loss. The simple fact is they have to pay someone to do training, and of course there s the cost to put ads out and recruitment. In Jennifer s case it follows the same for her. If she could cut her turnover rate her annual savings would go up. In the end this would save the company money. 2. In addition to turnover, what other criteria should Ms. Shroeger examine in evaluating the effectiveness of the UPS program? Why is it important to examine multiple criteria in evaluating an OB program? In addition to turnovers, other criterion examined was Ms. Shroeger's development of a comprehensive plan focusing on improving hiring, communication, the workplace, and supervisory training. Ms. Shroeger followed the Basic OB Model, Stage II and modified the hiring process to screen out people who wanted full time jobs. She also distinguished and differentiated her...
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...Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………..16 References…………………………………………………………………………………...18 Abstract This paper describes financial statement fraud (FSF) and how it may occur within companies. The reason of this study was to research FSF detection and prevention. Research was also done to determine any influences that SAS (Statement on Auditing Standards) No. 82 and SAS No. 99 had on audit programs and the analysis from external auditors. Thirteen scholarly journals were reviewed in order to analyze SAS No. 82 and No. 99 and to show ways to detect and prevent fraud. Results found that managers and/or auditors can create fraud intentionally and unintentionally. There are ways to prevent fraud and educating managers and/or auditors is a good way to make sure fraud does not occur. Introduction Financial statement fraud (FSF) involves the premeditated issuing of phony information on a financial statement (financial statement fraud, 2011). FSF occurs when a company exaggerates assets or revenue, or when it devalues liabilities and expenses (financial statement fraud, 2011). The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants or AICPA defines fraudulent financial reporting as “intentional misstatements or omissions of amounts or disclosures in financial statements to deceive financial statement users” (Lendez & Korevec, 1999, p. 48). FSF might involve manipulation of financial records, intentional omission of events, transactions, accounts, or other significant information from...
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...Forum. The Board includes all G-20 major economies, FSF members, Spain, and the European Commission. It is based in Basel, Switzerland.[1] Contents [hide] 1 Background 2 Overview 3 Notes 4 References 5 External links [edit]Background The Financial Stability Board emerged from the Financial Stability Forum (FSF), a group of finance ministries, central bankers, and international financial bodies. The FSF was founded in 1999 to promote international financial stability, after discussions among Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors of the G7 countries, and a study which they commissioned.[2] The FSF facilitated discussion and co-operation on supervision and surveillance of financial institutions, transactions and events. FSF was managed by a small secretariat housed at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland.[3] The FSF membership included about a dozen nations who participate through their central banks, financial ministries and departments, and securities regulators, including: the United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands and several other industrialized economies as well as several international economic organizations.[4] At the G20 summit on November 15, 2008 it was agreed that the membership of the FSF will be expanded to include emerging economies, such as China. The 2009 G-20 London summit decided to establish a successor to the FSF, the Financial Stability Board. The FSB includes...
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...can copy it, modify it, use it in any manner they want, and give away their own copies, without any restrictions. "Without a community of developers their probably would not be any free software.” (Wolf, Miller, & Grodzinsky, 2009, para. 1). Wolf (2009) GNU is a Unix-like operating system that is free software that respects your freedom. You can install versions of GNU (more precisely, GNU/Linux systems) which are entirely free software. GNU stands for GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not UNIX!" Wolf (2009) Free Software (FS) is a notion that was first introduced by Richard Stallman in 1984 at the beginning of the GNU project. The Free Software Foundation (FSF), founded in 1985, supports the ethic of Free Software, which is embodied in the GNU General Public License (GPL). The FSF defines free software as a software licensed so that it supports four freedoms. The first and fourth freedoms are pertinent to our arguments. The first, Freedom 0, reads: "The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (Freedom 0)." The fourth, Freedom 3, reads: "The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements (and modified versions in general) to the public, so that the whole community benefits (Freedom 3)." The remaining two freedoms (the freedom to modify the program and be freedom to...
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...2012). GNU is described as a free software set of packages and tolls for designed for developing a UNIX-like operating system that is often used with the Linux kernel. The Free Software Foundation’s GNU project, or GNU Not Linux, provides the necessary tools to developers and has approved the GNU Public License, or GPL (Stallings, 2012). According to Free Software Foundation, or FSF (2007), the GNU Public License discusses the freedom for designers to share and change all versions of the program. Linux is free software, as in free for anyone to use, modify, or copy without restraint. The GNU Public License, or GPL, provides a list of basic permissions, rights, and conveying verbatim copies (FSF, 2007). The main idea of publishing the GPL licensing terms is that no one who uses Linux and/or creates any Linux-derived copy can make the copy proprietary (Stallings, 2012). Under the GPL, basic permissions are granted to all who use, copy, or modify a GNU program. The basic permissions essentially grant unlimited permission to run an unmodified version of a program (FSF, 2007). According to the FSF (2007), permissions are also granted to convey a derivative of an unmodified program; however, the conditions listed below must be met: * The work must display a notice stating who modified and the date it was modified. * The work must display a notice that it is released under the GPL. * The entire work must be licensed under the GPL to ensure the license the whole work...
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...Lastly, you will hear what revisions have been made to GNU and why. GNU According to Stallings (2012), in 1983 Richard Stallman started a development project; by 1985 he published the GNU Manifesto. GNU is an acronym for GNU’s Not Unix. The GNU project is a free software set of packages and tools for developing a UNIX-like operating system. He also formed the Free Software Foundation (FSF). His goal was to encourage the free exchange of software source code and the free use of that software. Instead of copyrighting software, the FSF “copylifts” the software, this makes sharing and improvement possible among programmers. The GNU General Public License (GPL) allows copylefting and is a common license for releasing free software. The GPL requires that the source code be distributed with any binaries and that any changes made to the source code be released under the same GPL license. FSF’s goal is stable, platform-independent software that is free, high quality, and embraced by the user community. FSF’s GNU project provides tools for software developers, and the GNU Public License is the FSF seal of approval. The GNU project produced many UNIX-compatible tools, including compilers, editors, and utilities. Purpose for GNU According to Stallings (2012), Stallman's goal was to produce one license that could be used for any project. This made it possible for many projects to share code. This also counteracted the move to limit software use and...
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...Chapter 1 1. Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. a. The freedom to run the program, for any purpose. b. The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs. Access to the source code is a precondition for this. c. The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor. 2. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all free software users. a. Linux is an operating system. It is the software on a computer that enables applications and the computer operator to access the devices on the computer to perform desired functions. The operating system (OS) relays instructions from an application to, for instance, the computer's processor. The processor performs the instructed task, and then sends the results back to the application via the operating system. 3. The GNU Hurd is not suitable for production use. The capability-based design has problems that result directly from the flexibility of the design, and it is not clear whether solutions exist. Fortunately, another kernel was available. In 1991, Linus Torvalds developed a Unix-compatible kernel and called it Linux. In 1992, he made Linux free software; combining Linux with the not-quite-complete GNU system resulted in a complete free operating system. It is due to Linux that we can actually run a version...
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